Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
Probably everyone and his/her dog has seen this NYC loft apartment by now, and possibly also blogged about it, but this is one of those places that is so hypnotizing I can’t stop looking at it. It’s on the top floor of a former industrial building on Broadway in NYC and not surprisingly it belongs to an architect couple.
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Monday, March 9th, 2009
The French designer and architect Charlotte Perriand (1903 – 1999) produced some very beautiful furniture and buildings, but she is probably not as well known as she should be, even despite the comprehensive retrospective show of her work at the Centre Pompidou in Paris in 2005. Above is a selection of pieces included in that show.
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Tags: architecture, Bambou chair, Cassina, Charlotte Perriand, corbusier, design, furniture design, Geneva, League of Nations, Les Arcs, modern design, modernism, modernist, modernist architecture, Prouve, Refuge Tonneau, Savoie, Switerland, Thonet, twentieth century, UN, We don't embroider cushions here., women designers
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