Posts Tagged ‘seating platform’
Sunday, November 1st, 2009
This is the ur-seating platform. Think how many people would gather here at a party, and even Le Chat prefers it. This is from a house in St. Kilda, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia. Why is Australian design so cool now? If you’ve ever seen Vogue Living Australia you know what I mean.
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Tags: Australia, bench, communal, Melbourne, pillows, seating, seating platform, ur-bench, Why is Australia so cool?
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Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
Photos via inside (photo above is at insideinside.tumblr.com), one of the best curated tumblelogs on tumblr. Well-named, also. And see its sister site, outside, which is equally good.
My apologies for not knowing the name of the photographers, owners or designers behind these photos.
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Tags: bolster, conversation pit, copyright infringement, dining, dutch, fireplace, indoor swing, inside, insideinside, lounging, mixed, moroccan, outside, pillows, platform, seating, seating area, seating platform, sunken living room, tumblelog, tumblr
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Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
Above, the 1970s modern two-level platform in painter Frank Stella’s loft, from the classic book Inside Today’s Home. Below, a recent photo of the renovated 1950s conversation pit in the Number 31 Hotel in Dublin.
Maybe it’s because I grew up around a hip artist aunt whose 60s/70s handmade house had a seating platform in it, but I am mourning the disappearance of the freeform seating arrangement.
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Tags: 50s, 60s, Bavinger House, Bruce Goff, built-in, conversation pit, dais, Eero Saarinen, estrado, flokati, Frank Stella, Greece, groovy, inverted, Miller House, modernism, nostalgia, platform, raised, seating, seating area, seating platform, shagadelic, sunken living room, Sydney Butche, Turkey, unconventional, why are things so boring now?, window seat
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Thursday, April 2nd, 2009
The photo above shows the central living area of a rural farmhouse on the border of Tochigi and Ibaraki prefectures. The house was restored by Kenji Tsuchisawa who bought it as a rundown heap when he was only 20, after seeing a photograph of a traditional Japanese farmhouse on a Tokyo magazine cover.
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Tags: Amy Sylvester Katoh, architecture, chests, conversation pit, curtain, decor, design, favorite, favourite, furniture, genkan, hanging room divider, Indigo, interior design, irori, Japan, Japan Country Living, Japanese, Japanese design, Kenji Tsuchisawa, kitchen, living room, minimalism, modernism, recycling, roof, seating area, seating platform, Shin Kimura, sliding doors, Sustainable design, tansu, textiles, thatch, thatched, weaving
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