pattern Archives | Ouno Design https://ounodesign.com/tag/pattern/ Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:38:31 +0000 en-CA hourly 1 Kurdish felt coat https://ounodesign.com/2009/06/25/kurdish-felt-coat/ https://ounodesign.com/2009/06/25/kurdish-felt-coat/#respond Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:38:31 +0000 http://blog.ounodesign.com/?p=4974

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Modernist Vancouver house of the painter BC Binning, who painted his own interior and exterior murals. Photo by Arne Haraldsson. See here for more information on this heritage-protected house.

In my neighbourhood there’s a heritage program called True Colours wherein you can receive a pat on the back from heritage types and sometimes free paint if you agree to paint your house in the original house colours circa 1901.

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]]> https://ounodesign.com/2009/06/10/painted-houses/feed/ 7 How to use pattern and colour tastefully. https://ounodesign.com/2009/03/02/how-to-use-pattern-and-colour-tastefully/ https://ounodesign.com/2009/03/02/how-to-use-pattern-and-colour-tastefully/#comments Mon, 02 Mar 2009 20:02:04 +0000 http://blog.ounodesign.com/?p=2643

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This brick screening wall by Anagram Architects, New Delhi, is a reminder of how imaginatively brick can be used. I’m not a fan of brick, and that’s an understatement, but context is everything.

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]]> https://ounodesign.com/2009/01/21/brick-screen-wall-new-delhi-by-anagram-architects/feed/ 6 Elsbeth Kupferoth https://ounodesign.com/2009/01/16/elsbeth-kupferoth/ https://ounodesign.com/2009/01/16/elsbeth-kupferoth/#comments Fri, 16 Jan 2009 20:11:37 +0000 http://blog.ounodesign.com/?p=1304

Fantastic 1970s geometric supergraphic textile by German designer Elsbeth Kupferoth, who deserves to be much better known. Interesting short essay on her work and more photos at The Textile Blog.

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After weeks of snow in Vancouver I randomly searched for “Siberian interiors” on Flickr, just to see how snowy regions decorate. Maybe it has nothing to do with counteracting the blank endless wastes of snow, but the standard Siberian decorating philosophy seems to be “There’s No Such Thing as Too Much Pattern.” The exceptions were an amazing white shop interior in Novosibirsk, above, almost Swedish in its simplicity, and a museum version of a traditional Siberian wooden house, at bottom.

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