Posts Tagged ‘sculptural’
Sunday, July 19th, 2009
While looking for photos of 60s/70s stalactite and fantasy cave ceilings, I unexpectedly discovered that sculptural geometric and prism ceilings first appeared in the 12th century in Persia – probably due to increased skill with locally available gypsum plaster – and spread throughout the Islamic world and then beyond.
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Tags: 12th C, acoustic ceiling, art, bumpy, cave, cavern, ceiling, crystalline, crystals, fantasy, honeycomb work, Islamic, l-halimat al-'uliya, mocárabe, Mongol, mosque, ornamental, ornamentation, prism, prismatic, prisms, pyramid, sculptural, stalactite, stalactite work, textured
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Saturday, June 20th, 2009
Alvar Aalto’s Villa Mairea in Noormarkku, Finland, built between 1937 and 1939 as a rural retreat, is considered one of the greatest houses of the 20th century. Japanese architect Shigeru Ban, who curated a major retrospective of Aalto’s work at the Barbican in London in 2007, says photographs give no real sense of Aalto’s buildings.
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Tags: Alvar Aalto, architect, architecture, Berber rug, biomorphic, carpet, ceiling, chairs, columns, curved, environment, Finland, Finnish, fireplace, green roof, house, Japanese architecture, Japanese design, Noormarkku, sail, sculptural, Shigeru Ban, soft modernism, sustainable, Villa Mairea, warm modernism, white, wood, wooden
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Saturday, April 4th, 2009
I love this art object/piece of furniture by artist Fia Backstrom, who has had a number of exhibitions in Vancouver. From the NYT article “Artful Lodgers“:
Fia Backstrom describes her apartment near the Gowanus Canal as a perpetual battle between organization and chaos. ‘‘It is simultaneously studio and bed in one,’’ she says.
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Tags: art, art furniture, art studio, Artful Lodgers, artist, artists, conceptual design, decor, Fia Backstrom, furniture, furniture design, installation, interior design, live/work, lounge, New York, New York Times, sculptural, sculpture, studio, The Apartment, Vancouver, wallpaper, wood
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