Tag: furniture & object design
Buckminster Fuller: Geodesic Chandelier
19 February 2020
Buckminster Fuller: Geodesic Chandelier19 February 2020
A Chevrolet Truck
20 January 2020
A Chevrolet Truck20 January 2020
It was the architect Philip Johnson who first compared cars to statuary. In the ‘Eight Automobiles’ show he curated at the Museum of Modern Art in 1951, he coined the expression ‘rolling sculpture’. Johnson was good at coinages: two decades before he had given us ‘the International Style’ to describe… Read More
Espelho Álvaro
15 January 2020
Espelho Álvaro15 January 2020
This mirror was among the objects, sketches and photographs at his great exhibition at Padiglione di Arte Contemporanea. Siza was in a corner of the hall with some friends. More than a thousand guests from the Milano-bene (well-to-do Milanese) had come for a vernissage with fur coats, television spotlights, beautiful women, men… Read More
Surface-oriented
18 December 2019
Surface-oriented18 December 2019
My desk is a bit like an island: it could just as well be in some other country as here. —Italo Calvino The here in question is a narrow room occupying the top floor of a three-storey house on the southern fringe of Montparnasse. Heavily laden bookshelves and strategically placed objets extend along the… Read More
the difficulty of designing furniture
7 November 2019
the difficulty of designing furniture7 November 2019
I Architecture: a tree here, a house there, or a temple; on the right a hill, or plain, sea, river; a bridge, regular outline of this street, the irregularity of another; colour, rhythms, climate, this client; yellowing photograph, parchment, power, marginality.Not as a matrix. Provocation, hence vocation to distort, to… Read More
Giò Ponti: Plan chest designs, c.1955
7 November 2019
Giò Ponti: Plan chest designs, c.19557 November 2019
Le Corbusier and the Poetry of Objects
22 August 2019
Le Corbusier and the Poetry of Objects22 August 2019
The consideration of objects shapes the mind, providing it with resources: sliced butcher’s bones, shells that are whole or broken by the tides. . . . Nature also teaches sharpness, the rigour of functions. — Le Corbusier, Unité [1] Around 1928, Le Corbusier abandoned the universe of manufactured objects, having exhausted all… Read More
On Architectural Drawing: Lina Bo Bardi and Beyond
9 March 2017
On Architectural Drawing: Lina Bo Bardi and Beyond9 March 2017
‘Please, draw a hand with three fingers folded and the index finger pointing, so that we can make the signs for the toilets and exits’, Lina Bo Bardi instructed me, but I hesitated. Timid in the early days of my internship and not knowing how to draw, I was being… Read More
Charles Percier
18 November 2016
Charles Percier18 November 2016
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Buckminster Fuller
2 October 2015
Buckminster Fuller2 October 2015
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The Birds’ Morning Hymn
10 July 2020
The Birds’ Morning Hymn10 July 2020
– Robert Lorimer
From a letter to The Times of April 18, 1929: At this season of the resurrection of Nature — that ever-fresh miracle — one thing happens that even keen bird-lovers seem hardly to appreciate to the full. I mean the birds’ Morning Hymn. We have all heard vaguely about ‘Bird… Read More
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