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Essential Home to present new design pieces at BDNY Essential Home is a furniture brand that blends contemporary lines with the important historical references from the 30’s and 60’s, especially those from Cinema: the iconic James Bond, the reverence of Stanley Kubrick and the furious beauty of Brigitte Bardot, all of them represented, somehow, in the design collection. The brand deals with
different, intimate and cozy ambiences that express the elegance and the luxury that is conveyed by the use of rich material. The Dandy Sideboard looks like the vintage radios. The sleek outline of this unique midcentury modern piece makes you surrender to the Scandinavian design every time that you look at it
flash news . delightfull
Turner is an art deco lamp inspired by Tina Turner’s wonderful dance moves. The elegant golden piece is a tribute to the iconic artist’s spirit with the same ability of change and that subtle strength of the singer. DelightFULL has created 2 new designs with the Turner Wall and
the Turner Pendant. Both of this versions have the possibility of rotating the lamp’s arcs into different positions, so that innumerous configurations can be created at any time. It will give a new vibe to your room and you can have a different lamp every day
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Discover the lost creations of this interior design master
chapter one . the restored work of adolf loos
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Loos’s interiors are finished with rich and expensive materials like stone, marble and wood, executed in a distinguished craftsmanship
Adolf Loos is recognized for being one of the greatest Austrian and Czechoslovak architects and interior designers of his time, but also an influential theorist, who brought to light the discussions about the Modern Architecture – and how smooth and clear it should be, in contrast to the lavish Fin de siècle aesthetics. Although noted for the lack of ornamentation – read ‘Ornament
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and Crime’ essay here, Loos’s interiors are finished with rich and expensive materials like stone, marble and wood, executed in a distinguished craftsmanship. He was a revolutionary, but also an agent provocateur. In 1922, the American newspaper Chicago Tribune organized a design contest for their headquarters. 260 architects participated in it and Loos
was one of them, delivering a drawing of a skyscraper shaped as a dorical column, representing the inadequacy of the previous architectural styles and, once again, claiming a new approach. Just like his writings, it was a theoretical provocation. Loos is famous for some notable buildings, which include his 1910 Goldman & Salatsch Building, in Vienna, as well as numerous private residences like Villa Muller in Prague. But there’s a hidden treasure that he completed between 1907 and 1932, one year ahead ofhis death: a series of interiors in Pilsen – an important Czech city located in
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the West Bohemia, which were completely unknown to the public, until recently. These interiors were designed for wealthy Jewish families, but they were forced to leave their apartments as soon as Nazism started to rise in Europe. After the II World War, the apartments were taken by the communist regime and divided into smaller flats – and some completely destroyed, causing a real damage to this important architectural legacy. The original owners, with one exception, never returned to their homes and therefore the memory of Loos’s creations slowly got