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O A K

October 25, 2011, 11:09 am
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Oak is probably my favourite wood. Look at the picures below and you'll see why.


This apartment belongs to the owner of Movement Design. Note the beautiful cabinet in the first picture, by Børge Mogensen, and the lamp, by Fog & Mørup. The chair hanging above it is one made for the H55 exhibition in Helsingborg by Björn Hultén. The art in the last picture is by Beck & Ljung; the bench, table and chairs are by Mogensen.


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Ari

November 1, 2011, 2:26 pm
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Designed by Arne Norell in 1966.

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Gillestuga

November 12, 2011, 5:18 pm
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Kongelys

November 13, 2011, 10:53 am
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"King's Lighting" by Fog & Mørup. Oxidised brass. A Lamp stripped down to its bare essentials, infused with scandinavian poetry. Shown in the oak-filled apartement here.
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Anymous Architecture: Villa by Kystvejen

November 13, 2011, 12:09 pm
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There are alot of solid good houses, immaculate in materials and execution, that will never make it to the design and architecture literature. L'ESPRIT NOUVEAU exists to present these anonymous objects of design alongside their more famous dito. Below you'll find one of these works of architecture that have been forgotten or probably never acknwledged in the first place. The pictures (by Mikael Strange -nothing wrong with them) come from a run-of-the-mill interior magazine article that focuses more on the boring and semi-chic owner-couple and their uninspiring collection of white shite that clutters the beautiful structure that an architect named Ole Henriksen gave birth to just north of Copenhagen, sometime on the sixties. That house is of course the true star of the article, and it is a shame that not more focus is layed upon it - or what's left of it. No floorplan. And while the owner-couple makes alot of talk of staying true to the original spirit of the house - they always do - walls have aparetly been moved, floors replaced and *surprise, surprise* a new kitchen has been installed. The best thing about the interiors of the house is notsurprisingly the part that is untouched by the new owners:


The entrance, an architectural space in it's own right as was often the case with these villas of the sixties. Greenlandish marble and oregon pine, and black metal fixtures. Ole Henriksen knew what he was doing, all right.

 
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Good Fit

November 13, 2011, 2:52 pm
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The villa below should have had some fitting furniture. Summin' like this hea:

Hans-Erik Johansson, Westberga.
Harry Bertoia, Knoll
Unknown, Swedish.
Fabricius/Kastholm, Nordisk solar.
Finn Juhl, Bovirke

And the floor should have been a carpeted, woven from jute or coconut or similar, like above, or here. "A rug on a rug?" you say? Perfeción, I say. With a Spanish accent.
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... Like this.

November 26, 2011, 12:45 pm
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Christopher Eric Hitchens, 1949-2011

December 16, 2011, 3:46 pm
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Ice Cube Celebrates The Eames

December 19, 2011, 1:35 pm
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This is fantastic. I watched it twice in a row. Hands up anyone who's surprised!

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Happy new year!

January 1, 2012, 3:39 pm
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IT'S OFFICIAL: I'm moving to Switzerland

January 2, 2012, 4:11 pm
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Strada del Roccolo, Ascona, Switzerland.



Casa Tuja, the house of Hans Grelling, created by Richard Neutra in 1961-3. Situated at the fot of Monte Verità, overlooking lake Maggiore. Does it get better than this? Me thinks not.


Upper floor as pictured below; first floor contains the garage, a guest room and another living room, or gillestuga as we say in sweeeden.





Another modern interpretation of the alpine chalet here.

from the immensely resourceful trianglemodernisthouses.com
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Lidingö, circa 1970.

January 3, 2012, 4:37 pm
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Green is the ultimate colour of a bahroom. What could be more cozy than standing under a hot shower imagining yourself in a rainforest? This also relates to Le Corbusiers ideas on colour - he basically thought that the shade of a floor/wall/ceiling should correspond to nature's palette. In this age where every bathroom is supposed to be some spa-hamam-refuge, green tiles ought to be more popular than they are.

Sadly, few people dwelve on these matters for mucher longer than it takes to look through the latest IKEA catalogue. And the two bathrooms above, with their fantastic rustic, domestically hand-made ceramic tiles so typical of he late sixties - early seventies, have a very uncertain future, now that the house has been sold. Statistically, they will not make it. And it is a great fatal irony that the possibility of the new owners having chosen exactly this house because of its spatial character, surely furnishing it with mid-century teak cabinets and Eames DSR's (Dowel legs); yet remain completely oblivious to the aesthtic kindred spirit that such bathrooms (and kitchens, mind you) are in relation to the afore-mentioned furniture that they just had to have.

But mark my words:

One day, they'll regret it. 

Fiscally or otherwise.

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Article 12

January 24, 2012, 3:44 pm
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Two modern interpretations of these bathrooms:



Ok the last one may not be totally obvious, but if you note the rectangular tiles are of a similair size. I think both bear testament to a renewed interest in he bathrooms of the 70's. Bravo!
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flickr: I got it

February 3, 2012, 8:56 am
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Everything in this picture is perfect...

February 3, 2012, 2:38 pm
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The Rainbow House

February 27, 2012, 4:03 pm
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Comparing architecture to music is quite a clichée, but with this house, considering it was built for jazz musician Russ Garcia, such an allegory isn't too far off.

This above video, featuring Devendra Banhart and his girlfriend, beautifully directed by Lisa Eisner, was made for spectacle-firm Oliver Peoples (you know, American Psycho?). It is set in the Garcia residence, also known as the Rainbow House (which was pulled down by an aussie hillbilly with a mullet and a truck in Lethal Weapon 2) on Mulholland Drive, designed in 1964 by none other the man himself - the master of googie architecture - John Lautner. It is a truly amazing house, and it only gets bettter once you see it's insides and the stunning spaces it posesses.

                                                                                                                                                     Picture by Julius Shulman
                                                                                                                                                Pictures by Francois Dischinger

The house had seen it's best days, and at the turn of the millenia, countless "improvements" had wrecked the  soul of the house, but its current owners has however had it renovated by architects Marmol & Radziner, who also worked on the restoration of Richard Neutra's Kaufmann house, and the decorator, Darren Brown, put that old-school playboy-feel to the interiors.

The binuclear floorplan of the building is as genius as it is original, and I cannot help to wonder why it hasn't been more widely copied. On the one side of the house exists the private sphere: bedrooms, bathrooms, an office and a movie room - spaces that do not demand the grand volume of the great room, situated in the other wing, along with an elevated dining area and a open kitchen. When it in 2002 came on the market, it did so at the bargain price of $1,395,000.




Devendra Banhart, 2010 Photos by Lisa Eisner


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The Lesser-Known Ox-Chair

February 27, 2012, 4:53 pm
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Designed by Arne Jacobsen for the National Bank of Denmark in 1966.


Arne Jacobsen designed this chair over a five-year period. Large, impressive, and extremely comfortable, when it was presented in 1966 it was met with surprise and admiration. “This is also how he can be: angular and with a touch of martial temperament that we could call Germanic or perhaps more properly Japanese in expression”


- Thau and Vindum, eds., Jacobsen.




pictures by seier + seier


read more about the National Bank building here
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Yet another Ox-chair...

October 1, 2012, 1:56 pm
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This time by Wegner. This one is a version, dubbed Queen, of his regular ox-chair. The chair is quite rare, it usually takes a couple of years between when they surface on the market. Considering this, and the fact that they are quaranteed to be produced by AP Stolen - a rarity in itself - and not Erik Jörgensen make these chairs quite the barrgain, as they typically fetch prices around 60-80 per cent on that of regular, fresh Ox-chairs. 

This model was designed in 1960.
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Article 6

October 9, 2012, 5:05 am
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Hamburg Apartment

October 9, 2012, 5:30 am
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There's nothing baroque about the neo-baroque apartment of ad-man Wolfgang Behnken of Young & Rubicam, shown below. It is rather an almost miesian gallery of good design, with pieces by the Eames, Florence Knoll, Milo Baughman and Mies as well as a fantastic coffee table by George Nakashima. There are also many outstanding lamps: especially those by Serge Mouille and Christian Dell.

The apartment is mostly painted white, with few carpets and textiles, which really puts focus on the design pieces.  I suppose it does, however, require a certain type of person to live in this sort of almost barren atmosphere, but that does not change the fact that it looks stunning. Mr. Behnken also seems to have two livingrooms - perhaps one being the gentleman's room?

The kitchen and bathrooms are also very plain with their white mosaic tiles, and chairs by brit minimalist Jasper Morrison. Notice the construction-site-type lamps above the mirrors, which are actually of a quite beautiful design.





from ELLE DECOR italia

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