Ryue Nishizawa. Moriyama Houses. Tokyo. Japan. video: Moriyama-San by Beka & Lemoine ( Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine ) /vimeo.
One week in the extraordinary-ordinary life of Mr. Moriyama, a Japanese art, architecture and music enlighted amateur who lives in one of the most famous contemporary Japanese architecture, the Moriyama house, built in Tokyo in 2005.
A style, primarily of interior design, that appeared in France around 1700. Rococo interiors were extensively decorated and included elegant furniture, small sculptures, ornamental mirrors, easel paintings, tapestries, reliefs, and wall painting.
Art History Glossary: A helpful list of art and architecture terms to support curious rookies.
Phillip K. Smith III received his Bachelor of Fine Arts and Bachelor of Architecture at the Rhode Island School of Design. From his Palm Desert, CA-based studio, he continues to push the boundaries and confront the ideas of modernist design. Drawing inspiration from the cold rigidity of the Bauhaus movement, the reductive geometries of minimalism, and the optic sensation of California’s Light and Space movement, Smith III attempts to resolve the complex challenge of finding a natural state of life and spirit within these ideological aesthetic constrictions. The results are deceptively simple and compelling objects that seem to breathe and move as you observe and interact with them.
Projects identified from the top:
Lucid Stead (images 01-03)
Quarter Mile Arc (images 04-07)
Reflection Field (images 08-10)
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12 different floors: 12 different ways of understanding art and design. A hotel like no other in the world.
The Silken Puerta América Hotel is a space where guests are invited to dream. A unique project that brought together nineteen of the leading architecture and design studios in the world, from thirteen different countries. Originality, luxury, innovation and formal freedom define this hotel that awakens its guests’ senses.
Each floor showcases a different hotel room concept. All of them play with different materials, colours and shapes to create spaces that bring together the best in avant-garde design and architecture, where creativity and the freedom to develop each of the spaces has shaped the work.
The Silken Puerta América Madrid Hotel is an eclectic space that never for one moment renounces comfort. Rooms with luxury in every detail, that entice guests to discover them, interacting with them through the senses and inviting them to see them, touch them and even smell them. To stay at the Silken Puerta América is to experience unique and unforgettable sensations.
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