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Exploring Linear Brick Aesthetics in Contemporary Architecture

ArchDaily

In a variety of shapes, dimensions, textures, and colors –depending on the manufacturing process and type of clay– incorporating bricks into architecture creates dynamic facades and structures. By analyzing various projects, we showcase how the aesthetics of linear bricks are applied in contemporary architecture. Read more »

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"Art deco designers shared a desire for an aesthetic appropriate for a modern world"

Deezen

Art deco, the name now given to the modern, exuberant decorative movement of the 1920s and '30s, is a term that defies definition. Art deco designers shared a common desire to create a new aesthetic appropriate for a modern industrialised world, but the way in which this impulse was expressed visually could differ widely.

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Isamu Noguchi's sculptural Akari lamps are "poetic, ephemeral, and tentative"

Deezen

Continuing our mid-century modern design series , we explore Japanese-American designer Isamu Noguchi 's Akari lamps made from Japanese washi paper, which remain a staple in stylish interiors to this day. The Akari lamps were designed by Noguchi, who began his career as an artist after dropping out of his premedical studies.

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The Chandigarh chair "problematises standard notions of revival"

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The popularity of the Chandigarh chair, created by a team led by Swiss architect Pierre Jeanneret , has shone a light on the erasure of local designers in the mid-century modern design narrative. The Chandigarh chair by Jeanneret and his team remains an icon of mid-century modern design.

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Elevating designs with Hamilton Litestat

Hotel Designs

Crafting uniquely elegant solutions, it is a brand that excels in bespoke manufacturing, ready to bring your creative visions to life. Share your functional needs and stylistic preferences, and the expert in-house team will design and manufacture a bespoke solution tailored precisely to your requirements.

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The Hoxton Vienna offers "contemporary take on the Wiener Werstätte arts and craft movement"

Deezen

AIME Studio's interiors for the latest outpost of The Hoxton hotels, in a renovated marble-clad 1950s office building in Vienna , celebrate arts and crafts and post-war modernism. Centred in the Austrian capital, it bridged traditional methods of manufacture and avant-garde aesthetics. Photography is by Julius Hirtzberger.

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"I love mid-century modern but it makes me sad"

Deezen

Mid-century modern design may meet our needs even more now than when it first appeared, but that doesn't mean we should idolise the style, writes John Jervis. I love mid-century modern, but it makes me sad. But mid-century modern was wrapped up in that delusion, even contributed to it. To be fair, that worked both ways.

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