Architecture - Physical Graffiti

architectural graffiti detail finally arrives
 at The Hive in Fitzroy


 by ITN architecture

Tag Elevation

Arrow windows

It's all in the detail!

via Felicity  & ITN Architecture Melbourne

Brazilian Eye Candy

I feel like partying at the Paraty House!

Meet me there this weekend...

fly to Sao Paulo and take a boat ride to the islands of Paraty
on the coast not far from Rio.....

breathtakingly beautiful modernist 'drawer' like prisms are slammed into the side of the hill...

exquisite interiors....

what a fab weekend!



Designed by Marcio Kogan 
who sites his influences not so much Mies and Niemeyer
 but more like Fellini, Bergman, and Warhol!

words by J Watson-Evans

via Contemporist

Tati's Modernist Perfection

Do you ever feel like Madame Arpel from
Jacques Tati's 1958 classic Mon Oncle?

Anyone for a saucer chair?

The good wife bidding farewell to her husband
 from their perfect modernist box and their perfect modernist garden!
 

The Fish Sculpture Fountain must always be switched on for special visitors!

Built for ultimate 'comfort'...one must always impress important guests!

Absolute perfection?  Now where do I get my hands on the coloured pebble?

Staircase ... sublime!

I saw this film a number of years ago and was touched not only by Tati's comic genius and wonderful design aesthetic, but also his critique on modern life.

This hysterically charming film illustrates the pitfalls of postwar modernism, the obsession with consumerism, and the constant desire to achieve the ultimate aesthetic.


Oh dear!  Not much has changed and I find myself strangely identifying with this......


words J Watson-Evans
The Decorator

via Youtube, Interior Design.com

O love this house!

O HOUSE

The O House

 by Phillippe Stuebi

Lucerne Switzerland

image via contemporist