Archidea / April ’07 (46) life as art
Beauty Injections MAISON&OBJET, January 2007 Page 86 beautiful beauty — sorry for tautology, but it’s impossible to say otherwise — is the undisputable trend of the MAISON&OBJET January 2007 session. Granted, it sounds strange, but nevertheless it fully defines the actual situation in the interior design. The alliance of classics and modern gave birth to an endless myriad of variations united under the desire to «make it beautiful». The new eclectics soaked up the romanticism and the historical styles’ crafts, never disregarding the achievements of the XX century, the epoch of pure lines and technological innovations. And we’ve got a hybrid… A beautiful hybrid. Each of the furniture and accessory brands exposed on the show manifested this new power of the beauty in its own way. We couldn’t help stopping near Texturas Por Alexandra stand (Colección Alexandra) and having a quick word with the first lady in Design Paola Navone at the golden Punto Oro (for Baxter) stand, while the new collection by Lladró Re-Cyclos Magical astonished us by its surrealistic magic.
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Long-standing and everlasting Page 98 It can be a long talk about the black and white, although there have already been much said about life and death, light and darkness, about the extremes that meet, and about the colours that accumulate all other colours of this world, about the purism in the interior design, you name it. Everything seems already studied, well thought and written about many times. It remains but to continue this eternal colour game, and this is not hard, as both the black and the white, let alone their everlasting combination and opposition, regularly come up with a boundless diversity of variants, giving the endless possibilities of creation for all the participants of this game, from philosophers to designers. In its back issue Archidea already wrote about the tendencies of the foreseeable future — about the «all-black gothic» and the «allwhite arctic» — such a maximalist attitude to the things and interiors, which is visible on the posh and impressive avant-garde stands of the world’s decorative fashion, professionally elaborated by the leading Paris bureaus. In a rather slighter way (from separate monochrome objects to conceptual two-colour stands) the white-and-black is astonishingly reappearing here and there on the main design exhibition, still surprising the visitors by the variety of ways of its interpretation and its guaranteed elegance.
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