100 Interiors Around The World
By Stephanie Paas
When this Taschen title dropped through the letter-box at Midcentury Tower, it left something of a dent in the polished parquet. 100 Interiors Around The World does what it says on the cover. But what sets this two-volume tome apart from other interior publications is its global perspective – it uses generously sized images to make observations on the way the world’s (more fortuitous) residents choose to live. As with many Taschen books, this one is all about the photographs. The reader is encouraged to gawp in wonder at homes from Russia to Brazil, China to Cuba and Cape Town to Marrakech. Particular favourites of ours included a contemporary take on a Japanese stilt house in Nagano, which uses modern materials to create an aesthetic so delicate that by rights it should fall over; a concrete abode in Berlin – a slab-like structure that has been built on top of an air raid bunker; a Russian re-edition of a Charles Rennie Mackintosh table in a Moscow home; plus the Puerto Rican psychiatrist, who commissioned a local artist to create a house rather than a painting.
The author comments in the introduction that many of the properties share “a common aesthetic vocabulary that suggests the existence of a new international or global style” and it is heartening to see so many familiar Mid Century Modern pieces of furniture, by the likes of Eames’ and Eero Saarinen for instance, sitting chameleon-like across the spectrum of world interiors. While few will live in locations like those on show here, there is nonetheless design inspiration for us all on every page!
100 Interiors Around The World
Published by Taschen
ISBN 9783836529884
720 pages
dimensions 315 x 238mm
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