El encargo del proyecto expositivo de muebles y objetos de diseño de Arne Jacobsen en el Museo de Bellas de Artes de A coruña para conmemorar, por parte de la Real Embajada de Dinamarca en Madrid, el centenario del nacimiento del arquitecto danés (1992-2002) fue un ejercicio de arquitectura que requería la resolución simultánea de dos cuestiones de muy diferente […]
Del María Moliner, Asiento: 2. Lugar en que está asentada una cosa = emplazamiento; 3. Cualquier cosa que se sirve o se utiliza para sentarse sobre ella; 12. Firmeza o inmovilidad de una cosa que queda bien apoyada en un sitio = estabilidad. Sentarse: 1. Tomar postura que consiste en descansar con las nalgas apoyadas en algún sitio; 2. Colocar […]
El Eixample de Barcelona caracterizado por su tejido uniforme, regular y extensivo, muestra una ciudad sólida, mixta y altamente densificada con un espacio público consolidado que afronta la necesidad de reprogramarse para dar respuesta a una nueva realidad social, ambiental y económica aceleradamente cambiante. La falta de verde urbano y de espacios de relación, sumado a la situación de emergencia […]
“Las sillas son importantes testigos de nuestro tiempo. Lo son independientemente de si tienen una novedad relacionada con el momento actual, es decir, si expresan una moda o representan la tendencia de una época. Son retratos de sus usuarios y reflejan el proceso de producción que les da vida. De ahí que las sillas nos permitan reconocer y comprender una […]
El proyecto realizado consiste en la reforma de una vivienda unifamiliar situada en un barrio periférico de la ciudad de Valencia. La vivienda se ubica en una de las esquinas de una agrupación de casas en hilera, que conforman parte de un complejo residencial creado a principios de este siglo. La nueva distribución de la planta baja dibuja un espacio […]
El pasado diciembre de 2019 se ha publicado en Film and Furniture que, como indica su nombre, se dedica a todo lo que tenga relación con el mobiliario que aparece en las pantallas, una noticia insólita, que es un indicio más de cómo funciona nuestro mundo actual. La empresa Domeau & Péres ha puesto a la venta la copia de tres muebles que estaban en la Casa Arpel de Mon […]
400 de las mejores habitaciones del mundo creadas por más de 300 interioristas influyentes. El proyecto editorial Interiors sigue los pasos de los clásicos de Phaidon El ABC del Arte y El ABC de la Moda, que han vendido casi 2,5 millones de ejemplares en todo el mundo en varios formatos y en más de 20 idiomas. Keith Fox, consejero […]
Para celebrar el Día Internacional del Libro, tan atípico, desde veredes, arquitectura y divulgación queremos repasar las publicaciones realizadas para que puedas recordarlas y reseñar aquellas que hayas leído o te interesaría leer. Esperamos que así este periodo que nos ha tocado vivir sea más llevadero. Sin preámbulos os dejamos las 30 publicaciones seleccionadas, como se suele decir ni son […]
En la Europa de los años 30 la tuberculosis era una de las principales preocupaciones sanitarias. Por todo el continente se construían sanatorios para tratar a los infectados con una rutina que incluía baños de sol y largas horas de descanso respirando aire fresco. De acuerdo con estos ideales higienistas, e inspirado por el Zonnestraal de Duiker, Alvar Aalto proyectó […]
La Guerra Civil abocó a la emigración a muchos españoles. Aquellos que pudieron elegir, no siempre decidieron quedarse. Antonio Bonet Castellana había nacido en la España de 1913, como Coderch y como Alejandro de la Sota. Pero a Bonet el inicio de la guerra le sorprendió en París. Antonio Bonet había comenzado a trabajar con Sert y Torres i Clavé en 1932, […]
Craftsmanship was very prestigious and received great public attention with the Arts & Crafts movement, which was born in England and spread through Europe before Modernity. Our exhibition design wanted to honor a fundamental book of that time “The Seven Lamps of Architecture”, written in 1849 by John Ruskin because, although it is dedicated to architecture, the reflections on craftsmanship […]
The chair number 14 emerged from the factory of Michael Thonet in 1859. He did not receive a name, he simply identified with the number 14 according to practical criteria. This fact largely summarizes the revolutionary philosophy that Thonet introduced in the production of furniture. In the mid-nineteenth century the furniture was manufactured by hand. Skilled workers and patients were […]
In 1917 the cartography of the new Europe was drawn to the rhythm of the Allied cannons. Gerrit T. Rietveld, busy in the daily work of his furniture workshop in Utrech, remained oblivious to this reality. He preferred to draw the plans of a new chair. Gerrit T. Rietveld had worked in his father’s workshop since 1900. At twelve he […]
Jimmy Durham said that the chairs delimit our bodies in order to become essential and that architecture – the holy spirit of a ghostly and elusive entity linked to the State – was in charge of inventing them. In the same way, hundreds of artists and writers have spent decades showing us the role of the most restless asses in […]
Sukkahville is an international Design competition that challenges participants to reimagine the Sukkah. A Sukkah is a temporary structure built during the Jewish Sukkot holiday to commemorate the 40 years that Jews spent in the desert. It is described as a symbolically natural refuge, whose symbolism is the fragility and transcendence of life. Propose an innovative design of the Sukkah […]
Before our intervention, in this apartment overlapping stages could be appreciated. Several uses through time accumulated layer over layer. At a first glance one could feel a strange and blurred atmosphere. But beyond confusion we could appreciate the power of its original defining features: a sequence of linked spaces, separated by a powerful rhythm of bearing walls; the distinction of […]
Every environment has a basic responsibility with the user: to satisfy it and comfort it. This residence needed an intervention that innovated its main area. The solution was a subtle, dignified, and elegant approach that fuses traditional and artisanal Mexican techniques with contemporary materials. Through the use of: concrete, white cement, metal, marble, and wood, we achieved an avant-garde change to […]
Espacios más abiertos, menor compartimentación, mayor difusión interior de la luz natural. KLEIN®, experto en sistemas arquitectónicos interiores, sigue profundizando hoy en esta reflexión para ayudar a los profesionales a salir del marco establecido. Su departamento de apoyo a la prescripción les acompaña desde la fase de diseño hasta la ejecución en obra, proporcionándoles todas las herramientas para diseñar interiores […]
When crossing the door of the Radisson SAS, hotel, on the bustling Vesterbrogade avenue, something strange happens. Time seems suspended. On the other side of the street, the Tivoli faces its dreamlike exuberance to the strict geometry that Arne Jacobsen drew for his tower in the Center of Copenhagen. But in the lobby of the Radisson, everything seems to respond […]
Arne Jacobsen considered himself, above all, an architect. But the transcendence of his furniture has made him recognized as an industrial designer, something he always tried to escape. Jacobsen believed that design, architecture and the arts could function as a whole, according to the ideas of gesamtkunstwerk. This ideal of artistic synthesis led him to design the chair 3100 for […]
Innovation is a term whose meaning is broad. Referring to wood helps to specify the scope of work, but it does not record it sufficiently. There is innovation in wood linked to consolidated fields of knowledge. From forest engineering, or the mechanics of materials to industrial transformation or the chemical digestion of wood, all these fields have given rise to […]
Reform of an attic in the neighborhood of Conde Duque in Madrid. Hedonism and pleasure are possibly the two concepts most present in many of the decisions that are made to make the reform of this penthouse located in the center of Madrid for a person who lives alone. Faced with an exclusively functional domestic organization, this house takes into account other real […]
The relation between the built environment and the person is a dialogue where both take part. The architecture, through space, light, colour, materialness, temperature, etc., produces a series of physical and emotional sensations that the person perceives. At the same time, the movements and behaviours of the person, or the use of space and its comprehension, basically, how we understand […]
Using efficiently the ground is a main necessity in the structure of the cities form the 21st century. Cities today require an intelligent densification and sensitive to the movement and human activities; an exercise of design where the distribution of space uses and the voids that act like lungs, meeting or transition points, establish a scale ratio that optimises services […]
Verner Panton documents the amazing versatility of one of the most influential and recognizable designers of the postwar period. With his inspiring and extravagant personality, he was at the same time a catalyst and protagonist of the design revolution in the sixties Panton distanced itself from the Scandinavian tradition of handmade teak furniture and advocated the use of innovative materials […]
In the work of Lucas Maassen chairs are almost everywhere and are accompanied by interesting reflections on the processes that give shape, meaning or intensity to objects. From the manufacturing process to the process of assessment or perception of a design by society, the consumer, etc. The last work of the Dutchman is Maasen & Sons, a chair design in […]
The aspect and the history of the chairs of “his holiness” are illustrative of the claimed dignity to which they serve as seat. Of between the used ones for the pontiffs it emphasizes “the gestatoria”. Left definitively by Juan Paul II, it is the obliged modal in what to papal chairs it refers. Curiously, some voices indicate the interest of […]
Inhabit the air is the name of this project that includes the construction of a house inside Nave 11, various actions and social and artistic interventions, a house planned by the Sevillian architect Santiago Cirugeda. The house has been built in collaboration with various associations of women, architecture students and volunteers, directed and trained by the Urban Recipes team (with extensive […]
Daisuke Motori is a young Japanese architect whose work, the informal and the domestic, is often a source of inspiration and gives rise to objects that go along with an accomplice. One of his first works is Lost in sofa, a somewhat ironic version of the Kubus sofa designed by Josef Hoffmann. In 1910 the architect of the Secession submitted […]
In the twentieth century women managed to break through in the professional world. In the field of architecture, the ascent towards their labor consideration was staggered: it was incorporated, in the first instance, through disciplines such as interior design, furniture and various decorations. This lecture series will feature four pioneers whose careers gave a new meaning to architecture: Eileen Gray […]