12.01.09 14:22
ein sehr interessanter und gut recherchierter artikel über minimalismus in der architektur, insb. der inneneinrichtung findet sich heute im things magazine:
„The Empty Room is a ghostly presence in contemporary culture. For, despite our aspirations to minimalism and reductivism, these are simply not natural states of being [...]
This is one of the great hang-ups about modernism, which tends towards the minimal, as opposed to the overstuffed [...]
While minimalism represents the logical extension of the International Style aesthetic, less has long since ceased to be more. In an ironic rerun of the overstuffed Victorian interior, to be modern today is no longer about presenting an absence of things, but a presence of things [...]
So out of clinical modernism has emerged a new eclecticism. Arguably minimalism peaked too soon, before the desire for perfectionism in interior design and presentation could imitate the glossy perfection of the computer-generated image [...]“
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