Showing posts with label aulenti. Show all posts
Showing posts with label aulenti. Show all posts

Saturday, November 26, 2011

... Like this.

Saturday, May 28, 2011


With the hills, vegetation and baroque church this certainly looks like Rome, doesn't it? Great looking space that seems to be a later addition to a brick building. The large terrace, and seating area suggests that this is a hotel. Notice the Gae Aulenti lamps and Timo Sarpaneva ashtrays. And the jute-rug, which I adore. I keep on coming back to this picture. Great architecture is what it is.

Who knows more about this place?

Sunday, May 1, 2011

Osvaldo Borsani


I must admit I had never cared to sudy the work of Osvaldo Borsani (1911 - 1985) as carefuly as I should have, but afer actually seeing his famous 1954 designed P40 lounge chair in Milano the other week, I needed to find out more about the strangely out-of-time designer and his unique work. Him and his brother founded the apptly-titled furniture producing-firm Tecno in 1953, and if I understand things correctly, he had by the end of his career collaborated with a respectable group of like-mindeds, including Norman Foster, Renzo Piano and Gae Aulenti.




Oz believed that design should work alongside technical innovations...

Osvaldo Borsani: D70 Sofa: nova68 Modern Design - photo


He also made some very nice shelving systems:

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Wednesday, June 2, 2010

NY Times

These picures are from a ny times article on interior designer superstars, and from one home in particular, with the article posing the question "Can modernists have lots of stuff?".

Yes we can.


I have been searching for days for the other pictures.