Jean Louis Deniot Doheny Drive

Jean Louis Deniot brings his inherent refinement to the interiors of the Paul R.Williams house. Deniot spent over a year restoring and renovating the 1938 house, improving and enhancing every corner of the house, located on Doheny Drive, Los Angeles. His goal was to reveal the elegant Thirties Hollywood style of the house, and not to ‘modernize’ it or reinvent it. Keeping true to the homes European aesthetic, Denoit shows off in a very subtle way that the house is located in Beverly hills and not anywhere else.

Malene Birger Designs

Malene Birger: A Masterclass in Timeless Design and Nomadic Elegance Malene Birger embodies an exquisite blend of creativity, craftsmanship, and eclecticism. Renowned as a fashion designer and founder of iconic brands, she has seamlessly transitioned into the world of interior design, redefining how we view and utilize our living spaces. A Nomadic Vision Birger’s approach is rooted in versatility and reinvention. Her favorite furniture and décor pieces travel with her like cherished companions, adapting effortlessly to different spaces—from a sympathetically renovated finca in Mallorca to an Edwardian flat in London and back to Copenhagen. Each piece finds new life, seamlessly transforming a bedroom into a lounge or a desk into a bathroom accent. Design Philosophy At the heart of her design ethos lies a love for traditional craftsmanship paired with modern sensibilities. Her newest book, Move and Work , offers an intimate glimpse into her three homes and her Copenhagen showroom,...

Aldo Rossi Architecture

Aldo Rossi (born 1931), one of the most influential architects during the period 1972-1988, has accomplished the unusual feat of achieving international recognition in three distinct areas: theory, drawing, and architecture. In 1966 Aldo Rossi published the book The Architecture of the City, which subsequently was translated into several languages and enjoyed enormous international success. Spurning the then fashionable debates on style, Aldo Rossi instead criticized the lack of understanding of the city in current architectural practice. Aldo Rossi argued that a city must be studied and valued as something constructed over time; of particular interest are urban artifacts that with-stand the passage of time. Despite the modern movement polemics against monuments, for example. Aldo Rossi held that the city remembers its past and uses that memory through monuments; that is, monuments give structure to the city. ...

Architect Marcel Breuer

Designer and Architect, Marcel Breuer (1902 - 1981) can be regarded as one of the most influential and important designers of the 20th century. As a young student at the Bauhaus Weimar, Breuer, who was Hungarian by birth, caught the eye with various furniture designs inspired by the Dutch De Stijl group. In 1925, at the tender age of only 23, he “invented” tubular steel furniture, a revolutionary development, to be considered his core contribution to the history of design. Breuer’s tubular steel designs, such as the famous Wassily armchair, the Bauhaus stool, or his various cantilever chairs are representative for the design of an entire epoch, and thus comparable only with Wagenfeld’s legendary table luminaire. In the shape of millions of copies they have long since taken a firm place among the great classics of Modernism. Yet it was not only tubular steel furniture that helped Breuer make an international splash. He was likewise a design history trail-blazer with his alu...

Domenique Mora: Where Design Meets Vision

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