Tag: interior design

Marion Hall Best: Color, Modernism & the Making of Australian Interior Design

Imagine walking into a room where the ceiling is unexpectedly yellow, one wall glows through translucent layers of color, a sculptural modern chair sits beside an antique object, and textiles from Europe or Asia appear alongside furniture by young Australian designers. Nothing is beige simply because beige is safe. Nothing has been selected merely because …

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Verner Panton: Color, Plastic & the Psychedelic Interior

Imagine entering a room where the distinction between furniture, floor, walls, ceiling, lighting, and sculpture has almost disappeared. The carpet climbs into upholstered platforms. Curving forms rise from the floor like strange geological formations. Lamps glow inside fields of saturated red, orange, purple, and blue. There may be no conventional chair at all, because the …

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