Posts tagged "simple"
House longs for a car and a car dreams of a house Le Corbusier ‘s Citroen House <1>
The French court society of the 18th century seemed to have the same interest in furniture as modern people would do in the cars. Since the birth of modernism in the 20th century, cars and homes had strong conscious relationship. Machines for living, houses like cars. Le Corbusier’s Citroen House In 1917, Le Corbusier left...
Hotel by Shigeru Ban “Shounai Hotel Suiden Terrace”
We had a chance of staying at Ban Shigeru’s SHONAI HOTEL SUIDEN TERRASSE “Shonai Hotel Suiden Terrace” is located in Tsuruoka City, Yamagata Prefecture in Japan. (Suiden means rice field) As the name suggests, it stands in a rice field in the Shonai Plain, which symbolizes rice. The magnificent scenery of the rice fields,...
Japan in Architecture : 1/3 scale giant model of Kenzo Tange’s home
Kenzo Tange’s own residence in 1/3 scale giant model. from “Japan in Architecture : Genealogies of Its Transformation” (April 25-September 17, 2018 @ Mori Art Museum). Although huge, it is a model, so the whole house can be seen in a glance rather than seen in the separate photographs, Thus the concept of the building...
Shogun who found simplicity. Shogun Ashikaga Yoshimasa
Genealogy of Simplicity ~ Shogun Ashikaga Yoshimasa ~ In a way, modern design can be a simple design. According to dictionary word “simple” is “condition of less elements”. Simple means that colors, shapes and materials are simple and restrained. Simple is not a monopolist of modernism. Nor is it limited to architecture or product design....
Delusioning Barcelona Chair
There is a chair that changes the air of the room completely by just placing it. The Barcelona chair by Mies van der Rohe is such a chair. Innovative structure and form, elegant and cool. This chair,the top of a modern furniture, has a coolness and loneliness that refuses someone to sit. (* Barcelona...
Wabisabi and Modernism ~Wabisabi by Leonard Koren~
”Japan was ahead of modernism hundreds of years than the West, in the middle of the Muromachi era（1336 – 1573）, it already valued the beauty of simplicity ” (Jun Hara, “White” 2008) The similarity of Japan’s values and modernism which both respects simplicity, is a great concern for Japan who imported modernism. Concerning the eyes...
Eichler Homes and Steve Jobs
Eichler Homes and Steve Jobs Steve Jobs praised Eichler Homes (*), in a biography “Steve Jobs” (Walter Isaacson 2011). He is considered to be the house he grew up in Eichler Homes. Eichler Homes is a house built and sold in California from around 1950 by Joseph Eichler. Joseph Eichler has made modern houses designed...
Modern minimalist TV stand with floating simple design
Modern minimalist floating design TV stand by zeitgeist. Cantilevered design creates floating minimalist light weight aesthetics. TV stand that features spirit of modern minimalist design. zeitgeist’s TV stand FSM(Floor Stand Metal) is designed with the inspiration of minimalist and Bauhaus’s modern design. Cantilever construction designed 100years ago in the era of Bauhaus now supports latest...
Corner TV stands, entertainment center with space efficiency
Corner TV stands by zeitgeist. zeitgeist’s FSM floor stand Metal is ideal TV stand to place in the corner of living room or any room. Simple and visually light weighted design features spirit of modern Bauhaus design. zeitgesit’s FSM is simple entertainment center and ideal to use as Corner TV stands. Although it is...
Cool TV stand with simple design
TV stand in cool design zeitgeist’s FSM floor stand metal is TV stand designed with inspiration from Mid-century modern design. As seen on Mies van der Rohe’s cantilever chair, its simple and visually and physically light weight design. Cantilever has been rediscovered as TV stand. The original designer of cantilever pipe chair, Mart Stam...
Simple TV stand with modern design
Simple TV stand. innovative design by zeitgeist Do not like to have a large TV in the center of living room. TV should be simple and light. TVstand that does not make TV and TV furniture the center of living room. Fit with simple minimalist lifestyle. Keeps living enviromnment simple creates more space. Easy to...
