Research Catalog

Title

Inside Utopia : visionary interiors and futuristic homes / edited by Adam Štěch, Sally Fuls, and Robert Klanten ; introduction by Adam Štěch.

Publication

Berlin : Gestalten, 2017.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Štěch, Adam
• Fuls, Sally
• Klanten, Robert

Description

304 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 34 cm

Summary

"Radical. Visionary. Poetic. Inside Utopia shows the future of living that architects and designers have envisioned. Spectacular and reflective, unpretentious and efficient: the breathtaking Elrod House by John Lautner; the Lagerfeld Apartment near Cannes that seems like a set from a science fiction film; Palais Bulles in France with its organic and unique architecture. These interiors welcome habitation and spark curiosity while embodying the foundations of minimalism and bygone visions of the future. Inside Utopia delves into the rhyme and reason behind past designs that we still interact with today. The architects, the owners, and the craftsmen like Gio Ponti or Bruce Goff who work behind the scenes created amorphous interiors that invite the mind to wander. At the time they were futuristic, confident, utopian, idealistic--we may not realize it, but they have shaped our current living concepts, and even now, they inspire us anew. Previously it has been difficult to attain access to these preserved interiors, but Inside Utopia unearths what was before unseen."--Amazon.com.

Subjects

• Architecture, Domestic
• Architecture and society
• Fantastic architecture
• Interior decoration
• Utopias

Note

• Includes index.
• Projects: Midcentury modern : Stahl house, Los Angeles / Pierre Koenig -- Miller house, Columbus, IN / Eero Saarinen -- Eames house, Pacific Palisades, CA / Charles & Ray Eames -- Gertler house, Santa Monica, CA / Ray Kappe -- Smalley house, Los Angeles / A. Quincy Jones -- Tempo house, Los Angeles / Ray Kappe -- Kappe house, Los Angeles / Ray Kappe -- Block Island house, RI / Jens Risom -- Nakashima house, New Hope, PA / George Nakashima -- Frey house II, Palm Springs, CA / Albert Frey -- Mirman house, Arcadia, CA / Buff, Straub, and Hensman -- Elrod house, Palm Springs, CA / John Lautner -- Segal house, Los Angeles / John Lautner -- Walstrom house, Los Angeles / John Lautner -- Smith house, Vancouver, Canada / Arthur Erickson -- La Ricarda, Catalonia, Spain / Antoni Bonet i Castellana -- A maestro with Italian midcentury flair: Gio Ponti -- Clemmensen house, Gentofte, Denmark / Karen and Ebbe Clemmensen -- Villa Sayer, Deauville, France / Marcel Breuer -- Interior decoration : Fornasetti house, Milan, Italy / Piero & Barnaba Fornasetti -- Undisputed king of the whiplash curve: Vladimir Kagan -- Dawnridge, Los Angeles / Tony Duquette -- Streamlined surrealism and the human form: Carlo Mollino -- Jaretti house, Turin, Italy / Sergio Jaretti -- The living world sculpted in bronze: Les Lalanne -- Organicism, space age, and radical design : La Renardiere, Jouara-Pontchartrain, France / Étienne Fromanger -- Denmark's designer from out of space / Verner Panton -- Torres Blancas, Madrid, Spain / Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oiza -- Kunstoffhaus FG 2000, Altenstadt, Germany / Wolfgang Feierbach -- Windmill home, Turnhout, Belgium / Lou Jensen -- Lagerfeld apartment, Monaco / Memphis Milano -- Casa Maui, Hawaii / Ettore Sottsass -- Brazilian underdog and master of Brutalism: Eduardo Longo -- Ford house, Aurora, IL / Bruce Goff -- Wharton Esherick Studio, Melvern, Australia / Wharton Esherick -- Al Struckus house, Woodland Hills, CA / Bruce Goff -- Sleeper house, Genesee Mountain, CO / Charles Deaton -- Casa Amalia Hernández, Mexico City / Austín Hernández Navarro -- Maison Unal, Ardèche, France / Claude Häusermann-Costy & Joël Unal -- Preserver of the Lanzarote horizon: César Manrique -- Palais Bulles, Théoule-sur-Mer, France / Antti Lovag -- Grataloup apartment, Geneva, Switzerland / Daniel Grataloup -- Brutalism : Casa de Vidro, São Paulo, Brazil / Lina Bo Bardi -- The modernist of São Paulo: Vilanova Artigas -- Vandenhaute-Kiebooms house, Huise, Belgium / Juliaan Lampens -- Casa Butantã, São Paulo, Brazil / Paolo Mendes de Rocha -- Leme house, São Paulo, Brazil / Paolo Mendes de Rocha -- Rebberg house, Zurich, Switzerland / Hans Demarmel -- Marlene Milan house, São Paulo, Brazil / Marcos Acayaba -- Tomie Ohtake house, São Paulo, Brazil / Ruy Ohtake -- The Mexican minimalist with an eye for color: Luis Barragán -- The labyrinth house, Barcelona, Spain / Xavier Corbero.

Contents

Midcentury modern : reflecting the artistic echo of an optimistic atmosphere -- Interior decoration : riding the flamboyant wave of eclecticism -- Organicism, space age, and radical design : turning the living space into an experimental environment -- Brutalism : discovering poetry in pragmatism.

ISBN

• 9783899556964
• 3899556968

LCCN

9783899556964

OCLC

• ocn985301349
• 985301349
• SCSB-5890040

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries