“Plan of the villa of a great Egyptian noble.” The dawn of civilization : Egypt and Chaldæa. 1894.
1960s Danish weaving from Dansk Brugskunst
From: Dictionary of Weaves, Part I / Lexicon der Gewebemuster, Band I / Manuel des Dessins du Tissage, Ire Partie, by Emanuel Anthony Posselt, Textile Publishing Co., Philadelphia, and Sampson Low, Marston & Co., London, 1914
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The Akatsuka House by Takamitsu Azuma, 1969
The Akatsuka House by Takamitsu Azuma was built in Osaka in 1969, a few years after the completion of the Tower House in Tokyo. The principles behind this project are similar to those of the Tower House, with all functions superposed one another without real partitions between the living areas and the stairs. In Akatsuka, the rooms are slightly bigger.
From the central tower, (hosting the staircases), three volumes are cantilevered: the tatami room at the ground floor, the living room at the second and a third room on the highest floor) .
The sloping roof, housing the library, is accessible from the living room through a secondary stairway, and provides a recognisable shape to the building. The interior surfaces are left in raw concrete with all cables and lights exposed, while the exterior has been painted in white.
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Loft Bed
form the book High Tech by Joan Kron Suzanne Sloan, 1980
PETER ZUMTHOR IN COVERSATION WITH TONY CHAPMAN (2013)
Hour-long video interview in which Zumthor discusses many of his projects in detail, including the Kolumba Museum in Cologne, which he completed in 2007. (Photo: rasmus hjortshøj, via designboom)
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