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Victoria Charles,Carl Klaus

Art Deco

  • katiadolzhenkoje citiralaпре 5 година
    The restorer of Austrian architecture, at the end of last century, was Otto Wagner. The most brilliant of his pupils, Josef Hoffmann, was given the torch.
  • katiadolzhenkoje citiralaпре 5 година
    match with the rooms, the seats and beds were low, and the wardrobe with a full-length mirror replaced by the sideboard.
  • katiadolzhenkoje citiralaпре 5 година
    well-known manifesto of the Austrian architect Adolphe Loos, Ornament and Crime, became the bible for a whole group of young artists. “The ornament of an ordinary object,” Loos essentially said, “is, like tattooing, a sign of cruelty or degeneration. It is a criminal waste of time, money, and energy.” Loos foretells of a civilisation where “the streets of the cities will shine out like large, very white walls”.
  • katiadolzhenkoje citiralaпре 5 година
    Bold theorist of new architecture, Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, better known as Le Corbusier, offers the following advice in his Manual of the Dwelling:

    Demand that the bathroom, fully sunlit, be one of the largest rooms in the apartment, the old living room for example. With full-length windows, opening, if possible, onto a terrace for sunbathing, a porcelain washbasin, a bath-tub, showers, and gym equipment. In the adjacent room: a walk-in wardrobe for dressing and undressing. Do not undress in your bedroom. It is not very clean and it creates a distressing disorder.
  • katiadolzhenkoje citiralaпре 5 година
    Toilets and bathrooms got bigger, often at the expense of the bedroom or the nearly obsolete living room. The dining-room and living rooms co-habit, separated by a half-wall, though still considered to be only one room.
  • katiadolzhenkoje citiralaпре 5 година
    being fashionable does not constitute modernism
  • katiadolzhenkoje citiralaпре 5 година
    If art wants to assume eccentric shapes for no reason, it will be nothing more than a fad because there is no meaning behind it.
  • Tatiana Tolmachevaje citiralaпре 6 година
    more logical they are, the more likely they are to be beautifu
  • Tatiana Tolmachevaje citiralaпре 8 година
    finding a new expression in the purpose of the objects
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