AESTHETICALLY THINKING: September 2012

Friday, September 28, 2012

MA

Michael and Alexandra Misczynski understand completely and viscerally what the Japanese call "Ma". The unseen energy surrounding objects, or rather the intrinsic importance of having open space in a house, as it is the void that is after all the beginning of everything.

Their new book Interiors/Atelier AM by Rizzoli is so nuanced and quietly eloquent. This quote from the book completely sums it up succinctly:

" A central tenet of their practice is the belief that architecture drives interior design, and that a house will never sing, regardless of the treasures it contains, if the architecture is compromised."

Well said and bravo!

Thursday, September 20, 2012

ART & INTERIORS

As an interior designer with a background in art history, the interior, as it is represented in fine art, has always intrigued me. There is a story within a story in every work- a sense of the space coupled with a reference to the that time and stylist sensibilities of that era. There is such a psychological element inherent in these pieces giving us a glimpse of what life was like at that particular moment- a brief look through the eyes of the artist into the soul of not only the interior but the people who inhabit them.