Architecture and interior design thread

Buyer beware of the neighbours (2 doors down from my grandma), she's always wanted it!

Ha! It’s a good question

Reminds me very much of my favourite National Trust, The Homeward

Edit: weird they’ve removed all internal photographs from the webpage, can upload my own pics if anyone cares...

Built in period Quad stereo!

Dead pampus grass in a 70's library litter bin is a look

SMLXL, Bartlett Bartlett Bartlett, El Croquis. Bloody architects!
https://assets.themodernhouse.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/5028-Park-Road-14-1600x1065.jpg

honestly I think your house looks much nicer than the black and white across the road. You have a nicer cornice, nice arches. And, I'm not a fan of stark white, in general. If you can tidy the render up and re-paint it will look great. Personally I would go with a soft colour rather than white or cold grey.

I was lusting after that listing when I saw it go up on Instagram. Seriously nice house and full of lovely details.

Talking of the Modern House, this from their sister company inigo.com. Sometimes you just want somewhere like this to coze down into with your paper and coffee!

Nice antidote to the relentless minimalism.

Aye, minimalism is very hard to get right. Nigel Slater gets it right imo.

https://www.instagram.com/nigelslater

You could always paint the pvc frames

Go mental with it mate, paint the whole thing black with black windows and a black door, then plant a load of palm trees in the front yard, be THAT house!

The alm house that sold a couple of years ago was also beaut - Harpenden clear has some nice stock of houses

Re Insta-minimalism. Just going to leave this here.
A few good points if you can look past the tone.

(San Rocco #9)

Minimalist architecture is deliberately – and
visibly – non-inclusive. It maintains a puritan disdain for luxury and
operates as a device that does not admit its own economic lavishness.
As such, Minimalist architecture ends up producing hyper-expensive
yet pseudo-monastic universes for the new bourgeoisie <...>
Poverty here is all about
forgetting the poor. Society is banned from the discourse and replaced
by a myriad of individual consumers, each trapped in a nightmare
of authenticity.
In the end, your life is meaningful only when you sip your Jamaican
mountain coffee sitting on the bench carved from the sacred wood of
the Black Forest.
The critique of Minimalist architecture (and of Minimalism in general)
cannot be limited to a critique of its philistine poverty, which,
in the end, is quite easy to carry out. In fact, concentrating on the eyecatching
“minimum form” side of the story is counterproductive, for
in the end the “minimum form” is quite irrelevant. What really needs
to be understood is the implicit “maximum intention”, the theatrical
pose that accompanies and resonates through the “minimum form”.
Indeed, the banal pieces of metal and the naked squarish rooms only
acquire meaning because they echo their creator’s “maximum intention”.
Behind each brick laid on a pavement we must presume the most
extreme authenticity, the purest purity. The obscenity of Minimalism
boils down to this: the sacred objects on display are imbued with nothing
less than the life of the author, his/her most intimate world. This is
the meaning of the famous formula “attitude becomes form”.
However, very simply, attitude does not become anything.

/csb

On further insta-minimalism, found these guys the other day and they're quite aggressively without.

minus.

But then it's time to dig out that Pawson piece about the interviewer accidentally leaning on a cupboard and the clutter spilling out.

@6pt
I admit liking this, or at least the rigorous technical aspect of it. Formal simplicity is great, it's the washed out 'tranquility' banter which drives me up the wall, and the compulsory material palette that seems to go with it.

Anyhow, I've once again fallen for Heinz Bienefeld Villas.
Beautiful detailing, houses were built around the collections of clients, I've read.

His son Nikolaus draws much from it on a smaller scale.
Here's a 10/10 bathroom floor remodelling as far as I'm concerned.

Are those stacked edge grain birch ply doors!? Madness.

So are you saying it’s a good thing or a bad thing?

@dbr Doesn't say, I've wondered! My guess was stacked MDF.

Chrisbmx -
Not my call.
Personally, I see it as an escapist preoccupation of affluent, presumably neurotic, predominantly white people. Myself including to some extent.
John Pawson, Soft-Minimalism patient zero said something along the lines of
"I embraced minimalism as I tried to forget all the things I have had".
Call me a bigot, but 'the simple life' gist of much of this, say, an 8k Pierre Chapo stool or rustic stoneware from Bonhams, I find as crass, more cynical even, than golden basins.
Since imo this somehow stems from the predicament of the tastemakers/clients,
Interiors you see on Insta or AD, I find it's unrelatable or non-inclusive, as San Rocco put it.
Society of the spectacle by Debord is imo pretty much on point, and was alluded by SR above.

I liked what Gae Aulenti said:

"Sometimes people speak about reality as if a field effectively
existed where it is expressed. Instead realities are infinite..." Here
and elsewhere in the interview, Aulenti seemed to be saying that when
one introduces a piece of design or a piece of architecture, not only
is the "reality" of the designer or architect not of utmost
importance, but the creation will be received by endless
sensibilities.

/csb, full disclosure - I haven't slept.

minus.

hate that shit

Pawson

that too

bloody architects

Not even a wry smile at the absurd giant cupboards hung from the ceiling, just because?

In buyer news, got this in the post today. Hikaru Mori for Nemo/Cassina, can‘t believe it hasn‘t been made in the 70s.

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Proper nice MCM resto in Australia.
Extra Points for Flavia Zagato upfront.

car needs square steering wheel. otherwise nice work this. love the steps