8 Local Creatives Making Furniture That Doubles As Art Shopping by Christina Karras Monde’s signature modular sofa! Photo – Camille Laddawan It’s available in a wide range of fabrics and finishes. Photo – Camille Laddawan Photo – Camille Laddawan Monde Tilly Barber started her eco-conscious sofa business, Monde, as a lockdown project with a friend to explore the nuances of furniture design. She had previously worked with restoration and sale of vintage furniture and decided to take it one step further with her bespoke, modular sofas. ‘Considering how much of our landfill problem can be attributed to planned obsolescence and ignorance in the furniture design industry, I saw potential for Monde to be more than a sofa but also a...
8 Local Creatives Making Furniture That Doubles As Art Shopping by Christina Karras Monde’s signature modular sofa! Photo – Camille Laddawan It’s available in a wide range of fabrics and finishes. Photo – Camille Laddawan Photo – Camille Laddawan Monde Tilly Barber started her eco-conscious sofa business, Monde, as a lockdown project with a friend to explore the nuances of furniture design. She had previously worked with restoration and sale of vintage furniture and decided to take it one step further with her bespoke, modular sofas. ‘Considering how much of our landfill problem can be attributed to planned obsolescence and ignorance in the furniture design industry, I saw potential for Monde to be more than a sofa but also a...
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1. Command Command Clothes Hanger, Large, White, 1-Hanger, 2-Strips, Organize Damage-Free Removes cleanly redecorate when inspiration strikes these wall hooks leave no sticky adhesive behind perfect to use in the laundry room bedroom and closet for extra storage Strong and versatile command hooks hold strongly on a variety of indoor surfaces including painted walls finished wood glass tile metal and other smooth surfaces Includes 1 white hook 2 large strips 1 hook holds 75 lbs Damagefree hanging say goodbye to holes marks or sticky residue on your walls doors or closets command clothes hangers by 3m are easy to use and help keep your walls looking beautiful No tools required hang coats where you want without nails or a...
For romantics like me, time is the architect’s best collaborator. Decay transforms the banal into high art: Wallpaper and paint crackle into baroque curls; plaster softens to dust; floorboards bend; stone stains; water leeches into crevices and freezes, prying loose bricks and mortar. The illustrious Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier stood in awe of these transformations and chose to collaborate with time. His design for the hot, humid climate of Chandigarh, India, features materials and details that he thought would improve with age. Seventy years later, a deep patina caused by an accretion of moss and mold gives the young concrete city an air of timeless grace, much like that of the buildings of ancient Rome. Erected in 1928, the 428-foot-high...
