Barcelona Chair in Living Room
Contemporary interior design is more and more based on minimalism; the furniture, the accessories, the architecture, they all tend to be minimalist these days.
Also known as the ABC art, the minimalist art is an artistic movement initiated in the 20th century, which tries to reduce, as much as possible, the number of colours, shapes, lines and textures used in any form of artistic creation.
This modern style, based on simplicity, has greatly influenced the contemporary interior design tendencies. Inspired by Japanese simplicity, minimalist furniture proposes a simple space, clean , aired, and excludes all crowdedness, all the piling up of objects, thus managing to avoid that sense of pressure and suffocation.
The minimalist trend is increasingly more popular, with its combination of natural elements with modern ones, in shades of white, beige and grey, reminding of beaches, clouds and river stones.
The force of minimalism lies in its efficiency of using the minimum number of elements required in a room; that makes each and one of those elements extremely important.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe created his work bearing in mind the principle “Less is more.”. He used it to explain why he eliminated the interior walls of a house, why he wanted a large open space, reducing the whole construction to the elegant exterior structure. He called this method of house remodelling a “skin and bone” architecture.
One of the most famous pieces of minimalist furniture is the Barcelona chair, created by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in 1929. Its structure is still extremely popular, but designers use many other materials now.
Taking the Barcelona chair as a reference point, designers have created the Barcelona watch, a fabulous interior design accessory, a wall watch made of leather in various warm colours. It can easily turn into one of the strong points of a room and it would make a great gift for someone who believes “God is in the details”.
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Loading ...This post was written by Dana Ciucalau on October 29, 2008
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