Above: Case Study House #8, the home of the Eames’, a couple that knew how to mix it up!
It is easy to match items in a room to a period, color, or style. A few minutes watching any number of the network design shows and one will soon realize that anyone can copy a magazine photo. While I won’t go so far as to say that it takes no skill to copy a photo from a magazine, it certainly takes no creativity. But then there are those who work from the fringe and seem to exercise unbridled creative freedom. There are designers who take seemingly disparate elements, bold colors, and items from different periods and make it work. This instalment of Transitional Style will take a look at a few of these rooms from the edge.
A few photos from those who like to mix it up. Click on image for full view
As said in the first Transition Style article there is no such thing as purity in design. To suggest that design is ‘pure’ is to say that an object exists without influence or to say that it is not the product of the ongoing evolution of design and its various manifests. All design is very much a product of that which has come before and to suggest otherwise is nonsense. The only thing that is pure in design puritanism is that it is purely academic. Even within the umbrella term of ‘Modernist’ design there are many schools of thought and design approaches but when these various schools come together under one roof the result can be impressive, striking, and sometimes shocking.
A few images from the first installment of Transitional Style. Click on the image for full view
So true I love Roman and Williams they are masters at this