Lifestyle. Lifestyle design. I am focusing on this all the time in my design work this year.
Everywhere I go people are talking about the breakdown of structures that no longer apply in the world, how much information we are processing and witnessing, what the solutions are or can be for the challenges we face.
Very exciting. Especially as an interior designer with the ability to work with environments and their occupants in a way where we can design new balanced structures, remove old structures that aren’t useful AND remember structures from our past that can work again.
All of the symbols and materials we place in our environments are creating lifestyles that work!
Stay tuned …
January 9, 2010
It has been some time and since my last post I have moved my design base to New York, traveled to Costa Rica to begin discussions on a sustainable resort design based on Vastu calculations, been in Santa Fe, N.M. working on a renovation for a dental office, finished up the lighting design on an apartment at 15 Central Park West in NY (photos will soon be posted on the website) and begun a new residential project in Madison, WI based on Vastu design and Green Building … and a few extra adventures took place along the way.
Today I visited the Museum of the City of New York with my good friend and fellow designer, K.C. We viewed the Eero Saarinen: Shaping The Future exhibit. Very inspiring. The type of exhibit that affects me in such a way that within 15 minutes I experience an illogical and irrrational feeling in my body where my heart feels as joyous and huge as the room I’m standing in. Love this!
Saarinens drawings are a true art in themselves. His design of buildings not only expanded the concept of higher education, but had an impact of contemporary and innovative design experience that deeply moved and affected the human psyche into a realm that, in my opinion, brought about many of the changes in consciousness that those of us born in the 50′s firmly rooted into the modern world.
In the past few months I have been very committed and focused on the proportions of Classical Design. Space, Structure, the Orders, Elements, Composition, Proportion, Ornament, Decor, Light and Color, Character, Taste, Style, The Classical Tradition has been my obsession. It is the root and the grounding that my designs demand as a base for their extraordinary simplicity and creativity. Looking at Saarinens work I do not find a departure from Classicism, but an expansion on its interpretation that is awe inspiring.
In our present time I venture to say that these very principles and expressions of design and architecture have established solid foundations for the rapidly evolving marketplace of green building knowledge and pure vastu alignment in new structures; and green building renovation and vastu rectification in existing structures.
August 14, 2009 at 1:32 pm |
Get to work! The website and blog are wonderful, and I had such a great time having tea and tour with you at MoMA. Let’s get together again soon. I want to hear about the salon and Paul and Jorge’s home. ciao bella
June 7, 2010 at 5:56 pm |
Dear, Marianne
congradulations I saw a write up in the newspaper.
How exciting, sounds like business has taken off for you.
Hope all is well on the home front. You look wonderful
wow, could it be a new love . got to run.good luck