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playasolmar
February 9th, 2008, 01:40 AM
De un articulo del New York Magazine de 2004.

El apartamento de Rafael y Diane Viñoly

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The sofa Diana Viñoly designed was “inspired by one I saw many years ago in Paris,” she says. “I always kept a picture of it, and I copied most of the proportions.” It was built by the artist and furniture-maker Ethan Ames. “I was pressuring him a lot. He did it very fast. For somebody who is not a designer, that sofa should cost $13,000.” The zebra-striped chairs are by Alvar Aalto, the rug from Odegard.

El sofa grandote fue diseñado por ella basado en un sofa que vio en Paris. Fue armado por el artista Ethan Ames. Segun ella vale $13,000!!!
Las sillas de zebra fueron diseñadas por Alvar Aalto. La alfombra por Odegard.

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Behind Rafael’s piano, Diana has placed a pre-Columbian fabric from Peru, woven circa 600 A.D., that cost around $14,000 twelve years ago. “It used to be a cover for the altarpiece. Everyone thinks it’s like a Jasper Johns, but no.” Beneath the piano is a geometric Odegard carpet.

Detras del piano (y Rafael) esta colgado un tapizado pre-colombino de Peru, tejido circa 600 AD y valio $14,000 hace 12 años. Estos cuando se aburren tiran la manteca, yogur, todos los productos de Conaprole al techo.
Parece que todas ls alfombras son de Odegard.

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A Verner Panton chair from Vitra and a thirties desk with “aerodynamic” drawer handles.

El escritorio es de los años 30 y los cajones tienen manijas "aerodinamicas" (?). Esta bueno el escritorio le pudieron sacar una foto a las manijas no?

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What appears to be a sculpture merging shell and bird is actually an abstract model made by a car designer who introduced streamlining to Citroën. “Citroëns were kind of squarish, and then in the 1950s they were more rounded,” says Diana. “I got it in Paris in a little shop. I didn’t know what it was.”

La mejor foto de todas!! La escultora es un modelo hecha por el que habia creado el nuevo diseño para los Citroën en los 50. ( me imagino como andaba con la tarjeta de Rafael debe haber pagado circa $10,000!!!)

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"It was very funny,” says Diana. “We uncovered the speakers to paint and found that the color of the plastic was exactly the same” as the yellow they’d chosen for the walls. Below the speaker is a Richard Serra drawing."

El plastico, las paredes del mismo color...bastante original la mina.

mjbu
February 9th, 2008, 02:00 AM
^^

Que horrible forma de ambientar la casa. Terrible.

Les rediseño el interior y les decoro el apartmento de gratis solo porque me dio lastima ver como viven :lol:

Yazzo
February 9th, 2008, 02:31 AM
los tapizados atigrados y el busto sobre el escritorio (horrible) arruinan todo.... lo demas muy lindo, aunque podría estar mejor para ser él
y la forma de la silla del escritorio ...mmmmmm, no sé, gustos son gustos

sebrivero
February 9th, 2008, 02:59 AM
esto demuestra que hasta el mejor pintado tiene su punto terraja.....

NicoBolso
February 9th, 2008, 04:59 AM
Debo decir que tiene su encanto, sin perjuicio de ese mamarracho atigrado que no combina.

Me encanta el piano de 1/4 cola de la primera foto. ¿Será un Steinway? Creo que voy a ir a visitar a Rafa un día de estos.

sebrivero
February 9th, 2008, 05:09 AM
ahora... viendo a la mujer del rafa estoy seguro que es ella la culpable !!!

gusgazman
February 9th, 2008, 05:12 AM
Nunca les dio por leer acerca de mobiliario moderno clasico... Walter Gropius hizo algunos de los muebles mas revolucionarios del siglo pasado, entre los que se destaca esa hermosa silla en forma de cono invertido...
Acaso para Vds, la Mona Lisa es un cuadrito en el Louvre?
La Historia del Arte no muerde y amplia conocimientos acerca de lo que se ha hecho en materia de diseño en otras épocas... Miren que ya había un mundo antes de que Vds. llegaran...
Un sano consejo es ampliar la mente todo lo que se pueda... Podrán decirme que es ecológicamente incorrecto usar una piel para decorar una casa, pero por todo lo demas, el diseño NATURAL de una piel de tigre, cebra o la que sea, son de una belleza pocas veces reproducida por deseñador alguno...

sebrivero
February 9th, 2008, 05:23 AM
gustos son gustos gus (valga la redundancia)........creo que nadie los desprecia por anticuados.......

por otra parte supongo que todo diseño interesante figurará en su respectiva enciclopedia.....no por eso tendrá que gustar....

mjbu
February 9th, 2008, 05:29 AM
^^

Completamente de acuerdo con vos.

playasolmar
February 9th, 2008, 05:42 AM
JAJAJA tienen razon fue la mujer que diseño el apartamento!!! Voy a incluir todo el articulo (es en ingles y no me dan las...para traducir ta?) El nombre del articulo lo dice todo "El piano de el, el apartamento de ella".
Estoy en acuerdo que la piel de zebra es RE-terraja pero el resto no esta mal.

Tambien voy a incluir los comentarios a las fotos...bien!?!

"His Piano, Her Apartment
In Rafael and Diana Viñoly’s new loft, the architect was more than happy to leave almost everything up to his wife, the decorator.

* By Alexandra Lange
* Published Oct 4, 2004

Rafael and Diana Viñoly
Space 2,300-square- foot loft
Location Tribeca
Lived There Six months

A New Yorker’s residential trajectory is often, inevitably, up. From the flats to the heights, from Hell’s Kitchen to the Upper West Side. When the Viñolys started their search for a new apartment, they also looked up. “After all the children left, we wanted another apartment,” says Diana Viñoly. “Maybe also on the Upper East Side, and maybe a penthouse that would be better than ours.” But after two years, they couldn’t find what they wanted and decided instead to renovate, decamping for another apartment during the process. “I always wanted to live downtown,” she says. “We found this loft and liked it a lot. Which is difficult considering my husband is an architect and I am a decorator. We were planning to live here for a year and a half. After fifteen days, I decided I didn’t want to move again.”

Changing The Space:
They took down one wall but left the rest of the renovation, by architect Hope Dana, in place. One of the first things Diana had installed was curtains, but not the fussy kind. Hers are floor-to-ceiling silk-parachute fabric strung on invisible wires.

Her Mandate:
“Rafael always lets me do whatever I want,” says Diana, who’s designed Lot 61, Bungalow 8, and the new bistro-boîte Bette for nightlife queen Amy Sacco. “He always calls our houses ‘Diana’s house.’ He really is not very interested in decoration. He’s never been interested in everyday objects. As long as there is a place for his piano, that’s the only thing he cares about.”

His Take On It:
“It is a good, happy relationship because I guess it is my chance to be the client, if you know what I mean,” says Rafael, whose latest project, Jazz at Lincoln Center—in which the “lobby has become another performance space”—opens this month. “You have to have a different kind of attention” to decorate, adds the architect, who designed the Tokyo Forum and Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center. “It is a much more concentrated type of effort. I have designed objects”—like watches—“but certainly not for me. Then it was associated with an idea of mass production, which is different from the preciousness that you put on an object for yourself. Having a mass audience made it more interesting.”

Her Decorating Principles:
“I’ve done houses that are quite different from mine,” says Diana, “but there is a certain feeling you can find in all those houses. It’s in the flow. I like the idea that as you go from one place to another there is continuity, not a shocking difference. You just continue without feeling like you have to learn the whole language again. One element is color, a very subtle thing people don’t even realize goes from one place to another.” In the Viñolys’ apartment, most of the walls are a subtle silvery gray, except one in saffron, which carries from the dining area into the bedroom.

The Theory Of Three:
“I decided to bring in most of my black furniture, so that I had something that would unify the space. If you are going to do something eclectic, my theory is you have to have at least three of something. If you have a certain period, at least three of that period. For example, I have the Aalto chairs, and these black chairs that are also from the period [1940s and 1950s],” as well as the living-room sofa she designed and had lacquered black. (“It is the size of a twin bed. I was thinking if I have somebody that really doesn’t have somewhere to go, they can sleep there.”) “The great mistake people make,” Diana continues, “is that they put together things they like, and they don’t understand that they should relate to other things. It is very uncomfortable visually. If you have three of something, it gives you a kind of peacefulness.”

http://nymag.com/nymetro/shopping/homedesign/features/9979/

mjbu
February 9th, 2008, 05:51 AM
Pues con razon, a esta mujer hay que ir agarrar la de los pelos y meterla a una escuela de como aprender a decorar tu casa:lol::lol:

sebrivero
February 9th, 2008, 05:55 AM
que fino estuve!!!...........

(decoró el piso a juego con sus pantalones.....je je je).....y no comento mas pa no ensañarme con la tipa...

Yazzo
February 9th, 2008, 07:26 AM
quien es la mujer? digo, mejor cual es el apellido de soltera?

Pd: costumbre de viejas adoptar el apellido del hombre :P