Sentences with phrase «into modernist designs»

Butterfly, saw - tooth, shed and other unique shapes, such as the hyperbolic parabolic figure into modernist designs.

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In between, we are given snapshots of a vanished America where religion and culture still played a vital role in public life, as well as odd and unexpected little tidbits: a craze for church bell towers in the 1920s; Cram's home life with his beloved wife, Bess, and their children; the messy business breakup with Goodhue; Cram's mildly embarrassing foray into the horror genre, Black Spirits and White; his strange proposal for an island to be raised ex nihilo in Boston's Charles River; the problems inherent when working with rich Swedenborgians; and a Japanese Christian university he designed on a mix of Oriental and Dutch Modernist themes.

As he does, «The Little Prince» makes a remarkable stylistic leap from the accomplished but familiar CG environs of these opening scenes (big - eyed, bobble - headed humans; modernist - futurist design influences) into 2D stop - motion animation, bringing the world of Saint - Exupery's original story to life in beautiful handcrafted images based on the author's own crudely elegant watercolors (seen in the book's first printing and all subsequent editions).

Visionary design melds modernist ideas with traditional Balinese forms and accents into a uniquely beautiful contemporary gem.

The design and décor are exquisite throughout, with a large wall of exposed stone, lovely wood furnishings, and an overall aesthetic of modernist naturalism that create the perfect ambiance for serene escape into the present.

A jewel of modernist architecture in Barcelona, the building was designed by the influential Catalan architect, Lluís Domenech i Montaner, and the name Casa Fuster translates into the House of the Carpenter.

This newer home, built in 2013, boasts a modernist architectural design that incorporates fabulous views of mountains, forest and sea into the living space.

In both the «Gray Paintings (Loxodonta)» and the «Organ Pipes», the materiality of the objects open up to suggest a vast scope of cultural production — the elemental tin transformed into the majestic pipe organ, an achievement of pre-industrial design on par with horology; the «Gray Paintings (Loxodonta)» echoing the stone surface of prehistoric cave paintings and also the modernist tradition of the monochrome.

Under the new leadership of Rodman Primack, who made his mark in London as chairman of Phillips de Pury & Company, the tented design fair translated the branding sponsorship of Perrier - Jouët, Audi, Fendi, Louis Vuitton and Swarovski into the dazzle of such over-the-top showpieces as a glittered sculpture of King Kong climbing Dubai's Burj Khalifa hotel, a monumental wood - hewn structure commissioned from Seattle architect Olson Kundig to house the cafeteria, furniture commissioned by Herman Miller from French modernist Pierre Paulin circa 1972, but realised only now, and a stream of technology - driven works involving a table whose motor sensors raised handcrafted metal flora at the viewer's approach, a clock spinning out countless time zones beforesettling on local time, and an installation by architect Jeanne Gang and photographer James Balog involving a resin iceberg, pierced with brilliants and set against an Arctic panorama.

These three artists embed forms associated with modernist architecture and design as well as Minimalism into their sculptures and works on paper.

Central to Crowner's practice is research into the history of 20th century abstraction and modernist design, as well as an obvious penchant for textile production.

Known for swathes of standardized modernist high - rises, the South Korean capital is transforming itself into a hub for architectural design

Engaging with the history and mission of The Arts Club itself, the two - part installation will bring together McElheny's film The Light Club of Vizcaya: A Women's Picture (2012) and a new site - specific installation titled The Club for Modern Fashions (2013), a constructed glass pavilion into which performers and guests are invited during the lunch hour, Tuesdays through Fridays, dressed in vintage attire from the 1920s to the 1970s — decades that signify the height of a modernist imperative across the cultures of fashion, design, and architecture.

In a major project last winter, Hayes turned the glass - walled lobby of Lever House — the iconic Modernist office building on Park Avenue designed by Gordon Bunshaft — into a huge terrarium with a landscape of tropical trees and foliage.

The quirky (and clearly illegal) «art bar» reprised an earlier effort, by four Austrian artists - in - residence at the MAK Center, to turn one of the carports in Rudolph Schindler's modernist, Mid-City apartment building into an approximate replica of Vienna's Adolf Loos - designed American Bar.

Tapping into the vocabulary and history of modernist design and architecture Boyce recreates its essential components and structures and transforms them into what he calls «unstable landscapes» in which social exchange might occur.

«Drawing upon the Cubo - futurist, Constructivist and Suprematist design principles of his native Russia as well as the utilitarian pragmatism of the German Bauhaus, Kozyrev juxtaposes these modernist tropes with a Vermeer - like Dutch interior or the depiction of a ruined bunker in Finland, exploding the images» contextual logic into a postmodern pastiche of historical culture.

Björn Meyer - Ebrecht's painting's use modernist architecture and design as a starting point, using basic geometric form as an alphabet with which to render these utilitarian and utopian forms into idiosyncratic compositions.

Sarah Crowner integrates repeated shapes and patterns — often in saturated, primary colors — into graphic compositions that evoke hard - edge painting, modernist design, and textile production.

Hansen also added a skylight in the work area to bring light into the kitchen, and designed a modernist metal railing to replace the wall that once separated the living area from the stairs to the lower level.