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They represent modern living at its most progressive and experimental and, as such, depict people’s dreams about the present and the future. Further information can be found HERE.

An example of the continuity of plants in inside spaces:

A conservatory attached to a Liverpool home of the 1890s



Palms in a Wall Street atrium in downtown New York, after 2000



The Shingle House by NORD Architecture in Dungeness, Kent (UK, 2010) is the second completed holiday home in Alain de Botton’s Living Architecture.

Penny Sparke recommends us to look at this video as it explains why she finds the subject of plants in modernist interiors so fascinating: Talking Interiors with Penny Sparke, a lecture organised by the Interior Design program of the Royal College of Art in 2013.

Publication date 7 January 2016

Penny Sparke

  • Penny Sparke — Naissance 1948 Londres Nationalité  Royaume Uni Diplôme Philosophiæ doctor …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Eileen Gray — Pour les articles homonymes, voir Gray.

    There is unlimited subject matter out there and we need to understand the importance and of our inside spaces as much as we do their architectural complexities. It is crucial that a body takes on this vital role as our heritage is tied to them. Their interior spaces and contents are markers of our collective aspirations and I would like to play a part in ensuring that we understand that and protect them.

    What role do you think Iconic Houses should play?
    It has has a crucial role to play in disseminating the importance of the houses that it represents.

    For other uses, see Heathrow (disambiguation) and LHR (disambiguation).

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    What are you working on now?
    As I mentioned before, I am working on a book about plants and flowers in modern interiors, mainly because the topic has been ignored, but also because it throws a completely new light on many modernist buildings that have been seen as exclusively rational and industrial in their conception.

    London Heathrow Airport …   Wikipedia

  • Capernwray Hall — is a 19th century mansion set in 175 acres (708,000 m²) of parkland, just south of England s famous Lake District, and west of the Yorkshire Dales National Park in Carnforth, Lancashire.

    Do you have a favourite house?
    I am very fond of Mies van der Rohe’s Villa Tugendhat.

    Eileen Gray Naissance 9  …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Ultra-modernité — Design Le design est une discipline visant à représenter concrètement, une pensée, un concept ou une intention en tenant compte éventuellement d une ou des contraintes fonctionnelles, structurelles, esthétiques, didactiques, symboliques,… …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Design — Le design ou la stylique[1] est une discipline visant à représenter concrètement, une pensée, un concept ou une intention en tenant compte éventuellement d une ou des contraintes fonctionnelles, structurelles, esthétiques, didactiques,… …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Elsie de Wolfe — (also known as Lady Mendl [ Lady Mendl was frequently used by the press during her married life.

    It needs to concern itself with the physicality and the materiality of the houses in question but also, just as importantly, with the scholarship that needs to be done to understand both the intentions of the architects and designers who created them, and the nature of the lives that they supported. I love studying and writing about interiors and intend to keep doing so for as long as I can.

    Capernwray Hall was built in the mid 1800s as a private… …   Wikipedia

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    She is also the author of a number of books. I am interested in the fact that plants can be seen through scientific, emotional and ecological lenses and their contribution to interior spaces is often much more complex than has hitherto been understood.

    What’s next for you?
    More of the same!

    Elsie de Wolfe is the name that appears as author of her published books; modern biographers usually use this form of the name.

    Are you also passionate about significant homes and do you find Iconic Houses interesting and useful? My first book on the subject – As Long as It’s Pink: The Sexual Politics of Taste – was published in 1995 (reprinted in 2010), and I addressed it again in The Modern Interior of 2008.

    It is presumably that of the builder. She studied at Sussex University and later helped to set up courses in design history at Brighton University and the Royal College of Art, London, on which she also taught. I like to imagine the family life that went on in the house nearly a century and a half ago.

    What made you decide to support Iconic Houses?
    The aim of Iconic Houses is to protect and study the most important homes and houses of the modern era.