Interior Materials D.Matthews

It is just as disastrous to have the wrong accessories in your room as it is to wear sport shoes with an evening dress

- Dorothy Draper

integratedVSapplied

Applied: decorative objects, temporary, color, pattern & textures added
Integrated: structural materials, built into the space, space & form ; can be visual (appearance of structural) & structural

compare:                         

Le Corbusier interior characteristics:

masculine & modern

integrated furniture into structure

minimalist & cold cut materials

 
 

Dorothy Draper interior characteristics:                           

color, texture, & pattern                                                                                                  

antique, traditional                                                                                                     

temporary, decorative                                                               

feminine & stylistic                                               

warm & inviting                                                    

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Frank Lloyd Wright's fallingwaters

 

Applied: cherokee red paint, 

vibrant colored rugs, textiles, 

blankets, cushioned chairs

Integrated: stone chimney (structure),

slate flooring (connection to nature)

with the addition of color, pattern and textiles,

the flooring is subtle and not over powering

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eamesresidence

Applied:travel finds: masks, colors: warm environments, color of paints, rugs & textiles, sculpture figures

Integrated:ply wood (presented structural element as the element that we touch, feel and experience

                   

      thewhyquestion 

- Born out of the Victorian Era & Birth of Modernism

                                              - industrial revolution: mass production, furnishings became affordable

Everyone began running out and buying out of impulse which resulted in:

mis-application, chaotic put togethers

WRONG: many patterns together (wall paper,  drapes, carpet & couch)- multi patterns are competeing with bold colors (reds and greens)

Home= self worth, society status & self- worth, importance

Adolf Loos: ornament and crime 1908; pseudo-classical decorations, do away with ornamentation

-used applied materials: paint

color, texture & pattern 

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space and form

arts&craftsMOVEMENT           APPLIED:

- call to handcrafted items                                   STIGMAofwallpapers

-naturalistic, go back to nature                        -ANYTHING can be misapplied- decor,

-natural dyes                                                            wallpaper, structural materials

-SUSTAINABILITYideas: 100 years ago                  can be used to express culture

inspiration&ideas

canCOMEfromNATURE&ART

Casa Batillo

1904-1906

Gaudi

THEMED INTERIORS

- water imagery, scales, light penetration through floors

and stairs all correspond with the ocean themes

-atmosphere of being underwater

-integrated and applied materials blur

-direct line to nature

-top levels: architectural; middle: blurs; bottom :

thematic of deep ocean, dark & fish bone architecture