On the Forum

If you are familiar with Design Addict, you surely noticed that there are a lot of talented people who express their opinion and questioning in our Forum. We have decided, every now and then, to draw your attention on subjects which seems to us worthy of interest.

So here are the subjects of this week:

Real Estate and Design

Is High Concept Engineering Eclipsing Design in Architecture?

And another one just for fun: laughably crap replica

 Picture by Brent

tags: modern architecture, contemporary architecture, forum, furniture, essays
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Louis Kahn's Esherick house

Wright Auction house will be auctioning Louis Kahn's Esherick house located just outside of Philadelphia. The house stands as one of the most important houses realized by Kahn throughout his career, and is the first residence to illustrate his mature architectural ideals. The house will be offered in Wright's Important Design sale with an estimate of $2-3 million.

Wright has commissioned artist Todd Eberle to create an original photographic essay that elaborately documents the Esherick house with Eberle's exactness and astounding understanding of architectural spaces. From abstract details that show the perfection of the construction to sweeping shots of the stunning elevations, the images showcase Kahn and Eberle's shared affinities for the subtleties of space and light.

Photos ©2008 Todd Eberle

 

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tags: modern architecture, auction
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Jean Prouvé's Tropical House in London

 

The Design Museum, in partnership with Tate Modern, brings a house designed by architectural visionary Jean Prouvé to Britain for the first time. The prototype house, designed by the French architect Jean Prouvé (1901-1984), for 1950s colonial West Africa, has been erected outside Tate Modern as an extension of the Design Museum’s current exhibition Jean Prouvé 'The Poetics of the Technical Object'.

Fashion photographer Ben Rayner has taken many pictures of the reconstruction of the modular pre-fabricated house.









 

Visit the 'Maison Tropicale for the Design Museum' at Tate Modern, London
from February 5 to April 13 2008
 


Exhibition: Jean Prouvé 'The Poetics of the Technical Object' at the Design Museum, London
from December 7 2007 to April 13 2008

tags: modern architecture, exhibitions, Jean Prouvé
designers: Jean Prouvé
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Modern gingerbread house

Every bit as edible as the original, this isn't your grandma's gingerbread house. Red Envelope gave the classic holiday treat a mid-century makeover, complete with garage and rock garden. A sure-fire conversation piece.

tags: modern architecture, food, new products, kids
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Fallingwater virtual tour

You have always dreamed of visiting Frank Lloyd Wright's masterpiece but could never get there? Well, today it is possible. Of course this is not the real thing, but it is not less impressive. In addition, unless you can fly like a bird, you would never be able to see the house through some of the angles proposed to you in this video by Cristóbal Vila from the Etereaestudios.

 

A better quality video is available on Etereaestudios's website 

 


 

tags: modern architecture, Frank Lloyd Wright
designers: Frank Lloyd Wright
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Everaert House

A visit to the private house of Belgian architect Louis Everaert. The house dates from 1964. The photographs shown here were made in the sixties. Some interesting pieces of furniture by Everaert himself, Bertoia, Jacobsen or German designer Herbert Hirche.

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tags: modern architecture
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