Owners and Their Homes

[1karina1]

This is a thread specifically for magazine features on people's homes. Articles giving us a glimpse into how the owner's came to personalizing their home etc...

Here is an article on Massimo Tocchetti's Marrakesh home from the Sunday Times Style magazine Dec 31 2006.



source: scanned by me

 

[StyleIsInUs]

Nice thread idea, Karina House you posted is amazing ...

 

[1karina1]

Nice thread idea, Karina House you posted is amazing ...

Thanks StyleIsInUs! Morrocan buildings have probably the best layout with the high ceilings, roof terraces and open courtyards. It's all so luxuriant. I love the little touches that Tocchetti made, like the black and gold lacquered chinoiserie table.

An article on Saskia Pringier's Sri Lankan home from Stella Magazine 31st December 2006.



source: scanned by me

 

[i_<3_chanel]

i loved loved loved the feature they had on danish designer malene birger's home in sunday times style a few weeks back . . .
exactly wht i want my home to look like one day . .

 

[adorefaith]

lovely
i want to see chanel !

 

[MulletProof]

House of René Herbst.



Scanned by me from Vogue Italia/ Casa suplement S/S 06.

 

[vintageamour]

i LOVE looking at real estate & interior design of homes. i'd love to see any fashionspot-ters unique homes! i still have a while to go until i can own one of my own, but, i've already decided how i'm decorating my future dorm to make it cute & cozy.

 

[i_<3_chanel]

don't have a scanner . .
here we go!

malene birger

 

[Colette_B]

I love the moroccan style home.!
great idea for a thread 1karina1.
hopefully I can salvage some articles, I'm really into this kind of stuff.

 

[cutxpaste]

i love malene birger's house
thanks for posting it, chanel!.

 

[*Happiness*]

I the moroccan style home....
I have a goal to build a house with similar architecture on some land we own.....

beautiful thread as well. thanks 1karina!

 

[adorefaith]

great chanel- thx
great thread & images karina

 

[Emilia]

From Finnish decoration magazines, these are all DANISH homes. Magazine name is first, then the photographer. Scanned by me.

Kotivinkki
Photographed by Niels Harving


Deko, February 2005
Photographed by Niels Harving

 

[Emilia]

Maalla 2005
Photographed by Birgitta Wolfgang Drejer, House of Pictures

 

[1karina1]

Thanks everyone for all your wonderful comments!
And a big thank you to chanel, Mulletproof and Emilia for your scans!

Rene Herbst's house is simply stunning, with such strong lines especially for the staircase!

 

[Whitelinen]

Rene Herbst's house looks divine. More pictures of minimalistic homes, please.

 

[style_expert]

thanks for this thread..it's really inspiring

 

[MulletProof]

Rene Herbst's house is simply stunning, with such strong lines especially for the staircase!

Karina, thanks for the karma.
and to answer your question , rené was one of the modernists in the time of Bauhaus, he was one of the first designers to include metal in his creations in the early 20s and he actually generated a new aesthetic from blending silk, wood, linoleum, glass, steel..and metal of course.
I believe his house was built in the 1930s, which is one of the reasons why i love it so much, it still feels very innovative and entirely different from the legacy we have from that decade [in my country, at least!].
unfortunately, he wanted his designs to be produced massively at all costs so it'd be easy for people to accept them, his plans didnt go very far and only two of his designs were mass-produced, he never pardoned the industrialist for copying his designs without developing his projects.. he died in misery and albeit, highly respected, he's barely remembered these days.

 

[1karina1]

Karina, thanks for the karma.
and to answer your question , rené was one of the modernists in the time of Bauhaus, he was one of the first designers to include metal in his creations in the early 20s and he actually generated a new aesthetic from blending silk, wood, linoleum, glass, steel..and metal of course.
I believe his house was built in the 1930s, which is one of the reasons why i love it so much, it still feels very innovative and entirely different from the legacy we have from that decade [in my country, at least!].
unfortunately, he wanted his designs to be produced massively at all costs so it'd be easy for people to accept them, his plans didnt go very far and only two of his designs were mass-produced, he never pardoned the industrialist for copying his designs without developing his projects.. he died in misery and albeit, highly respected, he's barely remembered these days.

Wow! That's fascinating! Thanks for filling me in on Rene.
I'm still in shock that it was designed in the 1930's because it still feels very modern! As I said the house has a v strong personality stamped on it and now I know more about the designer it all fits!

 

[MulletProof]

you're very welcome, karina!.
I was in shock too when i found out the date of the house!.. however, for some reason, I can totally imagine 30s people living and even dancing in that house haha, especially the bathroom. it probably felt marvelous to live in such a vanguardist construction at the time...