Interiors and identities. Shifts in domestic arrangements
When a European research team looks at the sometimes surprising meanings of changes in our interiors. Between historical crossings and case studies, a line to read at home... or elsewhere.
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Advertisement of a German central heating manufacturer, 1903 articleUnder the floor... central heating
Anthropologist Irene Cieraad points to the invisibilisation phenomena at work in urban housing.
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“La casa di un architetto”.Gian Luigi Banfi's flat, 1940 article“In praise of Fabric”
... and women designers, or how the art of living and design in modern Italy is turning textiles into a little-known mainstay.
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Reyner Banham in the Mojave Desert, 1979 articleA Home is not A House: Technical paradoxes of the American House
Founding myths and technological drifts of the American house. One of the major texts by the architectural and design historian Reyner Banham, translated into French for Problemata.
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Casabella n° 371, november 1972, cover © Casabella revista di architettura articleA village dream...
In one of his first Radical Notes (1972), Andrea Branzi examines the urban drama disguised as village nostalgia...
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Julien Magre, Troubles, 2014 articleFrom movement to action
With philosopher Joëlle Zask, an aesthetic journey?
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Maxime Huot, Le Croque-mitaine, 2022 articleMyths and legends. A visual essay
Compositions, recompositions and heckles based on pictograms by Visuel Design - Jean Widmer.
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Eileen Gray, Glass Salon, 1910 articleFrom domesticity to public interiors
Introductory text to the ‘Interiors and identities’ line by historian Penny Sparke.
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Dunne & Raby, “Draught Excluder” in domestic setting, “Placebo Project”, 2001 lineA Library of One’s Own
A reading Cabinet with about thirty texts proposed by Problemata researchers
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E. Maincent, Chambre maure, “The layout of the flats”, Paris, 1886 articleInterior Controversy
Where the roles of architecture, interior architecture, decoration and design are being rethought in a whole new way.
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George Nelson, still film from “Requiem”, 1960 lineAutocritique. A biography of the automobile object
The new line of Problemata, to be read by the fireside...
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Croquis du dispositif scénographie de l’exposition Les Immatériaux (1985), Philippe Délis. © Archives du Centre Georges Pompidou articleDans les trames des Immatériaux
Beaucoup a été dit à propos des Immatériaux. Peu sur les circulations et le dispositif déployé dans l’espace, allant parfois jusqu’à perdre le visiteur.
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Holographic nail varnish collectionLet’s Shine !
Behind the bodywork... An unusual collection of automotive resources
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Philippe Rahm architects, “The Anthropocene Style”, SFAI , USA, 2018 articleThe anthropocene style according to Philippe Rahm
The art of putting health and climate back at the heart of the home.
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Frederick C. Button, Charters, basement boiler room, 1938 collectionIn domestic pipes...
The ‘Interiors and identities’ line's collection of interior (and visual) resources.
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Samuel van Hoogstraten, “Slippers”, 1654 article“The picture-perfect home”
Domestic intimacy at the risk of exposure in the age of the R’bnb economy and GAFA. Perspectives, influences and ambiguities.
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Direction indicator, Simler, n.d. articleFasten your seatbelt!
A history of automobile safety in the United States... and related innovations
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Volodymyr Lesniak. Corporate identity for 50 years of Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology 1978. lineZNAK! Ukrainian logotypes. 1910-2019
A research by Ukrainian graphic designers : U.N.A. Collective. Cataloguing, contextualising and reactivating ukrainian corporate trademarks from 1910 to 2019.
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Guy Seligmann (director), “Mazamet, la ville rayée de la carte”, still from the documentary, 17 May 1973, INA articleEveryone (or almost) loves the car
A look back at a blind spot in motoring legislation