Synopsis:
An error frequently made is to identify minimalism exclusively by the color white or to identify emptiness by a lack of content Our intention has been to include projects in this book that demonstrate this to be an error and show homes that have come to reflect a spontaneity in their interiors as a result of simplification and which find their virtue in geometric simplicity and austerity. In minimalism, what is important is the naked beauty of the moment. It seeks a height of expressiveness with a minimum of ornamentation and gives particular importance to the fluidity of light and space. As a result, the outstanding feature of these interiors is the intrinsic quality of the materials used and the textures that stand out thanks to the special way light falls on the surfaces. In reality, it deals with a complex process of doing away with all that is superfluous as a reaction against the artificiality that goes along with the present materialistic tendency to accumulate all sorts of unnecessary things that rapidly betomc obsolete. This, consequently, leads to an obsession with reduction and leaves no more than the indispensable on view, nothing more than the essential. Everything else is unnecessary. Minimalism in interior design has gone beyond fashion and tendency and has become a new philosophy of life which seeks clean vital spaces in which we can feel the life force of the day to day.
Author: Laura O'Bryan
Format: Hardback
Number of Pages: 176
Publisher: Atrium International
Publication Date: 01 Sep 2004
