Would Could

1. Hyllie Water Tower, Sweden
2. 1931 Water Tower, Zecc Architects, The Netherlands

Unfortunate in finding a moderate living space. Repeatedly confronted with identically renovated, mass-market compliant apartments. While only yearning for a pure, strictly functional space.
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Vertical Altar

Green marble, golden letters. Exterior. Brutalist tables, industrial surfaces. Interior. Aesthetically, Houben can be considered the most beautiful shopping space in Antwerp. Probably best described as sci-fi baroque.
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Horst Decoration, Issue 2

1. Nesting Coffee Table Frederick Kiesler, Posters Bruce Weber
2. Table Josef Hoffmann, Clock Henry van de Velde, Satyr statue Desiderío da Firenze
3. Urinal Marcel Duchamp, Image Helmut Lang

Welcome to my brutalist home. Strictly dominated by clinical surfaces. Concrete, metal, steel and stone. A marbelous bathroom with ready-made urinal. A Bruce Weber poster wall and an erotic satyr statue adding warmth and depth.
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Le 23 Dimanche

Collections Wooyoungmi, Ryunshu, Qasimi

Paris is going all leather, And tribal. De mon plaisir! Do I have to feel wrong and guilty if I like that? Will I go to goa techno parties all summer? Probably not. But I will dream of it. Peut-être.
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The Fall

The Fall 2006

Morphine for the eyes. An unjustly underrated and unregarded piece. The world re-constituting itself. Constantly shifting. And merging its narrative levels. It's like a Jean-Paul Gaultier collection replayed as a movie.
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Suggestion #7

Bauhaus architecture model

Living in a strictly square, cold and clinical concrete box is my idea of perfect architecture. Concrete walls, concrete floors. White furniture, steel kitchen. Emptiness and some flea market findings.
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Shock Value

Top Architecture model, Nathalie Frankowski & Cruz Garcia
Bottom Exhibition display, James Castle

When two different things are exactly the same. Love. Airship. Architecture. Seriously, both images have nothing to do with each other, creations of their own. And still, one seems like the re-interpreation of the other.
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Linear Poetry

Top Sloane, Peter Stichbury, 2000
Bottom Maison à Bordeaux, OMA, 2002

An image I'd like to hang in a house I'd like to own. Neo-realism and puristic construction. Blue, black and red. The face rebuilt in architecture. The suit a hill, the white shirt's collar a declining brick wall.
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Bauhaus

Top Raf Simons Fall/Winter 2010
Bottom Rietveld Schröder house

When clothing becomes architecture. And vice versa. In this case, fashion can thoroughly be entitled pure façade. Without regret or any pejorative undertone.
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Image credits Style.com, designboom

Normative Reference

A mirrored scenario. With slight aberrations: Semicircular arches are replaced by strictly square glass doors. The fragment of a face substituted by an entrance construction. The mood and colours remain identical.
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Aquarobics

Photos American Apparel

The best thing about Milan Fashion Week surely is the swimming trunks part. As my mission to turn into a proper Chelsea boy proceeds, I have to prepare myself for the pool and beach season. The perfect tricot briefs are pictured above, beautifully staged in a Herbert List manner.
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Precisionism

Artworks Charles Demuth

These paintings evoke the melody of The Girl from Ipanema in my head. Resounding in a crispy tone from a portable record player at the beach. Replacing the lyrics and overall context into The Boys from Ipanema.
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Studies of Constriction

Artworks Christo

I can't resist my current fixation to everything art-related. And in this case, the actual result feels very fashionable. Buildings wearing white canvas and ropes. Bondage and architecture.
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