I’ve always had a soft spot for Joe Colombo, the Italian designer active in the 60s and preoccupied with futuristic ‘designs for living’.
Kate van den Boogert tells liberate the home why we should take time out and have fun with furniture.
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As much as I’d love to be the kind of person who leads an uncluttered life and only buys what is absolutely necessary, deep down, I’m an accumulator.
Storage is important to lots of people. If you’re living in Toyko, getting it right is the holy grail, Jean Snow tells liberate the home.
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The resurgence of wall decoration that we’re seeing today has more in common with the painted paper murals of the 15th century, which only the likes of Louis XI could afford, than the flock patterns which made it big during the wall-fractured aftermath of the Second World War.
People customise everything nowadays, says Lotje Sodderland in her second blog entry, why should wallpaper be any different?
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When my friends moved to Berlin a few years ago they took a suitcase of clothes and a laptop. Their living spaces became just that – spaces for living, not DVDs, CDs, and all the excess baggage we take with us.
A minimalist home. The stuff of dreams or achievable reality, asks Elias Redstone…
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The living room is for most people a very personal refuge from the outside world. A place where we escape from the worries and stresses of our every day lives.
Chris Allen extols the joy of the living room and examines its relationship with the new influx of technology…
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I think it is fascinating how the home is such a personal extension of oneself. We all face the overbearing trends from the superbrands on how we are to present ourselves in public but still (and thankfully) these brands are not able to penetrate our home and tell us how to live.
Is the car we drive for all to see more important than the furniture we live with, contemplates Todd Bracher…
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I think cities are changing. Public life is very different now. The work I make is a direct response to living in Los Angeles.
For Jorge Pardo, his furniture designs are a way of instigating discussion around art. He tells liberate the home how the relationship between art, architecture and design has changed and how he incorporates this in his own work.
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We have all been there, in our minds, in our hopes, in our fantastic excited view of what a new home is going to look like.
Iain Borden’s second contribution to liberate the home tackles the rollercoaster ride that is moving home…
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One of post-industrial humanity’s most persistent nightmare and favourite theme of science-fiction is the rebellion of technology. Robots turning on their masters and super-intelligent computers taking over control: technology that bites back.
In Lukas Feireiss’ second blog entry, he heralds a new age of ‘back to basics’…
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Gender roles in the home are much less defined than in the past and hallelujah for that, I say. But sharing responsibilities often requires a degree of negotiation that was less necessary in the past.
In Tara Robertson’s second entry, she looks at how gender roles are balanced in the home…
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