Tuscan-based product and design studio Salvatori created a series that "captures the essence of home" through miniatures titled The Village. Joined by Kengo Kuma, Yabu Pushelberg, and Patricia Urquiola, to name a few, the mini-series invited each architect and designer to develop a "series of whimsical imaginary houses, each designed to address important and fundamental themes of contemporary living."
Starting this past March, famed Spanish architect and curator Patricia Urquiola unveiled the collection's first series. Her contribution to The Village series is a set of small stone homes titled Kore. Urquiola shared during Salvatori's collection release, the series was "a reflection on domestic spaces, something that is more important than ever today. Home has become the center of our lives, our town or city, our habitat. We have all become domestic navigators, trying to orient ourselves to these new latitudes, ways of living."
Made of Rosa Portogallo marble and Travertine, Urquiola used these materials by pulling influence from her appreciation of Greek statues. "I chose the name Kore for my village as a poetic nod to the Greek statues that depict young women on the cusp of adulthood, " she explained. "Petra and Alma, the two types of house in the village, evoke sentiments of domestic warmth and intimacy. I wanted to represent due worlds and two diverse, yet complementary aesthetics."
Debuting this Spring, Salvatori's CEO Gabriele Salvatori explained each architect and designer participating in the collection were hand-selected for their design sensibilities and ability to explore the concept of miniatures and their idea of the ideal home. Infusing their styles with materials that speak to them and their design, each designer's contributing set of miniatures will culminate in an exhibition. While details of the exhibition have yet to be unveiled, The Village aims to create a "multicultural collection of houses that captures the essence of the global village that is the world today."
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i hope this isn't the precedent
"Home has become the center of our lives"
"domestic warmth and intimacy ... two diverse, yet complementary aesthetics."
It's sad how some architects try to justify everything they do with a mountain of meaningless bullshit - an intentionally redundent phrase that echoes The Miniature Home Series:
a "multicultural collection of houses that captures the essence of the global village that is the world today."
I don't see any houses.
Architecture is not art. It is pretentious to pretend that it is.
i think architecture was an art at one point, when craft was involved in the making of its products (thinking of drawings, specifically). i absolutely agree though that today it no longer is- and anyway, this specific example of architecture masquerading as some other art.
Are these paper weights? Book ends?
Congealed bodily fluids created by wanking it to themselves in a mirror
So much archspeak gibberish.
I do enjoy the forms though.
Nice form studies for a single family home, a bit expensive to be using marble for that, normally see blue foam used instead.
finally, something by an architect that I can afford....never mind
Only $689 for 12 x 12 x 17cm of marble, that's a steal!
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