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Paragons of Style: Madeleine Castaing
Wall-to-wall leopard print carpet; clashing patterns adorning the walls and seat cushions; a motley of furnishings whose origins range from Regency Classicism to its French and German counterparts; a colour palette reflecting the bolder colours of the natural world: such are the characteristics – to name but a few – that mark the “classical avant-gardism” of French interior decorator and...
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“Making a house is creating. I make houses like others write poetry, make music,...”
– Madeleine Castaing (1894-1992)
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“A house constitutes a body of images that give mankind proofs or illusions of...”
– Gaston Bachelard, La poétique de l’espace (1958)
February 2011
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Post-Classical
The Hunter & Gatherer 2011
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