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African Style (Design Details)
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 709
EAN: 9782080136817
ISBN: 208013681X
Label: Flammarion
Manufacturer: Flammarion
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 144
Publication Date: December 08, 1998
Publisher: Flammarion
Release Date: December 08, 1998
Studio: Flammarion
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Editorial Review:
Materials: Sisal, hemp, stone, wood, root, clay, terra cotta: nature has provided the raw materials. People, through their cultures, beliefs, and rites, have transformed them.Colors: Ocher sand, white shells, red earth, brown bark...colors become one with the materials, giving our interiors an incomparable charm and naturalness.Patterns: Symbolic representations of an imaginary or animal world, they derive from a belief, a rite that speaks a language familiar to the soul, the heart, the unconscious.Shapes: Pure forms, clean lines...Art and crafts combine to offer the very essence of beauty: simplicity.
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Rating: - The roots of modernity
African Style brings the reader back to an essential state of mind. The book covers various forms art and furniture in a sophisticated manner, without any pretensions or glamorization of Africa. This book is for anyone who is a purist of modernity; looking for new ways to be ecologically green; or just interested in global perspectives.
This is a powerful, yet gentle book.
A must read for anyone remotely interested in art and worldly aesthetics.
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