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New interior spaces are ready for their close-up.
By Paul Makovsky
June 2002
"God is in the details." Historians and architects like to credit
Mies van der Rohe with this aphorism. Though he may not have been the first
to utter the phrase (the jury is still out on that), he certainly popularized
it--perhaps because his sleek International Style designs (such as the Seagram
Building, in New York, with its extruded bronze I-beams) embody this philosophy.
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In creating visually stimulating environments, all good architects and interior
designers incorporate the kinds of details that ultimately define the
space. Just consider the plasterwork at London's Syon House, by Robert Adam;
the glass blocks in Pierre Chareau's Maison de Verre, in Paris; the rubble
wall in Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin West, in Arizona; or the use of light
in Le Corbusier's Chapel of Notre Dame at Ronchamp.
The richness and diversity of details shown in the recently completed interiors
on these pages demonstrate that designers continue to employ new materials
and to find interesting new uses for traditional ones in their search
for the perfect finishing touch.
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