The Entry Way


captivated

blues.








"Italian architect Ettore Sottsass designed a spectacular home for a Belgian gallerist. The house is like a small city, with centrally a huge cage where the owner has his favourite birds. On the side of the birdhouse are the different night-and dayrooms of the family. On the top floor there is a large kitchen and dining room, almost like a restaurant. Although the house is huge and the rooms very spacious, Sottsass created a cosy, bohemian feeling atmosphere."










"I design places to be in and, even if existence is not definable, I know a few recurrent motifs: for instance, to look out of the window, to see the sun going through it or filtered by a veranda, to live in high or low rooms, wide or narrow doors, corners to shelter in without having to look outside, to possess a terrace to grow plants on, to go long or short distances - places that don't tell you what they are or places where you just look.

I try to design them so that the people living in them can be aware of these different moments.
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There is something so captivating about this home that Ettore Sottsass designed
for this gallerist. I could stare at this entry way for hours.

Natural light, mingling with fluorescent wall lights, upon the blue stone that cascades as if the room was underwater.












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