This apartment in the Belgian city of Ghent seemed to have been specially conceived as a kind of museum of object design from the late 1960s. Its current owner decided to keep the flavor of that time. The interior is able to influence a person as much as it reflects a certain lifestyle. It is possible that one day the owner of a Belgian apartment for some reason wants to change into trousers-pipes, and to go to Ford Mustang for walks around Ghent The ideal of the designers of the sixties was the space age. It became possible to embody their ideas as soon as new synthetic materials and technologies appeared at their disposal. The aspirations of the architects and designers of this, and partly of the next decade, should have been reflected in the plastic invented by chemists - a trendy, advanced industrial product. It allowed to create large streamlined forms, not only in public, but also in private interiors, so that even living space became more like a laboratory of the future than a cozy home. Designed in 1976 by the architect Carl Eggermont, the Belgian interior was one of the last manifestations of the design of streamlined shapes and cosmic ideas. Perhaps because soon this trend in architecture and design gave way to postmodernism with its ironic quotes from the classics. Alas, fashion is passing: in clothes, it changes rapidly, architecture and interior resist a little longer, but they also have to “change clothes”. But now vintage has become fashionable. He gave an opportunity to clothes of the 20th century to come out again. But if the boutique expensive vintage clothes are not so rare, then what about the interior? Rare luck - to find a home, almost completely preserved untouched by time setting. So lucky was the current owner of this apartment in Ghent. Close to the aesthetics of industrial premises, the streamlined shape of the living room, dining room and kitchen appeared before it in its original form. On the ceiling there is a bent plastic, which creates a technologically advanced multi-level articulation and bends. The contrast of soft flooring and sheets of metal and plastic creates a sense of the specific purpose of the interior. But a large rectangular carpet from the skin of an Argentine cow returns to the living room a homely atmosphere. On the terrace plastic chairs Egg design, made according to a sketch by Peter Guichy in 1968 (the model was re-released by the Dutch company GHYCZY NOVO in 2001). Accessories in the rooms only reinforce the presence of the sleek sixties style, for example, the rounding surfaces of the white oval Ellipsis desk lamp from GLORIA or the black Flash model of OLUCE designed by Italian designer Joe Colombo in 1968. At the request of the owner, a Belgian designer from Antwerp, Cohen Van Spandonk, added to the dining area a large dining table with rounded corners. In order not to destroy the vintage atmosphere, Sppendonk chose authentic material from those times - plastic. The space of the chill-out in the living room marked the sofa from MINOTTI. Combining the thirty-year-old Belgian design with a climate-control system, sophisticated consumer electronics, an acoustic installation from BOSE, the Gents penthouse apartment turned out to be the embodiment of the house of the future.
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