City and peace

The interior has recently been increasingly thinking of architectural images. Interior fabrics enrich the overall picture: they glorify the beauty of architecture — from drawing to building, from pylon to city

Passing the gallery

Magazine: Decor N6 (194) 2014

The interior has recently been increasingly thinking of architectural images. Interior fabrics enrich the overall picture: they glorify the beauty of architecture — from drawing to building, from pylon to city

At the same time, prints with the image of antique columns, portals, arches, mansards, borders, pedestals, statues, flowerpots became fashionable. What just is not on this topic! But I must admit that the theme for the interior is stiff. Not without reason, in order to soften the overall impression, the designers combine in one rapport strict plaster stucco with juicy colors — and the overall sound is softer. So why is "architecture" so desirable today in the interior? Why designers, speaking of architecture in the language of the interior, expressed in a straightforward way? They do not, as before, resort to metaphors and analogies, but “speak and show”: here is the drawing, here is the house, here is the city, here is the statue of the nymph, but here is the equestrian statue. Here is Versailles, but "hard-voiced jumping on the shocked pavement." It's simple: the neoclassic came into fashion, forever beautiful and out of fashion. But today it is recognized as something super-beautiful and super-desirable, because it takes us back to the roots of European civilization, the basic principles of harmony, shows a point of reference and charts a path for further development. City, interior, person. With her somehow calm. She wants to have in the house, and not only furniture, not only textiles. It is desirable and the view from the window. But if not, then let it be at least a view of the window with drapes on an architectural theme.

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