Intricacy

We live in a difficult world. This is the choice of designers — an ornament that resembles a tangled labyrinth

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Magazine: (218) 2016

We live in a difficult world. This is the choice of designers — an ornament that resembles a tangled labyrinth

Once this ornament was an ancient Greek meander — a rhythmic border of lined G. letters. They decorated the facades of temples and the hems of tunics. For the Greeks, he symbolized the winding road of life. Designers stylized and complicated it, turning it into a puzzle, an exercise for the mind. The geometric pattern forks, stratifies, as if someone is playing with you, beckoning with a turn, and the turn turns into nowhere. But there is a way out of any labyrinth, and this game delays, carries away and does not frighten at all. Graphic color design looks very beneficial both on porcelain (Labirinto collection from RICHARD GINORI), and on fabric (Labyrinth armchair designed by Studio Job for MOOOI), and as a metal substructure (Cogito table from FLEXFORM), and in the form of decor (cabinet doors TONCELLI).

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