I
finished my first module and submitted it for marking…..I surprised myself and
got 100%. Woohoo, I’m so happy to
actually get something right as was worried my tutor would just send it back
laughing with sympathy in his eyes and shaking his head at my dismal attempt to
understand the rudiments of space, line, light, texture, balance, emphasis and
scale etc. but no, I do understand these concepts a little. Putting them into practice is a little
trickier than understanding in principle.
That part is to come I hope further down the line when I have more of a foundation
to stand on.
However,
right now I love learning about Interior Design and there is more to it than
meets the eye. More than I originally
thought and it takes me ages to finish a module because I don’t understand or
know anything at the start but gradually it sinks in and I get the gist. This next
module is all to do with the History of Style, Decoration and Architecture.
I
didn’t think about early cave dwellers with their carvings and drawings on cave
walls as interior design or Michelangelo’s work in the Sistine Chapel come to
mention it but this is the question I pose for myself now. Is it?
I think so. You know when I started
thinking about what I wanted to do to make a transition from my old job to
something new, Interior Design was the first thing that really got me
excited. I was a little concerned people
might think of it as frippery silly decorating and chucking a few cushions
around but it so is not that at
all.
There
are some seriously good interior designers out there who have or who are
shaping the world we sit in for the good.
It’s not just aesthetics, it’s how we feel, it’s how we live, it’s what
we show others and what we don’t show about ourselves, it’s a culmination of
historical influences that I expect a lot of people take for granted or don’t
see (I didn’t) that guide our taste, it’s aspirational and inspirational and I love
it.
I
was squizzing through the internet looking at various influential architects
and designers and came across Frank Gehry…blimey has this man got vision. Considered one of the best architects of our
time and designed such places as the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Walt Disney
Concert Hall in Los Angeles and The Dancing House in Prague to name but a few.
When
I first looked at his designs I really didn’t like them but now I see the
beauty. They are spectacular actually
and can only marvel at such talent in one man….check out his stuff http://www.gehrytechnologies.com/architecture/recent-work
the thing is he not only concerns himself with the outside but also the inside
and essentially obeys the principles and elements of design but with spectacular
effect. I think
the same thing (almost) when I look at the inside of a Kit Kemp Hotel (Firmdale
Hotels), beautiful spaces and cleverly, imaginatively and boldly designed. I can hear people shrieking at me now….that I
can’t compare THE most influential architect of our times to a hotel owner who
designs her own interiors but I am in a way…it’s all design one way or another
just different mediums and different materials.
Same as our cave dwelling ancestors who told a story they wanted to
convey with the medium of the visual.
Staying
with architecture for a moment I wonder what anyone thinks of this year’s RIBA
Stirling Prize winner…..The Sainsbury Laboratory designed by Stanton &
Williams (go check it out http://ribastirlingprize.architecture.com/)
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