Designing from a single gesture: Vaselli’s latest collection
The Hoop series translates a morphological gesture into a family of travertine bathroom furnishings, where the poetry of the material meets the rigor of form.
The new building, which has actually taken a decade to be realised – the competition was set in 1992 – is the first building in New York by Austrian architect Raymund Abraham who, despite being born in the Tyrol, has lived and taught in the US for over forty years.
The official opening took place on 18 April, together with the launch of the festival “Transforming Modernity”: three months of music, film, literature, architecture and avant-garde design. As part of the festival, the first exhibition “Transmodernity. Austrian Architects” is due to open 22 May at 18.00, which places three Austrian architects under fifty under the lights of the ‘Big Apple’, henke und schreick, Jabornegg & Pálffy and Rigler Riewe, giving a sample of the cultural and architectural scene from the homeland.
22.5.2002-12.8.2002
Transmodernity. Austrian Architects
Austrian Cultural Forum
11 East 52nd Street, New York
http://www.acfny.org
Technology meets aesthetics, with Cordivari
With their rhythmically textured external surfaces, the Run and Seven Lines fan coils become natural elements in the landscape of contemporary interiors.