Juan De Las Américas

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DIOR window display at ICONSIAM in Bangkok.

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Vincent Olinet The Waifs: Irina, Svetlana, Tatiana and Anastasia 2011

[for-all-mankind]

With Gigi Hadid’s recent photoshoot at Kennedy Space Center, spaceflight once again is the backdrop for fashion photography. Photographers in that industry have found the allure of space technology irresistible since the dawn of the space age in the 1950s. Famous fashion photographer Richard Avendon photographed world-renowned supermodels such as Domiva, Isabella Albanico and Jean Shrimpton in front of rockets, sights around Cape Canaveral, and even a Mercury-era spacesuit during the late 1950s and 1960s. Gigi’s shoot occurred around Kennedy Space Center’s Visitor Complex in the rocket garden, Moon theatre and other locations. All the photos above - including Richard Avendon’s from the early space race era - were shot for Harper’s Baazar.

The models and photographers from above:

Domiva in front of an Atlas-Able rocket by Richard Avendon, 1950s.

Isabella Albanico by Richard Avendon, 1959.

Jean Shrimpton by Richard Avendon, 1965.

Gigi Hadid by Mariano Vivanco, 2017.

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Sex and the City (1998 - 2004)

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Joana Cortes for Preen by Thornton Bregazzi, Pre-Fall 2020

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Organic Architecture

Paolo Portoghesi + Victor Gigliotti: Papanice House. 1966-1970.

This is Paolo Portoghesi and Victor Gigliotti’ s Papanice House designed by architect Paolo Portoghesi and engineer Victor Gigliotti in early 70s. A Magnificent manor house with great Baroque influence, with art deco and secessionist touches, enveloping elegance and rhythm.

As you can see on the diagram “The Matrix of Composition”  you can see how curved lines flows beyond the building with a very unique language of composition.

This is a very atypical house with three levels, with one room per floor and a small attic. Portoghesi’s concept stands on his influence of Baroque style, it could be seen on the systematic use of the curved line on the modeling of the interior space but also in facades. The curvature of the perimeter walls which alternate between concave and convex formally characterizes the composition, the rythim of the entire skin flows with elegance also the interiors have strong art-deco reminiscences from color details to furniture. 

Would like to see how this house got old through years. Certainly curved lines as strategy of design becomes a coherent aesthetic compromise between nature and culture inherited into history.

Image1,8. Geometric Diagram.The Matrix of Composition. Papanice House. Portoghesi and Gigliotti. Von Meiss, Pierre.,1989, Elements of Architecture: From Form to Place, Van Nostrand Reinhold, N.Y., figure21.

images 2-7. Roof plan, Cross Section, Main Floor Plan, Second Floor Plan, aerial view, facade view.: ROSSI, Piero Ostilio. Roma. Guida all'architettura moderna 1909-2011. Roma: Laterza, 2012. also NORBERG-SCHULZ, Christian. Paolo Portoghesi architetto. Milano: Skira, 2001

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Architecture & Politics

Paolo Portoghesi + Victor Gigliotti: Casa Papanice. 1966-1970. 

From plenty beauty to decadence. 

Sometime ago i was wondering how Casa Papanice will evolve as a manor house, does it will remains the same with different uses? does it has taking a good preservation process? so, i have news and facts about.. and the answer are sadly negative.

This is an attempt to show you how the importance of architecture’s preservation and maintainance of singular houses are. This is Casa Papanice, a very unique 70s Italian House designed by Paolo Portoghesi, as you can see in the image above Casa Papanice is actually in a deplorable state of conservation and essential elements of its facade where substituted. 

The main problem propably right now Papanice House is actually another country legally, in this house lays the Jordan Embassy. But that fact should not exempt its inhabitants from the duty to keep the house. 

We hope DOCOMOMO Italy and other Architectural Preservation Associations around the world could spread, help and save from decadence this unique architectural pearl.

If you need more info, here’s an article written by Paolo Boccacci at Republica Newspaper (IT) +

We’ll be observing how this case evolve, while time runs you can follow @Casapapanice at RRSS  +

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Gianni Versace

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Gucci in Vogue It, October 1995

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Mame Anta by Arnaud Lajeunie for Fenty Eyewear S/S 2020

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ideal aesthetic tbh

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Art Deco Office Entrance, London ca.1930s - Photo By Sydney Newbery.

(via eBay)

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Inside the Parkview Square building, you will find The Atlas Bar. Now I don’t drink,(just for today, wink wink), and this is a bar I would like to lounge in, even if only to sip on a soda water and lime, in my pin stripe double breasted suit, two tone spectator shoes, and tall top fedora. Behold the majesty, the stunning beauty, the breath taking detail of the Atlas Bar! Art Deco wet dreams!