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MATERIALS - PATTERNS - TEXTURES - DESIGN

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Leone dell’Arsenale di Venezia, una scultura greca del VI secolo a.C., proveniente da Delo; la testa è un'aggiunta della fine del XVII secolo. Fu portato a Venezia come preda di guerra da Francesco Morosini, che conquistò Atene e il Peloponneso nel 1694.

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Inge Schoental Feltrinelli al cospetto dei leoni di Delo (oggi Mikonos) sul set di  “Viaggio nei paesi di Ulisse”, lungometraggio televisivo girato da Federico Patellani, autore della foto, nel 1954. (fonte)

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Kolchak - The Night Stalker (1974), “Mr. R.I.N.G.”

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Top of the main entrance to the Los Angeles Public Library • Main Branch #artdeco #losangeles #library #blackandwhite (at Los Angeles Public Library) https://www.instagram.com/p/BsCyAkBAEdf/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=nryl6kxyc9ke

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Cycladic Cafe Roof

Kois associated Architects

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#LastChance **Τελευταίο Σαββ/κο έκθεσης || Last Weekend on view** ΚΥΚΛΑΔΙΚΗ ΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΑ ~ 5000 ΧΡΟΝΙΑ ΠΡΙΝ CYCLADIC SOCIETY ~ 5000 years ago

Explore the daily life and undertakings of the Cycladic islanders 5,000 ago. Since no written documents of the Early Cycladic period survive, this exhibition attempts to “read” in a simple and straightforward manner the social structure, activities, living environment and, where possible, convictions and beliefs of the Cycladic islanders in the Early Bronze Age (3,200-2,000 BC) through their creations. 191 ancient artifacts: from its own collections, from the Museums of Naxos, Apeiranthos, Syros and Paros as well as the National Archaeological Museum. Cycladic figurines, in their present form, with their simple shape and clean outline, became popular through their association with abstract art by 20th-century artists like Modigliani, Brancusi, Matisse, and Picasso. {https://www.cycladic.gr/en/page/kikladiki-kinonia?slide=1}

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►Με αφορμή τις εκθέσεις που φιλοξενεί αυτή την περίοδο στους χώρους του, το Μουσείο Κυκλαδικής Τέχνης υποδέχεται τους φίλους του και το ευρύ κοινό ως αργά το βράδυ, σε μια βραδιά με μουσική, ποτό και μειωμένο εισιτήριο. __________ Απόψε, Πέμπτη 8 Ιουνίου, 21.00-24.00 DjSet // THE PRUDENCE TAPES Είσοδος // 5€ Φίλοι ΜΚΤ // ΕΙΣΟΔΟΣ ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΗ Χορηγός // Αθηναϊκή Ζυθοποιία Με την Υποστήριξη  // Public – Μουσείο Κυκλαδικής Τέχνης Νεοφύτου Δούκα 4, Αθήνα ►On the occasion of its current temporary exhibitions, the Museum Of Cycladic Art welcomes all to a late night event with music, drinks and redused admission. __________ Τonight, Thursday, JuneE 8, 2017, 21:00-24:00 DjSet // THE PRUDENCE TAPES REDUCED ENTRANCE TICKET // 5€ CYCLADIC FRIENDS // FREE ADMISSION SPONSOR // Αθηναϊκή Ζυθοποιία WITH THE KIND SUPPORT OF // Public – Museum of Cycladic Art 4 Neofytou Douka St.,Athens

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Palazzo INA / Corso Sempione. Wall mosaic by Piero Bottoni 1953-57. From the book ENTRYWAYS OF MILAN / Taschen

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Leipzig plattenbau. May 2017.

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— The patterns of the trays are designed taking inspiration from the geometric repertoire of marble inlays of the Basilica of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence. Lobed lozenges, circles, stylized flowers and ogives are drawn and colored in a contemporary way and then translated into mosaic.

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— Flore is a collection of three trays design by Davide G. Aquini, made of mosaics by Ursula Corsi in Pietrasanta.

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— Spaziali is the third project dedicated to the lapis specularis. Spaziali is a series of decorative plates which contain this precious material in a futuristic object, with the aesthetic value close to a contemporary piece of jewelery.

The thin and rough slabs of lapis specularis diffuse light through regular and rhythmic openings in the iron, as in ancient Rome when they were fixed in window frames and greenhouses.

The decoration in enamel, clearly constructivist, adds color and refinement.

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— Algidi vases, design by Davide G. Aquini, are hand made on a lathe without mold in Nove (Italy) by Mario Bertolin. The rough appearance is simply obtained with a single baking of the ceramic traditionally called “biscotto”.

Thin slabs of lapis specularis are inserted in the vases, strengthening their primitive finishing. The geometric and classicist design cleverly contradicts the archaic look, generating a perfectly balanced and timeless result. Algidi are like modern canopic jars, a vaguely alien urns.

In this collection lapis specularis expresses its decorative value like a brand new precious stone that looks similar to ice, as translucent as quartz, as cold as glass and as iridescent as mother-of-pearl.

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Making of pottery and ceramics in Nove - Vicenza Italy.  The great Bertolin brothers!

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This “rediscovered” material called lapis specularis, a transparent gypsum easy to cut even with a knife, was used by the ancient Romans for windows and greenhouses, and it has been forgotten, or confused with glass, during the Middle Ages. The real challenge of the project is to rebuild the chain of extraction and processing of this material, unused for centuries (or millennia). For this reason Apuana Corporate has been involved; they are the network of artisans in Carrara, the maximum experts in working stone, marble and minerals.

Project by Davide G. Aquini

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Rediscovering Lapis Specularis. An almost forgotten material from the age of Romans meets contemporary design thanks to Davide G. Aquini

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