Think Tank
Think Tank. Aside from pure, untouched, glorious, beautiful nature to gaze at and absorb with, I love totally impractical, one-chair, minimalist spaces, so empty, so seductive and so peaceful to escape into…
Maybe it’s just one room in the house where you can close the door on the madness to think, regroup, pace, draw, read, strum, make notes, visualize and create a wildly imaginative and exciting future… Undistracted.
The Simplest Home Ever?
This whitewashed silhouette seems like any other home until you get a closer view. The designer, Manuel Aires Mateus has thrown away the book to produce a home of almost stark, windowless monastic austerity and yet…somehow…for a home dwelling…I believe that it still works.
The life-vital light source is well thought out and bravely imaginative. It is given access through the generous top cut-out in the roof and also via ground access as a cut-out in the lawn.
The giant white plant pot provides a lovely, unencumbered visual diversion.
Apart from that rather momentous birth in a stable gig some 2000 years ago – could this be the simplest home space ever?
The low bed and minimal furnishing draws on the Japanese aesthetic of uncluttered simplicity. It would be hard to be stressed and angry in a ‘mood’ room such as this, gracefully devoid of the latest ‘must haves’ and intrusive ‘electronica’.
It is like living in an art piece, but one that still provides the space required to live, love, breathe, think, talk and work, dare I say… ‘normally‘?
Beautiful, strange and right.
What are your thoughts? Have I completely lost my mind or do you love it too?
Minimalist Heaven…(rewind)
Rick Joy has used natural landscape to emphasize the potency of simplicity. Neutral and natural colours blend with essential, endless space. A negative edge swimming pool, clean steel angles and generous usage of glass expose views of unspeakably beautiful, quiet Arizona desert.
The whole structure appears to have been cut into nature without being rude to God.
I’m ready to move in…with indecent urgency!
