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SIMULACRA

DISCOVER

References beyond the current archive.

Nothing here is part of the collection. Each one is shown with the signals it holds in common with SIMULACRA and the entries those signals lead to, so the reason it appears can be followed and disagreed with. Distance is read off the archive graph, not scored.

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Villa Müller

PHOTOGRAPH Zikmundlender / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0Cropped for layout; this adapted presentation is offered under the same licence.

Villa Müller

Adolf Loos · 1930

INTERIORS holds two entries and is the thinnest part of the archive. Loos's Raumplan is the origin of the idea both of them depend on: rooms set at different heights and linked as a sequence, with a plain exterior and rich stone inside. Judd's floors at Spring Street are the same proposition stripped of the marble.

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  1. Villa MüllerDISCOVERED
  2. SPACE2 SHARED101 Spring StreetDonald JuddSB-INT-002IN ARCHIVE
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SOURCEen.muzeumprahy.cz

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Arabesque table, 1949. Casa Mollino's own interiors are photographed only under licence, so the plate is the furniture the apartment was built around.

Arabesque table, 1949. Casa Mollino's own interiors are photographed only under licence, so the plate is the furniture the apartment was built around.

PHOTOGRAPH 14GTR / Wikimedia Commons / CC0Cropped for layout.

Casa Mollino

Carlo Mollino · 1960–1968

The Severe Futurism formula reserves ten per cent for something strange or sensual and warns that without it the first two layers make a bunker. Mollino is what that ten per cent looks like at full strength: an apartment assembled as a private ritual, lacquered and mirrored, never lived in. E-1027 is the archive's only other entry holding sensual-modernism, and this is its opposite temperament.

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  1. Casa MollinoDISCOVERED
  2. LACQUER3 SHAREDE-1027Eileen GraySB-ARC-003IN ARCHIVE
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SOURCEcasamollino.com

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Maison Tropicale

PHOTOGRAPH Jim Linwood / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 2.0Cropped for layout.

Maison Tropicale

Jean Prouvé · 1949–1951

Chareau had Dalbet fabricate the fittings of Maison de Verre on site; Prouvé went further and made the building itself a product, folded from aluminium sheet, flat-packed and flown to Brazzaville. It is the point where the archive's industrial-elegance stops being a finish applied to architecture and becomes the method of construction.

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  1. Maison TropicaleDISCOVERED
  2. INDUSTRIALMaison de VerrePierre Chareau + Bernard BijvoetSB-INT-001IN ARCHIVE
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SOURCEcentrepompidou.fr

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