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Just found this team/ website that creates lovely textile products for the European market. Working with Indian artisans they create a more understated aesthetic. I love it! I guess projects like this show me how much of a ‘desi’ I still am but living in New York and LA has changed my taste… I like the quiet tone. Usually these women would over-embroider the hell out of a piece! Not that I don’t like that too! But in a different way!
(Source: design sponge)
An Indian Summer made me very nostalgic for all things Indian. The colors, art, embroidery, seasons, fabIndia, Anokhi, NID…This blogger (Bhavna) posts some very classy images of India-inspired interiors that she gathers from all over the place. With the right balance of color and texture, the ‘desi-ness’ of the design elements actually works! Lovely eye candy! The desi equivalent of Brooklyn based Grace Bonney’s blog, which I love.
I.M. Pei goes home
I caught the latter part of a documentary on I.M. Pei on PBS earlier today that chronicled his work on the museum he designed for the Chinese city he hails from- Suzhou. Pei was 90 when he completed the project, and it was inspiring to watch his uncompromising vision and execution, interpretation of his Chinese heritage, and undying modernist approach to design/ architecture. And as this PBS write up reminds us, he was indeed the man who put the glass pyramid in the Louvre!
Also, as a designer who left ‘home’, I was interested in what relationship Pei’s work had with the China of his youth and how he interpreted it, and also countered its influences very strongly all his life, being a strong proponent of modernism. So, what really do we, as designers carry away with us when we leave home? The idiom of Indian design has been a fascinating subject for me, which I hope to return to again for more discussion.
Images courtesy: PBS website.
