Even if you don't... now you can have all things design with a blink of your eye... or at least with a click of your mouse! Interior designer,
Alexandra Koumba, has created a design object hub online, where you can find any furniture piece of any style that represents your taste that you could possibly imagine... from
Karim Rashid's new love seat (above) or the "
Le Corbusier Chaise Longue" to out-of-this world collectable
Louis IV antiques. The geniusness of this site is its dual target groups... One the one hand, it is aimed for the design-addicts that would kill to find an original
Mies-Van-de-Roh Barcelona chair, since the site orders the objects from the most acclaimed galleries of the world and provides you with certificates of authenticity. On the other hand, one could just be inspired from the site's suggestions and discover pieces that would not ordinarily have found on one's own... Get an eye...
here!
the most luxurious publisher on all-things-art, Taschen, produced a monograph that retraces Calatrava's "career thus far and places his architecture in the context of his art, where nature meets engineering". It is surely a collectible book, since it portrays Santiago Calatrava in various lights, as an architect, an engineer and an artist and showcases all of his works so far. The architect created watercolor drawings specifically for the fold-out pages of this volume, illustrating the inspirations behind his designs.
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