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Classy Modern French Interior

Pipistrello Lamp by Gae Aulenti design from 1966

The Pipistrello Lamp has a telescopic shaft so you can lower or raise the shade.

Pipistrello lamp in Marseille with view on the Vieux Port & Notre Dame de la Garde

Clean minimalist French interior design

Minimal white interior

Bedroom with another Pipistrello lamp

Minimal modern French interior design in Marseille features Gae Aulenti's Pipistrello Lamp. We have a thing for modern lighting and we are obsessive collectors of mostly Italian lighting from the 1960's and 1970's. One of the lamps we love is the Pipistrello lamp, an iconic Italian design classic included in several museum collections such as the permanent collection of the MoMA New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art New York and the Museum des Arts Decoratives in Montreal. The Pipistrello Table Lamp was designed by the Italian designer Gae Aulenti for Martinelli Luce Italy in 1966. Gae Aulenti's Pipistrello lamp is considered to be a masterpiece of mid century modern Italian space agedesign. Always stylish, effortlessly elegant and uniquely beautiful, the Pipistrello lamp is a modern classic that evokes a minimal and refined atmosphere. The Pipistrello lamp is a modernist light vessel to be treasured forever. Its gracious shape make it an easy choice for any modern interior. French architect and interior designer, Fernand Pouillon, used the Pipistrello Lamp for the interior of this beautiful white modern apartment in Marseille, France. The clean lines and chic minimalist style of the interior are complimented by striking views from the living room of the Vieux Port of Marseille and the Notre Dame de La Garde church.

Gae Aulenti's Pipistrello Lamp
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Modern House for Birds

Modern Bird House

Bird House is pictured on the right

Modern House with Modern Bird House

Do you have any modern-minded birds in your garden? This modernist suspended bird house looks super sweet with its gentle curves and modernist form (I am sure that Oscar Niemeyer would be a fan). Larger birds like Owls or Bald Eagles might have a challenge fitting in but it is perfectly sized for small tweety birds.

Modern Bird House

White Floor Lamp Eero

Eero Floor Lamp by Kundalini

Eero Floor Lamp by Kundali

Since we love minimalist space age design and the color white (yes, people disagree about white being a color), we love this minimal modern floor light from Italy. With the Eero lamp, the designers Ludovica & Roberto Palomba give tribute one of the greatest architects and designers of the 20th century: Eero Saarinen. The Eero floor lamp is a modern take on the elegant Tulip furniture which made Saarinen famous. The Eero floor lamp was designed by Ludovica & Roberto Palomba for Kundalini in Italy. This ultra modern floor lamp has a structure in white painted metal, with a shade in mouth blown acid etched glass. The frosted glass shade creates a soft diffused light. This beautiful modern floor light, with its attractive slender stem, will compliment any interior space.

Eero Floor Lamp by Kundalini

Derin Design FEK Seating

The Turkish design firm Derin has won Chicago - Good Design Award 210 with Fek designed by Derin Sariyer. Fek will be exhibited in Chicago in June 2011 at Good Design Show.

Twiggy Fashion Shoot in 1968

Twiggy in 1968 as photographed by Richard Avedon

Wall Clock by Philippe Starck for Kartell

A simple and clean design result in an elegant modernist wall clock; the aesthetically appealing modern Tic Tac Clock by Philippe Starck. The square transparent frame of the clock with three available color backdrops give it a wonderful contemporary look. Roman numerals engraved on the surface encloses a flat clock face and comes in three versions (white, black or chrome). Philippe Starck's fetishist orange signature color is visible in the logo on the clock face and in the orange hands. The Philippe Stack Tic Tac clock provides an ever changing chromatic transformation between light and shadow.

Tic Tac Wall Clock by Philippe Starck for Kartell

Epitome of Style

Epitome of elegant style with Vicomtesse Jacqueline de Ribes and Raymundo de Larrain, evening dress by Dior, as photographed by Richard Avedon in New York, 1961.

Veruschka by Richard Avedon 1972

Naomi Campbell for Parisian Michel Klein

Fashion and photography go hand in hand. The Parisian fashion house by Michel Klein released their new eau de parfum titled "Tic Tac".

Photograph by Sonia Sieff for Michel Klein Paris.

Naomi Campbell

Future Fashion with Philippe Starck

Future Fashion with Philippe Starck for Ballantyne

Philippe Starck, the famous interior and furniture designer, is a mess of contradictions as of late. Famously stating that ‘Design is Dead’ and announcing his retirement from design, he went on to launch an eco line of mini wind turbines. Now Starck, who admittedly never left the design world, has made another faux-pax while incredulously stating in Florence at the launch of his new eco-conscious line that he ‘will never be idiotic enough to do fashion‘.

Future Fashion with Philippe Starck for Ballantyne

Indeed, the man who created the Louis ghost chair and has been the sole designer of many posh hotels, is doing fashion, whether it is a direct admission or not. Starck, who has partnered with Ballantyne — the luxury cashmere makers — has made the foray into non-fashion fashion with an impeccable line of tailored cloaks and jackets, all made, he claims, to stand the test of time. Each piece is made for modularity and minimalist needs, with hidden pockets and takeaway waistcoats. And while he continues to deny his involvement in the industry, fashion is more than willing to bring in the legendary designer into the fold.

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Vico Magistretti Atollo Lamp

Vico Magistretti Atollo Lamp White Glass Table Light

Modernist white interior with Vico Magistretti Atollo Lamp (other items available from nova68.com)

If you love white and you love modern, you will love the Vico Magistretti designed Atollo Table Lamp available from nova68.com. Vico Magistretti named this lamp "Atollo" which translates into "Island" from Italian. Designed by Vico Magistretti for O-Luce in 1977. Table lamp in opaline blown white Murano glass giving direct light with dimmer. Available in three sizes: small, medium or large.

Vico Magistretti Atollo Lamp

Ultra Minimal White Beach House

Ultra Modern Minimal White Beach House by Richard Meier and Michael Palladino.

Modernist garden facing the beach and the ocean.

All-glass walls give unobstructed views of the ocean.

Modernist Alexander Calder mobile hovers in the living room.

Minimal modern bedroom with Vico Magistretti's Atollo Lamps (available from nova68.com)

Office space.

Living room, notice the ocean in the background.

Wide open architecture creates a spacious feel.

White, white, white!

White is the most wonderful color because within it you can see all the colors of the rainbow. The whiteness of white is never just white; it is almost always transformed by light and that which is changing; the sky, the clouds, the sun and the moon - Richard Meier

With the above quote we bring you one of the most amazing icons of modern architecture: Richard Meier's ultra modern minimalist white beach house. This modern house is truly unbelievable and super detailed; guaranteed to make any modernist drool.

An ultra modern luxury design by architect Richard Meier and his partner Michael Palladino, this minimal modern Southern California beach house is the epitome of cool. Fronting the Pacific Ocean to the south, a courtyard to the west and the Pacific Coast Highway to the north, this 4280 square feet beach house follows in the tradition of SoCal’s courtyard houses that open to the outdoors.

This light and airy modern design welcomes residents and guests into a two-story glass-enclosed entry, leading into the garden, main oceanfront house and guest house. The two-story foyer is bisected by a glass bridge and walkway, with the home living areas on either side. A modern, open-to-above living room opens to the deck overlooking the ocean. Floor-two-ceiling glass is shaded with sunscreens and louvers, providing privacy while maintaining a sense of openness to the outdoors.

"The beams at the roof, located above the horizontal framing, express the structural rhythm and layering of components," explains the architect. "This cadence is repeated with the joinery of the painted aluminum exterior wall panels and modular windows. The mass of the exterior plaster walls are juxtaposed to the transparent glazed facades, creating a mosaic of layered materials".

Richard Meier

White Box Architecture

Modern Architecture in Spain: The House of Light and Shade

Minimal interior with Arne Jacobsen chairs

Modern Architecture in Spain: The House of Light and Shade

Alberto Campo Baeza

Minimal White House in Vejer, Cadiz, Spain

This house is the construction of a luminous shadow. A minimalist white box; architecture reduced to its bare bones; we absolutely love it! This ultra modern minimalist house is perfectly balanced and full of light and contrasting shades. The house features 26' (8 meters) tall walls around a rectangle. To fill this central space with shade, the architect opened it to the front and back, creating 10' (3 meters) deep porches that protect these openings from the sun, tempering the light. In the front courtyard, the entrance to the house, four citrus trees mark the central and main axis, flanked by low walls that hide service areas. In the back courtyard are an additional four orange trees which are similarly aligned. And at the end, carved into the ground, a minimal low pond stretches from side to side. A fine example of ultra modern minimal architecture, created by architect Alberto Campo Baeza. It is located in Vejer, Cadiz, Spain.

Award-winning Spanish architect, instructor, and writer Alberto Campo Baeza showcases the edifices upon which he has built a reputation as one of the major talents in European design. Covering a range of projects that include houses, schools, governmental, and corporate buildings, Contemporary World Architects: Alberto Campo Baeza shows how his trademark work with "architectural boxes" puts Alberto Campo Baeza among the avant-garde.

Many of the ideas so precisely distilled by the architect Alberto Campo Baeza are carefully kept in boxes. As the great Russian architect Berthold Lubetkin said at the end of his life, he only made "cement shoeboxes." At times, Campo Baeza does that. In this book, Turegano house is a white, cubical box; the house in Valdemoro oblong; Caja General in Granada is a large box in golden concrete transfixed by light, the same light that pierces all of his tensed architectural boxes with a thousand different shades like the "boite a miracles" of Le Corbusier. With beautiful color images, Contemporary World Architects: Alberto Campo Baeza will awe and inspire professionals in the field, and anyone who loves and appreciates strong design.

Murano Glass Table Lamp Vistosi

Luciano Vistosi: Onfale Murano Glass Table Lamp

The Onfale is a nice minimal modern blown-glass table lamp available in 3 sizes. This classic icon of modern design is created in Murano Italy. The Onfale table lamp was designed by the master Italian glass designer Luciano Vistosi for Artemide in Italy. With their soft, diffused light these mushroom shaped lamps bring the romance of a moonlit forest glade to any room.

Luciano Vistosi: Onfale Murano Glass Table Lamps

This iconic table lamp from Luciano Vistosi, originally designed in 1978, is finally back. Table standing luminaire for diffused incandescent lighting. The table lamp's diffuser and base are in opaline blown glass, transparent crystal edge has been added. The Onfale table lamp is available in three sizes. A dual switching for medium and large versions with an on/off switch on cord.

Murano Glass Table Lamp designed by Luciano Vistosi

Chair for Children

Modern Furniture for Children: Julian Kids Chair

Modernist Nursery at Benetton Italy with Julian Kids Chairs

Fun seating solution for kids bedrooms; looks good enough to keep in the living room! Good looking modern furniture for children is not easy to find so we are happy to be able to offer this unique kids chair. Julian is not just the name of a famous California town where the best apple pie is made. Julian is also the name of this happy and fun chair for children! Designed by Javier Mariscal from Spain, this is just what the Doc (pediatrician in this case) prescribed. Unlike all those other chairs that look like chairs, Julian is truly unique in every way. If your child doesn't want to sit still during dinner, try Julian!

Javier Mariscal: Julian Kids Chair
Modern Children's Furniture

Minimal Modern Lighting

Modernist Lighting: Pistillo Lamp

Ultra modern Pistillo lamp

White Minimal Dream House

Minimalist Modern Architecture Alberto Campo Baeza's Olnick Spanu House

Along with purity of form, whiteness, whether from stucco, exposed concrete or stone, is an attribute common to the built work of Spanish architect and teacher Alberto Campo Baeza. "Alberto is a perfectionist", says Richard Meier, another notable modernist architect. "I love the relationship between the podium and the stone wall in this house. And I love the way the house so clearly relates to nature and is so obviously manmade".

This ultra modern minimalist dream house was designed by the architect/perfectionist Alberto Campo Baeza. The Olnick Spanu House was constructed in Garrison, New York. This ultra modern white house is of profound tranquility where after a day of rain and fog an intense light reflects in the stilled mirror of the majestic Hudson River´s deep waters. A place where twilights are a thousand colors as the water breaks into a thousand reflections. A place where the air is clean and calm, and mild. One could say a place that is very close to heaven. In this impressive place, we establish a plane, a platform that underlines the landscape before us, seeking to enhance it.

A large long minimalist white box is thus built, 122 feet long by 54 feet wide by 12 feet high, with sturdy concrete walls that accentuate its relationship to the land. The roof of this box is flat, paved in stone, travertine, so that we may use it.

And to protect ourselves from the sun and rain, over the stone plane we raise a light roof 100 feet long by 40 feet wide by 9 feet tall, held by 10 cylindrical steel pillars that are arranged according to a 20 x 20 foot grid. This roof cantilevers 10 feet along all of its sides. And to make this space habitable, we put a glass box under the roof, an enclosure measuring 94 feet long by 25 feet wide. This glass box contains the back row of columns within it and leaves the front columns outside, in order to further accentuate its transparency.

This construction on the platform resembles a large table with ten legs. Three areas are created within it, divided by two white boxes that do not reach the ceiling, containing the stairs and service spaces. The central space is the living area, and the dining room has a large white table. On one side, closer to the swimming pool, is the kitchen, and on the other side, in the manner of a pensatorio, the area around the hearth.

And below, inside the cement box, the bedrooms and baths are housed. In its central vestibule, connecting the main entrance and the access to the garden, a gallery has been created where pieces of Arte Povera and other pieces of contemporary Italian art are displayed, in addition to other areas around the house. In all, once again, the cabin over the cave. The tectonic piece on top of the stereotomic piece.

Minimalist Modern Architecture Alberto Campo Baeza's Olnick Spanu House