7 March 2024 14:00
Art Deco Trade is a fan of Japanese architecture. Thus, the lamps and decorations of the Coloured by Art© GEOMETRIC series are clean in line, simple in form and highly functional. Modern looking, but based on craftsmanship. Decorative without unnecessary frills and frills. The shapes, colours and shades are balanced. Perfect in appearance. The models are based on a rich historical past.....
Imperial Villa of Katsura in Japan
Founded in 1907, the founders of the Deutscher Werkbund, a German association of artists, architects, designers and industrialists formed the forerunner of the Bauhaus. They were already very familiar with East Asian ideals. Japanese design fitted perfectly with the artistic trends of the time.
Later, mainly under the influence of Dutch artist Theo van Doesburg, who together with Piet Mondrian had founded the art movement De Stijl in 1917, Bauhaus evolved from expressionism to modernism.
A major architonic attraction that touched the hearts of modernist thinkers in Europe and beyond was the Katsura Imperial Villa in Kyoto, Japan. One of the distinctive qualifications of the imperial villa are its simple, recurring, three-dimensional structures
German architect Walter Gropius (1883- 1969), founder of the Bauhaus School, wrote to French-Swiss architect Le Corbusier (1887-1965) about the Katsura Imperial Villa: "Dear Corbu, everything we have fought for runs parallel in ancient Japanese culture ... Japanese houses are the best and most modern examples I know, and they are really models to idealise."
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