Inside-outside space is about the blurring of the boundaries that used to be made by walls. My blog last December, Inside-outside space: Ambiguity and green furniture, focused on some of the more surreal and entertaining expressions of this blurring. I found a green and grassy chair, a planted table and a space where we really weren't sure whether we were in or out.
I do sometimes muse about when and how the fashion for minimalism will give way to something else. Will we go ever simpler - ever cleaner - how distilled and pared-down can we possibly become? I'm utterly at one with simplicity but I know that the fashion will always move on eventually. Current obsession with health tells us it's better to be outside than in, and this could be be the cue for minimalism to possibly transmute a little. Greens, browns, bamboo, cork and nature's entire jungle seem to be piling into the shops to make our interiors greener, literally and metaphorically. Could the monochrome of minimalism be about to give way to some greener interiors?
These images below aren't about the subdued greens beloved of Georgian restorers or the hardly-there green-tinged whites you find on DIY paint charts. These images all feature the sort of wild, unapologetic greens that have only been outside and growing up until now. I strongly suspect they are about to be let inside.
These images below aren't about the subdued greens beloved of Georgian restorers or the hardly-there green-tinged whites you find on DIY paint charts. These images all feature the sort of wild, unapologetic greens that have only been outside and growing up until now. I strongly suspect they are about to be let inside.
1 House with bamboo panel, Indonesia, image by Ikhlasul Amal 2 Riverside Museum, Glasgow, by Zaha Hadid Architects, image by Alex Liivet 3 Image by Plage Vinilos y Adhesivos. All images from Flickr under CC BY license.
