#shutter design

[vintagehomecollection]

This eating counter has so much character it could play several roles. As a dining table for two, it is a handsomely carved three-sided arrangement that allows you to sit facing your partner while eating rather than the wall.

Beyond The Kitchen: A Dreamer’s Guide, 1985

[unbfacts]

Skeuomorphism is a design approach where contemporary items incorporate decorative elements from earlier versions, even when these features are no longer functionally necessary. Examples include tiny, non-functional handles on maple syrup bottles, decorative buckles on shoes, the floppy disk 'save' icon in software, and the shutter sound in digital cameras.

[moodboardmix]

Office Hut, Hawaii, United States,

Courtesy: Olson Kundig

[arc-hus]

Social Housing in Inca, Spain - Joan Josep Fortuny Giró + Alventosa Morell Arquitectes

[upstairsdownstairsandinbetween]

Carlos Bañon Blazquez's Art !

[ekholocationn]

engine room

[cozycottagelife]

📸: noelpittmandesign | IG

[inspiredlivingspaces]

IG elledecor - Massachusetts

[blazingjackdaw]

People seemed to like the steampunk design I did for the Coffee Man for that one shitpost, so I figured I'd clean up the full outfit I originally sketched.

Also a few of my discarded mask designs because why not :d

[vintagehomecollection]

House Beautiful Weekend Homes, 1990

[keepingitneutral]

Casa MS, Moeda, Serra da Moeda, Minas Gerais, Brazil,

Vazio S/A

[moodboardmix]

House of Grid, Trnava, Slovakia,

Courtesy: Beef Architekt

[of-fear-and-love]

A'dammer roller shutter cabinet for Pastoe, 1978, designed by Aldo van den Nieuwelaar, as seen in Martial Law (1990)

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[heavensdoorways]

Wine Windows (‘Buchette del vino’), Florence, Italy,

These are small windows with inscriptions found on the walls of some wine-producing palaces and used for years to sell wine in bottles to the public, without the need for a shop so avoiding taxes.

Cosimo de Medici, a clever banker and lord of Florence, was the mastermind behind this new sales practice. This way of doing business served a few purposes, from enabling landowners who’d long invested in agriculture to increase their revenues to reducing overcrowding in public places that might lead to public disturbances.

With approximately 180 charming wine windows scattered throughout the historic centre alone, it’s clear that this was a prosperous business in its day.

On an architectural level, they are reminiscent of religious tabernacles, with a door-like shape, wooden shutters crowned with an arch, and elegant stone or wooden frames. In some cases, they were simply an opening into the wooden doors of the palace (as seen at Palazzo Naldini in Piazza Duomo).

Behind these small windows laid the palace’s cellar, where a servant presided over the sale of wine at specific times of the day, which were indicated by a stone plaque positioned near the opening.

But they also served as a useful tool to prevent contagion during the Bubonic Plague or Black Death, which wiped out 1/3 of its population (about 25 million) in the 14th -18th centuries.

Note: some of these have recently been reused to avoid contagion from COVID-19.

[life-spire]