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Intimacy: Eragatory's Experiments in Materiality, Deep Texture and Mood
Author(s) -
Bloch Isaie
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.2105
Subject(s) - materiality (auditing) , aesthetics , texture (cosmology) , order (exchange) , space (punctuation) , visual arts , art , artificial intelligence , computer science , philosophy , business , linguistics , finance , image (mathematics)
Because of their textural and sensory qualities – even or uneven, smooth or rough, cold or warm, reflective or matt – particular materials tend to evoke particular moods. But this does not mean that their nature and structure cannot be played with in order to create surprising atmospheres. London‐based design practice Eragatory's ‘Intimacy’ series of interiors does just that, producing visual anomalies that distort the viewer's material understanding of space. Isaie Bloch , the firm's founder, describes how.