We are honored to feature a post written by architect Paolo Cermasi about the booth he designed on behalf of Refin/DesignTaleStudio for the Coverings trade fair, beginning in Chicago on April, 17th.

The desert, a boundary of the human living and a metaphor of the mental abstraction, a nowhere-land for mystics, writers, artists and visionaries. “ Refin Ceramiche SpA “ installation, designed by Paolo Cermasi, is a small tribute to the extraordinary legacy of modern housing that a group of architects and designers built in the ’40 and ’50 in Palm Springs, California desert.

For 20 years, there has been experienced how the house could function in a very modern way within their environment. Amid volcanic boulders , in a fully mineral world, only steel, concrete, slate, glass and tiles could survive.

The desert demanded a new way of thinking how to live there. Fireplaces were called by winter nights, extensive fabric canopies were demanded for sun protection of the large tiled outdoors where people wanted to be when they were there. Under the massive flat roofs, wall divisions became thinner and fewer , making the houses transparent and weightless:

The western “desert architecture” opened the way to the most dominant character of the contemporany architectural research.

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Pubblicato il 13 April 2007 da Paolo Cermasi in Behind the scenes | |