Inside Utopia: Visionary Interiors and Futuristic Homes

by Gestalten (Editor)

Radical. Visionary. Poetic. Inside Utopia shows the future of living that architects and designers have envisioned. Spectacular and reflective, unpretentious and the breathtaking Elrod House by John Lautner; the Lagerfeld Apartment near Cannes that seems like a set from a science fiction film; Palais Bulles in France with its organic and unique architecture. These interiors welcome habitation and spark curiosity while embodying the foundations of minimalism and bygone visions of the future. Inside Utopia delves into the rhyme and reason behind past designs that we still interact with today. The architects, the owners, and the craftsmen like Gio Ponti or Bruce Goff who work behind the scenes created amorphous interiors that invite the mind to wander. At the time they were futuristic, confident, utopian, idealistic― we may not realize it, but they have shaped our current living concepts, and even now, they inspire us anew. Previously it has been difficult to attain access to these preserved interiors, but Inside Utopia unearths what was before unseen.

Genres: Coffee Table Books, Design

304 pages, Hardcover

Published June 23, 2017

Reviews

[Servabo]

Mid-century modern reminds me of the so many L shaped contemporary houses in LAヽ(●´ε｀●)ノ

Ugh, all such terrible looking interiors. How does one need so much stuff at home? The mind has no space to zone out!

[Kate]

"Everything is permissible as long as it is fantastic." -CM