The Ultimate "Contemporary Traditonal" Thread

[SkinnyGoomba]

One of my shining moments.

Few reasons not to if you make more on it than you pay on the loan, and if it does not risk sinking the ship. It's so easy to pick on the masses though.

 

[Piobaire]

Well, you know me. I just like to sit on my cash; we're all slaves to our past in one way or another.

But what about courtyards and fountains?

 

[SkinnyGoomba]

Very true.

Courtyards and fountains both require a very grand scale to be impressive, which is their only purpose. They're mostly monuments to wealth or success, so they should look like ostentatious trappings of an early 20th capitalist. Enough to tip the scale from being mostly ridiculous to both awesome and ridiculous.

 

[TheFoo]

One-piece ConTrad is possible. The "St. Tropez" sofa:

 

[LabelKing]

That has a slight '60s and '70s feel especially with the lucite legs.

 

[TheFoo]

You like it, LK, the St. Tropez?

 

[LabelKing]

It might look like better with a different fabric, like a chartreuse boucle tweed. That beige color is like something from one of those anonymously dull luxury boutiques.

 

[TheFoo]

The word you are looking for is "ConTrad."

 

[Medwed]



One-piece ConTrad is possible. The "St. Tropez" sofa:

This would've been perfect with a guillotine attached to the back.

 

[LabelKing]



The word you are looking for is "ConTrad."

 

[dopey]

I have learned a lot in this thread. Thanks.

 

[otc]

I walked past this fountain the other day (by Jerzy Kenar). Is it ConTrad?

On one hand, fountains are clearly traditional. On the other hand, this is a very contemporary piece.

 

[E TF]



Looks like a nice old room under there somewhere - the panelling, the windows, the shutters, the fire surround, all look like the real thing to me.

The panelling and ceiling look like they might have a bit of age to them. Not as much as they purport to, but maybe early C20th. Perhaps there was a symmetrical pair of french doors on the right until someone added an extension.

 

[SkinnyGoomba]

ETF,

To me the second one looks to polished to be old, also the proportions are odd for architecture this grand in the way of paneling. I would expect a higher ceiling and larger doors that are further apart from center. Also, the coffereing would have probably been symmetrical if it was more than just visible beams.

 

[E TF]

You probably right, though I have been in similar rooms here in England from the edwardian period, in which the grandiosity of the interior doesn't quite match the proportions of the building (i.e. people back then liked overly grand interiors just like they do today!). Ceilings often just a bit too low, that kind of thing. The very fact it isn't quite right is what made me think it might be old, like a room that's been mucked about with perhaps - if they were commissioning the whole thing from scratch, you might have made it more symmetrical, more perfect. And you could have put the fireplace somewhere where you could place seating around it, for instance - at the moment it's kind of ignored by the furniture. That sienna marble seems a little old fashioned too. I'd say that whoever furnished it was working with a room that was already there at least.