Villa Necchi Campiglio is one of those magical places, where the aura of a certain era survived. Walking through the rooms feels like time travel, and yet the architecture and interiors radiate a very timeless and almost modern quality. Built between 1932 and 1935 by the Milanese architect Piero Portaluppi, the Villa has survived almost intact, both outside and inside. Portaluppi accomplished a synthesis of the arts - from the straight-lined architecture and elegant interiors up to the smallest details of its decorative elements - a true a maserpiece of its time! ...
...thinking of Lee Miller´s image of a desert landscape seen through a torn screen (1937) - the contrast of the interior and the exterior world. A thin screen seperates and defines the space. Below is Marcel Duchamp, Piston de courant d’air (1914). In its surrealistic way of contrasting the worlds of the unconscious and the conscious, the fashion shot (2009) kind of embodies and reflects this idea. ... │ 1. 2. 3. │...