Property News · July 27, 2019

Blowing bubbles in Cambridge


Retro style is given a surreal twist by two designers who use their home as a testing groundIf Lewis Carroll’s Alice had done up a house, she might have sought out Brendan Young and Vanessa Battaglia. The Italian-English duo have a knack for art and design that confounds expectations – and pigeonholing. In the world of Mineheart, the company they founded in 2010, nothing is quite what it seems. Tiny beaded chandeliers seem to float inside overscaled Edison bulbs that dangle from brass chains. The sitters of grand 18th-century portraits blow bubblegum, and haughty flamingos in ruffs look like fugitives from an Elizabethan menagerie.It’s a process of filtering until we hit on something original Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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