Minimalism in interior design: towards hybridism

A few years ago, minimalism was the most comprehensive trend in interior design. However, gradually, the name has ceased to be pronounced. This does not mean that minimalism has ceased to exist as a trend, but as such, he returned in decline. For this reason that minimalism is not so-if you want to use a class philosofico-existentialist-cool. Despite this, minimalism is still with us. Maybe we do not hear as often as before because time passes and it is imperative to create new-isms, but what minimalism is still contemporary today. Here are some of its features: Abstraction- -Economy of language and means Austerity, and lack of ornamentation Purism-structural and functional Order Geometry-Straight Dematerialization- -Accuracy of finishes -Synthesis and reductionism Presumably, the main reason to mitigate the alleged minimalism was to consider it as something cold, and if it / this happened because this ism seems to be the opposite of Baroque art: they are all two extremes. The emergence of this trend in interior design at least a very simple explanation: the first thing you see when you leave home are buildings, cars, commercials, thousands of people, all of various sizes, colors and shapes. The answer to this chaos is minimalism: order, austerity, simplicity and aesthetic purism. However, many prefer to return to live in a "friendly" (as opposed to the radical geometrization of space), which is perfectly logical. Furniture made of transparent glass can be the best ally when trying to create a minimalist style, and the best friend of man when it comes to maximize space in small rooms: the transparency of glass creates an illusion dematerialization. In this case a clear glass table is not intrusive, but rather suggestive and subtle. In the same vein, furniture, stained glass are ideal to produce another effect: the shimmering reflection, especially on a table black or red. But can we design a cabinet in which two opposing design styles (minimalism and baroque) intersect? If the answer to that question is yes, then a combination of materials is essential. In this case, the coffee table "Crystals" of MeubleSelect.fr, which combines the glass (material of modernity) and wood (classical, traditional and basic), expresses the possibility of such a combination. Obviously, this object can not possibly be regarded as minimal, much less baroque-despite the details of the parts that connect the wooden base with the top of the table or oriental style. The only word I found to describe this object seems to resist any categorization, it is the "hybrid". Many quickly associate the word with biology, bioengineering, etc.. However, this term is also used in the literature. Shipwrecks of the chronic Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca (Jerez de la Frontera, 1507 - Seville, 1559) is now studied in literature and considered a hybrid. It is not surprising that the text belonged to the field of history has acquired a literary value. The challenge of such texts, which fall under the generic name of "Chronicles of the Indies" was to find the form to tell something absolutely new, unprecedented in the literary models or existing codes . If the Spanish Golden Age "and" in classical sources and prestigious-was paramount then the originality of the work is important, but later the presence of literary sources in the work would be upgraded as part of notion of intertextuality, Juan Goytisolo, to quote another writer of the peninsula, a great connoisseur of literary criticism, has used in his fiction-writing the only model to live up was that of the Homeric Odyssey, what 'Christopher Columbus made in his diary when he claimed to have seen a mythical creature during its passage through the Caribbean islands. The richness of the relationship Shipwrecks hybrid is not in its classical sources but in the fact that this text was written for presentation in court that would judge the great failure of the expedition of Panfilo de Narvaez. Therefore there is a "rhetorical intention": Alvar is not responsible for this failure. This was clear when Silvia Molloy said that "taking the helm" ("... and I took the helm ... "wrote Cabeza de Vaca) is the symbolic moment when responsibility, when it became the center of the text and that it "approves". The mix of official document, the presence of history and historiography of medieval autobiographical dimension, the importance of evangelization and the pace I description of log-creates an illusion of simultaneity, is what makes a text "hybrid "in addition to the oscillations in the positions of identity of the narrator. The value of hybrids is huge, and they result very interesting because they represent a challenge for those who want to study, to identify the basic components and to determine what effect the combination of models, codes and intertexts. We take the liberty to describe this coffee table "hybrid". And for those who like the new-isms we catalog this hybrid style. Whatever name you please give, this is a coffee table to be considered by fans of rare objects.