Interior Design: Bubbles Bubbles Everywhere!
Andy Potsides
Commercial And Marketing Director @ Boutique Gallery | Marketing Strategy, Sales Growth
Interior Design: Think Bubbles! There are Bubbles Bubbles everywhere.
As most of us have been living our entire lives “in a bubble” for the past few weeks and as we ponder over the latest redesign of our home offices and public spaces we at Living in Style Gallery, Marylebone, London thought it might be quite fun to take a little look at where bubbles appear in art and interior design.
Love them or loathe them, Bubbles, are a natural phenomenon but often go unnoticed in our daily lives, however they literally pop up everywhere – in our dwellings and campsites, (geodesic domes), in our financial markets and language (think bubble and bust) and in our food – “bubble tea” and “bubble and squeak” an old English recipe so called because the leftover cabbage “bubbled” in the pan - and for those of us of a certain generation in chocolate “Think Aero, Think Bubbles!”
In art and design and “Bubbles” are often used to convey lightness, upwards movement, strength and self-containment but there also are some big – I mean literally big - examples of “Bubbles” Think Anish Kapoor’s “The tall tree and the eye” aka the “bubble tower” exhibited at the Royal Academy of Art in 2009 and now resident at the Guggenheim, or Pierre Cardin’s Palais Bulles - a huge palace made of terracotta bubbles on the French Riviera - often referred to as the “Bubble Palace”
Milan design week may well have been ahead of Boris Johnson’s curve – having predicting as early as 2017 that “bubbles” would be a future trend – but, given our current exposure to bubbles, only time will tell if embrace or reject the idea of bubbles in design.
I suppose one thing to always bear in mind with trends (and bubbles) is that inevitably at some stage they eventually burst!
Anyway for time being here at Living in Style we quite like them and stock a few mid-century modern ”Bubble” pieces within our collection. The Gallery in Maylebone (London) re-opens for socially distanced viewings on Monday 15th June so do pop in if you’re in the area
Christian Daninos Bubble Chair
BACKGROUND:
Living in Style is owned by Antique Dealer and interior designer Beata Szabo and opened in London in January 2020. The Gallery forms part of a group of three independent galleries in London, Brussels and Budapest and offers a combined curated collection of more than more than 1000 hand selected mid-century modern and Art Deco pieces.
London – www.livinginstylegallery.com
Brussels – www.wattteu.be
Budapest – www.montparnasse.co.uk
Opening Hours from 15th June Monday – Saturday 10:30am – 17:30pm
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Andy Potsides
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