CUBOID CRAZY

Apr, 12 2013
By fabricebana
Architecture, Check-In, Fabric & Wallpaper, Fashion, Furniture, Restaurants
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Lorenzo Castillo

Over the past weeks, months or even years, you may have spotted just like me this striking cuboid pattern. It encompasses both contemporary and traditional settings and seems to have appeared mostly on the floor but now in many designs and products around us too.

Did you know that this classic tessellation pattern giving the appearance of 3-dimensional steps and cubes harks back to Greek and Roman times ( it appeared for instance in Pompeii or in St Mark’s Basilica in Venice) and that it isn’t just a brand new, pixellated logo created by the likes of the fashionable shoe and accessory maker Pierre Hardy for instance or even the late interior designer Andrée Putman?

A-Gent of Style has put his Sherlock hat and cape on and here are his finds – some of which are holiday snaps he had forgotten about – on this enigmatic pattern that has infiltrated our design-hungry lives.

ON THE FLOOR:

: Morgans Hotel lobby (NYC) by Andree Putman

: Antique 3D floor tile which unifies three uniquely different reclaimed stones expertly hand-selected and hand-crafted, at LAPICIDA

: Parquetry floor at the castle of Axel Vervoordt.

: Le Cafe de la Poste, Marrakesh

: Hand-made tile at Benfield ATT

: Hispania restaurant in London by interior designer Lorenzo Castillo

: ‘Art Deco Pattern’ in White, Black & Grey with the ‘Shelley Border’ by Original Style at tilesandbathroomonline.co.uk

: Il Carpaccio restaurant at the Royal Monceau hotel, Paris

: On the floor of a private building on Exhibition Gate (by the V&A)

Post-script – 15/04/13. Did you see in the May edition of the World of Interiors the Pierre Mesguich Mosaïk advert for their San Marco Gold and Black tile p.120 and also on p.134 the ‘ND101’ hand-painted and glazed lava stone by Made a Mano at Laurence Pidgeon? Just saying…

Post-script – 23/04/13. For those of you in Paris, you may have picked up in the Métro the free copy of A Nous Paris and read yet another article on the cuboid-shaped pattern and its uses. Just saying…