MAY 2011

STYLE AND INTERIOR DESIGN

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REAL ESTATE

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THIRD ISSUE - REAL ESTATEReal Estate is the English term used in Argentina to refer to the property sector and its operations. Many of the properties for sale or on the rental market

are published on the Internet,where verbal descriptions have been replaced by the reality of photographs.Some real-estate websites stylize, retouch and improve the images, but most display the properties with a spontaneous crudeness,

where nothing at all seems to have been staged for the benefit of the photograph: what we see is the real state of things. It’s hard to convey the sense of uneasiness that certain visions of daily life incite.

It is, it seems, quite disturbing to find yourself prying into the intimate and private lives of others and to see those ordinary objects so suggestive of what is not seen. This sense of uneasiness is heightened by the poor definition and quality of the photographs.

The images display the intimacy of habitation which constitutes signs of life. By virtue of what they hide, these vestiges suggest how those unknown inhabitants live and think, as well as their traumas, rituals and routines.

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ECLETIC KITSCH

A kitsch scene in a chalet in the middle-class neighborhood of Belgrano with exposed brick walls, upholstered chairs, bay window, Marc Chagall art poster, heavy patterned curtains, piano painted glossy white, wicker chairs, carpeted floor, dining room set in a suspicious Louis-XVI style. Following the rules of this style, we have a collection of cheap

furniture in retro and classic styles to hide excess ornamentation and keep poor taste out of sight.

VINTAGE CHIC

EIn an apartment on Caseros Avenue in bohemian San Telmo, we see the current vain tendency, one beyond reproach that boldly combines the old-fashioned and the contempo-rary: art decó furniture, original woodwork, quilted red leather coach, mirror and graceful rococo carpeting, paper flowers and Diego Maradona on TV.

SPIRITLESS SEVENTIES

Whether due to a deep-rooted sense of nostalgia or economic necessity, the reactionary style of this house in Núñez means that it has the original version of what were once technological advances, with a Orbis hot-water heater, Domec stoves, mosaic floor, faux Nogal kitchen cabinets, gas fireplace covered in Mar del Plata stone, a cuckoo clock,

bamboo chairs in the kitchen and carob in the dining room, paintings in an excessive realist style, oilcloth tablecloth, fake flowers and aluminum blinds.

PETIT-BOURGEOIS VICTORIAN

This style sums up the affected and frivolous choices of a pretentious and naive upper middle class from the Recoleta neighborhood that fills its domestic interiors with ornaments, colors, fabric, rugs, candelabras, figurative paintings, mirrors, a lot of furniture, photos and knick-knacks. The sense that everything is intentionally warm and cozy cannot hide a

strict set of customs, set opinions and double moral.

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MODERN ERRATIC

A style very popular among young professionals from Barrio Norte who choose to have little furniture and a practical, functional organization that enables them to maximize their small rooms and realize their equally small ambitions. The combination of some design objects with others that have a certain symbolic charge like Breuer or modern Louis-XV chairs, Japanese posters, vinyl-deco , lamps with paper shades, white lacquered racks that ingeniously house state-of-the-art entertainment technology, and a son who is a big

Star Wars fan yield a setting devoid of chaos that tends to improve one’s mood.

COLONIAL RATIONALISM

A rationalist house in “lower Belgrano” near the river with airs of Ville Savoye: white volume, horizontal window, uninterrupted floor plan, terrace with garden. This is a religious and mystical setting. White walls with skip-trowel finish, light dimmed by latticework and bars, red mosaic floor, Sevillan pottery, chairs from Provence, built-in rustic furniture,

tropical vegetations, wrought iron, and clay kitchenware are the defining elements of this Catholic domesticity.