Most wall units and shelving systems can be customized to your finish of preference. This unit is an example of how you can customize and mix and match designs to suit your needs. The TV unit is available with either an oak veneer or in glossy or matt lacquered wood to match your living room decor as desired. This modern Italian style flat screen Plasma LCD TV Stands, hi-fi units, contemporary shelving units and Italian modern designer wall units to define your living room or bedroom interior. (more…)
Stylish and elegant ceramic table lamp for modern home interior lighting and decorating. This ceramic table lamp gives your home lighting a touch of modern style with a splash of bold color. The ceramic table lamp is perfect for those small spaces such as a book shelf or that corner table in your living room. Italian designer T.Menozzi has created lovely collection of ceramic lamps for Mamati. Lamps from the collection have different shapes and sizes, but all of them looks stylish and elegant. The smooth and soft lines make them look modern and adaptable to all interior styles. (more…)
The styles that these types of lighting fixtures will bring to your home will change your whole perspective of a room. A pretty unassuming and simple name for an Italian designer, Lamp comes up with designs and prints that exude energy and class. Built in many forms and perfect for any modern home ranging from living spaces to the poolside, Lamp proposes all sorts of table, floor, wall-mounted lights and ceiling-suspended lights. (more…)
Contemporary living room suite designs for every taste and lifestyle. Mix and match living room sets for every budget. Modern living room furniture from cutting edge Italian, European and American designers. Sofas are essential element of interior décor and make the sense of living space perfect. Sofas express the sense of aesthetics coupled with comfort and luxury. (more…)
This summer, along with many other movie fans who go to screenings at Toronto’s Cinematheque Ontario, I have been revisiting films by the pioneering Japanese director Kenji Mizoguchi (1898-1956). It’s been a rich experience of the movie-maker’s art, but also, as I’ll explain presently, of architecture.
There is much to be moved and delighted by in Mizoguchi’s serenely passionate cinema. Take, for example, his deeply empathetic portrayals of women, whose oppression in modern Japanese culture he understood intimately and thoroughly. Mizoguchi, I think, preferred an older order of things, where knightly codes of honour and discipline governed the relationships among people; his brilliant two-part samurai epic, The 47 Ronin (1941-1942), is perhaps the most refined and serious celebration of such values in film history. (more…)
