{"id":36456,"date":"2017-09-04T09:16:35","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T09:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bocadolobo.com\/blog\/?p=36456"},"modified":"2023-03-21T17:59:23","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T17:59:23","slug":"ettore-sottsass-meets-classic-paris-apartment-charles-zana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bocadolobo.com\/blog\/interiors\/ettore-sottsass-meets-classic-paris-apartment-charles-zana\/","title":{"rendered":"Ettore Sottsass meets the classic Paris apartment of Charles Zana"},"content":{"rendered":"The classic 18th-century Paris apartment<\/em><\/strong> of top interior designer<\/strong> and architect Charles Zana<\/strong> is decorated with extraordinary modern art<\/strong> and furniture. Zana revealed to be one of the most enthusiastic Ettore Sottsass<\/strong> fan and the Memphis Movement<\/strong> that he has been collecting for over 15 years.\n\n\"\"<\/a>\n\nSee also:\u00a0Eclectic London House by Top Interior Designer Teresa Sapey Studio<\/a>\n\nIn a tour of his home for T: The New York Times Style Magazine, Zana demonstrate a deep admiration for the radical Italian architect: \u2018\u2018He changed everything. He was really the first person to entirely inhabit that most interesting place between art and architecture.\u2019\u2019\n\n\n
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\"\"<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nZana\u2019s collection consists of over 30 pieces from Sottsass including rare prototype ceramics, furniture, and lighting. \u00a0Which flawlessly mixes works of Sottsass together with lamps by Andrea Branzi, pieces by Carlo Mollino, and luxury furniture<\/strong> that Zana himself designed.\n\nThe classic interiors<\/strong> of a typical Parisian apartment is a contradictory framework against the colorful and eclectic collection of objects, the Memphis aesthetic, known for its brash colors and bold shapes. Zana sees himself to be a \u2018\u2018bohemian sort of collector,\u201d he refuses to treat his home like a museum or art gallery: \u2018\u2018I always thought it was absurd to treat things as though they were suddenly so delicate and valuable when that wasn\u2019t how they started.\u2019\u2019 Charles Zana\u2019s apartment is a perfect refinement of art and architecture combined together, he strongly confirms that he \u201cwould rather be alive with beauty than living in a museum, with things under glass.\u201d\n\n\"\"<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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