Deconstructing Greek Revival: Strange Mixed-Style Shelving | Designs & Ideas on Dornob - Feed https://dornob.com Architecture, Interior and Furniture Design Thu, 07 Aug 2025 23:57:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 Deconstructing Greek Revival: Strange Mixed-Style Shelving https://dornob.com/deconstructing-greek-revival-strange-mixed-style-shelving/ Tue, 20 Mar 2012 22:00:46 +0000 http://dornob.com/?p=33633 Outside of some mass-produced exceptions at stores like Restoration Hardware, new designers are rarely bold enough these days to reprise styles associated with ancient Rome and Greece. Postmodernism did so with reckless abandon, but Elizabeth Coffey tempers her own use Neo-Classical (as well as Arts and Crafts and other) sources with a kind of minimalist […]

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Outside of some mass-produced exceptions at stores like Restoration Hardware, new designers are rarely bold enough these days to reprise styles associated with ancient Rome and Greece.

Postmodernism did so with reckless abandon, but Elizabeth Coffey tempers her own use Neo-Classical (as well as Arts and Crafts and other) sources with a kind of minimalist Deconstructivism – slicing columns in neat sections and separating them with sleek black shelves.

The results are neither wildly self-conscious nor derivative, and surprising in their structural soundness and functional aspirations.

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