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EDITORIAL
uring the design process we often hear ���I don���t do
that��� coming from clients and designers when discussing
an aesthetic proposal. Recently a decorator was faced with
so many don���t-dos that the design scheme was doomed
from the start. Well-intentioned clients often set stylistic
perimeters that are so rigid that interiors remain forever
unfinished or pale versions of expectations. When you
add to the equation a tendency of the moment towards
austere, ill considered minimalism, the outcome may be
bleaker still. Designers, decorators and architects as well
as their clients all too often adhere to stylistic boundaries
rendered comfortable due to repetitive use or unfamiliarity.
AGi architects appear for the third time in HYLAND.
Each of their contemporary houses is excellent, each
represents figuratively and literally twists and turns in the
design narrative, ones rendered unattainable by blanket ���I don���t do��� attitudes. Team AGi clearly possesses a
wealth of design precedent knowledge drawn from ancient times through to the present. One has no doubt
that they could fill a commission in an entirely different
style.
The lexicon of modernism should have a big tent. Failing to realize this balance consigns us to aesthetic purgatory, one marked by repetitious and dull sophomoric
tenets, important as foundation but meant to be built on
with alacrity.
Christopher
Hyland
