Cer Magazine International n.20 - Tilmar Ceramics

interior design
PHOTOS
Dragan Bbovich
DESIGNER
Katarine Nicolic-Zechevic
DISTRIBUTOR
D.T.I. - S.A.B. Enterijeri
TILES
Ceramica Sant’Agostino
Ceramica Fondovalle
by Riccardo Bianchi
The location, first and foremost, is key to
understanding the significance of this project.
We are in Belgrade, a city on the move, as stated
in the title of an exhibition set up in the
Architectural section of the Venice Biennale
2006. Also in the pipeline are architectural-urban planning
projects for the central area between the Danube and the
Sava: however, to date the city has seen precious little
good modern architecture.
There are the national-romantic buildings by Plecnik, the
follies by Klek (also known as Josip Seissel, founder of
avant-garde movement Zenit), the attempts at
functionalism of Branislav Kojic, Jan Dubovy and Dusan
Babic, the large tenement houses of Ludwig Tomori and
Nicola Dobrovic, the MoCAB Museum of Contemporary Art
designed by Ivan Antic and Ivanka Raspopovic (wonderful:
this work deserves a star). In short, not a lot, and all of it
very “modernish”, which Le Corbusier dismissed with the
scathing comment: “My God, what absolute
monstrosities!”
For that matter the New Belgrade designed in the socialist
post-war period is, all things considered, anonymous, in
spite of the ambitious towers by Mihajlo Mitrovic and
Branko Pesic. Architect Bogdanov Bogdanovic, who was
mayor of what is now Serbia’s capital from 1982 to 1986,
says: “The New Belgrade as I remember it before I left was
new and completely white … Now I find it dark and
sombre, much like the images of an expressionist film such
as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, all black or dark.” In view of
A TILED CORRIDOR RUNS
AROUND THE BEDROOM.
RIGHT: ON ONE SIDE THE
CORRIDOR OPENS OUT ONTO
THE COMMUNICATING AREA
BETWEEN THE COMMUNAL
AREAS AND THE WELLNESS
AREA DOMINATED BY THE MINI
GREENHOUSE AND THE
JACUZZI SUNK IN A CERAMIC
SHELL.
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