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Architecture
February 20, 2020
Minimalist architecture and its influence on interior decoration
It is a very popular style lately, also important for decoration trends. Learn how minimalist architecture organizes the way you think.
The way of thinking, designing and building have changed over the years, as has happened with all the great architectural styles that have survived the time pass.
History repeats itself with minimalist architecture, a style that is widely used today and which emerged in the 20th century. This is a genre that has broken with the more traditional conventions and presented ideas that are embodied in straight lines and blocks that coexist harmoniously.
Minimalist architecture characterizes the contemporaneity that we know nowadays, presenting a cleaner style, devoid of props or accessories that add little or nothing to its way of thinking and constructing.
This style respects what already exists and tries to coexist, in its way of building, with nature. Visibility and visual impact are factors that are highly valued by architecture and the more recent minimalism is proof of that.
We're talking about a more clean style, which focuses on what's necessary for the exterior and interior of a building. This is a trend that has long been inspired by both Japanese heritage and way of living, influencing other adjacent areas, such as interior decoration.
The minimalism of architecture in interior decoration
"Less is more."
There is no expression that best describes the architectural style that we explore in this article, which easily extends to other areas and ways of being in life.
Interior decoration is one of them, inseparable from the way buildings are built. Decoration also follows, from an interior perspective, what happens "on the outside".
It also has to ensure that harmony is maintained from one space (exterior) to another (interior) so that the environment that is intended to be replicated does not compromise the trend practiced.
For this reason, we claim with all certainties that interior decoration is very much influenced by minimalist architecture, focusing on the choice of decorative objects that make sense and that are essentially added to space.
Today, we produce unique pieces that blend into a space that has already been created and that, above all, respect the lines drawn, adding the desired and necessary value to each of the places where the interior decoration goes through.
The choice of colors, fabrics, and textures is essential to the whole process, which aims to ensure that the harmony of each space is never compromised by the choice of a particular piece of furniture or decorative object.
It is in the study of the space to be decorated that we are inspired to choose the most suitable decoration style for a given context. And it's also in the essential, in what doesn't withdraw meaning, that we make our choices.
Those choices, along with minimalist architecture, are guided by the indispensable and by the refusal to exaggerate. Exaggeration of colors, furniture, contrasts... In interior decoration, we seek the surprise factor, for which we work, hoping to surprise those who seek us.
Interior decoration undoubtedly goes hand in hand with architecture, not only in terms of ideas but also in the way they are applied and adapted to each space. The creation of exclusive environments is what both areas seek and minimalism could not make an exception.
