From a very young age, the house used to be quite simple to our childish eyes, it was just a square with a simple roof regardless of the house we used to live in. To be more specific, the square is the shape of logic and safety while it is the most ‘’digestible’’ shape form to the human due to the the
easy and the wide variety it provides in order to configure it internally.
The sense and deprivation of the square shape is internationally common to every human being at every geographic and chronological state due to the fact that every population of the world through the centuries used square or rectangular structures without having lent architectural inspiration of other countries. We can witness the incident above just by looking at some example; the Japanese pagoda, a classic Tuscan cottage, the American modernism structures, the parliamentary Victorian residences in London, all of them have one main thing in common, a rectangular shape.
*The word cards is here spelled with a “K” instead of a “C” by the designer’s choice, as an interplay between the english and the greek word of the same meaning.
Houses of Kards // An Ode to Square//Blue
Silk Scarf Houses of Kards // An Ode to Square
Design commissioned by MANTILITY
Available Sizes: 45x45cm, 70x70cm, 90x90cm
Theme: Architecture, Design Movements
Description: 100% Silk – Hand illustrated
Designer: Konstantinos Fidanis
Country: Greece
Year: 2018
Care: Dry clean only – Cool iron the back side only
Limited to: 200 pcs
Colors: White & Blue
Konstantinos Fidanis
Konstantinos Fidanis is an architect engineer born and raised in Greece. Practicing balance between art & engineering, he seeks inspiration in kallos, textures, light, shapes & interesting realities. His portfolio includes design projects with Vogue Greece, Bombay Sapphire, Moet Chandon Champagne, Russian Standard Vodka, Daios Cove Luxury Resort, Hermina Athens and various publications. He’s co-founder of a new company along with his partner, a design and concept studio launching soon, KREO.