brutalist lighting I.D. ideas please

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shipwright (UK)

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23/06/2010 11:18 am

O.K. guys I know lighting isn't such a big topic on d.a. but what do we have here? Sold as Danish, it has more a feel of italian to me. Brutalist? with a hint of arte povera? materials are fused glass, resin and (chromed?) steel. possibly late 1960's more likely 1970's. Think 1960'/70's tower block! lets go....

http://s909.photobucket.com/albums/ac293/mastershipwright/brutalist%20lighting/

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23/06/2010 1:48 pm

Doesn't look Brutalist to...
Doesn't look Brutalist to me. Surely Brutalist lighting would be naked strip lighting or something totally undecorative... those things you posted are actually quite pretty

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23/06/2010 1:56 pm

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yes pretty indeed, LitUp. The brut in brutalist derives from the french for 'raw' and comes to design through the use of raw concrete hence brutalist architecture......that some of us find pretty! other uses i.e. "champagne brut", and the infamous aftershave from the seventies.

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25/06/2010 2:31 pm

brutalism
Forgot to say see the book New Brutalism by Reyner Banham.

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25/06/2010 3:20 pm

Brutalist architecture can...
Brutalist architecture can look all manner of positive things (and often negative too) but I think that 'pretty' is hardly an informed choice of adjective to use for it

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