Mathias Klotz (Casa 11 Mujeres) + Lanvin Resort (SS09)
Casa 11 Mujeres
(Eleven Women House)
.. was named like that because it was designed
for a family with 11 daughters
ages four to twenty.
Divided in three floors,
is built with bare concrete
wood floors, glass, and steel,
on a 45 degree slope
looking down Cachagua beach
(87 miles north of Santiago de Chile).
The bottom floor contains shared spaces,
the top floor has the master bedroom +
kitchen, living room, dining room,
while the second level has the daughters bedrooms
—all overlooking the sea—
What if the 11 daughters
dressed up
in Lanvin Resort 2009;
Then everything would resort*
to ‘perfection’.
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Resort:
noun
1 a place that is a popular destination for vacations or recreation, or which is frequented for a particular purpose : a seaside resort | a health resort.• archaic the tendency of a place to be frequented by many people :places of public resort.
2 the action of turning to and adopting a strategy or course of action, esp. a disagreeable or undesirable one, so as to resolve a difficultsituation : Germany and Italy tried to resolve their economic and social failures by resort to fascism.• [in sing. ] a strategy or course of action that may be adopted in a difficult situation : her only resort is surgery herself tomorrow now.
* ORIGIN late Middle English (denoting something one can turn to for assistance): from Old French resortir, from re- ‘again’ + sortir ‘come or go out.’ The sense [place frequently visited] dates from the mid 18thcent.
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Sources: Dezeen, Style.com, Dictionary.
