Riviera Maison

Riviera Maison
I love memories of holiday adventures and views of distant places captured by my own or someone else's snapshot. Unknown places, where atmospheric #photography and poetic description invite you, take on one dimension in the summer - longing for the vastness of sea water, azure, waves, sand, wind and unlimited freedom.
photo: Agnieszka Pudlik

Sea

Childhood memories from the #Baltic Sea, #Hemingway, and then luxury albums that you look through with flushed faces, tempting you with a wealth of holiday hide-outs all over the world, far beyond the style of the Solar campsite in Hel and the resorts of the Polish #Coast, fuel dreams of a seaside house - a symbol of a family idyll, escape from the city noise and everyday duties.

Santorini photo: Pinterest
photo: Pinterest

Examples of the architecture of houses by the sea show this fantasy in all its glory, emphasizing the diversity of temperaments and tastes of their owners and their different geo-location. Postcards pass before your eyes like in a kaleidoscope: yellow and red haciendas in the Spanish-Mexican style, pink patios in #Morocco, white and blue plasters in #Santorini, colorful sidings of houses in the North popularized by Ikea posters, or airy verandas of seaside residences in #Maine, immortalized in life style articles #Vanity Fair. Classic holiday associations are complemented by memories of a villa on the French Riviera.

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photo: Pinterest

 

Fairy tales and fables
The romantic aspect of a seaside adventure directed my thoughts towards sweet and cozy aesthetics, nautical motifs, old school furniture from a flea market and modest architecture. The obligatory paint abrasions on the rotten board, illustrating the fragility of Matros's life, moved my imagination towards a fishing hut with small windows, a gable roof and a chapel nearby. Although the coastline of the continents is long and diverse, it was the Baltic Sea that shaped my aesthetic preferences, along with its climate, raw legend and local context.
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Exception proves the rule
The breakthrough came after a movie screening. “Ghost Author” by Polanski. The extremely modern shape of the villa, torn by the north wind, the contrast of cold, sandy dunes, dry grass and expanses of large windows reflecting the drama of the steel surf shocked my imagination forever. The daring contrast of architecture and surroundings turned out to be more interesting instead of the magical principle of the unity of the two.
This year, thanks to the hospitality of friends, I experienced a similar shock - in a completely different atmosphere. Super modern architecture, white and gray contrasting with the turquoise of the surroundings, geometric lines of the terraces and the Infiniti pool, minimalism of the interior and a great design of an exotic garden made me feel artistic. I voluntarily locked myself up for 48 hours, not leaving this design paradise, observing the movement of the sun across the sky and the changing play of colors in the interior and on the horizon. A car ride around the area and internet research revealed the hand of world designers in the vicinity, including: Piet Boon, who was the first to translate the principles of minimalism into the language of the tropics.
photo: Pinterest
photo: Pinterest, Piet Boon design
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By the C

The scope and scale of the assumptions of this project is impressive, and the creative contribution to the analysis of the impact of individual components of the melange of architecture and the Caribbean landscape cannot be overestimated. White cools the heat of the south, gray highlights the abundance of local colors, simple divisions of facades and terraces balance the flexible rhythms of water waves and palm leaves, and wooden beach chairs on the deck create a minimalist audience for daily sun-set and sun-rise sessions.

photo: Agnieszka Pudlik
A little bit of my work 🙂
photo: Agnieszka Pudlik

Dreams of a fisherman's hut, whitened baskets, shells in a jar and a tree root, worn out by the teeth of time, washed up on the northern beach, are a thing of the past. Burn political correctness and respect for local folklore! What counts is courage, the power of creation and modernity!