Forms Archive

Objects, spaces and visual culture worth remembering.

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Forms Archive has reached 5,000 followers.

Thank you for being here, for looking closely, and for sharing an interest in the forms that surround us.

A little corner of the internet, and I’m so happy you’re here.

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@TacticalNukachu 🙌 Yess!

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I forgot to include one of my all-time favorites:

Marfa Central Fire Station

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Wes Anderson didn't invent the pastel palette or the perfectly symmetrical frame.

But he might have permanently changed the way we look at them.

A little collection of things that look very Wes Anderson, without actually being Wes Anderson.

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I forgot to include one of my all-time favorites:

Marfa Central Fire Station

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@becauseimelena1 🤍

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@_OffCanvas 🤍

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@ABCDGroup_ 🤍

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@HelleboreIs Sin duda alguna.

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THE DESIGNER
Mies van der Rohe

THE DESIGN
MR10, 1927

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@ianaalvo165629 Same thought, the Cesca chair (to name one), will forever have my heart.

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@hollycurates @universal__acid Ty sm :)

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@universal__acid @hollycurates Oh ok, you're right about that.

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@stanley_human Right? haha

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THE DESIGNER
Mies van der Rohe

THE DESIGN
MR10, 1927

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@universal__acid @hollycurates It worked for me

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@hollycurates My goodness, such an amazing work!

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I don't usually share contemporary art, but I have a soft spot for light installations.

A whole vocabulary of human gestures, gathered in one room.

Vocabulary of Solitude
Ugo Rondinone
Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, 2022.

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A labyrinth of stairs, color and light,
maybe getting lost is part of the experience.

La Muralla Roja
Arch. Ricardo Bofill, 1973.

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@Annebfr 🤍

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@BlackMortadella Yes! It was film around Marfa :)

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Wes Anderson didn't invent the pastel palette or the perfectly symmetrical frame.

But he might have permanently changed the way we look at them.

A little collection of things that look very Wes Anderson, without actually being Wes Anderson.

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A brutalist beauty.

A flower-shaped building somewhere between structure and sculpture.

La Tulipe, Geneva.
Designed by Jack Vicajee Bertoli, 1972.