Great buildings are those that ignite the imagination and elevate
us beyond reality, and - by those standards - Coromandel House in
South Africa is truly a masterpiece. This unique farmhouse, which
sits in a spectacular valley in Lydenburg, 275kms north-east of
Pretoria, was built in 1975 and has since developed a cult
following for its unusual aesthetic - part building, part ruin,
part wilderness - inspiring anyone with an interest in building
within a natural context. It is something explored by Creating
Coromandel: Marco Zanuso in South Africa. Coromandel House was
designed by the Milanese architect Marco Zanuso (1916-2001), who
was commissioned by the South African fashion retailer Sydney
Arnold Press (1919-97) and Press's wife Victoria de Luria Press
(1927-2015). They met in 1969, and their shared design passions
sparked a decade-long partnership that yielded not only Coromandel
House, a structure on the Press family's vast farm, but also
Edgardale (1978), their business headquarters. Creating Coromandel
explores the association between the clients, the architect and
prominent personalities, including photographers David Goldblatt
(1930-2018) and Margaret Courtney-Clarke (born 1949), German-born
architect Steffen Ahrends (1907-1992), Brazilian landscape
architect Roberto Burle Marx (1909-1994) and Italian landscape
architect Pietro Porcinai (1910-1986). Through impressive photos,
sketches and testimonials, this monograph narrates and records an
unknown period in Zanuso's portfolio. He designed small-scale
products (in the field of industrial design) as well as large-scale
architecture (warehousing for IBM and Olivetti) but, with
Coromandel House, Zanuso competently mediated both scales. Creating
Coromandel documents Zanuso's extraordinary responses to landscape
and his sensational interiors, but also offers a glimpse into the
design process and amount of collaboration it involves. For fans of
Coromandel it provides a single reference source; for architects,
designers, historians, photographers and anyone interested in
design and architecture it provides an inspirational story behind
the process of building a legacy.
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Mon, 22 Aug 2022 | Review
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