Illusion in Design: New Trends in Architecture and Interiors-Quality Guarantee

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Cutting-edge examples of the use of optical illusion in design—from trompe l’oeil to anamorphosis—to solve various challenges, be they space or budget related, or that act as aesthetic features in architecture and the fields that rub elbows with it: art, design, and furniture.

Thismagicalvolumepresentsthestartlingworldof illusion in design as employed by today’s architects, interior designers, furniture designers, and others at work bending the appearance of reality for purposes bookcase that masks a room or Prohibition-style bar, to the mind-boggling Escher-like effects achieved by Casa Ceramica, whose optical illusion of a floor dips intovalleysandrisesintomounds(butisinreality flat), offers to us the possibility that nearly anything can be done, if it can be imagined—even in our own homes.

Theauthorslookatresidencesacrosstheglobe, aswellasspacesbeyondthehome,thatutilize amyriadofsurprisingtechniques.
Included are projects by conceptual designers such as Studio Malka and Vector Architects, as well as established practitioners such as Ferguson and Shamamian, G. P. Schafer, Peter Pennoyer, Redd/Kaihoi, and others, and all will surprise and engage the inspired viewer who will see that nearly anything can be done, if it can be imagined.