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Holdon Chronicles
Notes from the atelier, style markers, things seen. A slow read around the detail that is the cabinet handle.
Brown is arguably the most present color in an interior, and the least often chosen. It's already there, in the wood of a dresser, the leather of an armchair, the terracotta of a tile floor, long before anyone thinks to apply it to a handle. For decades, Western furniture actually reasoned in reverse: hardware was meant to blend into the wood, never stand apart from it, a discretion that has given way in recent years to fittings in sharp contrast, gilded brass, matte black, chrome. The renewed favor for earthy tones in decor reopens an older question: what…
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