San Francisco–based Orlando Diaz-Azcuy’s understanding of the home interior has made him one of America’s most renowned designers. Regarded by professionals as a “dean of interior design” and a pioneer of minimalist design since the early 1980s, Diaz-Azcuy has been a major influence in the worlds of interior architecture and design. Each residence featured in SOUL: INTERIORS BY ORLANDO DIAZ-AZCUY, written by noted interior design writer Jorge S. Arango, is simple, functional, and beautiful with each room achieved with exactitude, mindfulness, and artisanship.
Diaz-Azcuy’s elegantly composed rooms speak volumes for his spare, intelligent, and disciplined touch. His interiors—located in Miami and New York as well as San Francisco—combine architecturally clean lines and an urbane sensibility, accentuated by smart flashes of bold color or a pedigreed period statement piece that evokes a sense of timelessness—as well as personalness—in uncluttered modern environments. By orchestrating textural richness, honest materiality and judiciously deployed global artifacts and art in thoughtfully calibrated measure, Diaz-Azcuy transforms minimalism into something poetic and eminently livable, thus pioneering a style, often called “soft modernism,” that has become ubiquitous today.
Organized by sections on themes such as eclecticism, light, geometry, nature, luxury, romanticism, and serenity, each residence celebrates Diaz-Azcuy’s artistic genius and the creative process and collaboration with clients behind each room. Each chapter ends with invaluable advice to inspire readers how to bring a little Diaz-Azcuy flair into their own homes.
Bringing soul to modernism is Diaz-Azcuy’s greatest legacy and the heart of this magnificent volume. |
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