Sitting on opposite pages from each other are a studio in England by Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell from 1916 and the living room in the home of architect Michael Graves in Princeton, New Jersey and completed in 1996. The work of famed architect Michael Graves is recognized for its postmoderist designs involving geometric forms and saturated colors; his own living room was used as a laboratory for experimentation with domestic space and was regularly adapted and renovated. The home of artists Duncan Grant and David Garnett was a site of unconventional living in the early twentieth century, and the studio in the home demonstrated the casual, liberated aesthetic and approach to the artists' work and their living space. Photo 8 of 9 in Here Are the Greatest Rooms of the Century, According to Phaidon

Here Are the Greatest Rooms of the Century, According to Phaidon

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Sitting on opposite pages from each other are a studio in England by Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell from 1916 and the living room in the home of architect Michael Graves in Princeton, New Jersey, and completed in 1996. The work of famed architect Michael Graves is recognized for its postmodernist designs involving geometric forms and saturated colors; his own living room was used as a laboratory for experimentation with domestic space and was regularly adapted and renovated. The home of artists Duncan Grant and David Garnett was a site of unconventional living in the early 20th century, and the studio in the home demonstrated the casual, liberated aesthetic and approach to the artists' work and their living space.