Spage age painting help

[shoegazer]

I want to deck pout my new artist studio in a wild space age look, something fox hotel esque. Does anyone have any photos of some space age.mod rooms that I can use for inspiration? Your help is appriciated!

[Ayn]

[[edited to say OOOPS didn't realize something about your post  : apparently you just want to *paint* SpaceAge-y/ faux hotelesque-y... ??  if so then sheesh I *really* have no idea what that means, lol ... so sorry!!  But I'll leave my post here anyway, just in case it helps you or anyone else a bit]]


Hii shoegazer -- after a while here at Craftster I've learned that my idea of what folks call something (such as Space Age decor, in this case) and *their* idea is often a 180-degree difference, totally something else, you know? Might be an age thing, lol -- I dunno. 

But anyway -- between your phrase 'faux hotel-esque'  & my idea of 'Space Age' --  & with the help of a coupla googles -- thinnnnk I might possibly have one thought for you... Clean, nonfluffy, solid flooring...

If you don't care for the idea of something like Pergo (which admittedly I've never seen in any Space-Age hotel-esque-y finishes), or maybe stick-on vinyl tiles (a few of which might be interesting/useable or miiight possibly be paintable) --
you might consider using some sort of flat carpeting -- such as some kind of indoor-outdoor carpet, or even those huge stick-on flat carpet squares generally intended for concrete basement floors (DIY home improvement stores usually have those things). 

If your flooring is already nonfluffy/solid type, & depending on how 'industrial' a look you want or need to work into the decor  --
you might also consider those very-heavy-thick pierced rubber mats that are intended for work situations involving continual standing. Ours are a sort of brickish red -- I believe they come in black too -- and they have a great geometric design, open circles in squares. Not exactly cheap but fabulously comfy if your studio time does actually require a lot of standing.

[scrills]

For inspiration, look at some of the rooms done by Verner Panton.

[Ayn]

Hi scrills -- oh yeah 'The Mushroom Man' --  what 'he' apparently (?) called 'flowerpot' lamps & hanging lights, we used to call 'mushrooms' ... lol.

I still can't quite figure out what shoegazer meant by "Space Age painting"  --
but maybe in particular the Panton textiles links below will provide some inspiration?
[I sure enjoyed the trip down Memory Lane anyway -- thanks, scrills]  :

http://www.jandofabrics.com/products.asp?id=165
(click on thumbnails, a little easier to make out the design in the larger pix)

http://www.panton.ch/design/textil/index.htm
(ditto)

http://levitated.net/daily/levPantonKurve.html

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/dsgn3/hod_2001.405.2.htm

[shoegazer]

No, the Fox hotel in copenhagen.
Yeah, Panton is what Im looking for, but his fabrics are so complex it would be hard to trace them onto a wall for a mural.

[Ayn]

ohhh dear... honestly I thought you meant "fox" as in something else we used to say back in the day: oooops I kinda made a big "fox pass" there didn't I... 

[shoegazer]

That is spelled Faux, and pronounced fox. Its ok.
Check out the Fox Hotel's website its a neat looking place. It will be featured in upcoming volkswagen commercials to promote the release on the new VW Fox.

[Ayn]

siiigh... I know, sweetie, I know (after 4 yrs of hs/college French I oughta -- even if that 'was' 40+ yrs ago!) .  It was just a lil joke.  And , of course, as a hotel name (proper noun) 'fox' should've been capitalized... right? lol. Thanks for mentioning the hotel website; it sounds interesting.


In case someone else wants to take a look & discuss this further, try the links below:

(My Flash & fool ISP refresh aren't working very well with these sites, but each below shows numerous rooms. Love the creamy-yellow-looking one with the primary splashes -- reminds me a little of the design on an Italian Spoleto Festival poster we have): 

http://www.hotelfox.dk/Hotel-Fox-offers.htm
http://www.hotelfox.dk/press.htm
http://www.tablethotels.com/Hotel/en/63774/Review/The-Hotel-Fox/Copenhagen-Denmark/?google=1
http://212.162.2.156/site/fox.php?lang=de

3 more pix here, although they're pretty small:
http://www.hotel-denmark.demon.co.uk/fox.html

[shoegazer]

You dont have to be an ass. Thank you for posting the links, but your reply was a bit rude.