{"id":117465,"date":"2018-01-25T17:18:23","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T17:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/projects\/dries-otten-s-colorful-kitchens-evoke-abstract-canvases\/"},"modified":"2022-12-23T09:30:30","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T14:30:30","slug":"dries-otten-s-colorful-kitchens-evoke-abstract-canvases","status":"publish","type":"id_project","link":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/projects\/dries-otten-s-colorful-kitchens-evoke-abstract-canvases\/","title":{"rendered":"Dries Otten\u2019s Colorful Kitchens Evoke Abstract Canvases"},"content":{"rendered":"

Growing up near Antwerp, Belgium, Dries Otten<\/a> would open both windows of his bedroom in wintertime and, in the cold, paint himself into a trance. That love of painting would lead Otten to earn a master’s in art restoration. “But it was terribly boring,” he recalls. “And the better you were at your job, the less visible your work.”<\/p>\n

Not content to simply preserve the creations of others, he went on to a master’s in interior architecture and eventually opened his namesake studio, focusing on bold, colorful kitchens composed rather like abstract canvases. Allusions to De Stijl, abstract expressionism, and Memphis are apparent. A 1920 geometric mural, for example, inspired the painted backsplash of the kitchen in a house in Antwerp. His favorite color, a mid-tone gray-blue, he describes as Le Corbusier in feel. “We exist in a continuous line,” Otten says. “To me, it would be weird to design without referencing history.”<\/p>\n

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