To speak of liquid architecture making reference to a house which is, among other things, a speech about textures, about the varied granulations and densities of matter, can seem bizarre. It is not an attempt to explain the materiality and tectonic attributes of the house, but an attempt of explaining the miraculous fluidity of the space – on the interior as well as on the exterior – generated by the astounding event which is the house itself. Undecipherable from photography picture and impossible to intuit without being gone through, the residence is by excellence fractal, of a complexity which inhibits some of the visitors giving them the feeling that they are dominated by unnatural rules. Hundreds of new images kaleidoscopically built as everything goes forward, into the core or around it, the details that always force the eye to close-up adjustments, as elaborated as their context, so they themselves become the general frame for the detail of the texture and so on, the being of the house divides down to the molecule, unveiling an autonomous universe, in which many have strange sensations and optical illusions caused by the reversing of the reference plans.
PROIECT: ARH. RADU MIHAILESCU
TEXT: SILVIA GUGU
FOTO: SERBAN BONCIOCAT

A few steps away from the Casin monastery, going down on the Alexandru Constantinescu Street, the eyes of the one taking a walk are attracted by a villa with a red wall. Immediately, an inscription with black, metal letters allows him to read ‘La Villa, restaurant francais a Bucarest’. With little curiosity, our passer-by can find out what is hidden behind that red wall: a restaurant of authentic French gastronomy in a refined framework. Mihai Focsa solicited Jean Grisoni with whom he has collaborated on other projects for the setting up and realization of the concept. This sketcher, design creator, polyvalent, is a regular of Bucharest. For a few years is walking around Bucharest because of professional reasons and is never separated from his camera. He has a beautiful collection of black&white clichés representing the city. He looks at Bucharest with tenderness and finds in every moment an esthetic emotion. To him, everything is beautiful in this capital. The decoration of this French restaurant was thus made starting from the respective images… and from a simple principle: the place has to be intimate, chic, warm, elegant and Parisian.
PROIECT: JEAN GRISONI
FOTO: GEORGE VASILACHE

Actor and director, Dan Nasta dedicated 60 years of his life to an art collection of a great museum and esthetic value. Part of the objects of this collection, built through a selected cultural taste, were donated in 2001 to the Mogosoaia palace, today being exposed under the title of the exhibition in the hall. ‘The objects of a collection make up a fact of culture; they are completed in harmony. A crock is not worth anything. They make the culture when they are integrated in a system. At Mogosoaia there are not only museum objects but all of them are beautiful objects. I have invested 60 years of work and then it took me 14 years until the Ministry of Culture accepted this donation. Now, the ensemble of the lordly yard is still in the restoration phase: it is even worked on the green houses brought from France by Voda Bibescu around 1860. Few still know how important this place is: there are three centuries of culture locked in there. The only valuable things are, however, the visitors: last year there were almost 200000 people. And two years ago, on May 1 a thousand people visited the palace. I still present the palace and its objects to the visitors, with the history of each of them and, sometimes, I receive from them information and completions. At Mogosoaia I did theatre with objects. When you think a décor, you achieve a social environment and you communicate it. At the Palace I made a senioral environment and, that’s why, when you enter the Palace, you know what kind of life can be spent there. It is not the figment of my imagination! Besides, this way a certain taste is determined, a certain cultural opinion about life and the space to live in. You easily realize that Mogosoaia is not an inn, for instance’.
INTERVIU PENTRU IGLOO: OANA TANASE
FOTO: MARIUS AMARIE