1/ I predict Islamic-inspired design will be one of the most influential design trends of the 2020s I spent yesterday at the Islamic Arts Museum in Kuala Lumpur and encountered many incredible pieces that demonstrate whypic.twitter.com/rk4DmgaaIj
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1/ I predict Islamic-inspired design will be one of the most influential design trends of the 2020s I spent yesterday at the Islamic Arts Museum in Kuala Lumpur and encountered many incredible pieces that demonstrate whypic.twitter.com/rk4DmgaaIj
2/ Scandinavian-style utilitarian minimalism has been so dominant for so long it’s inevitable we’ll now go in the opposite direction Islamic design is baroque, daring, intricate, while also remaining highly functionalpic.twitter.com/osXc3osE29
3/ There is a willingness to question forms so common in the West that we don’t think to question them. These objects come from such a different environment and culture that their evolution has taken a different pathpic.twitter.com/G43wB1qLjB
4/ There is a love of detail work as a kind of devotion, dedicating obscene amounts of human time and attention to the cause of beauty in a way you rarely see in the modern Westpic.twitter.com/i8kdWnGnKO
5/ There is a concern for the quality of things, for color and light that can only happen when it diffuses through many overlapping layerspic.twitter.com/CztysEthPx
6/ The architecture is especially amazing of course. Every element has a meaning, and references the others like a latticework holding the worshipper (which everyone is assumed to be)pic.twitter.com/0Lr07eEDIo
7/ And contrary to popular belief, there are many different Islamic architecture styles, stretching from Siberia to Cape Town, Dakar to Mindanaopic.twitter.com/RhiNhCgATw
I’ll take that long bet. I think you’re wrong here. That kind of Islamic art comes from peak imperial periods and a particular pattern of unaccountable high elitism. It’s a mark of economic surplus and inequality in a low-tech age.
That’s precisely why it won’t be valued.
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