{"id":464,"date":"2005-12-03T12:05:11","date_gmt":"2005-12-03T17:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=464"},"modified":"2005-12-06T13:13:30","modified_gmt":"2005-12-06T18:13:30","slug":"a-flood-of-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=464","title":{"rendered":"A Flood of Style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently posted an <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?p=457\">entry<\/a> about Chinese style after BusinessWeek posted an article on Shanghai Tang, and once again BW raises the international style issue. Only this time, they&#8217;re talking Central Europe. Rightly so. Some of the coolest stuff has for years come out of places like Zagreb, famous for its illustrators and animation. After the break-up of the Soviet Union and the splintering of the various states, Metropolis magazine carried the work architects from the region who were fusing so many influences they took the term &#8220;melting pot&#8221; and stretched it in ways the comfortable West hadn&#8217;t seen in a century. If there is any place to be looking for exciting new work &#8211; outside of China &#8211; it has to be Central Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Read their short article (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/magazine\/content\/05_50\/b3963032.htm\">link<\/a>), look at the accompanying slideshow (<a href=\"http:\/\/images.businessweek.com\/ss\/05\/12\/centraleuropedesign\/index_01.htm\">link<\/a>), and be prepared for a wave of creativity. I can hardly wait.<\/p>\n<p>(p.s. I went looking for the Istanbul-based design firm that was getting a bunch of press recently, but I&#8217;m coming up empty. Feel free to post a comment if you know the one I mean and I&#8217;ll update this post.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently posted an entry about Chinese style after BusinessWeek posted an article on Shanghai Tang, and once again BW raises the international style issue. Only this time, they&#8217;re talking Central Europe. Rightly so. Some of the coolest stuff has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=464\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}