Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic If the ground floor of Deyan Sudjic\u2019s north London house looks a little bare \u2013 all white walls, stripped floors, high ceilings and a slick, steel-counter-topped kitchen \u2013 it serves all the better to display the furniture. This is, in its\u00a0way, exactly the house you might expect the former director of London\u2019s Design Museum to have: a perfect backdrop for a\u00a0collection, in this case, of remarkable chairs, in a neighbourhood with gentility and grime within easy reach. \u00a0These exhibits, though, are not on pedestals but in everyday use: a\u00a0set\u00a0of Hans\u00a0Wegner dining chairs, a Gerrit Rietveld Red and Blue armchair that still\u00a0looks ridiculously modern despite its\u00a0design\u00a0being more than a century old,\u00a0and\u00a0a\u00a0pair of vintage Alvar Aalto plywood stools placed side by side beneath\u00a0the tall kitchen window.\u00a0If anything jars in the elegant early-Victorian house it is not the modernist furniture but rather an elaborate stone fireplace, clearly an import from France and looking a little arrogant in this very British interior. \u201cBefore we bought it,\u201d says Sudjic, 72, sitting across an enormous dining table that is as big as\u00a0a\u00a0bedroom, \u201cthis house belonged to Jasper Conran and John Galliano. They had\u00a0their studio on the top floor. It was remodelled by [British architect] Nigel Coates, but unfortunately the people they sold it to had it completely remodelled. The\u00a0fireplace is one of the few things that survives from that earlier period.\u201d\u00a0Its latest incarnation was designed \u201cwith a bit of advice from John Pawson\u201d, Sudjic says. It shows. Particularly in the floor, the boards of which seem unusually wide. \u201cSome of them go all the way, back to\u00a0front,\u201d he says. \u201cWe had to get a crane to\u00a0get them in.\u201d We head upstairs. \u201cThere\u2019s too much furniture,\u201d Sudjic admits, a little sheepishly. It\u2019s not exactly rammed, but the\u00a0airy (white) drawing room does look a\u00a0little like a designer beauty parade. There\u2019s an Eames lounger and ottoman right where you\u2019d expect it. There\u2019s an unusual Harry Bertoia chair clad in purple\u00a0velvet, a Jasper Morrison sofa, a Le\u00a0Corbusier chair, a Marcel Breuer coffee table and Dieter Rams\u2019s unavoidable and possibly unimprovable shelves for Vitsoe, neatly stuffed with books.\u00a0It\u2019s a relief almost to find\u00a0a lovely-looking old wooden sunbed and a pair of\u00a0dining chairs that came from the home of\u00a0Sudjic\u2019s father-in-law, the\u00a0architect John\u00a0Miller. Sudjic\u2019s wife, Sarah Miller, the\u00a0founding editor of the UK\u2019s\u00a0Cond\u00e9 Nast\u00a0Traveller magazine who now runs a\u00a0brand consultancy (she\u00a0is\u00a0away on an exotic photoshoot when I visit), is\u00a0from an\u00a0architectural dynasty: her stepmother was Su Rogers, one-time wife of\u00a0Richard Rogers who once had a practice with him. \u201cSarah is trying to implement a policy of one book in, one book out,\u201d Sudjic says. \u201cIt\u2019s not working that well.\u201d\u00a0I\u2019m always a\u00a0little wary of the\u00a0word \u2018design\u2019 as if it\u2019s a thingSudjic himself (his parents emigrated to\u00a0the UK from the former Yugoslavia) began by training as an architect, though quickly gravitated towards media. He was\u00a0a\u00a0co-founder of Blueprint magazine in\u00a01983,\u00a0a\u00a0big-format, lush and self-consciously cool\u00a0mag that brought the\u00a0disparate tentacles of London\u2019s then-buzzing design scene together to\u00a0suggest more coherence than there probably ever was. When I ask him where he now thinks design is going, four decades after he founded Blueprint, he says, not necessarily helpfully, \u201cI\u2019m always a little wary of the word \u2018design\u2019, as if it were a thing. It isn\u2019t, it\u2019s a method.\u201dMaybe. But the home of the co-founder of the UK\u2019s former leading design magazine and former director of the Design Museum certainly does seem to have a lot of design in it. I ask whether he thinks there might be\u00a0too many chairs in the world? He adopts a slightly pained expression. \u201cAs Jasper Morrison said, we don\u2019t need to design a\u00a0new chair just to refine an\u00a0existing one.\u201d\u00a0Sudjic is finishing a\u00a0book on the furniture manufacturer Vitra. The company has the licences to\u00a0make some of the best-known and best-loved modernist designs, from Charles and Ray Eames to Jean Prouv\u00e9 and Hella Jongerius, and an impressive museum in Germany. Now, under the leadership of CEO Nora Fehlbaum, it is making a radical shift towards sustainability. \u201cIts former CEO, [Nora\u2019s uncle] Rolf Fehlbaum, is a very unusual businessman. He has a PhD in\u00a0utopian industrial settlements and what he\u2019s built in Weil am Rhein, with buildings by Zaha Hadid, Frank Gehry, \u00c1lvaro Siza and others is like a contemporary version of something by Tom\u00e1\u0161 Ba\u0165a or Robert Owen. He made a kind of architectural collage that\u00a0maybe no one else could have done.\u201dVitra is a remarkable company. But it\u00a0is\u00a0joined in the design ecosystem by hundreds of other outfits churning out fast-fashion furniture, infinite chairs, sofas\u00a0and unpleasant coffee tables. Is\u00a0there\u00a0not too much production in design\u00a0now? Even Vitra itself admits its\u00a0Eames loungers are CO2 intensive. \u201cWhat makes [Vitra] different,\u201d Sudjic insists, \u201cis that it\u2019s\u00a0designed to last 50 years.\u00a0If you were to\u00a0have, today, a 1950s\u00a0fridge, or a car, they\u2019d both look quite\u00a0eccentric. By comparison with all\u00a0the\u00a0other objects designed in 1956, I\u00a0think this chair [he nods\u00a0towards the lounger] has lasted pretty\u00a0well. \u201dAs we look around, more and more chairs begin to trigger anecdotes, from a\u00a0fantastically lightweight Cassina Superleggera by Gio Ponti (which he was given as a former editor of the Italian Domus magazine) to a chunky Ron Arad design made from an old Rover car seat that looks rare. Is he a collector? \u201cOh no, I\u2019m far too disorganised to be a real collector,\u201d he says. \u201cPerhaps more of an accumulator.\u201d \u00a0All those chairs might have fitted more\u00a0easily into one of his former homes. \u201cWhen we started Blueprint, I\u00a0lived in a Wapping loft big enough to cycle around. It was a bit like living on the set of The Long Good Friday. The river had such a presence then but it was very quiet.\u201d He continues: \u201cIn those days I believed an architecture editor should put his money where his mouth is, so I commissioned John McAslan to design a living pod in the middle of the\u00a0loft.\u201d His first flat was designed by the\u00a0Czech \u00e9migr\u00e9 architect Jan Kaplick\u00fd. \u201cIt\u00a0was an indoor spaceship.\u201d Anyone who\u00a0has seen Kaplick\u00fd\u2019s media stand at\u00a0London\u2019s Lord\u2019s cricket ground will know exactly what he means. \u00a0Towards the top of the house, lurking in a hallway is yet another remarkable-looking chair, a bit of a miniature throne with its upholstery replaced by gleaming slats of brass. \u201cThat one was designed by Rei Kawakubo,\u201d he says. \u201cShe gave it to me when I wrote a\u00a0book about her.\u201d Paul Smith introduced him to the\u00a0Comme des Gar\u00e7ons designer on a trip to Japan. \u201cI went to visit textile mills with her, and went to the Paris\u00a0showing of her collections, where John Malkovich and Julian Sands were models. At the same time\u00a0I was looking at an Issey Miyake store\u00a0designed by Shiro Kuramata, and the\u00a0dividing line between design, fashion and architecture began to dissolve.\u201d He still\u00a0gets his suits from Paul Smith\u2019s bespoke operation (\u201cit\u2019s a very fine\u00a0thing, a\u00a0bespoke suit\u201d). \u00a0No longer leading the Design Museum, for which he commissioned John Pawson to reimagine the wonderful midcentury Commonwealth Institute as its new Kensington home, you might think Sudjic was slowing down. But he is writing books, has his Vitra volume coming soon, edits an annual design magazine, Anima, and is a professor of architecture and design at Lancaster University. And he regularly dips his toes into newspaper journalism, which he still clearly loves. \u201cReally, it\u2019s a licence for curiosity, isn\u2019t\u00a0it?\u201d\u00a0I\u00a0agree, as I nose around his bookshelves one last time.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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