Babel
Booktower
Crina Arghirescu x Hartis
The Babel Book Tower draws its inspiration from the myth of the same name, a story of collective effort, language and human hubris. In the story, humans speaking a single language endeavor to build a city with a tower “with its top in heaven”.
To prevent them from succeeding, God confuses their speech so that they can no longer understand each other, and scatters them around the world.
The towers, a collaboration between Hartis and Crina Arghirescu, have been
created by the New York-based artist Liz Hopkins and are a dreamy interpretation of the Tower of Babel’s architecture, a ruin of sorts, with openings calling for the quintessential pieces of a collector’s book selection.
A totem, the towers and books come together as a symbol of the
eternal power of knowledge and language.
Materials:
Mix of Plaster, Pigment Techniques
Dimensions:
Tall
W 46 x H 193 cm
W 18” x H 76” in
Short
W 46 x H 170 cm
W 18” x H 67” in
Meet the artist
Crina Arghirescu
From her youth spent between Bucharest and Milan, international architect and interior designer Crina Arghirescu Rogard held an intuitive aspiration for artistic diversity as well as an acute appreciation for refinement, combining European timeless aesthetics with a sense of luxurious modernity.
Trained in the prestigious Architecture Faculty of the Politecnico di Milano, Arghirescu Rogard then moved to Paris where she spent a few years working with one of the most renowned French interior design firms, Charles Zana - before establishing herself in New York where she joined Adam Tihany and his top rated interior design firm.
In 2013, Crina Arghirescu Rogard launched her own Architecture & Design Studio and has been working on a wide range of residential and commercial projects ever since. Her work has been featured in distinguished publications such as The New York Times, Architectural Digest, Wallpaper Magazine, New York Magazine, and Elle Decor.
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