The Abstraction A4 print is based on multiple hand drawings Dam created while studying architect and furniture maker Finn Juhl’s oeuvre. “Other Danish designers of his time were more geometric in the way they worked, but Juhl managed to create simple pieces with curved lines,” she says.

As a kind of comment on the unused theater, these neon abstractions of seats were at once inviting and flagrantly bright.

The geometric tiles play with abstraction and scale, riffing off a more literal interpretation of the client's butterfly collection.

Stainless-steel structures look austere in the face of minimalist, black-and-white abstractions. Photo by James Ewing.

This one is an abstraction of the Fort School by Chris Lee Architecture + Urbanism and Contemporary Urban India in Mumbai.

“Reinforcing the degree of abstraction of the project, the choice of the minimalist furniture and lamps echoes the palette of textures composed of concrete, wood, and steel,” add the architects.

David Hertz shows how he used a pre-fabricated panels typically used for walk-in refrigeration buildings for the Panel House (above) and a 747 wing to build the 747 Wing House in Malibu.

"Panel 1 - Social Abstraction" Elements of George Nelson's "Struc Tube" (1948), reconstructed by Beck in 2006.

A closer look at the glazed wall in the sleeping area. “Kynttilä creates a kind of mental portal to a higher dimension,” says the firm. “The framed nature image turns into an individual abstraction and projection of thoughts.”

A late-1960s spiral stair designed by an aeronautical engineer to lead passengers to the bar inside a 747. From Off the Wall Antiques.

Just off the entryway was this courtyard stacked with traditional Moroccan glasses. On the stunning tiles we get an abstraction of a tea service—the elevation of a common ritual.

The entrance foyer encapsulates the home’s themes of reuse—through the salvaged wood and metal gate—artisan furniture, and colourful abstraction. The Moroccan wall hanging is a vintage find, and the chairs and table are by local furniture designer Seth Keller. The industrial gate has been given a domestic twist with the addition of coat hooks for the client’s young child.

Tommy Newbury (pictured) designed the Réveille logo, an abstraction of a sunrise. He and his brother Christopher had their first day on the truck in early December.

A series of open white planes, the "house" is an abstraction of an abstraction, a contemporary take on mid-century desert modernism.

The sunken bathtub in George Nakashima’s Sanso Villa mimics the shape of a swimming pool on the grounds. His daughter, Mira Nakashima, took over the studio after his death and now lives and works on the property. “A Japanese garden often has a central pond derived from the character for ‘heart’ or ‘spirit,’ and this may be an abstraction of that character,” she says of the tub’s sculptural form.

You would be hard pressed to find an issue of Dwell without a Bertoia barstool or chair in it. Launched in 1952, the industrial-strength steel seat is a modern classic without drawing too much attention to itself. $747

Sunset Abstraction, beach love!

VERDICT: "I understand why logos go for lowercase appeal, but an organization like a post service adopting its official name in lowercase seems awfully useless and unprofessional, even something more trendy like bPost would help it stand out in written communications. The new logo is also rather odd, now an abstraction of the previous abstraction of a horn—an abstraction that is well known and often used."

Inventing Abstraction, 1910-1925; Published in 2012 through MOMA

The solid oak Legend Bookcase, created by agronomist-turned-designer Christophe Delcourt in 2006, is an abstraction of a tree, and reminiscent of the Carlton bookcase Ettore Sottsass designed for Memphis in the 1980s.

Alexander Calder's hanging artworks are timeless exercises of abstraction and color in motion.

Minimalistic abstraction from the “White on White” series by French artist Daniel Reimann

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Working from photographs, Waldman paints and eliminates information, creating architural abstractions.

This saxophone abstraction is for Illinois Jacquet's Illinois Jacquet Collates #2 from 1953 for Clef Records.

he new, much more open kitchen showcases Chromatic Abstraction, No. 5 by artist Danielle Dimston.

Qantas HQ in Sydney’s Mascot. Based around an abstraction of the idea of a ‘journey’, forms are soft, organic and contemporary, with curved edges.

Inspired by dance classes Asawa took with Merce Cunningham at Black Mountain College, the Dancers motif seen above (oil on paper, 1948-49) is one of several abstractions of dancing figures Asawa produced, highlighting her exploration of physical motion. The interlocking forms hint at her development of nesting and layering techniques in future sculptural work.

AIA architect David Hertz, known for 747 Wing House, looked to the structure of a butterfly wing when designing this Venice home. The inverted roof of Silver Triangle House (or Butterfly House) captures water that collects in a sump and is used for subsurface irrigation. The roof is just one of the home's sustainable features, which, Hertz says, "are not compromises to the design; they're part of the design." Photo by Laura Doss.

Kinetic Wire Sculpture by Alexander Calder The American artist’s hanging artworks—referred to as “mobiles” by contemporary Marcel Duchamp—are exercises of abstraction and color in motion.

Boob print by Wary Meyers, $45. The print skirts the line between abstraction and realism. It will undoubtedly stir conversation, leaving viewers to wonder what it reminds them of.

The glass panels are meant to be seen by moving clockwise along the curve. When you turn around and move counterclockwise, the images become pure abstraction. Photo by Paul Clemence.

Another rug by All the Way to Paris for &tradition, from $289. An abstraction of staircases adorns the kilim rug, which is made from a wool-cotton blend and comes in three sizes and four colorways.

The interior design is laced with Mexican design elements, like wood panels, basket weavery, and wooden chairs (an abstraction of a traditional handmade chair called an “equipal”). The Hotel Presidente Intercontinental Cozumel #designmilk

Exploring boundary between representation, and abstraction, Libeskind’s 100 drawings have been printed on glass and hung, scale-like, on a complex mounting that follows the challenging curve of Venice Pavilion. Photo by Massimo Listri.

Corinne Wasmuht, Here Today, Gone Tomorrow, oil on wood, 2007. In her large-scale oil paintings, artist Corinne Wasmuht layers found images of urban landscapes until they break apart into pixelated abstraction.