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Peruvian architect Diego Delgado Elias explores memory at a restored 17th century house in Provence

Drawn to historic buildings and the traces they carry, Peruvian designer and architect Diego Delgado-Elias has spent his 20-year career reinforcing the elements that develop a space’s warmth and character. Based in Paris, his architecture and interior design studio expands this affinity for creating lived-in spaces that seem to have accumulated naturally over time, observing the lives that occupied a house before him – left as marks on walls, layers of paint, or objects that appear frozen and unmoved. For a new short documentary, director Daniel Guix studies Delgado-Elias’ world through the house, exploring how our earliest encounters with spaces can mold our sensibility. Shooting on 16mm, to capture the grain, movement and texture of memory, Guix brings Delgado-Elias’ reflections into conversation with the house, as a rhythm that connects one room to the next, and a reminder of the formative impressions that unconsciously shape creative vision... read more at nowness.com _______________________________________ Subscribe to NOWNESS here: http://bit.ly/youtube-nowness Like NOWNESS on Facebook: http://bit.ly/facebook-nowness Follow NOWNESS on Twitter: http://bit.ly/twitter-nowness Daily exclusives for the culturally curious: http://bit.ly/nowness-com Behind the scenes on Instagram: http://bit.ly/instagram-nowness Staff Picks on Vimeo: http://bit.ly/vimeo-nowness