Exterior Design of Twin Minimalist House Design
Extraordinary Home: Part 2
There is so much to share from this home and the gardens that I plan to do it in installments. I think of this house like a wonderful confection - to be savored a bit at a time. At this welcoming back entry you are greeted by a pink heart enscribed with the word Love. The door is wonderfully framed by the shutters and the arch.
Umbrellas and hats to your right...
and croquet mallets and jump ropes to your left!
A kitchen counterscape of lovely things.
The gorgeous porcelain box holds tea.
A microwave and wall oven marries with the art on this wall.
I really fell for these beautiful seascapes by artist Radford Wine.
Collected treasures on a gorgeous wood desk.
The faux bois piece was the owned by the late Bill Blass.
More whimsy; a little modern blue chair sized just right for a grandchild.
The view from the upstairs to the main entry. Light and fresh even on what was a very overcast day. Notice the two croquet mallets here too.
A bookscape of pink and orange, arranged almost as a present. More to follow in the coming weeks from this original home. Extraordinary Home: Part 2
There is so much to share from this home and the gardens that I plan to do it in installments. I think of this house like a wonderful confection - to be savored a bit at a time. At this welcoming back entry you are greeted by a pink heart enscribed with the word Love. The door is wonderfully framed by the shutters and the arch. Umbrellas and hats to your right... and croquet mallets and jump ropes to your left! A kitchen counterscape of lovely things. The gorgeous porcelain box holds tea. A microwave and wall oven marries with the art on this wall. I really fell for these beautiful seascapes by artist Radford Wine. Collected treasures on a gorgeous wood desk. The faux bois piece was the owned by the late Bill Blass. More whimsy; a little modern blue chair sized just right for a grandchild. The view from the upstairs to the main entry. Light and fresh even on what was a very overcast day. Notice the two croquet mallets here too. A bookscape of pink and orange, arranged almost as a present. More to follow in the coming weeks from this original home. Book Review: Storefront Newsprints
Storefront Newsprints: 1982-2009 by Storefront for Art and Architecture
Storefront Books, 2009
2-volume paperback with slip case, 1,000 pages
Anybody who has visited the Storefront for Art and Architecture has probably walked away with a folded piece of newsprint with details on the exhibition on display. Since my first visit in 1997 I've amassed quite a few, storing them in a shoebox with pamphlets from other museums and venues I've visited in New York City and beyond. The Storefront newsprints have a way of standing out from the rest, in large part from the material they are printed on as well as the monochrome graphics employed. They are anachronistic without being reactionary. They recall a time before ink-jet printers and digital publishing, a time of literal cut-and-paste graphic design and printing in local copy shops. Yet the newsprint is a consistent medium in the nearly 30-year Storefront history, spanning a time of great changes arising from digital technologies, be it graphic design, publishing, or architecture. That Storefront continues to use the format points to a desire to keep in mind the organization's origins, even as it grows in scope and influence beyond the confines of 97 Kenmare Street.
Storefront Newsprints collects over 150 of the newsletters from its early days on Prince Street to last year, reprinted in two volumes nicely packaged in a black slip case. This is book as historical artifact, focused on what could be considered Storefront's unintentional archive. Not all of the text in the reprints is legible (essays by Lebbeus Woods, Michael Webb, and Vito Acconci are reprinted in easy-to-read format), but it is the images, layouts, and most of all the subject matter that rises to the fore while perusing the collection.
Storefront Newsprints comes at the end of Joseph Grima's three-year directorship. Heading for Italy and Domus, he followed Sarah Herda, who is now at the helm of the Graham Foundation in Chicago after her eight-years at Storefront. Before them founder Kyong Park directed the space's exhibitions, and Grima's interview with him is particularly revealing about the organization and its newsprints. As the Storefront searches for Grima's replacement, the past tenuousness of its existence seems to have given way to a widespread appreciation of the organizations, its space (restored in 2008), and its place within the broader architectural community. The influence of its programs reaches beyond its 868sf home (PDF link), but the newsprints are unique artifacts for those able to visit the gallery in person...and now for those willing to spend $49.
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or at Storefront Bookstore
Interior Design Trends - Easy to Follow Guide For Redesigning Your Home
Are you in the action of redesigning your home? Do you appetite to acquisition altered pieces to accomplish your allowance decorating complete? If so, you'll appetite to apperceive added about autogenous architectonics trends for anniversary allowance of your home. If you're not abiding area to look, actuality are a few assets that will help.
Everyone has their own altered appearance back it comes to accouterment or jewelry, and homes are no different. In best cases, the way that you dress will accept a lot to do with how you appetite your home to be decorated. Current autogenous architectonics trends are glassy and modern, and abounding of the pieces that you may acquisition in abreast appliance galleries accommodate stainless animate and chrome. The curve on the appliance are aciculate and simple, and you may additionally appetite to accommodate one adventurous allotment in your allowance decoration, accompanied by abate accessories.
When you appointment your bounded appliance gallery, you may be able to booty advantage of a trend agenda that will let you apperceive which pieces are best for your style. If you adore archetypal pieces, tables and shelves with aphotic copse finishes are best, back they will bout appliance of any color. If you adore added avant-garde furniture, bottle tables and ablaze accessories with chrome accents are ideal for your space.
If you appetite to get applied advice on the appliance and accent pieces that you can accommodate in your new architectonics amplitude from homeowners aloof like you, you can additionally analysis out autogenous architectonics blogs created by homeowners. These blogs will action you recommendations for affordable kitchen cabinets, artist beds, and altered faucets that you'll absolutely appetite to booty a attending at. Besides, you would additionally acquisition links to sites that action you abatement prices on the appliance that you need. Best importantly, you would get absolute opinions from bodies who accept approved the architectonics trends.
Sources like Cosmo Worlds will additionally accord you some abundant account back it comes to autogenous architectonics trends. The aggregation will let you apperceive area you can aces up your admired appliance pieces in your burghal or state, and there are lots of suggestions for you to booty advantage of as well. If you adore archetypal designs with a avant-garde twist, or appetite to absorb some aged pieces into a added abreast architectonics scheme, this is absolutely the armpit to appointment to get some afflatus afore you go appliance shopping.
Unique alone accessories like tabletop fountains and bank fountains serve as beautiful, artistic, and adequate elements. Adding baptize fountains to your autogenous architectonics creates a able appulse of simplicity, elegance, and art.
Stores like IKEA will additionally action you some abundant account for autogenous architectonics trends. The pieces are created in the European appearance of architecture, and the prices are affordable, so you can adorn your absolute home for a atom of what you would absorb in added stores. Happy shopping!
New Kitchens - Kitchen Designs
New kitchens can be a abundant accession to any home or accommodation and if advised appropriate should accomplish alive in the kitchen a joy. There are a few designs which are actual accepted and about all kitchens are based on these basal designs admitting how anyone wants to busy architecture astute or in added areas.
The Galley New Kitchens
This is breadth the kitchens is advised to run forth one bank of your kitchen breadth and is best acceptable for continued kitchens or apartments. They charge not be arid as the accepted band of the kitchen can accept slight bulging areas tat can be added by aboveboard brace which can be accomplish or corrective to adverse with the all-embracing colour of the capital kitchen. Add lights in the aerial units or the plinths and you can actualize a masterpiece with a blow of elegance, and the acceptable account it does not accept to amount a fortune.
New Kitchens advised in a U-Shape.
Kitchen designs apperceive no bounds, as all it takes is addition with a acceptable acuteness and a ability of the industry. The aboriginal affair to do as a homeowner is to accept some abstraction of what you appetite yourself, again draw a asperous account of the design, get the ancestors involved, because its hasty what little Johnny has abstruse in academy and what he can appear up with on the computer in no time at all. Every abettor in the country will acknowledge this, as its a daydream to alarm to a home and the owners accept no abstraction what they want, but every abstraction that the abettor comes up with is attempt bottomward in seconds. The u-shaped kitchen is one of the best accepted kitchens in avant-garde homes in Ireland and the Uk, its simple a kitchens that runs forth three walls and in some cases will accept an island in the average which can be acclimated for accidental dining. This blazon of kitchen affords one the ideal assignment triangle accouterment its not to ample of an area. The ideal admeasurement in amplitude is twelve anxiety and over as this will acquiesce you abode an island in the centermost amid both alien walls.
New Kitchens advised in an L-Shape.
As the name advance these kitchens are advised to run forth two walls affair at appropriate angles actual accepted in restaurants and avant-garde homes. The hob can be placed breadth the two walls accommodated authoritative this the centermost allotment of you new kitchen, its the ideal abode to accept your adorned custom fabricated crimson and accept the aerial units on either ancillary disconnected with some anesthetized doors and low voltage lighting. Any of the aloft mentioned designs are ideal for accomplish in any copse but admirable back complete in oak kitchens.
Kitchen Designs
What anytime architecture you accept for your new kitchen, try and get yourself an in-frame kitchen as they are glassy and will be admired by all your ancestors and guests alike. This blazon of kitchen is bogus so that the doors and drawers alcove into the anatomy of the kitchen body and looks added affected than accepting the doors afraid alfresco the body which is additionally actual nice depending on the application. Older kitchens tended to be bogus in this way. Finally get acceptable admonition from bodies and companies that accept been in business for a ample period.
New Kitchens - Kitchen Designs
New kitchens can be a abundant accession to any home or accommodation and if advised appropriate should accomplish alive in the kitchen a joy. There are a few designs which are actual accepted and about all kitchens are based on these basal designs admitting how anyone wants to busy architecture astute or in added areas.
The Galley New Kitchens
This is breadth the kitchens is advised to run forth one bank of your kitchen breadth and is best acceptable for continued kitchens or apartments. They charge not be arid as the accepted band of the kitchen can accept slight bulging areas tat can be added by aboveboard brace which can be accomplish or corrective to adverse with the all-embracing colour of the capital kitchen. Add lights in the aerial units or the plinths and you can actualize a masterpiece with a blow of elegance, and the acceptable account it does not accept to amount a fortune.
New Kitchens advised in a U-Shape.
Kitchen designs apperceive no bounds, as all it takes is addition with a acceptable acuteness and a ability of the industry. The aboriginal affair to do as a homeowner is to accept some abstraction of what you appetite yourself, again draw a asperous account of the design, get the ancestors involved, because its hasty what little Johnny has abstruse in academy and what he can appear up with on the computer in no time at all. Every abettor in the country will acknowledge this, as its a daydream to alarm to a home and the owners accept no abstraction what they want, but every abstraction that the abettor comes up with is attempt bottomward in seconds. The u-shaped kitchen is one of the best accepted kitchens in avant-garde homes in Ireland and the Uk, its simple a kitchens that runs forth three walls and in some cases will accept an island in the average which can be acclimated for accidental dining. This blazon of kitchen affords one the ideal assignment triangle accouterment its not to ample of an area. The ideal admeasurement in amplitude is twelve anxiety and over as this will acquiesce you abode an island in the centermost amid both alien walls.
New Kitchens advised in an L-Shape.
As the name advance these kitchens are advised to run forth two walls affair at appropriate angles actual accepted in restaurants and avant-garde homes. The hob can be placed breadth the two walls accommodated authoritative this the centermost allotment of you new kitchen, its the ideal abode to accept your adorned custom fabricated crimson and accept the aerial units on either ancillary disconnected with some anesthetized doors and low voltage lighting. Any of the aloft mentioned designs are ideal for accomplish in any copse but admirable back complete in oak kitchens.
Kitchen Designs
What anytime architecture you accept for your new kitchen, try and get yourself an in-frame kitchen as they are glassy and will be admired by all your ancestors and guests alike. This blazon of kitchen is bogus so that the doors and drawers alcove into the anatomy of the kitchen body and looks added affected than accepting the doors afraid alfresco the body which is additionally actual nice depending on the application. Older kitchens tended to be bogus in this way. Finally get acceptable admonition from bodies and companies that accept been in business for a ample period.
film director & vanity fair contributor matt tyrnauer
Politics and fashion seem a funny mix. But not really when you think about it. They're both about egos and image, and often great stories are embedded within the drama. Matt Tyrnauer spent much of the early years of his career writing about politics - in 1992 he edited a special edition of the New York Observer on the Democratic Convention in NYC - and went on to write regularly for Vanity Fair magazine, where he is currently a special correspondent. His features for the magazine include the post prison cover story on Martha Stewart and features on Valentino Garavani and Bret Easton Ellis.
Most recently he made the film Valentino: The Last Emperor - one of last year's highest grossing documentaries, which was also shortlisted for an Oscar. I wrote about the brilliance of it here.
Matt was also the author behind the breathtaking book: Una Grande Storia Italiana: Valentino Garavani (Taschen, 2007). And, interestingly, his dad was one of the scriptwriters behind my favourite childhood TV show Colombo, as well as Murder She Wrote.
What was your first career job and what path have you taken since? I worked in politics as a kid, then journalism, which has led to this stage, making movies. I studied film in college.
What's the best lesson you've learnt along the way? A wise political hack once told me "Stay away from the hysteria." He meant in political campaigns, but I think it applies to every field in which I have worked.
What's your proudest career achievement? This is where you say, "my children, Zoe and Sam," but, as I don't have any, I will say getting getting a movie made.
What's been your best decision? To attend Crossroads School - a high school in Santa Monica, California.
Who inspires you? Gore Vidal, Graydon Carter, Wayne Lawson, Rachel Maddow. Also: anyone who approaches a heavy challenge like an illness or a big set back and keeps going. Best of all: Barack Obama. I still can't believe he's president. It's too good to be true.
What are you passionate about? Progressive politics and the liberal agenda, which, in a nation less dysfunctional than the U.S. should lead to a greater level of social justice. In the material category, I am obsessed with Modern furniture; and design, all aspects from architecture, to furniture to graphics. Also: Italy, particularly Rome and Naples.
Which person, living or dead, would you most like to meet? Quite a few: John Ford, Robert Aldrich, Caravaggio, Bernini, Borromini, Lincoln, Jefferson, Samuel Hahnemann, the inventor of homeopathy.
What dream do you still want to fulfil? More of the same dreams. I am a big fan of repetition.
What are you reading? "The Secret Diaries of Sir. William Hamilton." I am reading them in Italian, and it's taking me a very long time.
images courtesy of matt trynauer
Loft Room Divider
We're in the process of downsizing from a 4000 sq ft home to a 1200-sq ft loft. Do you know, loft living sounds more romantic than it actually is? We find that we really miss the traditional division of space. We miss having rooms. We miss the privacy!
We've been looking into options of dividing the space. Drapery is one, but do you have any idea how expensive a piece of fabric with four stitching is? It's quite a mystery actually, how much drapery can cost. The other option is to go with a company like the Sliding Door, but they are really pricey too.
We found this company, Loft Wall, today and we thought it might be a good option. They make portable dividers that you can customize the sizing and the panels. They are not cheap but they are not too expensive either. You can visit the web site to download the price list. Keep in mind that the published prices are retail, and no one pays retail!
Here are some samples:
Modern Planters
When we go to a really cool restaurant in Miami or Los Angeles we are always envious of the huge, modern planters that they have. It's really hard to find them. Most of the pottery places that we have in our local area sell the traditional planters. If you have a modern home you are kinda out luck.
Anyway, we just found a great source today for huge, commercial modern planters that we thought we'd share with you. They are so cool! We have no idea how much they cost, sorry. But if you are interested drop us a line and we'll get pricing info for you.
Here are some samples:
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