9/29/11
9/28/11
OMA Progress
Co-founded in 1975 by Rem Koolhaas as the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, OMA, one of the most influential architecture practices working today is on show, 6 October 2011 - 19 February 2012 at Barbican Art Gallery.
via Abitare
9/27/11
Usine Claude et Duval
For his only factory build, we can discover Le Corbusier's concept of "green factory" (the natural conditions: sun, space and green) that applied to his ideas of industrial linear city. 1, avenue de Robach, 88100 Saint-Die. In 1988 it was proposed as a historic building by UNESCO, is currently in use as a textile factory. Read more at wikiartchitectura.
Photos from Casa Da Abitare august 2011.
9/26/11
Ave Maria river barge
A sustainably renovated boat project by traverso-vighy architects, that carries tourists through the waters of the Pianura Padana. It launches from the mouth of the Po River, along the South Veneto waterway region along the Adriatic Sea. Connecting Mantua with Venice... Read more at Domus.
ACE
ACE, trio au look alternatif opérant en petit comité à Lausanne. Tirant parti des ateliers de menuiseries suisses, ils ont auto édité une série de six meubles et objets essentiels en frêne.
via monsieur design
The banquinho
Intrigued by the delicate but rock solid construction of vintage folding stools,
ANVE from Lisbon, Portugal, refined them with hand-sewn vegetable tanned leather seats. Thanks Annett.
9/24/11
John Lautner's Silvertop house
Kenneth Reiner, the man who commissioned John Lautner's Silvertop house, died earlier this month at 95, the LA Times reports. Via curbed LA.
9/23/11
Permanent Light
LAMA & YHBHS partner to present a three-week interior showcase at the LAMA Showroom. Now open to the public, for 3 weeks, until the auction, Oct 9, 2011.
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9/22/11
The Libra architect by Dan Graham
Le Corbusier's fascination with the bull, which took form in the Chandigarh Secretariat Building represents an interest in the return to the matriarchal pre-Greek, Cretan and Minoan culture, where the bull was worshiped as a fertility symbol. Read more at Libra horoscope/Domus.
9/21/11
Rietveld, van Dantzig House
The van Dantzig house, initiated in 1960, is situated in Santpoort, near Haarlem, isolated on an undulating green terrain by a wooded area... Read more at Domus.
9/20/11
Preserving the American Folk Art
Please. Someone, everyone, do something to save the American Folk Art Museum from dissolution and dispersal. Read more at new york times.
9/19/11
Modernism in miniature
Theo van Doesburg working on a model of a residence, Paris, France, 1923
Detail of a paper exercise for Josef Albers's preliminary Course at the Bauhaus, Dessau, Germany, after 1928.
Condo in San Remo by Carlo Molino.
Canadian Center for Architecture 22 September 2011 to 8 January 2012.
via abitare
9/17/11
Casa Miller
An interior design by Carlo Mollino from 1938 was defined at the time as largely decorative and elegantly self-indulgent.
Read more at Domus.
9/16/11
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9/12/11
ATELIER sconce
NEW and available now, the 14" Atelier sconce lamp with black or brass socket. Two shades types available in 3 different colors. Visit the Atelier Shop.
9/11/11
9/10/11
Sgrafo vs. Fat Lava
A collection of German ceramics hovering between kitsch and bizarre on exhibition at the Galerie Kreo, Paris.
via domus
9/8/11
Casa Benthem
Lounge chair WINK and table 112 Kick, 1983 by Toshiyuki Kita, and
Chair P40 design Osvaldo Borsani, 1955 staged in the Almere House.
via at casa
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