LAMA & YHBHS

<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">“Well, I’ll confess something.</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> I like happy art.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">And you’ll notice most of the art is happy.</span></span>” -<span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"> Richard Dorso </span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6196/6091442441_52ae8a1d62_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6196/6091442441_52ae8a1d62_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 700px; height: 467px;" /></a> <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><br /><br />image: Richard Dorso's Los Angeles home.<br /><br />Photography © Grant Mudford.</span></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;"> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >YHBHS & LAMA!</span> </span></span>For the next month, I'll be sharing lots of images, related interviews, & events regarding an interior space I have created for LAMA's next auction. The <span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;">YHBHS exhibition space will be open to the public</span> </span>beginning September 19, until the day of the auction, October 9, 2011. The space is getting close to being installed, painted, wallpapered with <a href="http://kremelife.com/">KREME papers</a>, furniture selected, & all soon to be photographed! Please check it out in person if you are in Los Angeles.<br /><br /><br /><br />When Peter Loughrey, Director of LAMA, first showed me the photographs of Richard Dorso's L.A. home, I was immediately transported by his collection & the story his residence told about the forms and colors of<span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"> 60s California art</span></span>. I'm creating a temporary open space inspired by the geometrical, hard-edged works from Dorso's collection by Baldessari, McCracken, Ruscha, Arnoldi, and many other early California artists. <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 102, 102);">Lots more to share in the next weeks</span>. - <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">David John</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-style: italic;"></span><br /><br /><br /><br />"<span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://lamodern.com/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Los Angeles Modern Auctions</span></a></span> (LAMA) and <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 102);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">You Have Been Here Sometime</span></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 102);"> </span>(YHBHS) will partner together to produce a special interior showcase for LAMA’s Pacific Standard Time exhibit Collecting in Los Angeles 1945 – 1980. This 3 week exhibit explores the collecting practices of Richard Dorso, a native Californian, who at age 101 left behind a unique art collection spanning much of the 20th century. The exhibit will conclude with an auction of the entire collection on October 9, 2011."<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">Auction: </span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">October 9, 2011; 12pm</span> Noon (PST) Pacific Standard Time Exhibition<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Preview:</span></span> September 19 – October 8, 2011. Open daily 10am – 6pm Auction, Exhibit.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Preview Location: </span></span>16145 Hart St. Van Nuys, CA 91406<br /><br /><br /><br /><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://lamodern.com/">Visit </a><a href="http://lamodern.com/"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">LAMA</span></span> </a><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://lamodern.com/">here.</a><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-style: italic;">Keep informed on events on the</span> <a href="http://lamodern.wordpress.com/"><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">LAMA Blog</span></span></a>!<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">-------------------</span><br /><br />

LAMA & YHBHS

“Well, I’ll confess something. I like happy art. And you’ll notice most of the art is happy. ” - Richard Dorso image: Richard Dorso...

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<span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></span>"<span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 51); font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >RISK</span> lies at the core of crafts,<br /><br />risk of failure always accompanies <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">new discovery, new beauty.</span></span>"<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">new works by </span><span class="yiv10362295Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:14px;"> </span><a href="http://www.superdave.se/">David Taylor</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6088/6089872467_d2e54c339f_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6088/6089872467_d2e54c339f_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 701px; height: 525px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Last year, </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><a href="http://youhavebeenheresometime.blogspot.com/search/label/david%20taylor">YHBHS had the pleasure of interviewing David Taylor</a> </span><span style="font-style: italic;">about his work & his design philosophy. He t</span><span style="font-style: italic;">alked about his philosophy as a simple connection to a larger feeling of </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 0, 0);">"if it feels good do it."</span><span style="font-style: italic;"> Something about his words resonated on a deep level, echoing and finding meaning in my own work. It points to a moment when <span style="font-weight: bold;">there is clarity in our thoughts</span>, and the decision to move ahead with instinct, as opposed to doubt.<br /><br /><br /><br />David Taylor's new work will be up in Stockholm this September, and his latest works are a continuation of his personal explorations into form + materials + humor. <span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"> </span></span><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">- David John<br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br />"In his forthcoming exhibition <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 102);font-size:180%;" >“</span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 102, 102);font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Walk the Walk</span></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 102);font-size:180%;" >”</span> at<a href="http://konsthantverkarna.se/"> Konsthantverkarna in Stockholm</a>, David Taylor presents a cohesive body of work developed by whim and impulse at the workbench. By following a notion, working by ear and improvising with unexpected materials without fuss and undue analysis Taylor gives us an insight into <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">the importance of intuitive knowledge</span></span>, that “gut feeling” which is often more relevant than we can appreciate.<br /><br /><br /><br />Walk the Walk is a tightly knit family of objects where Taylor’s signature style has been broadened with materials and techniques rarely seen in his work. <span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Concrete meets silver</span></span> the precise and timeless encounter the modern and impermanent. This latest edition from Taylor’s workshop is made with a clarity of intention and a conviction in execution, that leaves not doubt the author can not only talk the talk, but knows a thing or two about walking the walk."<br /><br /><br /><br />- <span style="font-style: italic;"> Petter Eklund</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.superdave.se/">Go to David Taylor's site</a><br /><br /><a style="color: rgb(0, 51, 51); font-weight: bold;" href="http://youhavebeenheresometime.blogspot.com/search/label/david%20taylor">Read the YHBHS interview with David Taylor</a><br /><br /><a href="http://konsthantverkarna.se/in-english"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">Visit Konsthantverkarna</span></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">----------------------</span><br /><br /><br /><br />

" RISK lies at the core of crafts, risk of failure always accompanies new discovery, new beauty. " new works by David Taylor Las...

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<span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.pomona.edu/museum/exhibitions/future/">It Happened at Pomona: </a>Art at the Edge of Los Angeles </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">1969–1973</span></span> <span style="font-style: italic;">"demonstrates the ways in which several groups of artists who were associated with Pomona College between 1969 and 1973 engaged with the art of their time in Southern California and contributed to a transformative moment for art history both in Los Angeles and internationally."</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6188/6087832099_b7b11ca767_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6188/6087832099_b7b11ca767_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 762px; height: 599px;" /></a><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;">YHBHS</span> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" >is gearing up for</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-style: italic;"> <a href="http://pacificstandardtime.org/"><span style="font-size:130%;">Pacific Standard Time</span></a></span><span style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://pacificstandardtime.org/"><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span></a>exhibitions, that are about to explode in about 60 different venues all over Los Angeles. Anyone excited about California design, Post War Art + Sculpture + Design should have plenty to keep their minds & eyes occupied in the upcoming months. First stop, will be Pomona to check out the latest exhibition, It Happened at Pomona, Part 1: Hal Glicksman at Pomona August 30–November 6, 2011....</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://pacificstandardtime.org/"><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span></a>"The highlight of this exhibition will be the creation of a new work by <span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Michael Asher</span></span> in response to his landmark 1970 installation at Pomona College, and the re-creations of seminal installations by Lloyd Hamrol and Tom Eatheron. Asher’s 1970 architectural intervention dramatically altered two of the museum’s adjacent galleries (the South and West Galleries), <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 102, 102);">transforming them into two triangular spaces joined by a narrow opening that severely restricted the flow of light into one space while keeping the other space permanently open to the street outside</span>.<br /><br /><br /><br />"Like many artists of his generation, Michael Asher took his lead from Minimalism’s theatricality, which was <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 51, 51);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">designed to enhance viewers’ perceptual awareness</span></span> of their role within the exhibition space. Yet where many of Asher’s peers responded by expanding their practice into the more temporal realms of film and performance, Asher focused on the temporal as a condition of the spatial, which aligned his work more specifically with architecture. Overall, Asher’s entire oeuvre has investigated how viewers encounter specific sites, primarily spaces dedicated to the presentation of visual art. As a result, Asher’s work is typically associated with the Conceptual art practice of Institutional Critique".<a href="http://www.pomona.edu/museum/exhibitions/future/"> (text taken from here)</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.pomona.edu/museum/press/2011/walkthrough.pdf"><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 0, 0);">read more here...</span></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">image above, Michael Asher</span>,<span style="font-weight: bold;"> installation, 1970</span>. <span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">Viewing out of gallery toward street from small triangular area, Pomona College Museum of Art. Photograph courtesy of the Frank J. Thomas Archives.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">-----------------</span><br /><br /><br /><br />

It Happened at Pomona: Art at the Edge of Los Angeles 1969–1973 "demonstrates the ways in which several groups of artists who were ass...

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"I started <a href="http://www.matthewhilton.com/"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Matthew Hilton</span></span></a>, the company,<br /><br />because I wanted somewhere I would have complete creative control.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6191/6082209478_50a69681fb_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6191/6082209478_50a69681fb_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 702px; height: 468px;" /></a><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6186/6081675943_a243dee323_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6186/6081675943_a243dee323_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 701px; height: 467px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br />"The company was launched in September 2007 and very soon after, made it's first Licence agreement for manufacturing and distribution of the products with <a href="http://www.delaespada.com/">De La Espada</a>. The pieces shown here are the first of a growing number of high-quality products which will be made in relatively small quantities, using hand-skills based manufacturing. I will be regularly adding new products using different techniques and materials. <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /><br /><br />Matthew Hilton</span></span> was born in Hastings in 1957. He graduated with a degree in Furniture Design from Kingston Polytechnic in 1979 when he started to design and manufacture a range of objects using low-tech casting techniques. These were picked up by Paul Smith and Joseph Pour La Maison and sold in their London showrooms. From 1980 to '84 Matthew worked as an industrial designer for the product design company Capa, London. During this time he also designed sets for the renowned fashion designer Koji Tatsuno's company Cultureshock.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.matthewhilton.com/">more here...</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">--------------------------</span><br /><br />

"I started Matthew Hilton , the company, because I wanted somewhere I would have complete creative control. "The company was laun...

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<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">portrait of the quiet sitting room.</span> <span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">pt 57</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">...</span><br /><br />two circles, nine circles, & one circle.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(192, 192, 192);">aka</span><br /><br />a painting, a cabinet, and a sconce.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6089/6080484134_109d7b37f6_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6089/6080484134_109d7b37f6_b.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 700px; height: 838px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6205/6079947183_2f7f2f4826_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6205/6079947183_2f7f2f4826_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 700px; height: 426px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6088/6079947407_41635c3545_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6088/6079947407_41635c3545_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 699px; height: 799px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />"<span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 102, 102);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Luminous circles</span></span> <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">evoke eyes, as they are transformed into gray and brown scale color wheels, oceanic whirls, pentagons, and stars." </span> <a href="http://www.caseykaplangallery.com/press_release/2009/garth_weiser_2009.pdf">via here<br /><br /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Portrait of the quiet sitting room.</span> <span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">pt 57</span><br /><br /> <span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">...</span><br /><br />two circles, nine circles, & one circle.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(192, 192, 192);">aka</span><br /><br />a painting, a cabinet, and a sconce.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(192, 192, 192);">images:</span><br /><br />1. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Garth Weiser</span>, c/o Casey Kaplan Gallery<br /><br />2. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Carlo Colombo</span>, 2004, Zanotta Italia<br /><br />3. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Rewire </span>Custom Sconce, Los Angeles.<span style="font-style: italic;"> a lunar perfection.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">----------------------------</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />

portrait of the quiet sitting room. pt 57 ... two circles, nine circles, & one circle. aka a painting, a cabinet, and a sconce. " ...

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P O S T M O D E R N I S M

<span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">"Postmodernism was more like</span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">a broken mirror,</span> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">a reflecting surface made of many fragments</span><span style="font-size:100%;">. "</span></span><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >vs</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">"Excuse me child, I am trying<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 102); font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" > </span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-style: italic;">to see all the colors and wonder your brightness can be.</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span></span>Return to nothingness and joy just might be right</span>. "</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6069/6070248399_edd6401c44_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6069/6070248399_edd6401c44_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 701px; height: 787px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p><a href="http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/exhibitions/postmodernism/"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970-1990 </span></span></a><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">London: V&A from 24 September 2011-8 January 2012.</span></p><p><span style="font-style: italic;">I was born in 1974, which means in 1984, I was 10 years old.</span><br /><br /></p><p><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 0);font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">1984...</span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> New Order</span></span> has just released <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">Power Lies and Corruption</span>,<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Ronald Reagan</span></span> is President,<span style="font-weight: bold;"> <span style="font-size:130%;">Derek Jarman</span></span> releases <a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/lightboxderekjarman/default.shtm">Imagining October</a>, The Apple <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Macintosh</span></span> is introduced,<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Molly Ringwald</span></span> in Sixteen Candles premieres, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41CrrUcDANs"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Madonna</span></span></a> releases <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">"Borderline</span>, <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ettore Sottsass</span></span> designs <a href="http://catalogue.gazette-drouot.com/images/perso/full/LOT/32/1314/43.jpg">the Mimosa Table, </a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Andy Warhol</span> paints a portrait of Michael Jackson, <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Keith Haring</span></span> gains more and more fame, and by the end of 1984, there had been <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">7,699 AIDS cases</span></span> and 3,665 <span style="font-weight: bold;">AIDS deaths </span>in the USA.<br /><br /></p><p><span style="font-style: italic;">A time of extreme movement and rebellion, this was my </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Y O U T H. Let's Dance!</span><span style="font-style: italic;"> <span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">- David John</span></span></p><p><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"></span><br /><br /></span></p><p><br /><br /></p><p><br /><br /></p><p><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6188/6076472791_152b5e30e5_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6188/6076472791_152b5e30e5_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 700px; height: 700px;" /></a></p><p><br /><br /></p><p><br /><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">i-D, no 28. The Art Issue, August 1985. Styled by William Faulkner, design by Terry Jones, photograph by Nick Knight, featuring Lizzy Tear. </span></p><p><br /><br /></p><p style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /></p><p style="font-weight: bold;">London: V&A from 24 September 2011-8 January 2012.</p><p><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">"Of all movements in art and design history, postmodernism is perhaps the most controversial. This era defies definition...</span> <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">P</span>ostmodernism was an unstable mix of the theatrical and theoretical.<span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"> </span></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">It was visually thrilling, a multifaceted style that ranged from the colorful to</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> the ruinous, the ludicrous to the luxurious.</span></span>"</p> <p>What they all had in common was a drastic departure from modernism’s utopian visions, which had been based on clarity and simplicity. The modernists wanted to open a window onto a new world. Postmodernism, by contrast, was more like a broken mirror, a reflecting surface made of many fragments. Its key principles were complexity and contradiction. It was meant to resist authority, yet over the course of two decades, from about 1970 to 1990, it became enmeshed in the very circuits of money and influence that it had initially sought to dismantle.</p> <p><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Postmodernism shattered established ideas about STYLE. </span></span>It brought a radical freedom to art and design, through gestures that were often funny, sometimes confrontational and occasionally absurd. Most of all, postmodernism brought a new self-awareness about style itself."</p><p><br /><br /></p><p><br /><br /></p><p style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size:100%;">"I<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> feel so extraordinary </span> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Something's got a hold on me<br /><br />I get this feeling </span> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">I'm in motion</span></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 102);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"> A sudden sense of liberty</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">I don't care 'cause I'm not there </span> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">And I don't care if I'm here<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 0, 0);"> <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 102);">tomorrow."</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 0); font-style: italic;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 102);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">(both lyrics by Hot Chip & New Order...)</span></span></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 102);"><br /><br /></span></span></span></span></p><p><br /><br /></p><p><br /><br /></p><p><br /><br /></p><p><br /><br /></p>

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<span style="font-style: italic;">"Even the staircase with integrated fireplace and library climbs up in <span style="font-weight: bold;">rounded corner</span>.<br /><br />The railing is made out of thin stainless steel net, so it is safe but even smooth and transparent.</span>"<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.a1architects.cz/en/works/rounded-loft"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">A1 Architects</span></span></a>, <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">The Rounded Loft</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6194/6073271403_34a2c9c859_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6194/6073271403_34a2c9c859_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 675px; height: 1011px;" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;" href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6063/6073812290_84b4cfc39d_b.jpg"><br /><br /></a><a style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.dezeen.com/2011/08/23/rounded-loft-by-a1architects/#idc-container"><span style="font-size:130%;">Dezeen</span> </a><span style="font-style: italic;">posted "The Rounded Loft" by<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><a style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.a1architects.cz/en">A1 Architects</a></span><span style="font-style: italic;">, a firm based in the Czech Republic. Their portfolio showcases some magical projects completed and still in process by these youthful designers. I admit, I'm completely absorbed in their approach, and their results. <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.a1architects.cz/admin/img/works/A1_W_WRK_ARC_TEA_LIPA_BLACK_F_FINAL_12.JPG">(take a look at the Black Teahouse in Česká Lípa!)</a> The Rounded Loft utilizes a seemingly awkward space, rounding the edges, and opening up into lightness, almost a sense of floating above the city. Spare material selections push their aesthetic to the new level. A stainless steel net for a staircase railing, yes!<br /><br /><br /><br />Ladies and gentleman,<span style="font-size:130%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK4iR2Q-Ieg&feature=related"> we are now floating in space </a></span>& it feels brilliant,bright, and beautiful....</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6076/6073812524_472d395d3d_b.jpg"><br /><br /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">The issue of "<span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">boundless</span>“ space became the main motif of our work.</span></span> The private spaces such as bedrooms are of course separated, but the rest of common activities rooms are connected within one fluent space. It starts at the entrance hall with dressing wardrobes and slightly continues towards living space and kitchen with large dining table, the space is also opened to upper gallery which is meant for guests. To reach specific fluency of space we decided to round off some of the interior corners, which finally give the space its unique smooth character. <span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Due to these softened corners one moves and feel simply free and the boundaries of walls somehow disappears. </span></span>Even the staircase with integrated fireplace and library climbs up in rounded corner. The railing is made out of thin stainless steel net, so it is safe but even smooth and transparent.<br /><br /><br /><br />Next to the main continuous living space there are three bedrooms and one study room, and some storage spaces integrated mostly as built in furniture. The issue of materials was another important part of the project. Their main attributes are touchable-ness and pure naturalness. We chose carefully many of them together with clients at stone workshop and joinery. Most of wooden furniture were tailor made pieces. Beige large format tiles are used on all attic floors to support the feeling of continuity. We exposed as much of the wooden bearing structure as we could. The kitchen counter is made out of black granite stone which is next to bright marble on the wall behind. There is used walnut wood for the dining table and ash veneer for the light above. The living space is connected with the kitchen by raw grey plaster.."<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6063/6073812290_84b4cfc39d_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6063/6073812290_84b4cfc39d_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 676px; height: 519px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6076/6073812524_472d395d3d_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6076/6073812524_472d395d3d_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 676px; height: 1007px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> "And we, in our work, look for the <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 102);">MAGIC</span> of these little things in ordinary things around us and in things that inspire us…"</span><br /><br /> <p>First independent projects of <a href="http://www.a1architects.cz/en/works/rounded-loft"><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 51); font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" >A1 Architect</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 51);font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">s</span></span></a> date to the year 2003. Two years later a studio and a creative workshop are formed in Prague. Today this studio is built on the works of architects Lenka Křemenová and David Maštálka who initially studied together at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague. In 2006 Marta Maštálková, the graphic designer, joined the group.</p>Interdisciplinary communication and searching for unique solutions are the main characteristics of our studio. All of our projects are solved in a complex way, starting with the whole concept and <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">moving on to the interior details and design of utility objects</span>.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />

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<span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">...</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">"<span style="font-weight: bold;">We don’t really define our work as artistic practice</span>.</span> I think that might limit our ambitions to have a very diverse practice involved with many scales and types of projects. It just so happens that we’ve been doing a lot of fashion-related projects lately but we have a lot broader ambitions to work on more public and cultural projects."<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Leong Leong</span></span> <a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.architizer.com/en_us/blog/dyn/10300/leong-leong-for-building-fashion-2/">(here)</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6080/6070489589_e1020c5694_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6080/6070489589_e1020c5694_b.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 800px; height: 580px;" /></a><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><br /><br />model of 3.1 Phillip Lim </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">in LA. </span><a href="http://leong-leong.com/work.php?id=1"><span style="font-weight: bold;">LEONG LEONG</span></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Saturday, August 27, 2011 from 11 AM - 3 PM.</span></span><br /><br /></div></div><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">I've been invited to attend an event this Saturday that I'm extremely thrilled to attend. </span><span style="font-style: italic;">"Now in its third year, the tour has previously showcased noteworthy hotels and restaurants throughout the City. This year's tour will feature the City's most inspired fashion retailers, many of which are housed in stunning and unique spaces. "<span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" > </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >Perhaps I'll see you there?</span> </span><span style="font-style: italic;"> <a href="http://leong-leong.com/index.php">Leong & Leong </a>melted my mind with some of their work awhile back, so this will be a joy to hear all about their LA project.. For anyone interested in pattern, textures, and the ever morphing relationship between fashion and interior design, this is the place to be.... Thanks <span style="font-weight: bold;">Structures & Style</span> for organizing these events here in Los Angeles...</span> <span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">- David John</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >August 27, 2011....</span><span style="font-size:180%;"> <a href="http://avenueswh.com/structuresandstyle/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Structures & Style</span></a></span> is an exclusive guided walking and shuttle tour, providing participants with a behind the scenes peek at the latest design and architecture concepts in the City of West HollywoodAlberta Ferretti, 3.1 Phillip Lim, H.L.N.R., Church Boutique, & Roseark.... Presentations by store representative and tour guide include such topics as: techniques on retail display designs, storefront's relationship to the street in urban design, <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">the strategy of design</span></span> for the customer's<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> journey throughout the interior space</span></span>, and the interplay between pattern and texture...<br /><br /><span style="display: block;" id="formatbar_Buttons"><span onmouseover="ButtonHoverOn(this);" onmouseout="ButtonHoverOff(this);" onmouseup="" onmousedown="CheckFormatting(event);FormatbarButton('richeditorframe', this, 8);ButtonMouseDown(this);" class="" style="display: block;" id="formatbar_CreateLink" title="Link"><img alt="Link" border="0" class="gl_link" src="http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif" /></span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">All of the ticket proceeds go to the West Hollywood Community Housing Corporation. Tickets are regularly $185, Structure & Style rate is <span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">$110</span>.</span></span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.whchc.org/index.php?option=com_chronocontact&chronoformname=structures2011_insider">(go here)</a></span><span class="text_exposed_show"> All proceeds from the tour go to the <span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 51);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">West Hollywood Community Housing Corporation</span></span>, a non-profit organization committed to developing safe, decent and affordable housing for people with limited income, including those with special needs, with the goal of enhancing community diversity and supporting economic diversity. <a href="http://www.whchc.org/"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">WHCH go here..</span></a></span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://avenueswh.com/structuresandstyle/s&s_map.pdf">....take a look at the map here...</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><a href="http://leong-leong.com/index.php"><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">LEONG LEONG</span></a></span><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"> is an award winning New York-based design office practicing in the fields of Architecture, Culture and Urbanism. LEONG LEONG's internationally recognized work is directed by Dominic and Chris Leong. The two founded their firm with the belief that the practice of <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 102);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-style: italic;">Architecture gains relevance through a constant dialogue with other disciplines, cultures, thinkers and makers to offer thoughtful and innovative design solutions.</span></span> Their concept-based approach to design is coupled with a deep interest in methods of production that challenge norms and reveal new territories. LEONG LEONG's body of work includes the completion of projects in New York, Seoul, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, and Napa Valley, California</span>...<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">---------------------</span><br /><br /><br /><br />

Structures & Style 2011

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<span style="font-style: italic;">a late summer afternoon </span><br /><br />at<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 102);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"> IKO IKO</span></span> <span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">931 North Fairfax Avenue, LA</span> <span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">(new space)</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6090/6065884595_49a6fe5a12_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6090/6065884595_49a6fe5a12_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 700px; height: 809px;" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /><br /><br /><br />As the sun was slipping into the sea,<br /><br />the circles began to appear everywhere, and every how, and every when.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Congrats to Kristin and Shin on the new space for IKO IKO!</span></span> Yesterday, afternoon drifted into dusk, at their new space on Fairfax, while I was taking in their new location + new works. Their new space continues their seamless voyage into artist + high craft driven objects.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://ikoikospace.com/"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">IKO IKO</span></span></a> is the creative home of Kristin Dickson and Shin Okuda's ongoing projects, <a href="http://www.rowenasartin.com/"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 102);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Rowena Sartin</span></span></a><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.rowenasartin.com/"> </a>(</span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);" class="st">common structures of clothing design.</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-style: italic;">)</span> + <a href="http://lookatwakawaka.tumblr.com/"><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Waka Waka</span></span></a> <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">(furniture + sculptural investigations)</span>. In addition, the minimally + gorgeously designed space is curated with objects, books, textiles, ceramics from their travels abroad + local meetings. Shin introduced me to his new Waka Waka ladder works<span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"> (!!!)</span> and told me about some exciting collaborations he is working on....<span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(192, 192, 192);"> </span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6184/6065898539_ebf7ea0a84_z.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6184/6065898539_ebf7ea0a84_z.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 700px; height: 645px;" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Stay tuned...</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span>YHBHS will be posting an INTERVIEW w/ Kristin Dickson this coming month... </span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /><br />In the meantime, check out an interview</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">YHBHS</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">did with </span><a style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);" href="http://youhavebeenheresometime.blogspot.com/2010/09/yhbhs-interview-waka-waka-with-shin.html">Shin Okuda of WAKA WAKA </a><span style="font-style: italic;">last year... </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Also, read about</span><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"> </span><a href="http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/18/seeing-things-iko-iko-goes-west/?ref=design">Iko Iko in the T Magazine blog here...</a>, and read <a style="color: rgb(0, 51, 51);" href="http://youhavebeenheresometime.blogspot.com/2010/12/y-h-b-h-s-card-catalog-selection-30-iko.html">IKO IKO's card catalog entry here..<br /><br /><br /><br /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">--------------<br /><br />----------</span><br /><br /><br /><br />

a late summer afternoon at IKO IKO 931 North Fairfax Avenue, LA (new space) As the sun was slipping into the sea, the circles began to ap...

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<span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"></span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">..</span><br /><br />“I started to get involved with people who were creating their own worlds. I realized I wanted to do that, and I hoped people would like it.” <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"> <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">- Faye Toogood </span></span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">vs</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Andre Cadere</span></span> worked to a system of numerical order that he had developed himself, containing errors as a secret code. Cadere developed his Barres de Bois as mobile works of art in 1970, something that he could take everywhere with him and use at <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 102);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">any time, anywhere.</span></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6208/6059959784_0662125ab6_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6208/6059959784_0662125ab6_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 701px; height: 460px;" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6196/6059959738_4e9929e35a_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6196/6059959738_4e9929e35a_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 700px; height: 466px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Faye Toogood </span></span>of<span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.studiotoogood.com/"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Studio Toogood... </span></a></span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">(element table in resin, from Assemblage 2)</span> table with VOID.<br /><br /><br /><br />"Toogood’s knack for sourcing materials and <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">her compulsion to group unlike things derives from a love of research </span></span>that harks back to her art history studies at Bristol University, and her stint at World of Interiors; when she was 22, the leading British interior design magazine hired her as an intern. “I didn’t even know what a stylist was,” she recalls, but she certainly learned. In her 10 years there, she rose to the position of senior stylist before opening her own studio in 2008, to branch out beyond creating dreamy sets that lasted no more than a few days.<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Studio Toogood has since designed interiors, both temporary and permanent, for various creative brands.</span></span> For a display at Comme des Garcons’ flagship store in Tokyo, she took the fashion label’s deconstructed plaid – a defining pattern in its 2010 men’s collection – and recreated it on stacks of white cubes with coloured electrical tape. At The Rug Company’s New York store, she covered the walls with archival images of English houses, then painted them with graffiti. The plan was to eventually turn the murals into tapestries."<br /><br /><a href="http://www.azuremagazine.com/magazine/backissues/features.php?id=2184&c=2"><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">(via here, Azure magazine)</span></a><a href="http://www.dezeenscreen.com/2011/07/18/interview-assemblage-1-by-toogood/"><span style="font-style: italic;">, (<span style="font-weight: bold;">dezeen screen</span> with Faye Toogood)</span></a><a href="http://youhavebeenheresometime.blogspot.com/2009/12/studio-toogood-via-world-of-interiors.html"><span style="font-style: italic;">, (past YHBHS post on Studio Toogood)</span></a>...<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 102, 102);font-size:130%;" ><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Andre Cadere </span></span>referred to his wood bars as “peinture sans fin” – “<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">unlimited painting</span>” – which redefined the boundaries of the medium and broke with traditional ways of seeing. The form of the rod does not prescribe a privileged point of view – it has no front nor back, no bottom nor top – but offers itself to multiple presentations instead: The bars can be laid out on the floor, fixed to the wall or can lean against it; they can also, theoretically, be moved from one place to another.<a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://looksee.chrisashley.net/?p=486"> (via here)</a><br /><br /><br /><br />James Hyde said Andres Cadere is "probably the most important artist of the 1970s whom you've never heard of."<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 102);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> When he died at 45, he left behind about 180 segmented wooden "barres."<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">--------------------</span><br /><br /></span></span>

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.. “I started to get involved with people who were creating their own worlds. I realized I wanted to do that, and I hoped people would like...

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<span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" >‘What counts in Andrea Pallladio’s work is the importance of space as <span style="font-weight: bold;">VOID</span>."</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-style: italic;">- Claudio Silvestrin</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.claudiosilvestrin.com/"><span style="font-style: italic;">Claudio Silvestrin Architects </span></a></span><br /><br />+<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><a style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.dowjonesarchitects.com/">Dow Jones Architects </a></span><br /><br />+<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-size:130%;" >a volcano</span><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6191/6056566960_12ec2cc346_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6191/6056566960_12ec2cc346_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 700px; height: 700px;" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6066/6056018723_03193e6e5c_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6066/6056018723_03193e6e5c_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 701px; height: 552px;" /></a><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6204/6056568018_d8d9da9040_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6204/6056568018_d8d9da9040_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 701px; height: 469px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.claudiosilvestrin.com/"><span style="font-style: italic;">claudio silvestrin architects </span></a><br /><br />+<br /><br /><a style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.dowjonesarchitects.com/">dow jones architects </a><br /><br />+<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">a volcano</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6204/6056568018_d8d9da9040_b.jpg"><br /><br /></a><br /><br /><p>"‘<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">I’m a lone wolf’</span></span>, Claudio Silvestrin says of himself. By that he means that he does not hang out on the architecture scene. He is not a networker, a golf player or a talker at public or academic events. All that he describes as the ‘blah, blah, blah’ of architecture. Silvestrin’s architecture is often described as austere, and the term could well be applied to the man himself....</p> <p>Discussing architecture with Silvestrin is not straightforward. He prefers to let his work speak for itself, partly because he is not keen on the way architects constantly promote themselves, but mostly because the intended effect of his work is emotional rather than theoretical or social. It means that he has been somewhat shunned by the academic crowd, though is embraced by those in fashion, art and music."</p><a style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.blueprintmagazine.co.uk/index.php/architecture/interview-claudio-silvestrin/">please read more here...</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">-------------------------------</span><br /><br /><br /><br />

‘What counts in Andrea Pallladio’s work is the importance of space as VOID ." - Claudio Silvestrin Claudio Silvestrin Architects + Dow...

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<span style="font-style: italic;">gustav stickley</span><br /><br />vs<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">rose tarlow</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6207/6055948029_977eb82b7d_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6207/6055948029_977eb82b7d_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 675px; height: 635px;" /></a><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6063/6055948065_120d8e0eda_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6063/6055948065_120d8e0eda_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 677px; height: 677px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">gustav stickley</span><br /><br />vs<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">rose tarlow</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">------------------------</span><br /><br /><br /><br />

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<span style="font-style: italic;">There's a guy inside me </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Biding his time </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Standing in line and waiting for me to fall </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">For me to fall </span><span style="font-style: italic;">,<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Self-preservation threatens us all</span></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6067/6053048709_ed39f48593_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6067/6053048709_ed39f48593_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 700px; height: 687px;" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6208/6053403386_93e2f93f79_b.jpg"><br /><br /></a><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">Believe it or not,</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Jean Michael Frank</span></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"> found the flavor of daily life essential to every house.</span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span>The result of pursuing<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> <span style="font-style: italic;">“perfect taste”</span></span> was to end up with <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-style: italic;"> soulless rooms</span>....</span></span><br /><br /><br /><br />“I wish one could more often see artists collaborating in arranging houses... the result would be, at the very least, something of our time, and alive.”<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />- <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Jean Michel Frank,</span> <span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">1895-1941</span>, <a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/architects/legends/archive/frank_article_012000"><span style="font-style: italic;">more here..</span></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">lyrics by Malcom Middleton, "choir"</span><span style="font-style: italic;">, images, of a Beatles fan in pure ecstasy</span>..<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">what brings people to cry when they see their hero? self defeat? pure adoration?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 102, 102);">a favorite lamp by Jean Michel Frank</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">-------------------------</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6071/6052745611_cfc6258391_b.jpg"><br /><br /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6191/6053295718_31006f04e8_b.jpg"><br /><br /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />

There's a guy inside me Biding his time Standing in line and waiting for me to fall For me to fall , Self-preservation threatens us all...

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<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">"This city is a point upon a map of fog." </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">vs.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">"there's more liberty in an interior to invent a narrative..." </span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6063/6049511311_0c87c32ce0_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6063/6049511311_0c87c32ce0_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 699px; height: 525px;" /></a><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />the upstairs bar...</span><br /><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />For the <a href="http://www.starwoodhotels.com/whotels/property/overview/index.html?propertyID=1153">W San Francisco</a>, the hotel tapped the genius of starchitect<span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Stanley Saitowitz of Natoma Architects</span></span> to redesign the first 2 floors...<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 51, 51);font-size:130%;" ><a href="http://www.saitowitz.com/"><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Stanley Saitowitz</span></a></span> went for a darker look at San Francisco, a night portrait of the city using dark grays and purples for the color scheme. His vision as an architect is so clearly evident in his work as an interior designer — the décor projects the sensation of being outside rather than in. Playing on Bierce's "map," the floor emulates the grid of the city, the furniture extruding from it as its buildings would.<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Playing on the "fog," the dark color scheme gets lighter and cloudier as one ascends the the hotel, the fog becoming "densest" at the top, much as it would be standing atop San Francisco's Twin Peaks.</span></span> Guests can faintly make out the traces of city monuments on the walls. It's truly reminiscent of San Francisco at night, the time when Saitowitz says "cities are most magical and fun." As for the differing roles between architect and designer, "there's more liberty in an interior to invent a narrative," said Saitowitz, whose past interiors have been famously high-concept. "It's more circumscribed. You're asked to make a statement or create a kind of world in an interior."<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://ht.ly/64zyt"><span style="font-style: italic;">read entire article here...</span></a><a href="http://ht.ly/64zyt"><span style="font-style: italic;">and more images...</span></a> (Via Art Info)<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">all text by Janelle Zara</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">--------------------------</span><br /><br /><br /><br />

"This city is a point upon a map of fog." vs. "there's more liberty in an interior to invent a narrative..." the ups...

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"I think we need more thinkers and less architects. "

<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">...</span><br /><br />Kelly Waters</span></span><span style="font-style: italic;"> interviews</span> <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Dan Friedlander of LIMN</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">about</span> <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 0, 0);">Memphis Design Group</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">for </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">YHBHS<br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"></span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">"I think we need more thinkers and less architects.</span> In the end I think it is within the individual, their curiosity and what they do with it. Ettore came to our opening all those years ago and he hadn’t been to the West Coast as of yet and he was fascinated by his ride from the airport to the city, the landscape of California and the freeways, he was always <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 102);">OBSERVING</span>, always <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 51);">CURIOUS</span>."<br /><br /><br /><br />The pressure of <span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">COMMERCIALISM</span></span> and the ability to break through and make it is even greater than it was ten, twenty, thirty years ago.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6182/6046367532_50c42d73c2_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6182/6046367532_50c42d73c2_b.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 509px; height: 700px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://kellylynnwaters.com/">Kelly Waters</a></span>, in addition to being a designer, writes the most amazing design blog called <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://kellylynnwaters.blogspot.com/">Halycon Days</a></span></span><br /><br /><br /><br />"David John of YHBHS asked me to be a part of this discussion on Ettore Sotsass and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Memphis Design</span> group, and while I have always admired Ettore Sotsass, I did not think I was the right gal for this piece. I have always been one of those individuals that have never really understood what Memphis was all about. While working at<span style="font-size:130%;"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.limn.com/index.php">LIMN</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Furniture</span></span> and still in school, I would round the corner and come across the Carlton or the Beverly cabinet and just stare in dismay as it talked to me from a different time in a different language. This was after all the late nineties. Everything was slick and minimal, the city was filled with dot com madness, and the pages of<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.wallpaper.com/"> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 0);font-size:130%;" >Wallpaper</span></a> are what I lusted after!<br /><br /><br /><br />Things have changed tremendously since then of course, but I never did try to revisit what Ettore Sotsass and Memphis group were trying to share with me. I did remember Dan Friedlander, founder of <span style="font-size:130%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.limn.com/index.php">LIMN </a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Furniture</span></span>, having an affinity with the Memphis pieces and that perhaps he could shed some light on what I failed to see all those years ago."<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">- Kelly W.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6062/6046367208_d95ba4283d_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6062/6046367208_d95ba4283d_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 702px; height: 486px;" /></a><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6183/6046367468_dcca7cd969_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6183/6046367468_dcca7cd969_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 698px; height: 1000px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">an interview between Kelly Waters and Dan Friedlander.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">KW:</span> Although I grew up in the eighties my formal education and knowledge of design was a return to modern and modernism with the introduction of deconstructivists like Zaha Hadid and Daniel Libeskind being debated and fêted. It was clear that design that spoke with such an extravagant language such as postmodernism was viewed with disdain from my professors. It wasn’t timeless so therefore it was worth a mention but not praise. How would you describe Ettore Sotsass and Memphis Design Group to someone who didn’t experience it first hand.<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">DF</span>: That’s because they didn’t get it., sure Memphis isn’t as important now but when they happened upon the scene it changed everything.<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 51);">They were the first to introduce furniture as art.</span> </span></span>And before then every architect was putting<a href="http://www.corbisimages.com/images/67/A13949F3-B1DB-4E84-9265-40004F7ED923/42-20787410.jpg"> two Wasilly chairs in the living room</a><a href="http://www.corbisimages.com/images/67/A13949F3-B1DB-4E84-9265-40004F7ED923/42-20787410.jpg">.</a> That’s it, nothing else. It was boring. Sotsass and Memphis changed the landscape of design.<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">KW:</span> I understand you were the first or one of the first to bring Memphis to the States is that true and how did you know about Ettore and Memphis?<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">DF: </span> We opened Limn in 1981, right around the same time people began talking about Memphis, it was just a happy coincidence. <span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=" font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">They were our first show. They made us</span></span><span style="font-style: italic;">.</span></span> I found out about them from a couple of friends I went to architecture school with at Berkeley, they were in Italy and brought back a Domus and said you have to check these guys out. It was the second show of Memphis Design in the states,(who was the first I couldn’t make it out on the tape) we had a warehouse down by the ballpark and we filled it as if it were one massive gallery and it wasn’t just Memphis but local artists and furniture designers that were doing similar things in the bay area. It was meant to show that our local talent was just as avant garde and pushing the envelope as Ettore and his collaborators.<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">KW</span>: Is there a designer today that you see following in Sotsass’ footsteps or seems to be directly inspired by him? And How?<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">DF</span>: That is really difficult to answer since things are so different now. Ettore and Memphis Group didn’t make these pieces to make any money, he was running his architecture firm and this was just something he did on the side to play and have fun. No one in today’s world does anything without first considering the market.<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> The pressure of COMMERCIALISM </span></span>and the ability to break through and make it is even greater than it was ten, twenty, thirty years ago. For example take someone like<span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" > </span><a href="http://www.moroso.it/home_moroso.php?n=designers&d_id=8&l=en"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Patricia Urqiola</span>,</span></span></a> she’s incredibly talented and is one of the lucky few to break through but her designs are always thought through with a manufacturer in mind and their ability to sell. This is not to insult her or her work in anyway it’s just how things are done. So no, I’m not seeing anyone unless it is an unknown artist that I’m not aware of.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6089/6046367294_dfe891417a_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6089/6046367294_dfe891417a_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 700px; height: 1007px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />KW:</span> Are there any pieces you have kept from the Memphis Collection?<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">DF:</span> I have kept a few remnants through the years for myself.<br /><br /><br /><br />KW: Are there any other pieces that Sotsass designed outside of the Memphis collection that specifically spoke to you or grabbed your attention and why?<br /><br /><br /><br />DF: Yes, his glass pieces. He was working with glass throughout his career. They were extraordinary pieces, some blown, some blown and then cast.<br /><br /><br /><br />KW: Ettore was trained as an architect, as were you, as was I. Do you think there is something about that training that offers its students so many different paths and directions in life?<br /><br /><br /><br />DF: I have thought a lot about this since I started out as an art major and transferred to architecture hoping it would give me some tools to apply to my art, I meant to transfer back but never did. The architecture schools have such different curriculum these days. When I graduated Berkeley they created thinkers and Cal-Poly created individuals that could enter an architecture office right out of school.<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 51, 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br />I think we need more thinkers and less architects.</span></span></span> In the end I think it is within the individual, their curiosity and what they do with it. Ettore came to our opening all those years ago and he hadn’t been to the West Coast as of yet and he was fascinated by his ride from the airport to the city, the landscape of California and the freeways, <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" >he was always observing, </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" >always curious.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6207/6046367702_a7b26e7d26_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6207/6046367702_a7b26e7d26_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 700px; height: 1013px;" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6078/6045818021_a5649ffc26_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6078/6045818021_a5649ffc26_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 703px; height: 1010px;" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 0, 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">(th</span></span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >ank you dan and kelly)</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">images sourced from the book</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Memphis: Research, Experiences, Failures and Successes of New Design<br /><br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;">by Barbara Radice</span> <a href="memphis:%20Research,%20Experiences,%20Failures%20and%20Successes%20of%20New%20Design%20by%20Barbara%20Radice">(buy it here...)</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">repost from May 2011....<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">-----------------------</span><br /><br /></span><br /><br />

"I think we need more thinkers and less architects. "

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<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">YHBHS </span><span style="font-style: italic;">voyage</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">into sound, space, + light</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">"The Integratron is an acoustically perfect tabernacle + energy machine sited on a powerful geomagnetic vortex in the magical Mojave Desert..."</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5007/5205164661_620fca85ec_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5007/5205164661_620fca85ec_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 724px; height: 482px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1054/5119200926_f95a7829ff_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1054/5119200926_f95a7829ff_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 724px; height: 543px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">YHBHS</span></span> is traveling to <a href="http://www.integratron.com/Welcome.html"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 102);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">the Integratron</span></span> </a>this weekend to gaze at the <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Perseid Meteor Shower</span> <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Star Party</span>... An annual benefit for the Mojave Desert Land Trust sponsored by Joshua Tree National Park Association. I've got a booking for the <a href="http://www.integratron.com/6ComeOnIn/ComeOnIn.html#SoundBath"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sound Bath</span></span> </a>at 9 a.m and a schedule of events planned for this desert getaway. Any opportunity I have to drive into the desert sun, I'm game! Also coming up in October,<a href="http://www.highdeserttestsites.com/hdts"> <span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">High Desert Test Sites</span></span></a> weekend.....<span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 102);">"HDTS returns this fall for a weekend of new experimental art, architecture, and design projects sited in the Southern California high desert. Curators the McCarthy Family, Robert Stone, and Brooks Hudson Thomas have invited an exciting group of emerging and established artists, architects, and designers to create new works for HDTS 2011.</span></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 102);">"</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 51, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">What is the Sound Bath?</span></span><br /><br />"The Sound Bath is a 30-minute sonic healing session that you can experience while resting comfortably in the Integratron's highly resonant, multi-wave sound chamber. We play a series of quartz crystal singing bowls live, each one keyed to the energy centers or chakras of the body, where sound is nutrition for the nervous system.<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Imagine lying on comfy mats in the center of this relaxing and resonant high-energy field, while having your body bathed in exquisite sound for 30 minutes</span>. The results are waves of peace, heightened awareness, and relaxation of the mind and body. "<br /><br /><br /><br />"<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">George Van Tassel,</span></span> creator of <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 102, 102);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">the Integratron</span></span>, was a legendary figure, an aeronautical engineer and test pilot who worked for Lockheed, Douglas Aircraft and alongside Howard Hughes at Hughes Aviation . He was also one of the leaders in the UFO movement who held annual "Spacecraft Conventions" at Giant Rock for 25 years. Van Tassel said UFO channelings and ideas from scientists such as Nikola Tesla led to the unique architecture of the Integratron. He spent 18 years constructing the building."<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">images sourced from flicker...</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">----------------------------</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5007/5205164661_620fca85ec_b.jpg"><br /><br /></a><br /><br /><br /><br />

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<br /><br />"We consciously aimed for <span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">simplicity</span></span> - in planning, <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">use of light and air</span></span>, building organization and circulation - because it is our expereicne that simplicity leads to economy, efficiency, and improved performance."<br /><br /><a href="http://www.tphifer.com/#/home"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><br /><br />- Thomas Phifer and Partners</span></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6140/6035953484_f66b64bc67_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6140/6035953484_f66b64bc67_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 724px; height: 423px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6203/6035398647_60fc74f1f9_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6203/6035398647_60fc74f1f9_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 727px; height: 452px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6191/6035398775_9a7e15414b_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6191/6035398775_9a7e15414b_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 725px; height: 472px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6141/6035953530_6e3b3f30ca_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6141/6035953530_6e3b3f30ca_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 725px; height: 424px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6141/6035987144_7f42f6399f_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6141/6035987144_7f42f6399f_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 728px; height: 473px;" /></a><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6090/6035953746_f7afe5c258_b.jpg"><br /><br /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6203/6035398647_60fc74f1f9_b.jpg"><br /><br /></a>"We really seek to open buildings up again…to nature and to the sun, to the sound of the wind; to bring back that sense of nature which is part of architecture.” <a style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 102, 102);" href="http://www.archdaily.com/103925/ad-interviews-thomas-phifer/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">via ArchDaily interview here</span></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />"<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Thomas Phifer and Partners</span></span> is recognized for its <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">distinct transformation of modernism</span>.</span> The essence of timeless buildings—simplicity—is achieved through thoughtful responses to the natural environment, study of the human ecology of the site, and a search for appropriate modes of construction, which dictate the forms, spaces, and appearance of buildings. The firm believes that every structure should occupy <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-style: italic;">a harmonious place within its surroundings </span></span>by balancing human needs and environmental imperatives. This <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0847835251?ie=UTF8&tag=arch05-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0847835251"><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">book</span></a> explores all of Phifer’s major commissions, including Salt Point House in New York, Salt Lake City Courthouse, and his most recent achievement, the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh, which opens in April 2010. "<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">above images are selected from</span><a href="http://www.tphifer.com/#/home"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 102);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Thomas Phifer and Partners site here...</span></span></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">-------------------------------</span><br /><br /><br /><br />

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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Cini Boeri </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-style: italic;">"strips"</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">"Soon after, Boeri created another masterpiece with the Strips sofa, which could be described as either a lounge made from <span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 51);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">sections of sleeping bags </span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-size:100%;">or a</span></span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 51);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span>bed-sized puffer jacket!</span></span>"</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6085/6030077867_95a93e4248_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6085/6030077867_95a93e4248_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 719px; height: 440px;" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6188/6030631878_7f7e902fd2_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6188/6030631878_7f7e902fd2_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 858px; height: 609px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> <p>"Born in Milan in 1924,<span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 51); font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>Cini Boer</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 51);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">i</span></span> graduated from Milan Polytechnic in 1951 and began a long period of cooperation with Marco Zanuso, founder of Italian furniture firm Arflex. She set up her own studio in 1963, concentrating on civil architecture and industrial design. In 1967, Bobo Divano was released by<a href="http://www.arflex.it/"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Arflex</span></span></a> and became the first mono-block seat in polyurethane foam with no internal structure. The Serpentone, designed in 1971, was another revolutionary sofa made from thin sections of polyurethane articulated around a flexible central core, allowing for free-flowing shapes of unlimited length.</p> <p>Soon after, Boeri created another masterpiece with the Strips sofa, which could be described as either a lounge made from sections of sleeping bags or a bed-sized puffer jacket!</p> <p>The sofa’s impact would prove to be lasting – she eventually won a prestigious Compasso d’Oro industrial design award for it in 1979, and Patricia Urquiola recently stated that her critically acclaimed <span style="font-size:130%;"><a style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 51, 51);" href="http://style-files.com/images/tuffibank500x397.jpg">B&B Italia ‘Tufty-Time</a></span>’ sofa was her homage to Boeri’s Strips sofa.</p><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.homelife.com.au/home+ideas/decorating/cini+boeri,5610"><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">all text taken from here....</span></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />

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<span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" >I don’t think of myself as a <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Post-Modernist</span> (or minimalist).</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br />"I find the metaphors of the machine that Modernism embodies, along with <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> the geometric abstraction of formal composition, to be alienating and sometimes even disorienting</span></span>, as opposed to a more classical approach that considers metaphors of man and the landscape and a more figurative formal tradition." </span></span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">- Michael Graves</span><br /><br /><br /><br />All artists should simply use the materials that are appropriate to their ends. It’s a false issue to say this is ‘industrial’ and <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">this is ‘art’ material"</span></span> <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"> - Carl Andre.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6208/6032979922_d8cf1f0f1d_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6208/6032979922_d8cf1f0f1d_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 700px; height: 551px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Ah Michael Graves' residential projects make my mind do flips & circles. From early to late, there is something about his work that breaks so many rules, but often times, quietly. I've been staring at these images for a long time now, pinned onto a cork board. Today, they aligned themselves into a coherent thought </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">(that is still up for debate)</span><span style="font-style: italic;">. Here's to patience! Here's to sculpture! Here's to houses that look like sculpture! -</span> <span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">David John</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />"My father’s family were bricklayers and carpenters and shipbuilders, and so my earliest experiences are not of art, but of the materials and those are the materials that I continue to use. <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" >I never did anything that required the art supply store as I’ve always used industrial materials.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">All artists should simply use the materials that are appropriate to their ends. It’s a false issue to say this is ‘industrial’ and this is ‘art’ material"</span></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">- Carl Andre.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"></span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"></span> </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">the minimalists'<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"> nightmare</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">vs</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">the postmodernist's painter<span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"> <span style="font-weight: bold;">delight<br /><br /><br /><br /></span></span></span></span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">images: top left, clockwise. (all images have been altered, perhaps ruined.)</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">1. <a href="http://www.michaelgraves.com/mgahome.trans.php">Michael Graves</a>, AD (altered)</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">2. <a href="http://www.carlandre.net/">Carl Andre</a>, wall painted behind. altered</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">3. <a href="http://www.beckybeasley.com/">Becky Beasely.</a> liquid turned blue. altered </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">4. Michael Graves, AD altered<br /><br /><br /><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"></span>I would have to say that my architecture evolved in part as a reaction to aspects of Modernism. I find <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">the metaphors of the machine</span></span> that Modernism embodies, along with the geometric abstraction of formal composition, to be alienating and sometimes even disorienting, as opposed to a more classical approach that considers metaphors of man and the landscape and a more figurative formal tradition. That is not to say that my work is historicist or classical stylistically, which is part of what the Post-Modern movement argued. I don’t think of myself as a Post-Modernist. <span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Modernists tried to wipe the slate clean and the Post-Modernists tried to look back to formal motifs recognized from historical architecture.</span></span> Instead, I think that modern composition is part of a cultural continuum that goes back thousands of years and therefore I tend to see both Modernism and the traditional language of architecture as part of the palette we use to compose our buildings.</span></span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> -<br /><br /><br /><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Michael Graves</span>, <a style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);" href="http://farticulate.wordpress.com/2011/01/31/31-january-2011-post-carl-andre-selected-works-interview/">please read interview here...</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">------------</span><br /><br /></span></span></span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /><br /></span></span><br /><br />

I don’t think of myself as a Post-Modernist (or minimalist). "I find the metaphors of the machine that Modernism embodies, along with...

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<span style="font-style: italic;">the forever & infinite</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">seduction (of <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">the black line</span></span>).</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">“Memory is everything.” </span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6135/6029779022_703a1a8702_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6135/6029779022_703a1a8702_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 700px; height: 528px;" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6190/6029225539_8523506fc4_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6190/6029225539_8523506fc4_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 700px; height: 628px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">the forever & infinite</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">seduction (of <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">the black line</span></span>).<br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /> <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">“Memory is everything.” </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /><br />images:<br /><br /></span>1. Brabrand, 1963, by<span style="font-size:130%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.friis-moltke.dk/siteFM/front.asp"> <span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 0);">Friis og Moltke</span></a></span> 2<br /><br />2. desk by <span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Franco Albini</span></span><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><br />"<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">We believe in human contact and social empathy.</span></span> Dedication and joy of work are values that are deeply rooted in our company’s traditions and in our desire to renew Danish architecture in light of these traditions and with originality, beauty and functionality. We as professionals are challenged in such a way today that you are often tempted to create new and sensational solutions. <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">FRIIS & MOLTKE</span></span> is motivated to go in a different direction.<br /><br /><br /><br />We do this by conducting internal discussions amongst ourselves, and by engaging in dialogue with our clients. They must benefit fully from our company’s experience, capacity and professionalism. Our architectural vision involves a close interplay between details and the whole, integrated buildings with a coherent idiom. This is where we find our inspiration and our joy in creating architecture."<span style="font-style: italic;"><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">------</span><br /><br /><br /><br />

the forever & infinite seduction (of the black line ). “Memory is everything.” the forever & infinite seduction (of the black line )...

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YHBHS interview with Jon Pylypchuk + Paul + Wendy

<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">...</span><br /><br /></span></span>"I was sitting around with my friend Andrew and he was urging me to think of something for the facade of the<span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.newmuseum.org/"> New Museum</a></span> in New York. I had these logs sitting around and I had been drinking booze too often. I was thinking about how stupid it is to drink so much, and sort of thought that I was like this drunk log."<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-style: italic;">- Jon Pylypchuk </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6148/6024347279_e96408e076_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6148/6024347279_e96408e076_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 678px; height: 903px;" /></a><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Small Log By Jon Pylypchuk </span> <span style="font-style: italic;">Bronze sculpture mounted on wooden base </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">8.5 x 5.5 x 3.5 inches Edition of 10, 1 Artist Proof Numbered and signed by the artist</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></div><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Paul + Wendy run an inspiring online store of artist editions and projects. </span><span style="font-style: italic;">Jon Pylypchuk's work has delighted me for years, from his early paintings, to his recent wall sculptures with bulging eyes made out of purple light bulbs. To see Jon's work, is to almost take a huge sigh, to whisper to yourself, "it's gonna be alright, man." The worlds he has created, and the emotions he puts forth in his work are unlike any other artist I've come across. When Paul + Wendy told me that their latest edition was the<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> "bronze log man"</span></span> I immediately smiled. What an amazing combination to come together.<br /><br /><br /><br />Two weeks later, I was in Jon's studio near downtown L.A., about a quarter mile from my house, chatting with Jon about his latest collaboration with Paul + Wendy, and some of his new work. I wish I had taken photos of his studio, as it mesmerized me. My eyes darting back and forth while in conversation with Jon, scraps and piles of wood, metal, everywhere, and a drum set. We chatted about his family history, casting metals, art-making, and light bulbs:)<br /><br /><br /><br />It's pretty awesome that YHBHS has continually connected me with such passionate folks such as Paul + Wendy + Jon. I'm completely honored to post this interview on an artist that makes me smile and light up (inside). </span><br /><br /><br /><br /><a style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" href="http://www.paulandwendyprojects.com/">Please visit PAUL + WENDY's site here....</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br />Can you tell me how Paul + Wendy Projects originated?</span></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">Paul + Wendy</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"> </span>: In the early 2000's we started getting interested in art and collecting. Through this we became good friends with several artists. After a while we knew that we wanted to become more involved but were unsure what direction to take. We briefly considered opening a web based gallery and doing art fairs but neither of us really wanted to be art dealers and shortly after most of the world's economy slid into a recession. Our friend, artist Michael Dumontier suggested that we start to publish editions. This seemed like a good way to be involved and to work on projects with artists who we knew or whose work we liked.<br /><br /><br /><br />At the time <a href="http://www.nieves.ch/">Nieves</a> in Switzerland had a big impact on us. They were working with a lot of great artist publishing inexpensive zines that anyone could afford. Locally Art Metropole was an influence as well as <a href="http://www.bywaterbros.com/index.html">Roger Bywater's Bywater Brothers</a> who have published editions by artist like Dave Shrigley, Jonathan Monk as well as our friend, Derek Sullivan. Our first edition was the 'Poster Making' serigraph by The Royal Art Lodge whose members at the time were <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 0, 0);">Michael Dumontier</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 102);">Neil Farber</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">Marcel Dzama</span>. It was pretty successful and encouraged us to continue. So far we've published 5 prints, 4 books and a postcard. We'll have a new serigraph by Kay Rosen and a print by Daniel Eatock available soon along with the bronze by Jon Pylypchuk which is our first venture into multiples.<a style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);" href="http://www.paulandwendyprojects.com/log.html"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> buy it here:)</span></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /><br /><br />I remember seeing Jon's drip painting at LACMA years ago. The painting must have been 8 feet long, 6 feet tall, and it left a huge impression on me. His last show at China Art Objects included his new works that use light bulbs as an element.<br /><br /><br /><br />It's as if these characters came to life, emotions at the forefront, glowing tall! Almost as if they walked right out of the gallery, down the city's dirty sidewalks....<br /><br /><br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">How did you come to work with him?</span></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">Paul + Wendy: </span>We had always loved Jon’s work and had met him a few times through Michael and Neil. He is an artist whose work we would love to be able to collect but it's now out of our price range. This is where publishing editions is great - we get to own a piece of Jon's work. We approached him about doing an edition with us. Initially, we talked about doing a book of his sculptures from The War series. We all liked the idea but it didn't seem to be moving along very quickly. Jon had already completed that project and wasn't super excited about revisiting it. So we started to talk about completely new ideas. <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">We had seen a bronze sculpture of a cat at his house in Winnipeg one time while he was still living there and had loved it.</span> We said that we would love to do a small version of something like that and Jon liked the idea. After that things came together very quickly, Jon made the log man and then worked with a foundry in Oxnard to produce them.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6145/6026269504_c64bf6eedd_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6145/6026269504_c64bf6eedd_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 732px; height: 536px;" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">two works by Jon Pylypchuk,<br /><br />from China Art Objects, Los Angeles</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">A Conversation with Jon Pylypchuk</span></span>:<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Who is the Bronze Log man?</span></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">Jon:</span> I was sitting around with my friend Andrew and he was urging me to think of something for the facade of the<span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.newmuseum.org/"> New Museum</a></span> in New York. I had these logs sitting around and I had been drinking booze too often. I was thinking about how stupid it is to drink so much, and sort of thought that I was like this drunk log.<br /><br /><br /><br />I made a much larger one with the intention that if the project got green lighted that I would make a bunch of drunk logs walking around the Bowery. I liked the idea and thought that it would make a nice edition. When I got the logs back from the foundry I intended to make them holding a little airplane bottle of Jack Daniel's but it looked better without it.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Many of your recent projects, you are working with casting, in bronze, aluminum, etc. Can you talk about this shift in materials?</span></span><br /><br /><br /><br />I did a show at<span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.chinaartobjects.com/"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 0);"> China Art Objects in 2008 </span></a></span>that had 2 bronze pieces in it and I liked how it transformed the materials that I was using. We were living in Winnipeg at the time and I would commute to Los Angeles to work, and my studio practice suffered as i wasn't working as much as I used to. I struggled with what I was doing because I didn't spend enough time in the studio.<br /><br /><br /><br />When I did go, I made stuff for shows or art fairs and didn't spend the time just dicking around experimenting. I had a meeting with my gallerist <a href="http://www.petzel.com/artists/jon-pylypchuk/"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 0);">Friedrich Petzel</span></span></a> and he said that I couldn't keep fucking the same thing to death. It was the push that I needed to implement the change I had felt I needed for a long time. Revisiting cast objects made me feel like I picked up where I left off a couple of years ago.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">I read in a previous article about your preoccupation with death & failure. Are you or your characters you create still in this frame of mind, or have they evolved over the 10 year span</span></span>?<br /><br /><br /><br />I was born an only child to elderly parents. My mother was the second youngest of 5 or 6 kids so from a young age I experienced people dying a lot. I was the only altar boy for the Ukrainian service in a church of old people so I worked a lot of funerals. I realized how much it had affected me when I was in my 20's. My parents always reminded me that they would die at some point and that I needed to be ready.<br /><br /><br /><br />Well then my parents actually died and I guess like when the kids go off to college, and parents don't know what to do with themselves, the parents go off to heaven or wherever, and you walk around not knowing what to do with yourself. The work has evolved accordingly. I don't have the drive to work through that anymore, although there is still a lingering anxiety.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.paulandwendyprojects.com/"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">PAUL + WENDY PROJECTS</span></a></span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">thanks Paul, Wendy, and Jon!</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">------<br /><br /><br /><br />------------</span><br /><br />

YHBHS interview with Jon Pylypchuk + Paul + Wendy

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