
Ultimately, their work is about a search for a unique beautythat is within the materials and forms they find in their process.- PellePELLE are Korean-American designer Jean Pelle and German designer Oliver Pelle who met and studied at the Yale School of Architecture. From their studio in Red Hook Br…

This one was locked, closed down and refrained.You tore through the glass, no one could understand.As you pushed them all away, you made them all return.This on was overcome, yet you lost in the end.Now you, are on your way. (here) ...... Well I have been quietly standing in the shade All of my day…

LOYALTY is faithfulness or a devotion to a person, country, group, or cause. (Philosophers disagree as to what things one can be loyal to. Some, as explained in more detail below, argue that one can be loyal to a broad range of things, whilst others argue that it is only possible for loyalty to be t…

They are paintingsThey are prints They are picturesThey are about removing space. ....Mario Correa:"The Muslins" November 9th – December 22nd, 2012@Redling, 6757 Santa Monica Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90038They are paintings: hand mixed oil and enamel on un-stretched muslin, made upright by the walls th…

Max Ingrand, 1957 lampvs Laura Owens, 2011 paintingvsDerek Jarman, 1993, voice Blue Bottle buzzing, Lazy days, The sky blue butterfly, Sways on the cornflower, Lost in the warmth, Of the blue heat haze. Singing the blues. Quiet and slowly. (here)1. Max Ingrand: Rare table lamp, circa 1957 Colored g…

Young man in a quiet place Got a hawk on his arm He loves that bird. Never does no harm. It's the only thing that never can do no harm. Must be the only thing: That never can do no harm (here)..... Young woman with a drink in her hand She like to listen to rock and roll She moves with the music Caus…
A conversation with Gerard O'Brien

...... "My timing has been good--I’ve gotten to be involved during the time when they Getty undertook the Pacific Standard Time project, which really shone a light on design in the postwar California period, and that has always been the moment we’ve focused on, and to have Pacific Standard Time …

It’s the same today as it ever was. He who seeks beauty will find it.” - Bill Cunninghamvs "Scares me how you get older how you forget about each otherthings mean a lot at the time, don't mean nothing later"- Red House PaintersChinese white-glazed jars that have been converted into lampswith double-…

"It's just the darkness, don't make your feelings too complex It's just a one man, you have the love light in you It's just the beginning, it'll be comin' around again." - winterheartI wanna find the eagle's nest, Oh take me with you, (Oh oh...) And I've been waiting a lifetime for this, And I'm rea…
A Conversation with Richard Wright

....I collect a wide range of things. I don’t collect historical rarities.I collect things that interest me visually, from a Maarten Baas coffee tableto a Jack Lenor Larsen sofa. I like to make unexpected choices." "Truly, American design is one of the greatest bargains out there." Richard Wright …

DISC Interiors on Remodelista "To realize their vision, they turned to David John and Krista Schrock of DISC Interiors; a newish firm that's quietly making its mark on the design scene with their clean yet classic interiors. For this 1,000-square-foot Sonoma Valley loft, a renovation of a onetime co…

Jason Koharik: Collected byOpening Reception Friday, Nov 9th, (more here)"New Nouveau" the new new. It is a response to this trend. Something growing out of it maybe. There was a time when some one said "new art, Art Nouveau", and it described something pretty, flowing, and up lifting, it was painte…

"Viewers were free to further transform the spaces by scratching, writing, and marking the pristine yet vulnerable material with whatever was at hand, leaving individual traces that were soon subsumed into the accumulated mass of marks that the space became."Rudolf StingelOctober 16 - December 22, 2…

"It is more just the small things, like that candelabra that I got from Adam Blackman of Blackman Cruz, the half moon. I love just the fact that I could change anything here at any moment. For me a beautiful object is like, I love that chair, and if I found a different one, then I would put it in my…