<u><b><i> </i><i>The Answer is Yes</i> </b></u><br /><br /><i>"With a fantastical design sensibility that resulted in a long and storied career as Disneyland’s Senior Art Director, Graham is expert in creating otherworldly environments, which he demonstrates at the Craft & Folk Art Museum</i> "<br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmRlCvfwvJzHFgBPfExds0hJuAKSOVMMrYSqwG3f7XlVwoZ_wUzL5H-BQ5t6kZowAbJv-4dJ0IpBaHK7BEXA2UNFVlj3KEiNHKfgbNuRDFeDbo3aCPSxd5BGFVHwSk-ykD6gNXREWP3s_8/s1600/clare+graham+craft+musem+LA.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmRlCvfwvJzHFgBPfExds0hJuAKSOVMMrYSqwG3f7XlVwoZ_wUzL5H-BQ5t6kZowAbJv-4dJ0IpBaHK7BEXA2UNFVlj3KEiNHKfgbNuRDFeDbo3aCPSxd5BGFVHwSk-ykD6gNXREWP3s_8/s1600/clare+graham+craft+musem+LA.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><i> a cabinet of curiosities filled with large balls of string expertly arranged, as if floating...</i></div><br /><br /><b><i>Clare Graham & MorYork: The Answer is Yes</i></b> <br />September 13, 2014 - January 4, 2015  <i> </i><br /><br /><i>"The first solo exhibition of Los Angeles artist Clare Graham highlights the richness and complexity of nearly 40 years of his collecting and artmaking from found materials. The exhibition simulates the density of objects found in Graham's 7000 square foot Highland Park studio MorYork, a human-scaled diorama populated by his own work and a collection of curiosities that would rival the most historic wunderkammer. Staggering quantities of dominoes, soda-cans and their pop-tops, Scrabble tiles and puzzle-pieces, and other disposable items have been transformed by Graham’s refined touch into large sculptural objects that evoke forms like totems, flora, fauna, architectural fragments and furniture. <b>Their power lies in the straightforward presentation of a formal singularity, constructed of one, two or three materials at once in repetition and in their remarkable scale</b>. </i><br /><br /><i>Curated by Brooks Hudson Thomas."</i><br /><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjszrQH4xR2HzvyUVyXHEHvY6mwrhwNO4MgX1Tx6AoJTVNcGKxWA-pcXBdDFuJhndloAFqsN5pTc5ADKgOzW3QZVONBE0_zKHZk1GrkiHO8ocVsUUMKjvD2DfRoTD-F_zppTcwd3QLyJ-xt/s1600/clare+garaham.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjszrQH4xR2HzvyUVyXHEHvY6mwrhwNO4MgX1Tx6AoJTVNcGKxWA-pcXBdDFuJhndloAFqsN5pTc5ADKgOzW3QZVONBE0_zKHZk1GrkiHO8ocVsUUMKjvD2DfRoTD-F_zppTcwd3QLyJ-xt/s1600/clare+garaham.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><i>a wall of mirrors created from teddy-bear eyes...</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i> </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i> </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>"Graham’s refined touch has transformed staggering quantities of dominoes into cabinet doors, soda-cans and their pop-tops into furniture, scrabble tiles and puzzle-pieces into architectural forms, and buttons into organic sea-form chandeliers. </i><i>"</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i> </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i> </i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i> <a href="http://www.cafam.org/exhibitions/"><b>more info here..</b></a><b> </b></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>Craft and Folk Art Museum </i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>5814 Wilshire Boulevard </i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>Los Angeles, CA 90036</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i> </i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i> </i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i> </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>-------------- </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>

 The Answer is Yes "With a fantastical design sensibility that resulted in a long and storied career as Disneyland’s Senior Art Director, Graham is expert in creating otherworldly environments, which he demonstrates at the Craft & Folk Art Museum " a cabinet of curiosities filled with large balls of…

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<i>“In painting, everyone </i><br /><i>positions their pawns”</i> –<b> Claude Rutault </b><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFYXFe0FVxS9KgTwLBgoMjIlaYRUuXZr5csCZyWCL5bAQ4AdcEgkWYWlSgDGU7qqwIPDVVWIzhIarf4L6TVFKwwnKcvr7XNNpZnPHTcDYV5urckcHdilzOvoUthxeAIlkKU7HNTVE9ZfxG/s1600/xy.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="607" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFYXFe0FVxS9KgTwLBgoMjIlaYRUuXZr5csCZyWCL5bAQ4AdcEgkWYWlSgDGU7qqwIPDVVWIzhIarf4L6TVFKwwnKcvr7XNNpZnPHTcDYV5urckcHdilzOvoUthxeAIlkKU7HNTVE9ZfxG/s1600/xy.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><i><br /></i><br /><b><i>Claude Rutault</i></b><br /><b><i>20 November, 2014 – 3 January, 2015</i></b><br /><a href="https://www.perrotin.com/"><b><i>Galerie Perrotin, New York    </i></b></a><br /><i><br /></i><i>“In painting, everyone positions their pawns” – Claude Rutault </i><br /><i><br /></i><i>Galerie Perrotin, New York is pleased to present a collection of works by Claude Rutault, the artist’s first solo exhibition in America following four-decades of prominent and influential practice in France. Rutault’s work, beginning with a 1974 show staged at the office of a Parisian psychoanalyst, has consistently approached painting as a social practice embedded in the living relationships between artwork, artist, gallery, collector, museum and auction house.  The present exhibition features eighteen de-finition/methods, including early works such as “positive/negative 2” 1975 and “formats at the limit 2” 1974 (shown at the artist’s studio during a residency at PS1, New York in 1979), as well as four new pieces: “charity begins with others”, “painting against the wall, front and back”, “the exhibition” and “suicide-painting 11” (all 2014).  <span style="font-size: small;"><b>Claude Rutault describes himself as a painter; and indeed, viewing any one of his pieces is uncontroversially an encounter with paint on canvas. Rutault, however, does not paint his pieces himself; and neither is he in the business of overseeing their production on the model of a producer, designer, or director running a factory, studio, or workshop.</b></span> Instead, the mainspring of Rutault’s practice is the writing and issuing of a set of rules, caveats, instructions and procedures called “de-finition/methods,” according to which a gallery, collector, or institution—known as the “charge-taker”—agrees to “actualize” a given work.</i><br /><br /><br /><i>photograph Antoine Cadet </i><br /><i><a href="https://www.perrotin.com/">more info here..</a> </i><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">-----------</div>

“In painting, everyone positions their pawns” – Claude Rutault Claude Rutault20 November, 2014 – 3 January, 2015Galerie Perrotin, New York    “In painting, everyone positions their pawns” – Claude Rutault Galerie Perrotin, New York is pleased to present a collection of works by Claude Rutault, the a…

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<i>"I've never seen a diamond in the flesh </i><br /><i>I cut my teeth on wedding rings in the movies </i><br /><i>And I'm not proud of my address, </i><br /><i>In a torn-up town, no postcode envy" </i><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4ivrWm2e0saYU7rkoEy9HAaf1VbppLm5vVBRhLgeGrpr7Lxp8jZXbW02RnojbiC1xZlZjE4Td8lx4eWrXfiok_arGS5tStfjcNWqJJ_NMKkHUJbmT2elIbe4rGQPsEY5KAlYavBgYb5l2/s1600/kachadourian_zigzag6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="448" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4ivrWm2e0saYU7rkoEy9HAaf1VbppLm5vVBRhLgeGrpr7Lxp8jZXbW02RnojbiC1xZlZjE4Td8lx4eWrXfiok_arGS5tStfjcNWqJJ_NMKkHUJbmT2elIbe4rGQPsEY5KAlYavBgYb5l2/s1600/kachadourian_zigzag6.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJsz0sBtMhP-8ynzdNbxci54pFCGaRTw9F7Cx-NLdjNcZ1aEn0KQ1_Ra1lO_dmKmYAGCKpIk-QTzuKso6ltBMbdwcY1bDyJBoWX4h6symsiNG4NKKrPDQJZHj2n5LKPT267rFK8Dq3toZk/s1600/kachadourian_zigzag1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="448" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJsz0sBtMhP-8ynzdNbxci54pFCGaRTw9F7Cx-NLdjNcZ1aEn0KQ1_Ra1lO_dmKmYAGCKpIk-QTzuKso6ltBMbdwcY1bDyJBoWX4h6symsiNG4NKKrPDQJZHj2n5LKPT267rFK8Dq3toZk/s1600/kachadourian_zigzag1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><i>Jason Kachadourian grew up in Baltimore and now lives in Brooklyn.  He is cofounder of an art space called The Bakery.  He makes art and furniture.  <b>jasonkachadourian@gmail.com</b></i><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">---------------</div>

"I've never seen a diamond in the flesh I cut my teeth on wedding rings in the movies And I'm not proud of my address, In a torn-up town, no postcode envy" Jason Kachadourian grew up in Baltimore and now lives in Brooklyn.  He is cofounder of an art space called The Bakery.  He makes art and furnitu…

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<b>DISC Interiors :</b><i> "A Bright and Modern Santa Monica Space"</i><i><br />featured on Domaine Home </i><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPVK3xpZ66tJrRJyUZ-9Z1qXkP3NWwdgif9la_NtIB1oHd052cETZ30qUzyBXbwQ8WwljeuUVr6y5WutffHqQ3ok9jOPuE5xFbFnJ3AUImLp7KlOu_kbyI2XN6Y3DJK25fYomM4JRK2BXr/s1600/DISC+Interiors+23.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPVK3xpZ66tJrRJyUZ-9Z1qXkP3NWwdgif9la_NtIB1oHd052cETZ30qUzyBXbwQ8WwljeuUVr6y5WutffHqQ3ok9jOPuE5xFbFnJ3AUImLp7KlOu_kbyI2XN6Y3DJK25fYomM4JRK2BXr/s1600/DISC+Interiors+23.jpg" /></a></div><br /><br /><b>Thank you Domaine Home!</b><br /><br /><i>"Giving an ultra-modern home a rustic, comfortable vibe can be a daunting task, but DISC Interiors, skilled at creating California-cool spaces, is just the team to do it. David John and Krista Shrock, the designing duo behind the firm, were hired by a family of four to make their modern home, built in 2008 by JFAK Architects, more family-friendly and hip. <b>“They wanted to pull the spaces together and balance the modern architecture with some rustic yet refined elements</b></i><b>."  </b><br /><br /><i><a href="http://www.domainehome.com/disc-interiors-santa-monica-home"><b>full story on Domaine here.</b></a></i><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnzbh2fhBZF8ojb-96Xu-7BuCMW3rZHWPYQY-YSphiivnBh1QqUUOnfTYGGxD18c0cdgCtc9Vg7k8U4UltYYvGbnMle7_JHipsm2Tvlebt9nnEI9JW3vVaY7PUGcjQNt3OPXwmwaTZPK-h/s1600/DISC+Interiors+24.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnzbh2fhBZF8ojb-96Xu-7BuCMW3rZHWPYQY-YSphiivnBh1QqUUOnfTYGGxD18c0cdgCtc9Vg7k8U4UltYYvGbnMle7_JHipsm2Tvlebt9nnEI9JW3vVaY7PUGcjQNt3OPXwmwaTZPK-h/s1600/DISC+Interiors+24.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><i>The guest room: custom DISC bed with with vintage rug and blanket by Hollywood at Home</i></div><br /><br /><i>Looking to the home’s many skylights and vast windows, the designers played off the surrounding greenery and colors of the ocean for the color scheme. <span style="font-size: large;"><b>“We like to bring the exterior colors inside, and the windows are a main feature of this home, so this played heavily in our design,</b></span>” they say. To balance the home’s many white walls, the designers incorporated a lot of black elements, too. “We try to keep it minimal and not mix too many colors. We usually pick one or two colors over the neutral colors, blacks and whites.”</i><br /><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8qj5-SnrJ9L9HQ8-LsSx3D_Uwww0w_p4prAOMCNtydo4y52YDqCERGPDa0Uw_EMlzb58OrlV-UrNiqDTze-iCSW3FJ3ZCCNdDP4WT0PtgBHUk7kgwU_va11I-LVWnx_rdYIBCJKuhm6lc/s1600/DISC+Interiors+25.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8qj5-SnrJ9L9HQ8-LsSx3D_Uwww0w_p4prAOMCNtydo4y52YDqCERGPDa0Uw_EMlzb58OrlV-UrNiqDTze-iCSW3FJ3ZCCNdDP4WT0PtgBHUk7kgwU_va11I-LVWnx_rdYIBCJKuhm6lc/s1600/DISC+Interiors+25.jpg" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><i>the kitchen with bar stools by Thomas Hayes and lighting by Robert Lewis Studio</i></div><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj30m1FwZLpeTFKrHT3DNSi50Rh0DCqyK-sGmwZ-igmXSujUEYMKgSHQGR2z2UdkWJ7cPVa2GHiDKLRbEEfgpTCvBwh9TAV7ws7lpymvF4fL5Zzbqvjixt4ScDWRZZxoxfwq6qYcFy2l0SK/s1600/DISC+Interiors+26.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj30m1FwZLpeTFKrHT3DNSi50Rh0DCqyK-sGmwZ-igmXSujUEYMKgSHQGR2z2UdkWJ7cPVa2GHiDKLRbEEfgpTCvBwh9TAV7ws7lpymvF4fL5Zzbqvjixt4ScDWRZZxoxfwq6qYcFy2l0SK/s1600/DISC+Interiors+26.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Custom coffee table by <b>Lawson Fenning,</b> vintage rug, and brass accessories by Carl Aubock</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">--------------------</div>

DISC Interiors : "A Bright and Modern Santa Monica Space"featured on Domaine Home Thank you Domaine Home!"Giving an ultra-modern home a rustic, comfortable vibe can be a daunting task, but DISC Interiors, skilled at creating California-cool spaces, is just the team to do it. David John and Krista Sh…

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<i><b>"A Frame for Life"</b> </i><br /><br /><i>"<b>Design can be a powerful force.</b> I have never understood why interior design is often so underestimated, misunderstood and trivialised. It is too often dismissed as something superficial, without intrinsic value. An ‘add-on’. It’s a mistake that it is considered a luxury to be applied if there is money left at the end, rather than an integral part of making and shaping new realities from the outset."</i> <i>- Ilse Crawford, taken from "A Frame for Life"</i><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhknPk3Kglh1lkweV1_Io0PZuQWev8fYxYfb1FqZPJ6BIEnuE5AjfQZNZOw1deHvmvVQPUG0lPHDsFLgr1KM44-yH5Sqvlens9zUQokORmmgizX3N0o2SL79EodGDcL_oPxmGexlCRPNlTq/s1600/IlseCrawford_COVER.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhknPk3Kglh1lkweV1_Io0PZuQWev8fYxYfb1FqZPJ6BIEnuE5AjfQZNZOw1deHvmvVQPUG0lPHDsFLgr1KM44-yH5Sqvlens9zUQokORmmgizX3N0o2SL79EodGDcL_oPxmGexlCRPNlTq/s1600/IlseCrawford_COVER.jpg" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>"I consider myself a quiet revolutionary.</b></span> <i>My design puts the human being at the centre. I am fascinated by what drives us, brings us together and ultimately makes us feel alive. At Studioilse we address changing times and values in our mission to promote good, sensible design and its power to improve the way we work and live. The studio manifests this through design that makes buildings, spaces, brands and furniture that are warm, not ‘cool’. We are interested in how design affects us rather than in the image, integrating design with human behaviour, starting from the point of view of the individual. <b>We look at a project from physical and emotional perspectives, practical and poetic, individual and social before creating a design that engages us physically, emotionally, subliminally and sensorially, so as to make a place that enhances life and enables us to thrive.</b> A place that people love. You can design the most incredible place and yet it requires people to make it a reality. Buildings and their interiors are made to be used. From the outset, the people who will live there, use it, operate it, adapt and adopt it are as much a part of our understanding of the context we are working with as the financial facts or the physical possibilities. </i>" <b>-<i> Ilse Crawford</i></b><br /><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx_v4jqIRKnkfTzgY9UjTuTYOpAtX5CxUKF0k2MlMvjWHnIOWimM56U03KGs3HGAtCOfLzQVXMCrw5NdtKLz3P6NGBnJPDMoZoMqW6LxxDugnJiAt-MlW9g_YTnTbmh8ukdZnOQvTPxk6i/s1600/IlseCrawford_p072.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx_v4jqIRKnkfTzgY9UjTuTYOpAtX5CxUKF0k2MlMvjWHnIOWimM56U03KGs3HGAtCOfLzQVXMCrw5NdtKLz3P6NGBnJPDMoZoMqW6LxxDugnJiAt-MlW9g_YTnTbmh8ukdZnOQvTPxk6i/s1600/IlseCrawford_p072.jpg" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtxaC2QpS83FoTCUi1_ZbDA7wyJvj_Vgq1HZ6jNJsHwp44LqzB3fMdXOq8PlAOrR4Bi85K0U5h0OXvt-2OiMyZ7bJbae6zSKe_nImRe64YNj0xvFI0MZYYzIWRmC7MsCeCgUOeVedZTwsS/s1600/IlseCrawford_p058.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtxaC2QpS83FoTCUi1_ZbDA7wyJvj_Vgq1HZ6jNJsHwp44LqzB3fMdXOq8PlAOrR4Bi85K0U5h0OXvt-2OiMyZ7bJbae6zSKe_nImRe64YNj0xvFI0MZYYzIWRmC7MsCeCgUOeVedZTwsS/s1600/IlseCrawford_p058.jpg" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><i>"For us interior design is about so much more than choosing furniture, and it is our mission to change this perception. Good interior design is always about more than the way things look (although that is certainly an important part of the toolkit).<span style="font-size: large;"><b> It is about making sure the human experience is prioritized when we build. It is about human happiness and well being. It is about making life better. After all, inside buildings is where we live.</b></span> "</i><br /><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlvXlyOg-j5LgSfICD6_yOEoUZh1v4NgrlcJgJMLFaexOTLp99NlarOFIHK5hIIwWVBjxrWDj6dwRXZIjzrcl7HL9hLuO3SgUT0vPtBv_R0c3G3Axk4iCmQ2KbzaCKykVJ2ZTi4itTcy_8/s1600/IlseCrawford_p096.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlvXlyOg-j5LgSfICD6_yOEoUZh1v4NgrlcJgJMLFaexOTLp99NlarOFIHK5hIIwWVBjxrWDj6dwRXZIjzrcl7HL9hLuO3SgUT0vPtBv_R0c3G3Axk4iCmQ2KbzaCKykVJ2ZTi4itTcy_8/s1600/IlseCrawford_p096.jpg" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.rizzoliusa.com/book.php?isbn=9780847838578"><b><i>go to Rizzoli here for more information.</i></b></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><i>---------- </i><b><i><br /></i></b></div>

"A Frame for Life" "Design can be a powerful force. I have never understood why interior design is often so underestimated, misunderstood and trivialised. It is too often dismissed as something superficial, without intrinsic value. An ‘add-on’. It’s a mistake that it is considered a luxury to be appl…

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<i>"In the cities and buildings,<b> the value and life is in the Void.</b></i><br /><i> Not as a left over, rather as a crafted human space." </i><br /><br /><i>an afternoon at a home designed by Sebastian Mariscal in Venice California. </i><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR1GjwfvVrdvus_8njfLUIPJE9fg4xjh787P2j3fRyoQJpq6mpLNVdbLPSFhTaZ2RjNAEG2VcfLNngdVdZ2eqgRzlaF4_SoeVACVETTFmd3-hPqIByfpDQ2ucCNIPTcV27frIpSK5xR5sF/s1600/photo+1+(64).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR1GjwfvVrdvus_8njfLUIPJE9fg4xjh787P2j3fRyoQJpq6mpLNVdbLPSFhTaZ2RjNAEG2VcfLNngdVdZ2eqgRzlaF4_SoeVACVETTFmd3-hPqIByfpDQ2ucCNIPTcV27frIpSK5xR5sF/s1600/photo+1+(64).jpg" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTAHKJ1XVvt1Tnh_QxKMWYLe2k5n2mFQZ1evA2918Mkb6oUvdk3HYGSAWLpbs0iqVtysSr-MDlRrtejhqaNZyuwlLDnjJ_LkH15jzgth43VO3E-vQ_lwT0TcbPyxzEfm6WkFCWIyrEnFya/s1600/photo+2+(37).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTAHKJ1XVvt1Tnh_QxKMWYLe2k5n2mFQZ1evA2918Mkb6oUvdk3HYGSAWLpbs0iqVtysSr-MDlRrtejhqaNZyuwlLDnjJ_LkH15jzgth43VO3E-vQ_lwT0TcbPyxzEfm6WkFCWIyrEnFya/s1600/photo+2+(37).jpg" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://sebastianmariscal.com/"><i>more information on Sebastian Mariscal's site.</i></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">----------------</div>

"In the cities and buildings, the value and life is in the Void. Not as a left over, rather as a crafted human space." an afternoon at a home designed by Sebastian Mariscal in Venice California. more information on Sebastian Mariscal's site.----------------…

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<i>"Simplicity is the glory of expression." - Walt Whitman</i><br /><b><i> </i></b><br /><i> a new book<b>, </b></i><b>"The Impossible Collection of Design"</b> by Frédéric Chambre<br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_mbIaNizO5LLy8oBI8ctGUHnslpR2hrFnz_icF9AtCnicF_siYTe0dQk57qULkj-HPl-mxTCtgjfogzewz4YcqQoOjpmuybHhC2dbY7ElMdtLKubfVQkpbWwuTELfVYtS4y5F7I72ff-I/s1600/Impossible-Design-clamshell-book-cover-LR.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_mbIaNizO5LLy8oBI8ctGUHnslpR2hrFnz_icF9AtCnicF_siYTe0dQk57qULkj-HPl-mxTCtgjfogzewz4YcqQoOjpmuybHhC2dbY7ElMdtLKubfVQkpbWwuTELfVYtS4y5F7I72ff-I/s1600/Impossible-Design-clamshell-book-cover-LR.jpg" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><i><br /></i><br /><b><i>"The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, </i></b><br /><i><b>and, ironically, the more real." </b>- Lucian Freud </i><br /><br /><i>"In recent years, the decorative furnishings niche has become of tremendous interest to collectors, causing a surge in the auction market and bringing record sales. Chosen by design expert Frédéric Chambre, this selection of furniture designs unspools like the frames of a film, an epic picture composed of one hundred years of creative innovations in form, materials, and techniques.<b> As in art history, themes can be traced across changing trends: design versus the machine, design versus craft, design versus art—a story that continues to unfold. </b>This hand-bound oversize luxury edition traces the development of twentieth-century design from the Art Nouveau and Arts and Crafts movements through Bauhaus and Art Deco, Pop Art and the Memphis school, to today’s digital age, illustrating the dynamic story of a groundbreaking century through the evolution of everyday human objects. With degrees in law and art history, Frédéric Chambre became a partner at the Calmels-Chambre-Cohen auction house in 1996. Chambre co-founded Pierre Bergé and Associates in 2002, and became vice president and partner in 2005; he was co-organizer of the February 2009 sale of the Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé collection at Christie’s in Paris."</i><br /><br /><i><a href="http://www.assouline.com/shop/impossible-collection-of-design.html">more info here.. </a></i><br /><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_R5m1Et7u3VeqHoA6m34_5si3QWrAE849dXDVwdA19JRDbJP0mNYeLmH7a7B7GVMdjkoeH-a9WSRGfC2XCXYiiktJK9BBwbUhI36fmjORST-6hPeGSiJP9eKNz5p7UhyphenhyphenMRGp7HOhlJJ62/s1600/%C2%A9+Thierry+Depagne+%E2%80%93+Archives+Galerie+Patrick+Seguin.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_R5m1Et7u3VeqHoA6m34_5si3QWrAE849dXDVwdA19JRDbJP0mNYeLmH7a7B7GVMdjkoeH-a9WSRGfC2XCXYiiktJK9BBwbUhI36fmjORST-6hPeGSiJP9eKNz5p7UhyphenhyphenMRGp7HOhlJJ62/s1600/%C2%A9+Thierry+Depagne+%E2%80%93+Archives+Galerie+Patrick+Seguin.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>SERGE MOUILLE (1922–88), </i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>France. Saturne ceiling light. Metal, aluminum, brass. H: 385.8 in. (980 cm), W: TK. Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris.   </i><i>© Thierry Depagne – Archives Galerie Patrick Seguin   </i><br /><br /><br /><b><i>"Is Serge Mouille a manufacturer of lighting systems, a collector of mollusk shells, a transcendent sculptor, like Calder, or an aluminum maniac?" </i></b><br /><i> Madeleine Fuchs, Décor d’aujourd’hui, December 1954 </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;">  </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSIIy8BCWUCIFVDdAm7PzzEdDQMwLWdOrY3FwKXK-zaUC8J5rAwObseCMSUmlDM2TxX7rnCYduTGybWgiGUsAXmge8Uz7QDMCmBCnvXrSLI6EmZn5bmREhYSmdpLoiH5HydHT-DKkBVrcd/s1600/%C2%A9+Arnaud+Carpentier+%E2%80%93+Archives+Galerie+Vallois+Paris.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSIIy8BCWUCIFVDdAm7PzzEdDQMwLWdOrY3FwKXK-zaUC8J5rAwObseCMSUmlDM2TxX7rnCYduTGybWgiGUsAXmge8Uz7QDMCmBCnvXrSLI6EmZn5bmREhYSmdpLoiH5HydHT-DKkBVrcd/s1600/%C2%A9+Arnaud+Carpentier+%E2%80%93+Archives+Galerie+Vallois+Paris.jpg" /></a></div><br /><br /><i><b><br /></b></i><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b>JEAN-MICHEL FRANK (1895–1941)</b>, France. Lamp. </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Ivory strips on bronze base. H: 20.47 in. (52 cm). Private collection, Galerie Vallois, Paris. © Arnaud Carpentier – Archives Galerie Vallois Paris </i><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><i>------------------------------ </i></div>

"Simplicity is the glory of expression." - Walt Whitman  a new book, "The Impossible Collection of Design" by Frédéric Chambre"The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real." - Lucian Freud "In recent years, the decorative furnishings niche has become…

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