<span style="font-weight: bold;">the monday waiting room.</span> pt 43<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">(the wait for the week to follow)</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6149/6022216213_9d109caa58_b.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6149/6022216213_9d109caa58_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 725px; height: 486px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">the monday waiting room.</span></span> <span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">pt 43</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">(the wait for the week to follow)</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />1. <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.stuartscott.co.uk/HOME1.htm"><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >Chair and Table by Stuart Scott Associates</span></a>:</span> "Led by the designer<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 51);"> Stuart Scott</span></span>, we are committed to designing and creating outstanding contemporary furniture. The exciting first collection of upholstered furniture and cabinetry is the culmination of his twenty years experience in London Paris and Riyadh working with the world’s leading interior designers and architects. Each piece is executed to the highest standards in England by Master Craftsman using time honoured techniques. We are committed to designing and creating outstanding contemporary furniture. Our first collection is the culmination of Stuart Scott’s twenty years in the contemporary furniture industry and draws on his experience designing in London, Paris and Riyadh working with the world’s leading interior designers." <span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://studioannetta.blogspot.com/" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"> (discovered via Studio Annetta)</a></span><br /><br /><br /><br />2. <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Lamp by <span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">A Rudin</span></span></span><span style="font-style: italic;"> (slightly altered to make fit)</span> pay no attention to scale!<br /><br /><br /><br />3. <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Decorative Plates:</span></span> Stopped into <a href="http://booradleys.1stdibs.com/store/furniture_item_detail.php?id=470009" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Boo Radley's </span></span></a>on Saturday, only to discover a new world of items! <span style="font-style: italic;">"Set of four painted Italian plates, two large and two small, with metallic gold edges. Large 5.5" diameter. Small 4" diameter"<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 /></span>

the monday waiting room. pt 43 (the wait for the week to follow) the monday waiting room. pt 43 (the wait for the week to follow) 1. Chai...

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L.A. with a GLORY HOLE

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"the weak metropolis"

<span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">...</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">when does a metropolis collapse? </span><br /></span>.</span><br />"Governments on both sides of the Atlantic have avoided grappling with <span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"> fundamental problems</span></span>, counting on renewed growth to help borrowers who cannot afford to pay and creditors who cannot afford<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> to walk away.</span></span> "<br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">- NYtimes.</span><br /><br />“What is it like to live in a city during the age of globalization, the Internet, changing workplace situations and <span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">imbalances both ecological and economic?</span></span>” -<span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"> Andrea Branzi</span><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6014/6015953908_a70e87fbf7_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6014/6015953908_a70e87fbf7_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 700px; height: 875px;" /></a><br /><br /><br />"But four years into this age of financial contagion, <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">the global economy cannot seem to pick up steam. Every promising leap seems to end with a sickening thud.</span></span> The easy answers are exhausted, and political leaders face a rising tide of anger that is constraining their ability to make more difficult choices..." <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/07/business/global/standard-poors-downgrade-of-united-states-credit-rating-echoes-nervousness-of-global-markets.html?hp"><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">- NYT (read here)</span><br /></a><br /><p style="text-align: left;">"In contrast to the construct of the historic Charta, the so-called<span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"> “Weak Metropolis”</span></span> is a living framework which reacts flexibly to societal and political changes in the urban context, and further develops existing situations which have evolved over time. Andrea Branzi invites discussion of the following question:<span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">“what is it like to live in a city during the age of globalization, the Internet, changing workplace situations and imbalances both ecological and economic?”</span></span> and lays out ten “modest recommendations” as to how the city could be understood according to new social and functional logics.<br /></p><p style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">He considers the industrialized city as a rational mechanism for growth and prosperity to be an outdated concept</span>.</span></span> He believes that the urban development of the 21st century should not follow an established set of rules or separation of functions according to a pre-developed plan. His “New Charter of Athens” is a manifesto not for the city of the future, but much rather for the city of the present with all its deficiencies and contradictions."</p><p style="text-align: left; font-style: italic; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.curatedobject.us/the_curated_object_/2011/01/exhibitions-vienna-the-weak-metropolis-for-a-new-charter-of-athens-mak-the-curated-object.html"><br /></a></p><p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.curatedobject.us/the_curated_object_/2011/01/exhibitions-vienna-the-weak-metropolis-for-a-new-charter-of-athens-mak-the-curated-object.html"><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">taken from here.</span></a></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-style: italic;">image:</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"> Andrea Branzi,</span><br />PROJECT “Epigrammi”<span style="font-style: italic;"> photography Giacomo Giannini</span></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><br /><br />-----------------------------

"the weak metropolis"

... when does a metropolis collapse? . "Governments on both sides of the Atlantic have avoided grappling with fundamental problems , c...

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