‘A window covered with raindrops interests me more than a photograph of a famous person’ Saul Leiter (1923-2013)
More Saul Leiter, here
Image courtesy HackelBury Fine Art Howard Greenberg Gallery
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happy weekend.
Love this range of tables by Paris-based designer Constance Guisset (not to mention the owl styling..) Originally designed in 2009 for the French Cultural Institute in Ankara, Turkey, the Ankara collection is all metal in a range of colours. More, here
I wrote about another of Constance Guisset’s products, the Vertigo pendant, here.
50 best rooms.
I love the idea of a ‘best rooms’ award – not house, or interior, but room. Aussie interiors publication Australian House and Garden does one annually. The contenders vary wildly in style and presumably budget (it’s not clear what the criteria is). This year features a bathroom designed by the architecture studio of friends from my Melbourne University days, in typically quirky style, rich in materiality and texture (no 23!). These are my favourites:
04. Geometric cut-outs in an all-white volume by Decus
14. Black-stained wood, exposed brick and a contrasting diaphonous curtain by Beatrix Rowe Interior Design
15. Pale wood and simple, geometric shapes by O’Connor and Houle Architecture
23. Rich-red slatted wood and bold white pattern by AlsoCan architects
26. Linear indoor/outdoor space by Drew Heath Architects
31. Heightened sense of scale and a wall of art by Sarah Davison Interior Design
46. Black framing against white-on-white elements by Whiting Architects
Which is your favourite? 50 Best Rooms of 2013, here
More good design, here
happy halloween weekend.
happy weekend.
Just back from a few days final foray to south wales before the leaves turn for another year…
Playing with dimension and scale, these staged still lifes are decidedly modernist, referencing the works of Miro and Picasso, for example. Composition, form and lighting all come into play and everyday, recognisable objects become players within a stage set.
Danish artist Jan Hardisty has created abstract artworks that resemble paintings but are actually photographs. More, here
Jan Hardisty Abstract Art Photographs first seen here:
gorgeous graphics (and a good cause).
Recently discovered (via this lovely interior design blog), the graphic artist Jason Munn who began making posters ten years ago for local venues and independent musicians; he has now added design and illustration commissions to his repertoire. Some of his work is in the permanent collection at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Denver Art Museum. I love the simple, clean graphics, retro quality and bold but muted colour palette..
Website and shop, here
Also love this limited edition poster Something for Syria with 100% of the proceeds going to Médecins Sans Frontières for the people of Syria. Only 250 editions printed (actually, 249…). Get one, here
More gorgeous graphics, here
happy weekend.
The Sun installation is a symbolic representation of the sun constantly changing from white to warm orange to burning red. The installation first travelled from Oslo to Tromsø in northern Norway, to light up the city in a period where it had no sunlight. It has now arrived in the UK to light up East London during London Design Festival (14-22 September) as part of the 100% Norway show at Tent London.
The Sun by Christine Istad and Lisa Pacini via WAN.
And don’t forget the moon, here
old, iconic and new :: a stool and a light.
Having grown up in Australia, I made my first acquaintance with the Moomins rather later than my Swedish/Finnish counterparts. Enchanted still, I love the expressive, stylised images and beautiful linework of Tove Jansson’s illustrations, not to mention the characters themselves. Alvar Aalto stools are the archetypal stool (I have two, and they won’t be my last). Finnish brand Artek is releasing four pieces from the Aalto collection with Moomin characters lolloping across the face. Table 90B, Stool 60, Children’s Stool NE60 and Children’s chair N65 are all participating. More Artek re-releases from an earlier post, here. More from Artek, here.
Another exciting re-issue, Louis Poulsen’s wonderful, iconic PH5 (I wrote about a perfect pendant, here) has been released with new colour combinations, including coconut white, army green/dark grey, dark grey/turquoise and wasabi green. The spacers which hold the shades in position are finished in bronze, and they are all a soft, matt finish.
I love the soft coconut white-on-white, and the dark grey/turquoise; what about you? More, here.
Also love this round-up of five modern design icons in Dwell, including Eero Aarnio and Lina Bo Bardi, here.
off to the beach.
After a brief foray into Surrey (in the shadows of Box Hill, known notably for its role in Jane Austen’s Emma, as well as the Olympic cycling last year), we are off to the beach.
I wrote about the Modernist architect John Winter in an earlier post (here); the Beach House was designed by him for his own use, and it’s available to rent. This is where we shall be ensconced, a stone’s throw from the east Norfolk coast. It’s not the charming curvaceous beaches of Sicily’s east coast, or the expansive endless horizon of sand of Australia’s coast, but it has sand crabs at low tide, and starfish at high; and the only accoutrement required is a bucket and spade. Just perfect for a three-year-old. Happy summer!
Elephant Slide (Girona 1975) via
owl's house london. 