Category Archives: bits + pieces.

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James Turrell, Aten Reign, 2013
Daylight and LED light, dimensions variable © James Turrell
Photo: David Heald © Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York
Site specific, the installation consists of a series of rings suspended from the ceiling of the Guggenheim’s rotunda. Each ring is lit from below by a series of ever-changing LED lights, and from above by the sunlight filtering down from the rotunda’s oculus. The piece cycles between colors, and over the course of the day, varying amounts of sunlight mean that Aten Reign is composed of an almost infinite variety of colors and states. 

James Turrell, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, June 21–September 25, 2013

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happy (easter) weekend.

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private moon in kaohsiung, taiwan – tianliao
photo © po-I chen

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‘under broken bridge’ in kaohsiung, taiwan
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‘at the straw store’ in kaohsiung, taiwan
photo © po-I chen

Avant-garde artist Leonid Tishkov has been travelling around the world with his mobile art installation ‘private moon’. The project captures a series of photographs of himself with a large illuminated crescent moon, taken at various locations across China, New Zealand, Taiwan, the Arctic and France.

Via designboom; more, here

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Ninety meters high, the inflatable, 5 ton form fills the interior of a former gas tank, amplifying the ethereal quality of the space with diffused light.

Big Air Package by Christo. Gasometer Oberhausen, Germany, now through 30 December 2013

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This mirrored street facade art turns pedestrians into acrobats.

The ‘Bâtiment (Building) was a mirrored installation by artist Leandro Erlich on display at Le 104 in Paris as part of their In_Perceptions exhibition. The piece is clever in its simplicity: a massive building facade is constructed on the floor near a towering mirror giving anyone reflected the uncanny appearance of being weightless’.

from Sustainable Cities Collective; more, here

owl’s house mood.

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My desire to inspire, create, teach and learn, all of which are culminating in this blog, has led me to undertake an on-line blogging course, led by Holly Becker of Decor8 (here). The course is full of inspiring ideas and skills, which up until now were the domain of people who did that kind of stuff.. Little by little that person is becoming me.

The mood board I have created is the look of things to come. Called ‘modernism, minimalism, tones and texture, objet trouve and beauty found all around’, owl’s house is a design sourcebook, a harbinger of all things wonderful. Interior spaces. Materials and finishes. New products and old ones revisited. Design heros. Local influences and ones from further afield. And, perhaps most importantly, musings to ponder on what makes good design. I hope you will join me!

owl’s house london.

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‘And if anyone knows anything about anything’, said Bear to himself, ‘it’s Owl who knows something about something’ he said, ‘or my name’s not Winnie-the-Pooh’, he said. ‘Which it is..’

The name came first. Then, happening upon the wonderous Places and Spaces store at design junction in London last month, owl was discovered.  The appellation behind my blog. Wise old owl now sits high up (out of Henry’s grasp), master of all he surveys.

London was added later to the title, as it is where I draw much of my inspiration. London, with a European flavour, perhaps, in particular Scandinavia. A design sourcebook from London with a European sensibility.

image by owlshouse.