January 26, 2009
For 14 million US$ you can purchase the Eames and Saarinen Case Study House #9, in nearly perfect original condition. More photos at dailyicon.
January 24, 2009
Why can’t more civilian bags be like this – free of bling, glitz, chacha, weird anatomical looking folds, pointless, slouchy, ruched wrinkledness, and dopey hardware? I don’t understand the bags being churned out by the big couture houses at the moment.
January 23, 2009
Yesterday a police officer came to my door and asked me if he and his team could use my backyard as a stakeout for something going down in the alleyway. Of course I said sure.
See all Joo Youn Paek’s inventions here. Yes, they’re functional: as art.
January 22, 2009
The politest “No Entry” sign ever written. I photographed it in Korea many years ago.
January 21, 2009
This brick screening wall by Anagram Architects, New Delhi, is a reminder of how imaginatively brick can be used. I’m not a fan of brick, and that’s an understatement, but context is everything.
January 20, 2009
Left to Right: George Nelson, Edward Wormley, Eero Saarinen, Harry Bertoia, Charles Eames and Jens Risom
Photo from a 1961 Playboy article on 20th C “masters of design,” who are here dressed either as accountants or architects, it’s hard to tell which, but it’s a lot of zippers.
Supposedly raw blonde is a trend for 2009. I think that might be me, based on this definition. Warm but austere and at this point pretty pale.
This room somehow manages to be both sensual and monastic at the same time, so perhaps it represents the perfect refuge for a recession.
I always meant to initiate a regular feature about bad design but for a long time I didn’t have the heart for it. For one thing, finding insincere design is like shooting fish in a barrel.
