Perhaps one of the world’s most famous interiors. Most photographs of this room show the same angle so it’s hard to know if they’re the same photograph or many photographs of the same thing.
Sigmund Freud’s office
January 23, 2011
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Town of Trinidad, Cuba
January 15, 2011
The entire 16th C town of Trinidad on Cuba’s south coast is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Its heritage designation, as well as the complete—and for a Vancouverite visually relieving—absence of land speculators and developers in Cuba has kept the town very close to its original condition.
Hemingway’s villa in Cuba – Finca Vigía
January 3, 2011
This is the Cuban villa where Hemingway lived from 1939-1960 and wrote many of his best known novels. It sits high in the town of San Francisco de Paula about half an hour outside Havana, and from the patio you can actually see Havana in the distance, hence the name Finca Vigía or “Lookout Farm.” The villa was discovered by Hemingway’s wife at the time, Martha Gelhorn, who was seeking somewhere spacious for the two of them to live.
Brown paper packages tied up with string
December 15, 2010
These are a few of my favourite things. Above, a white painted branch with Kraft-paper wrapped gifts is a minimalist advent calendar, by the inventive DIY Brigg from Norway via The Style Files.
Books
December 6, 2010
Room with Finn Juhl furniture and lots and lots of books. It’s worth reprinting this Anna Quindlen quote on books:
“I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.”
~Anna Quindlen, “Enough Bookshelves,” New York Times, 7 August 1991.
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Ned Pratt, Vancouver architect
November 30, 2010
Vancouver architect Ned Pratt produced work in an era that—from the standpoint of our developer-led moment—is quickly starting to look like a golden age. Pratt and Arthur Erickson along with their contemporaries Ron Thom and Fred Hollingsworth still rank among Vancouver’s best and most influential architects.
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Bonjour Le Marché St.George!
November 26, 2010
Le Marché St.George opens in Vancouver this Saturday. Ceramics artist Janaki Larsen and her friends have opened this interesting grocery on St. George Street just off Main. These photos are stolen from its sneak peek.
The Man with the Golden Gun – James Bond
October 27, 2010
So this is how the last energy crisis looked, in spy fiction anyway. The James Bond film The Man With the Golden Gun, 1974, which unfortunately starred Roger Moore rather than Sean Connery, revolves around the capture of an innovative solar energy device funded by the villain Scaramanga and coveted by MI5, which desires the world-dominating powers it confers for itself.
The Brick House
October 6, 2010
Often the “before” shot is better than the “after,” but not here. Above is a nice use of nearly black paint on an old plaster wall in this Hemet, California midcentury cinderblock house.
Monty Python party hints
September 30, 2010
Circa 1972, before Martha Stewart was invented.
