This is Kurimanzutto, the Mexico City art gallery of dealers Monica Manzutto and José Kuri. Originally an old lumber yard, the building was converted into a gallery by architect Alberto Kalach.
Kurimanzutto in Mexico City
May 11, 2010
Mexico City benches
May 8, 2010
More design from Mexico City. These are just four benches out of the scores of original designs found all over town.
Mexico City
May 7, 2010
Everywhere you look in Mexico City, you see something well thought out. Then you come home.
Top, outside a mod bar in the Condesa district; brutalist bank building with relief exterior; art nouveau building in the Roma district; doorway in the Coyoacan neighbourhood; benches in Chapultepec Park; minimalist sans serif address lettering is everywhere; the amazing tiled library at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
Rod Palm’s ship house on Strawberry Isle in Tofino, BC
April 25, 2010
Views of Rod’s famous ship house just off Tofino on the West Coat of Vancouver Island. Below, from here. And on Rod Palm and the Strawberry Isle Research Society here.
Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board
April 24, 2010
Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time.
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Jonathan Adler
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
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Zora Neale Thurston
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Door canopy by architect Robert Kleyn
April 22, 2010
Beautiful canopy by Robert Kleyn for Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver. The design of this canopy is clever not just because it’s a visually interesting addition to an otherwise aggressively plain warehouse, but also because it effectively deflects wind in what is an exposed windy laneway.
“I’m afraid your novel is unsuitable for us at the present time.”
April 21, 2010
From Black Books, Irish comedian Dylan Moran’s British TV series. Moran played Bernard Black, misanthropic second-hand bookshop owner. See also another episode in which Bernard, unable to figure out his tax forms, learns that he will receive an extension for filing his return only in the event of injury, so seeks injury by provoking skinheads.
Rain chains or kusari toi
Kusari toi (sometimes translitered “doi”)—the Japanese characters are 鎖樋 which translates literally as “chain gutters”—are known in English as rain chains. They are used in Japan as downspouts to direct rain from a gutter to the ground, where it either flows into a gravel or pebble bed or into some sort of catchment.
“If I Had a Hammer? What Do You Mean If?”
April 19, 2010
Before I start, I’m asking on behalf of the owners of this house that nobody reposts or reproduces any of these images anywhere without my permission. Like a lot of people who have built their own houses in the woods, the owners, who are relatives of mine, appreciate their privacy and feel a bit negative about seeing their house all over the internet.
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Barry Shapiro
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Home Work: Handbuilt Shelter
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Lloyd Kahn
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Alastair Heseltine woodpile
April 18, 2010
Alastair Heseltine, sculptor, Hornby Island, British Columbia.
