April 21, 2009
When this old Italian farmhouse was renovated, boards salvaged from outbuildings were brought in to make doors, beams and furniture. I’ve had this magazine clipping on my bulletin board for five years and have never grown tired of it.
April 20, 2009
This tiny sample of photos is from the new website of Vancouver interior designer April Tidey. They include shots of her own amazing loft in Gastown, one of Vancouver’s oldest neighbourhoods.
April 15, 2009
Probably everyone and his/her dog has seen this NYC loft apartment by now, and possibly also blogged about it, but this is one of those places that is so hypnotizing I can’t stop looking at it.
April 9, 2009
More far out interiors from The Practical Encyclopedia of Good Decorating and Home Improvement, Greystone Press, 1970.
April 3, 2009
From Portland Monthly Magazine. A monochromatic painting resting on a teak credenza becomes a sort of contemplative feature wall. Why is this picture so compelling to me? It’s not as if it’s that different from the thousand other midcentury modern still lifes I’ve seen in the past few years, but sometimes one variation on a theme stands out from the others.
April 2, 2009
The photo above shows the central living area of a rural farmhouse on the border of Tochigi and Ibaraki prefectures. The house was restored by Kenji Tsuchisawa who bought it as a rundown heap when he was only 20, after seeing a photograph of a traditional Japanese farmhouse on a Tokyo magazine cover.
April 1, 2009
The bottom photo shows a functioning scarecrows made of indigo-dyed hemp. The original book caption reads “The bold design of this piece of shibori-dyed hemp by Seizo Ishikawa, a farmer, seems at home working as a scarecrow by a newly harvested rice field.” The birds in Japan must have been accustomed to seeing farmers in real Japanese indigo yukatas, waving their arms.
March 25, 2009
Birch/Bříza mug by Czech company whitefruits.
It’s from 2006, but seems to have been a prototype only and does not seem to be in production now, which is unfortunate.
March 19, 2009
This fantastic house at the intersection of modern and 60s hippie is the Greene Residence, built in 1961 by architect Herb Greene in Norman, Oklahoma. Greene built the house for himself and his family.
March 15, 2009
I first saw these amazing buildings, almost all of which have now either had their facades removed or have actually been demolished, in the November 2007 issue of Wallpaper. The BEST Products Company of Richmond, Virginia commissioned architect James Wines’ SITE (Sculpture In The Environment) to build nine commercial buildings for them in the 1970s and early 80s.
