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Fix up an old street for 3000 dollars

LB — Sun, 23 May 2010 09:44:43 +0000

The Mexico City government gave Omelette, an interior and industrial design group, the equivalent of US $3000 to renew Calle Regina, a rundown old street of little shops and restaurants in the city’s downtown.

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Donald Judd’s loft at 101 Spring Street

LB — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 18:22:34 +0000

This is artist Donald Judd’s loft in Soho, maintained as a museum and open for viewing after recent restorations. It was one of the first artist’s lofts in Soho – not to mention in New York – and is now almost the paradigmatic example of loft living.

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Joe Colombo

LB — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 19:31:59 +0000

Joe Colombo, 1930 – 1971, a prolific Italian architect, designer, artist and filmmaker, produced a substantial, instantly recognizable body of work before dying far too young at 41.

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Bed in Italy

LB — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 01:55:27 +0000

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.

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Gabriella Crespi

LB — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:26:54 +0000

A quasi-surreal or space age ‘Polished Steel Coffee Table’ by Italian architect and designer Gabriella Crespi looks like a metal crystal formation of some kind.

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Furniture makers of Middle Earth

LB — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 04:10:57 +0000

I find this Todd Merrell Antiques magazine ad weirdly compelling. If you end up at his website (now defunct) it’s like being transported into Middle Earth or the underworld. You might have to retrieve an amulet with the help of a talking dog with eyes as big as saucers or something.

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Discuss.

LB — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 03:12:16 +0000

Via.

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Fia Backstrom – living in your art studio

LB — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 19:54:05 +0000

I love this art object/piece of furniture by artist Fia Backstrom, who has had a number of exhibitions in Vancouver. From the NYT article “Artful Lodgers“:

Fia Backstrom describes her apartment near the Gowanus Canal as a perpetual battle between organization and chaos.

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Charlotte Perriand

LB — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 05:22:47 +0000

The French designer and architect Charlotte Perriand (1903 – 1999) produced some very beautiful furniture and buildings, but she is probably not as well known as she should be, even despite the comprehensive retrospective show of her work at the Centre Pompidou in Paris in 2005.

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Robot flower power

LB — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 08:13:28 +0000

70s space age armchair, via backgarage, origin and name unknown. Does anyone know who or what made this? Does it actually bounce on that spring? Imagine eating breakfast in this chair.

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