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Gray Metal – jewelry cast from beach plastic

LB — Sun, 06 Jan 2019 23:21:23 +0000

Well before the most recent wave of coverage of the crisis of plastic accumulating in our oceans, jeweler and artist Jesse Gray of Gray Metal started picking up beach plastic on Vancouver Island and casting some of it into jewelry.

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Eileen Gray – Transat Chair

LB — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 01:00:30 +0000

Superb modern chair by Eileen Gray, featured in a Guardian list this this week. It’s the Transat Chair (1925-30).

“The Transat chair is from the late 1920s, when Marcel Breuer, Le Corbusier and Charlotte Perriand were forging in tubular steel assertive icons of the machine age.

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Taliesin West, Frank Lloyd Wright

LB — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 21:14:06 +0000

Photography is only minimally allowed at Frank Lloyd Wright’s winter house in Arizona, Taliesin West, so most of these photographs are only exterior shots. I confess I’ve always been less impressed by FLW’s work that most are, so this post is not in praise of FLW or Taliesin West.

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Modernist house, Cojimar, Cuba

LB — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:22:53 +0000

Not far from Havana, this is the fishing village where Hemingway kept his boat during the decades he lived in Cuba. A local told me this house belongs to a fisherman.

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Holiday

LB — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 10:00:27 +0000

Happy whatever winter holiday you observe, longest night of the year maybe, or, in the southern hemisphere the longest day, or Christmas, or ‘Holiday‘ or whatever else. Drive safely.

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The Man with the Golden Gun – James Bond

LB — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 08:07:10 +0000

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.

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The Brick House

LB — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 03:27:20 +0000

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.

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Dieter Rams, brilliant designer, brilliant accent

LB — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 19:48:56 +0000

Via Williamson.

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House with gongs

LB — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 07:05:46 +0000

How did the decision to hang the gongs in the window come about? “Without eyes, our house is just a faceless shed?” Cool 70s modern house near the river, North Vancouver.

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A-frame Maritime Museum by CBK Van Norman

LB — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 01:50:04 +0000

I’ve always loved this building. It’s part of the Vancouver Maritime Museum and was built in 1966 to house the icebreaker St. Roch. You can just see the top of the mast through the upper window.

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