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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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Architect Ron Thom’s Boyd House is for sale

LB — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 22:02:39 +0000

These photos of Ron Thom’s Boyd House are from the blog Architecture Wanted which provides a good introduction to this house. Also see a great post by Cam McLellan on his Vancouver Lights blog and an article in Western Living by the house’s current owner, Kerry McPhedran.

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Perfect chair

LB — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 20:04:44 +0000

When humans apply this much care to designing things, it makes me almost teary. This chair is a life-raft on a tidal wave of mass-produced cynicism. The person who made this chair was doing something so careful it’s almost spiritual.

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Unknown wooden chair

LB — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 01:04:35 +0000

Can anyone identify this chair? Years ago, thinking I would ask a furniture making friend to reproduce it, I took its measurements but then did nothing with them. I’m passing them along in case anyone else would like to try.

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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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Midcentury modern hospital: House MD

LB — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 19:00:33 +0000

My sister, an emergency pediatric doctor, can’t watch House M.D. because she says the medicine is either wrong or stupidly farfetched, and I feel the same way about the decor. What is all that pricey midcentury modern design doing in a hospital?

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Ned Pratt, Vancouver architect

LB — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 07:28:15 +0000

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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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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Luis Barragán – Casa Eduardo Prieto Lopez

LB — Mon, 17 May 2010 12:01:29 +0000

These photos of architect Luis Barragán’s Casa Eduardo Prieto Lopez were taken by pov_steve on Flickr. The house was built in 1950 and is part of the Jardines del Pedregal neighbourhood designed by Barragán for a lava-covered site in Mexico City.

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