On December 11, 1980, Ettore Sottsass organized a meeting with designer friends, and in 1981 they formed a design collaborative named Memphis. The name was taken after the Bob Dylan song “Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again” which had been played repeatedly throughout the evening’s meeting. The Memphis Italian Design Group drew […]
Category Archives: LIFE’S SPHERE
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Royal Copenhagen China has beautiful design. (The teapot and formal tea cup are good examples.) The Story of Royal Copenhagen by Evelyn Marie Stuart Early in the 20th century surprisingly life-like little porcelain animals, in soft gray and white or tan and white, were the first Royal Copenhagen objects to enliven upscale department stores in the United […]
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BOOKCASES WARM UP A HOUSE! For a smart looking home you need to show of your source of knowledge, books. Here are 17 new and different ways to build and design bookcases into your home and one library worthy of a grand university. For more interesting […]
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Above: DOMUS WEB: – IT Erik Brandt Dam architects and Cornelius+Voge, The village in the school, Videboek, Denmark, 2017 Photo Laura Stamer. • Europe and the USA seem to have different approaches to similar problems. Here are a few ideas from our European Architects! (Source: DOMUS https://www.domusweb.it/en/news/2018/01/13/best-of-renovation.html Request to publish sent.)
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(Posted originally in AD on November 4, 2017 Text by Ian Phillips, Photography by Simon Watson, and Styled by Sebastian Sergeant – Source Architectural Digest- This article has been excerpted from Architectural Digest, permission requested, – To view the original full article LINK: https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/stephanie-busuttil-and-sebastien-janssen-show-ad-their-impressive-collection) At home with Busuttil & Janssen Art-world insiders bring their decades-spanning assemblage of […]
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A young couple’s dream of escaping ever-rising rents in London by building their own home for just £160,000 turns into both a nightmare and an obsession with tonight’s episode of Grand Designs. Design engineer Joe Stuart, 26, and his Swedish girlfriend, service designer Lina Nilsson, were paying £20,000 a year in rent on a west […]
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Hechingen Studio from Whitaker Studio on Vimeo. ART BEAUTIFUL Shipping Containers Start with: shipping containers the desert & a talented designer (James Whitaker) FABULOUS!!! London-based designer James Whitaker started with the idea of conjoined shipping containers to visualize this 200-Sq ft house, which will have a kitchen, a living room, and three bedrooms with en-suite baths […]
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Carel Fabritius (1622-1654) The Goldfinch, 1654 Oil on panel 13 ¼ x 9 in. (33.5 x 22.8 cm)(Image courtesy of The Frick Museum Press Department and the Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis in the Hague) The Goldfinch Painting by Carel Fabritius Oil on Panel (1654) & The Inspiration for the novel The Goldfinch The Frick Collection was the final […]
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