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Surface Magazine Previews DON’T TAKE THESE DRAWINGS SERIOUSLY
"Bursting with discordant palettes, offbeat shapes, and ethno-infused patterns…"—Aileen Kwun
Be sure to check out the February Issue of SURFACE Magazine. (Portrait by Delfino Sisto Legnani)
Super excited to have interviewed two of my favorite women in design, Nathalie Du Pasquier (above, at her Milan studio) and Phyllis Lambert, for the February issue of Surface.
Kings Theater, Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn. After a renovation by Martinez + Johnson, this 1929 movie palace reopens with a Diana Ross concert on Feb. 3. Expect very eclectic, something-for-everyone programming for its 3,200 seats.
Fulton Transit Center, by Grimshaw, Arup, and James Carpenter. Identity by Michael Bierut/Pentagram.
Not to be missed: Bergdorf Goodman's arts-theme holiday windows. Architecture, top, and Sculpture, bottom.
Alexandra Lange on mausoleums old and new:
"How might modern-day magnates translate the look of their home or office into the afterlife? … Olsen told me that, from railroads to polished granite and from embalming to lasers, cemeteries have always followed trends in technology and...
Visit to the excellent show on the art, architecture and landscape at Woodlawn Cemetery, now at Columbia's Wallach Gallery.
Tiles of Los Angeles. Top to bottom: Charles Kratka, anonymous Santa Monica, Frank Gehry.
In 2012, DesignLAB renovated Paul Rudolph's Carney Library at UMass Dartmouth. Love the purple.
BBC Sherlock's production designer Arwel Wyn Jones loves wallpaper. Anyone who has ever seen an episode of Sherlock can attest to that. Many of the wallpaper designs Arwel used on the show have been identified and posted in various places. Since I seem to have become the go-to-place for questions about wallpaper, I have decided to compile a list of all the wallpapers that have been identified so far.
List behind the cut because the list is quite long and to make sure you always get the newest version. I will be adding information as it becomes available.
New to Sherlock, I knew Tumblr could not fail to ID the charismatic wallpapers. Posted about what all those patterns might mean on my blog.
Rural typologies.
On my blog today: UNAM, the University City in Mexico City that opened in 1954. All-star team of architects, artists and sculptors.
Today on my blog: Luis Barragan's Casa Prieto.
Details from Casa Luis Barragan, today on my blog.
Today is the last day of my 100 Day Project, #picframeaday. Check them all out on my other Tumblr.
