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I'm looking for small glass beads roughly the color and clarity of coke bottles. I'd like to replicate an antique glass bead door curtain I once saw.
oh, here's some
global piece
fake pavillion (barcelona)
fake tulip
hi/lo modern links
Many of the 20c classics sold by knoll are also available as to spec copies. The best copies seem to come from a couple of factories in italy and are offered by small importers at wildly varring prices. Here are a few of them.
alfaville design
DWR
E-Furnco
steelform
malik
homeward
retrokraftfurniture
white on white
Italian mfgrs :
tekno-italy
alivar
roger dean
sciller and dofidio
EAMES DAYBED COPIES :
case study day bed $1,695.00
mid-century modern daybed $750.00
a conduit for archibot
"Wright was over 90 when he visited Mesopotamia for the first time in 1957, and the experience had a profound effect on him. When he saw the river Tigris he knew this was a place where he could build. His plan was to create an entirely new city on the great plain between the Tigris and the Euphrates. Iraq as a whole and the city of Baghdad itself deserved nothing less."
toyo ito selfridges
vernacular photography : candid camera
frieze fwame
steel design awards 2003
Last Stop for Long-Haul Containers
By JULIE V. IOVINE
LOS ANGELES
DEVELOPERS take note: nesting nomads could be a trend to track.
Two sure-footed front-runners are Jennifer Siegal and Richard Carlson. She is an architect who specializes in buildings on wheels and keeps an Airstream trailer parked in Marfa, Tex., as a getaway. He lives in four old shipping containers in downtown Los Angeles that she transformed into a sleek modern glass house. There is even an indoor lap pool made, naturally, of a shipping container sunk into the floor.
Mr. Carlson, 51, is a developer, most notably of the Brewery, a former Pabst Blue Ribbon building that he upgraded in 1981 into live-and-work lofts for artists and other creative types.
Ms. Siegal, 37, dropped by six years ago to admire his collection of shipping containers strewn around the 20-acre Brewery site. The 40-foot steel and aluminum shipping crates, she said, are "the building blocks of the construction industry." She is out to prove that they are also ideal for a new kind of homemaking.
Marcel Duchamp's Impossible Bed and Other "Not" Readymade Objects: A Possible Route of Influence From Art To Science / Part I
RHONDA ROLAND SHEARER
Hans Urich Obrist / Marjetica Potrc
AR
in the CAUSE of ARCHITECTURE
On Autonomy and the Avant-Garde
How is art to operate in conditions that openly reify and dissolve the traditional values of art?