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Molded fiberglass Screen Room Divider by Don Harvey USA 1960 Incredible set of white fiberglass screens designed by Don Harvey mainly for public installations. This piece consists of two sections each measuring 50", framed in a steel structure that could be attached to the wall as individual sections or together to form a single dynamic element.

Sculptural Fiberglass Room Divider by Don Harvey United States 1960's A freestanding three-dimensional sculptural room divider comprised of overlapping cast fiberglass ovals that creates depth within the panel, the whole raised on a custom rectangular walnut base. By Don Harvey. American, circa 1960.


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MURIEL COLEMAN PACIFICA IRONWORKS Oxidized steel and solid redwood bookshelf, c. 1940 60" x 69 1/2" x 13" Auction Date: Sun, April 25, 12PM Estimate: $1,800 - $2,200

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from the new rago modern auction catalog


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volvo 240 wagon font


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at the morgan library

Palladio and His Legacy: A Transatlantic Journey features thirty-one original Palladio drawings from the Royal Institute of British Architects. These exquisite drawings, which were exhibited only once before in America and never in New York, will be on view to the public for the first time in over thirty years. They are being presented with rare architectural texts to illustrate the journey from Italy to North America of Palladio's design principles of proportion, harmony, and beauty.

Palladio's work has significantly impacted American architecture from colonial times to the present day. Focusing on the artist's original drawings and following the trajectory of his ideas, the show also traces the story of American Palladianism. The drawings are supported by numerous architectural models. Three large examples—the Pantheon, Villa Rotunda, and Jefferson's unrealized design for the White House—programmatically illustrate the journey from Rome to America. Smaller models along with rare architectural texts and pattern books, through which Palladio's ideas were primarily transmitted, reinforce the themes of the exhibition.

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st ants / hurley

jersey city hard-ass basket ball coach makes it big


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a hound on fire

albert ayler the psychedelic boogaloo years

inventing punk


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faking places


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In 1938, not long after he began work on a master plan for Florida Southern College’s campus, the architect Frank Lloyd Wright sketched a series of small homes for faculty members. Wright and Ludd M. Spivey, Florida Southern’s president, hoped to build as many as 20 houses, but money for them never materialized. The house plans ended up gathering dust while the college built a library, two chapels, administrative offices, a series of academic buildings, and a huge fountain to Wright’s striking designs. In fact, the college has the largest single collection of Wright buildings anywhere.

Now Florida Southern, located in Lakeland, is finally gearing up to build one of the Wright houses. According to M. Jeffrey Baker, a partner in Mesick Cohen Wilson Baker Architects who has been helping the college restore its other Wright buildings, the house will be a flat-roofed, two-bedroom home with walls made of the same custom-cast blocks that Wright used throughout the campus. A cantilevered carport will mark the entrance, and floor-to-ceiling glass windows will open to the outdoors from the living room and the bedrooms. "You can open this house up like a pavilion," Mr. Baker says, to take advantage of the patio and good weather.

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the abc's of dada 1/3


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Design Blogs: The Vacuum of Enthusiasm

less stuff


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nana wall

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LAMBOO

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maison

included in the below refd architectures documentary series is a segment on la maison de verre. realised by the designer pierre chareau and architect bernard bijvoet with special assistance (and this for me is the real treat) engineer/metal worker Louis Dalbet. pay extra special attention to the fabricated metal stair cases, library ladder and various mechanical features. theres very little info on him online or otherwise, but if you study available images of lmdv his contribution should be obvious.

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from the netflix que:

Architectures Box Set

From Paris to Porto via Vienna and Nîmes, the Architectures series offers a unique and instructive insight into the greatest architectural achievements of our times, constituting a fine legacy for generations to come.

Architectures 1: The Dessau Bauhaus by Walter Gropius, The Siza School by Alvaro Siza, Family lodgings in Guise by Jean-Baptiste-André Godin, Nemausus I by Jean Nouvel, The Georges Pompidou Centre by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers, The Vienna Savings Bank by Otto Wagner.

Architectures 2: The Johnson building by Frank Lloyd Wright, The Galeria Umberto I – collective work, Lyon Satolas TGV by Santiago Calatrava, The stone thermal baths by Peter Zumthor, The Paris Fine Arts School by Felix Duban.

Architectures 3: The Berlin Jewish Museum, The Paris Opera, The Convent of La Tourette, The Casa Milà, The Auditorium Building in Chicago, The Municipal Centre of Säynätsalo.

Architectures 4: Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans, La Maison de Verre, The Guggenheim museum of Bilbao, Jean Prouvé's House, The Abbey church of Sainte Foy at Conques, Multimedia Library of Sendai.

Architectures 5: The Alhambra, The House of Sugimoto, The Rome Reception and Congress Building, The Yoyogi Olympic Gymnasiums, The Villa Barbaro, Phaeno Science Centre.

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the ramapough mountain indians

aka: the j
ackson whites

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mies mr chair

looking for replacement leather covers this model
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japans sanaa (the new nu mu building architects) win this years pritzker award


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Donald N. Frey, the engineer who spearheaded the design and development of the Mustang, the spunky, stylish, affordably priced “pony car” that the Ford Motor Company rolled out in the mid-1960s in one of the most successful car introductions in automotive history, died March 5 in Evanston, Ill., where he lived. He was 86.
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tree hotel harads

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Ben Kefauver

an obscure 36 year old cultural reference is just not quite enough to tip off the parody.
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One of the many ironies of the Schwarz urinals is that they are carefully crafted earthenware sculptures modelled on the Stieglitz photo of the “original”. Every edition has a story, but there is no beating the provenance of the 13th one. Dubbed “the prototype” and bearing Duchamp's signature, it slipped quietly onto the market in 1973 at the then fledgling gallery of Ronald Feldman in New York. Andy Warhol, who visited the gallery repeatedly, pressed Mr Feldman to trade the urinal for some of his own portraits. “Duchamp didn't sell well in those days,” says Mr Feldman, “but Andy knew what multiples meant because he made them.”

via afc news sidebar When Warhol died in 1987, his urinal was consigned to Sotheby's as part of his giant five-volume estate sale. “Fountain” was buried in a volume devoted to prints and given a lowly estimate of $2,000-2,500. It sold for $65,750 to Dakis Joannou, a Greek-Cypriot construction tycoon, and is now enshrined in the front hall of his main home in Athens. “I couldn't believe that we could actually own it,” says Mr Joannou. “People didn't appreciate its historical importance, so we got a bargain.” In the following decade, Duchamp's renown increased yet again, as did the marketing of his work. In 1999 Sotheby's put an official Schwarz urinal on the cover of its Contemporary Art evening sale catalogue; it commanded $1.8m.

Collectors of contemporary art are comfortable acquiring individual works in series, but they don't relish unlimited editions or dodgy authorship. Some may be dismayed to learn that there are at least three more “Duchamp urinals”. Gio di Maggio, a collector whose Fondazione Mudima is in Milan, and Luisella Zignone, a Duchamp collector based in Biella, both have “Fountains” that Mr Schwarz says he gave as gifts. Sergio Casoli, a Milan dealer, is also thought to own one. (He declined to comment.)

Mr Schwarz claims that these works were made in 1964 under Duchamp's direction, but were not included in the original edition due to “imperfections”. (It is unlikely that more than 17 urinals could have survived from this edition, but only Mr Schwarz knows for sure.) None of the newly discovered pieces have the “Marcel Duchamp” signature of official ready-mades. Nevertheless, the “Fountains” owned by Mr Di Maggio and Mrs Zignone have been shown in public institutions in Basel and Buenos Aires. In interview, Mr Schwarz reluctantly confirmed that he is trying to sell a fourth “Fountain” for an undisclosed sum, which one source says is $2.5m. (When pressed, Mr Schwarz says the asking price depends on whether the purchaser is a museum, a well-reputed collector or a speculator.)

The artist’s estate is not pleased. Jacqueline Matisse Monnier, the head of the Association for the Protection and Conservation of works by Marcel Duchamp, says that “neither my mother nor I ever sanctioned the sale of unauthorised ready-mades.” Mrs Monnier’s mother, “Teeny”, was married to Pierre Matisse, the dealer son of the Henri, before she married Duchamp, making her an heir to both the Henri Matisse and Duchamp estates. She sees Mr Schwarz's activities as curious given that “Arturo was a great friend of Marcel.”

Some Duchamp connoisseurs are outraged. Francis M. Naumann, a scholar and dealer who has published widely on Duchamp, argues that these urinals cannot be considered Duchamps at all. “For Duchamp, the signature was everything,” he argues. “It is the single most important element in the process of transforming an ordinary everyday object into a work of art.”

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ROKU w/ instant netflix


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