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Beretta70: Roaring Themes from Thrilling Italian Policefilms 1971-80

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Thirty feet in the air, held aloft by sturdy steel pillars, are some of Mr. Simpson’s pieces: a team of horses pulling a wagon, a metal man strumming a guitar and an airplane cum rocket ship that might have escaped from an old comic book. They are painted in a dozen colors and festooned with propellers that spin in the breeze. With every gust they creak and whir like some phantasmagoric junkyard band.

And down below, barely distinguishable in the shade of a barnlike building with “Simpson Repair Shop” painted on the front, is a gaunt man with big, gnarled hands bent over some scrap metal. It’s Mr. Simpson himself, a retired farm-equipment repairman who turned 91 in January, and who has hammered from discarded steel and aluminum a long second career as an artist.

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luther conover set 3 nesting stools


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rickyisms

not work safe
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treme


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bbc radio 4: my music!


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Did you hear the one about the guy who lived in the land of Uz, who was perfect and upright and feared God? His name was Job. In the new movie version, “A Serious Man,” some details have been changed. He’s called Larry Gopnik and he lives in Minnesota, where he teaches physics at a university. When we first meet Larry, in the spring of 1967, his tenure case is pending, his son’s bar mitzvah is approaching, and, as in the original, a lot of bad stuff is about to happen, for no apparent reason.

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many grades of moving blankets


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rambling hen house design

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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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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

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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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