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vespa obsession
"Thus the Vespa came to be linked in my eyes with transgression, sin, and even temptation - not the temptation to possess the object, but the subtle seduction of faraway places where the Vespa was the only means of transport. And it entered into my imagination not as an object of desire, but as a symbol of an unfulfilled desire."
- Umberto Eco
45M NYC CONDO
graves pavilions
loess
skyhouse
smc urbanlab
modern-modular
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.