the delay can mostly be explained by the fact that i up and moved to new york, and have been adjusting to my new lifestyle. work is busy but i am immersing myself and feel thankful to be brushing up on my digital skills, especially rhino of late in doing facade articulation studies. oh, architecture.

so, this is a quickie, as i’m only really online to look at a friend’s project and then do some quick color samples before i head back over to soho for work. but, i came across this post today, and couldn’t help but share.

http://inexplicablyobsessed.wordpress.com/2011/12/05/a-store-made-out-of-the-new-york-times/

These are images of the new Aesop store in Nolita, the interior of which was constructed of recycled NYTimes papers- over 400,000 strips. The detailing looks so clean and modern, and, it is a nice homage to publishing. I will definitely walk by this morning on my way to get coffee at gimme coffee, my new favorite first transaction of the day.

ok, ok, I know you want more, and I promise that I have plenty saved up- including a whole post inspired by my adventures exploring Sibella Court’s book!

and i’ll leave you with this image, hand picked from this tumblr collection, la poussiere, i have recently discovered- great eye! love this image from 1937

more patterns and other pretty things to come, soon.

the delay can mostly be explained by the fact that i up and moved to new york, and have been adjusting to my new lifestyle. work is busy but i am immersing myself and feel thankful to be brushing up on my digital skills, especially rhino of late in doing facade articulation studies. oh, architecture.

so, this is a quickie, as i’m only really online to look at a friend’s project and then do some quick color samples before i head back over to soho for work. but, i came across this post today, and couldn’t help but share.

http://inexplicablyobsessed.wordpress.com/2011/12/05/a-store-made-out-of-the-new-york-times/

These are images of the new Aesop store in Nolita, the interior of which was constructed of recycled NYTimes papers- over 400,000 strips. The detailing looks so clean and modern, and, it is a nice homage to publishing. I will definitely walk by this morning on my way to get coffee at gimme coffee, my new favorite first transaction of the day.

ok, ok, I know you want more, and I promise that I have plenty saved up- including a whole post inspired by my adventures exploring Sibella Court’s book!

more patterns and other pretty things to come, soon.

picked up this book and read it on a flight from new york last week. i wanted a small book and loved the cover design, flipped through and the typesetting was excellent… the subject of a the book is la place saint-sulpice, a square in paris where i’ve spent time and really loved; here are a few images taken three summers ago.

it is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful places i’ve ever been, and this quotidian book documents it well. perec spends 3 days cataloging “what happens when nothing happens.” his detail of emergent patterns and sequences really captured me, and i appreciated his reflections on the task at hand- how he describes what he perceives and chooses to observe while admitting that there are events and situations that he is ignorant of, or ignoring. read more about it and purchase here. his other works include the novel a void, which is written entirely without the letter e.

so, things have totally flipped around for me- good news for my readers as i’m back to my freelance schedule and out of the design hibernation that had plagued the past months. i left my full-time position at the architecture firm and am currently on the hunt, spent time in new york trying to get all thoughts to the surface as i plot my next move… and spend some time daydreaming. for now, i’m primarily occupied with working at laurel porcari’s glass studio, and a few other side projects (here’s her website). laurel was commissioned to design and fabricate windows for a new chapel in new orleans, designed by pelli, so we’re currently in the process of fabricating a sample window, 3 layers of laminated glass with a system of patterns which layers to create beautifully complex glass. below are a few process shots of the first layer:

and of all three layers held together, before lamination:

will post more shots at the project develops!

image of the day:

girls by the pool, a still from the eve sussman film “the rape of the sabine women.

i saw this image in an artforum from a few years ago, i have not yet seen the film but i love the styling and period costumes. here’s a quote from the curator as sfmoma:

“Reframed as a 1960s period piece, this lushly produced film imagines the Romans as chic secret agents in tailored suits and skinny ties; the Sabine women as exotic butchers, daughters in a meat market; and their legendary union as an affluent, International Style idyll by the Aegean Sea. Inverting the original Roman source, this new version of the classical myth tracks not the origins of empire, but the end of utopia.”

an amazing production still from the film

(content from this site)

in other news, i’m assisting with copy editing for a publication and have been using the online chicago manual of style- their website is beautifully organized, well designed, and a great color palette. it’s also an incredibly useful resource for all my questions about semicolons. screen shots below…

more patterns and other pretty things to come- soon!

dear friends and followers- I know it’s been a while, but I promise I have plenty of things stored up that will be posted over the next few weeks.  And, the image above, from i-D magazine last month and reposted on New York magazine’s best and worst editorials, references some news. My lips are sealed for now, but this summer promises many new adventures!

Things to look forward to on my blog in the next week or so:

-The editors at Design Observer’s Places sent me a link to an editorial by Alejandro Cartagena on degraded landscapes, these images are quite beautiful and I’ve been thinking about them since I looked through them last month

-My good friend lent me a book entitled, “The Architecture of Patterns,” with a foreward by Sanford Kwinter. I have only flipped through it, but am very excited about the design of the book and looking forward to spending time with the content.

-Finished images of the pomegranate wall decal and the dedication event

Will catch up soon- as always, more patterns and other pretty things to come

poster for Skin that I Inhabit, seen here on nymag.com

great essay by Tim Culvahouse on the New Orleans corner store, a culturally significant cornerstone which has some tyological characteristics but takes different forms throughout the city of new orleans. Culvahouse outlines some of the attributes of these unique buildings that maintain the block form and pattern, create community gathering space,and encourage localized economies. He also interviews architect Wayne Troyer; read more here

painting by Timothy Cavnar. Stopped by Fair Folks and a Goat last night, Cavnar’s ephemeral paintings wash soft light over floral landscapes and fragile animals…. I love them. out back in the courtyard we were treated to a great show by Luke Wilson King and Esther Rose. looking forward to visiting the New York location next weekend.

looking forward to a weekend to catch my breath and catch up on the lovely things people are doing all around us in the world. more patterns and other pretty things to come, soon.

Image of Lebbeus Woods’s drawing room, courtesy of Lebbeus Woods

“The impulse,” he explains, “to make these large drawings—they are, with one exception, 74 inches high by 120 inches wide (188 by 305 centimeters)—came first from my desire to make drawings at the scale of a room, that is, at an architectural scale. The reason for this is rather simple: to see if one could physically and not only mentally inhabit the space of a drawing. The second driving force was to see if drawing at that scale would produce something different than I’d imagined or drawn before.” -Lebbeus Woods, read the whole post on bldblog.blogspot.com

Gisele in Prada on Vogue China’s February cover, seen here. Hate the slouch, love the outfit.

Beautiful mobile of a Moravian starcut, seen on  designsponge. Download and make your own here

Industrial Architecture on archdaily. Skin on a electrical generator of a cement factor, designed by Felipe Gonzalez-Pacheco in Columbia- here’s a detail shot

beautiful essay by Alejandro Cartagena on the design observer. Images of urbanizarion in Monteray, Mexico and the uncomfortable disparity between the landscape and indigenous housing and recent sprawl and settlement. see full text and images at link above.

I just finished reading this article in Interview between Sofia Coppola and Steven Dorff. I am waiting for Somewhere to come out here in New Orleans, whenever that might be.

Model Herieth Paul, Tanzania-born and Canadian raised, is so elegant at the age of 16. ridiculous skin, which she credits to drinking lots of water and staying away from mcdonalds. very poised and confident in her interivew, along with incredible shots, here on the cut.

lovely pictures on valentino.com

more patterns and other pretty things to come, later this weekend!

here are a few images of interiors by stylist joe maer. (i came across his work on seesaw, and love the palette of his eclectic but polished interiors. the past few days my eyes have been on stylists since finding Mikael and browsing through the work of his colleagues. plus, joe maer’s website is beautiful, even if it’s flash- browse his portfolio for more high-quality images)

here are a few more pretty things for a wednesday afternoon:

the holiday illustration on this diptyque box, from barneys

marni resort

image via seesaw

A.P.C. spring 11 resort

image via A.P.C.

lanvin resort 2010

images via style.com

street looks de la semaine on french vogue

viv, milano posted by the satrorialist (this post is old but i’ve been saving this image for a while, i love the combination of the delicate print and cut of the dress with the chunky cuffs)

more patterns and other pretty things to come

catbird rings. i love these- when we were in williamsburg before the waterfront show in june, we stopped in the store and fell in love with many of their paper items and accessories, but i can’t stop thinking about these darling tiny rings. kind of a cheap thrill. also, i would love these ant stud earings (#3) from an inspiration board on their site a few months ago:

and speaking of beautiful inspiration boards, here are a few images from rosaline’s inspiration board on this is glamourous- please go to the site to see the entire spread, i find myself visiting frequently because the variety of images, with a range of color palettes and soft lighting are quite lovely- which is, of course, what they’re known for!

much of her posts are lifestyle/wishful thinking lifestyle, with country-landscape-y florals, french-inspired decor and table settings, and lovely patterns and textures, but i also love the images posted of beautiful, glamorous women with classic styling and timeless aesthetic. the curating of posted material is pretty much spot-on. (the images shown above also make me never want to cut my hair short again, but that’s a whole other story)

on this is glamorous, i read this week that club monaco is starting a new blog, culture club. its basically an active matrix inspiration board, with lifestyle posts digesting posts on other blogs. a few of their highlights:

this bookstore in singapore, which makes its own stationary

this image from Mikael- his website features his work and profiles him as a creative director, style coordinator, and visual consultant.

i find his work is really striking and precise without seeming excessively meticulous, and really appreciated his print series, with studies such as this:

also, the swedish stylist has a blog, which features images of spaces he’s styled such as these:

and, these spreads from a magazine shoot-delicious. great palette and layout

stunning. design and food together. yum. also featured recently on his blog, the illustrator ingela p arrhenius, who’s child-like block illustrations are so darling. here’s her profile on their agency’s website. i love this pattern for apoteket:

and this card from a postcard series!

can’t get enough of the world wide web- holiday image collecting (“research”) is so much better than lunch-break browsing.

more patterns and other pretty things to come.