I love the tools made for mechanics. I stop by the windows of hardware stores. If I could only find an excuse to buy many more of them than I have already bought on the mere pretence that I might have some use for them! The are so beautiful, so simple and plain and strait to their meaning. There is no "Art" about them, they have not been made beautiful, they are beautiful.
Welles Coates designed the interiors, fixtures, signs and storefronts for all the Cresta Silks factories and shops. [bottom photo (Brompton Road, London, 1929) via Paper Figs; designmuseum.org]
Toddler dress by Elsa Bloom made with vintage fabric from the Reference Library collection.
Hard Light
Ed Ruscha and Lawrence Weiner
First Edition
Heavy Industry Publications, Hollywood, CA
Moved Pictures, New York, NY
1978
Saloon Society by Bill Manville with photographs by David Attie; designed by Alexey Brodovitch. [eBay]
I still feel ill about missing this one. It sold for $750.00 plus premium at Rago earlier this year.
In process: a randonneuse frame by Curt Goodrich.
[photo from Mr. Goodrich's flickr]
Published in conjunction with the exhibition Bend The Void, June 22–August 5, 2007 at MU in Eindhoven. [nieves]
$60.00, on-floor bidder (6/18/07)
Damn.
Designed by Kristian Vedel c. 1955
Manufactured by Torben Ørskov
In the living room of Buckminster Fuller's last remaining Dymaxion House. More photos:
*bathroom sink
*kitchen
*kitchen counter
*clothes closet
*bathroom door handle
Photo from a listing on Marktplaats. The seller made the bench based on drawings from the book How to Construct Rietveld Furniture. I'd like to make one too.
The first floor is well planned and provides a separate little bedroom suite for guests. It is, however, to the planning of the second floor I draw special attention. It is wholly dedicated to the children. The nurseries, pantry, etc., are grouped south and west round a central playroom fitted as a gymnasium with swing, trapeze and monkey-rope. It is altogether a particularly happy piece of nursery planning, and shows what highly efficient use can be made of an attic floor when treated as a whole.[from the DIDB]
In 1924 she set up independently as an interior designer, concentrating on wallpaper and furniture design. She employed four joiners and produced children’s furniture and completed interior schemes for libraries, nurseries and single-person dwellings.
