Category: Accessories
Posted by James on 2/28/2005 11:51:00 PM
Scandinavian design by way of San Francisco
 Born in Finland, raised in Sweden and now residing in San Francisco, California, self-taught designer Lotta Jansson creates a range of beautiful screen-printed home products. Her colorful and fun designs include ceramics, table linens, bags, stationary and more.
Lotta has both a deep appreciation for nature’s limitless beauty and a love for modern urban style. The balance between these two worlds is unequivocally present in Lotta’s contemporary organic designs.
She started Lotta Jansdotter in 1996, and opened her San Francisco studio and store front in 2002. Lotta's designs are also available online and at retail stores around the world.
Link: Lotta Jansdotter
Via: urbanSPY
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Category: Architecture
Posted by James on 2/28/2005 5:07:00 PM
Modern wood house in Portland, Oregon
 Designed by Sid L. Scott, AIA of Portland, Oregon based Scott | Edwards Architecture
this house utilizes simple "off the shelf" materials to achieve stunning results.
We really like the way that the construction and framing of the structure is honestly expressed. Glulam beams, plywood, structural steel and hardware are exposed and featured as design elements. Large windows capture views of Mount Hood and the Willamette Valley.
The overall effect is a design that is both modern and regional, and we're all about that! Beautiful.
Firm: Scott | Edwards Architecture
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Category: Events
Posted by James on 2/27/2005 1:59:00 PM
Modern architecture lecture and tour in the "little old lady" city
 This event organized by Pasadena Heritage features a lecture on March 16th and tour on March 20th, 2005.
This one is rather close to home for us L+L folks... one of us grew up in Pasadena and was inspired by the local architectural tradition from a very early age. Though Pasadena is perhaps best known for Arts and Crafts architecture, especially Greene & Greene and the Gamble House, the city boasts a significant collection postwar residential, commercial and institutional structures.
Lecture: The Modern Suburban Paradise - March 16, 2005, 7:30 p.m.
Tour: Pasadena Modern Tour - March 20, 2005, 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Link: Pasadena Heritage
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Category: Events
Posted by James on 2/25/2005 9:13:00 PM
Nicolai Ouroussoff reviews Groundswell
I'm not sure how we missed this yesterday with our post about Groundswell... maybe it was our Nicolai blinders... anyway, Nicolai Ourousoff of the New York Times reviews the exhibition:
As a whole, the show, organized by Peter Reed, a MoMA curator of architecture and design, signals the refreshing debate that is emerging over how best to deal with the legacy of Modernism.
Article: NY Times - Confronting Blight With Hope
Also published: International Herald Tribune - Landscapes etched with optimism
Reference: Groundswell (Land+Living)
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Category: Events
Posted by Anthony on 2/25/2005 4:53:00 PM
Celebration of the Australian outdoor lifestyle
 The 10th annual Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show will be held April 6 - 10, 2005.
Reputedly the best annual garden show in the Southern Hemisphere, the show has featured some stunning contemporary gardens in past years. Designers will include Mark Browning of Cycas Landscape Design, Jamie Durie of Patio Landscape Design, and many others including four students from Australia and New Zealand competing for the Fleming Student Award.
Link: Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show
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Category: Materials
Posted by Anthony on 2/25/2005 8:52:00 AM
Printed textiles and pattern design
 Morag Macpherson is the designer behind UK based Global Guru. A graphic artist, she has turned her talents to textile design for the interior and fashion marketplace. She's got some terrific patterns which in a way, remind us of the wallpaper patterns from Flavor Paper and Timorous Beasties. Great stuff, Morag!
global guru designs and manufactures a diverse variety of contemporary collections in many different colourways and repeat sections. These surface patterns can be translated into a variety of interior accessories and fashion pieces.
Link: Global Guru
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Category: News
Posted by James on 2/24/2005 5:22:00 PM
New York Times article by Anne Raver
 An article in the New York Times talks about the legacy of Frederick Law Olmsted and the Groundswell exhibit which opens tomorrow at MoMA in New York. The article focuses on the designers and projects that will be featured in the exhibition including Peter Latz, Adriaan Geuze, Catherine Mosbach and the much anticipated Fresh Kills project on Staten Island by Field Operations.
No longer the handmaidens of architects, landscape architects are building huge parks, some on a 19th-century scale, on polluted industrial spaces...
Article: NY Times - From Ruin and Artifice, Landscapes Reborn
Reference: Groundswell (Land+Living)
Reference: Manufactured Sites (Land+Living)
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Category: Art
Posted by Anthony on 2/23/2005 5:34:00 PM
Minimalist metal artwork
 Miya Ando Stanoff is a minimalist metal artist who creates artwork on metal canvases. She utilizes traditional metalworking techniques such as grinding, sanding, and the application of heat, along with acids, solvents and metal-based pigments to create varied textures on her canvases. In the right setting, her work will really stand out.
Miya Ando Stanoff is a minimalist metalworker; employing steel and pigment to create quiet, meditative environments. Working solely in two-dimensional metal panels, she is ultimately interested in the study of subtraction to the point of purity, simplicity and refinement.
Update: Her work is on display at Zinc Details in San Francisco through February 28th.
Update II: Received a Ligne Roset SF installation shot from Miya today (2/25), thanks! (see below)
Link: Miya Ando Stanoff [Thanks, Miya!]
Link: MocoLoco San Francisco
Link: Zinc Details
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Category: Landscape
Posted by James on 2/23/2005 11:49:00 AM
Landscape design build in Seattle
 Here is a word you may not have heard since high school biology class:
Cambium (kam' bë um) a layer of formative cells located below the bark of woody plants, reproducing by division and creating
new growth.
But Cambium is also the name of the design and construction company of Seattle based landscape architect Tim Moshier. Appropriately, they will provide new growth in your garden.
Their website features a nice portfolio of five residential projects, and we are particularly impressed with their skillful selection of plants for color and texture to create striking effects. Superb design and execution.
Link: Cambium
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Category: Books
Posted by Anthony on 2/23/2005 11:32:00 AM
Japanese Design Solutions for Living
 Our previous blog on The Very Small Home generated a comment about how concrete structures in Asia were "Stalinist grey, drab, utilitarian...cement block monstrosities." Well, on that note, here's another book highlighting those horrendous living conditions that the Japanese endure. ;-)
Written by Michael Freeman and published back in August 04, Space explores Japanese architecture and design in size constricted areas.
In their work, Japanese interior designers and architects constantly draw on cultural traditions, while using a modern, even radical approach. Whether in the use of lightweight partitions to create flexible spaces, deliberate profligacy to give a feeling of generosity, or strange perspectives, the results are not mere workaday solutions, but artistic and unusual ones that can turn a lack of space into a surfeit of style.
Link: Space (Amazon)
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