Malibu Stacy’s Dream Home.I’ll preface this with a disclaimer – I’m about to hold forth on Los Angeles modernism, and I have not been to LA. One day I plan to, with the sole intention of soaking up some great mid-century modernist architecture and design. And...
Hotel Lautner // Desert Hot Springs, California.Situated in the middle of the Californian desert, Hotel Lautner is a recent conversion of a striking mid-centrury residence designed by an influential modernist architect, John Lautner. Originally created as a home for a film producer,...
Design Free Thursday | Steve Lambert.Steve Lambert is an American conceptual installation artist and all around shit-stirrer. My kind of dude, really. I find his work to be intelligent, brave, eye-catching, interesting and funny, but these are just some of the reasons I love...
Painted Newspaper Prints by Evan Hecox.Dark Island is a series of mixed-media works by Denver-based artist Evan Hecox, currently on show at the Joshua Liner Gallery in New York City. Evan has a passion for exploring unfamiliar cities with his vintage Polaroid camera in hand,...
Awesome Aesop.Aesop retail stores are so consistently and predictably AWESOME that it's actually becoming a little bit boring. Except - WHAT am I taking about - awesome is totally never ever boring! Period. From the very beginning, Aesop have...
Art with Fire | t-radya & Paul Chojnowski.Oh man. Some people are really clever, aren't they? You may recall me blogging about Art with Tools not that long ago. In a similar vain, I wanted to share with you Art created with Fire. Yes, you heard me. Fire. Above are a few images of...
Painted People | Alexa Meade.Well I'll be dipped in shit and rolled in bread crumbs! This is seriously one of the coolest things I've seen in ages. These artworks are by Alexa Meade, a 23-year-old artist based in Washington DC, whose work is a combination of...
Spencer Finch.Spencer Finch was born in New Haven, Connecticut in 1962. He lives and works in Brooklyn creating art and installations using a variety of different media. His installations record the invisible world, capture specific moments in time and...
McNally Jackson Books.Check out McNally Jackson's bookshop cafe in New York by Front Studio. The interior was designed around a book as an central object - so simple and clever. I love the wallpaper made out of book pages and the small folding timber tables,...