Noguchi farmhouse

"We took a small two-hundred year old farmhouse belonging to the famous old potter Rosanjin Kitaoji who was kind enough to let us use it in any way we chose. This was particularly fortunate for me since I was also permitted to use his kilns...I had a local carpenter, the most excellent Nitta san, construct a working place, using the common Japanese method of wood and mud and paper construction according to my design...There are many other embellishments..."
In 1952, Isamu Noguchi was working on projects in Japan, including a series of bridges in Hiroshima.

ISAMU NOGUCHI: PROJECTS IN JAPAN from Arts and Architecture, October 1952

Thanks S.Hughes!

house face

October 2012
 

October 2011

October 2010

October 2009

sigh

... Cy Twombly's house...

from Entrails, Heads & Tails (photographic essays and conversations on the everyday with ten contemporary artists...) by Paola Igliori (with Alastair Thain), Rizzoli, NY, 1992

previously

Picassiette (the plate stealer)

Raymond Isidore, Interior of the Maison Picassiette, Chartres, France, begun c. 1938
from Gardens of Revelation: Environments by Visionary Artists by John Beardsley, Abbeville Press, 1995

Clarence Schmidt: My Mirrored Hope

Clarence Schmidt's Miracle on the Mountain, Ohayo Mountain, Woodstock, NY.
from Horizon, Vol. VI, No. 4, Autumn 1964 (before the fire)
elsewhere

October 31

October 2010

October 2009

EUGENE VON BRUENCHENHEIN: Arrow maker and Plant man

The artist's home, 1983, from Eugene Von Bruenchenhein: Obsessive Visionary, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Wisconsin, 1988.

Eugene Von Bruenchenhein

Freelance Artist

Poet and Sculptor

Inovator [sic]

Arrow maker and Plant man

Bone artifacts constructor

Photographer and Architect

Philosopher

(from an engraved plaque in the artist's kitchen)

Eugene Von Bruenchenhein 1910-1983