Showing posts with label rooms. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rooms. Show all posts

Thursday, June 13, 2013

On a Paintstring















Instant-Effect Decorating by Marjorie Katz, M. Evans & Co., 1972, illustrated by the author!
YES!

Wednesday, January 9, 2013

00- scale


'Vernon Sparrow built this neatly finished shelf matching the other units of furniture which he also constructed, to support his 00- scale layout along one wall of his lounge. [Bottom image] shows the layout as seen from an armchair.'

from: PSL Model Railway Guide 1: Baseboards, Track, and Electrification by Michael Andress, Patrick Stevens Ltd., 1979

Thursday, November 15, 2012

projecting cubes





"design for a Futurist dress creating the effect of projecting cubes (1925), watercolor on paper / Le Settimana Romana (1920), Tempera on paper / Futurist coat-hangars made and painted by Balla / Balla's own Futurist walking sticks and umbrella stand"

from (once againGiacomo Balla: An Album of his Life and Work by Virginia Dortch Dorazio, Wittenborn & Co., NY, 1969

Friday, October 12, 2012

juliet kepes







The Seven Remarkable Bears by Emilie Warren McLeod, illustrated by Juliet Kepes, E.M.Hale/Houghton Mifflin Co., 1954 (1963)

Juliet Kepes working on a mural in the Kepes nursery, Cambridge, 1949---see more at LIFE magazine archives!
Components of the nursery, designed by Juliet and her husband György Kepes, are included in the incredible exhibition Century of the Child currently at the MoMA, NY.

more at Daddytypes

thanks kg!

Thursday, September 20, 2012

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Offices of British Olivetti Ltd., London, Misha Black & John Diamond designers
from Form Space and Vision: Discovering Design Through Drawing by Graham Collier, Prentice-Hall Inc., 1963,1967 (Thanks S.H.)

Tuesday, July 24, 2012

storage


from Sunset Ideas for Leisure Rooms, Lane Publishing, 1974

Thursday, July 21, 2011

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

Saturday, February 26, 2011

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

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Peabody's Penthouse

Peabody's penthouse apartment, NY, 1959-1960

from Rocky and His Friends, Season One (select episodes), 1959-1960, Ward Productions (released on DVD as Rocky & Bullwinkle & Friends, 2004)

Thursday, November 11, 2010

somewhere

from Your Space: How to Put it Together for Practically Nothing by Jon Naar & Mary Ellen Moore, St. Martin's Press, NY, 1979

Sunday, August 15, 2010

Francis & Sol

The Prophet [Francis Alÿs] with a gouache by Sol LeWitt, Eldridge, N.Y., December 2001
from Francis Alÿs: The Prophet and the Fly, Catherine Lampert, Turner, Madrid, 2003

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

DESIGN A SPACE

Manspace by Alec Allinson, Beverly Allinson, and John McInnes, Thomas Nelson & Sons, Ontario, 1973
"Well---you see---everybody's in space. This book tells about the space around you, how much space you need and how it works. Sometimes you're all squashed in and sometimes you have plenty of room to turn cartwheels and play games. It's about why we get close to each other and why we sometimes keep our distance. Then there's homespace---the space we live in---and homes on the move---and public space, like streets and parks---and crowds and overcrowding and pollution---and all things that happen on our earth"

Thursday, April 15, 2010

JANDEK: Interiors

Selected Jandek album covers, 1978-2008
(Ready For The House, Living In A Moon So Blue, Staring At The Cellophane, Your Turn To Fall, The Rocks Crumble, Interstellar Discussion, On The Way, New Town, The Beginning, Austin Sunday, Skirting The Edge)
visit Seth Tisue's Guide to Jandek