Photo by Ari Michelson
The great interior designer Paul Fortune has helped shape David Fincher’s Los Feliz home, made a marvel of Mark Jacobs’s Paris apartment, and created a landmark with a glamorous renovation of the iconic Sunset Tower hotel. He put the first Cadillac through the roof of the Hard Rock, and moved a Hollywood [...]
Category Archives: Architecture
Designer Paul Fortune Insists on the Best
March 2, 2010 – 11:41 am
If You “Built” it, They Will Come
February 26, 2010 – 11:02 am
Our buddy John Sofio, head honcho of Built Inc., leaked us a couple of early peeks at The Trousdale, a new LA hot spot smack dab in the middle of the Sunset Strip across the street from Boa.
More images after the jump.
The Flow and Tide of Commune Design
February 3, 2010 – 4:06 pm
Originally intended as a kind of pop-up-shop assemblage of graphic artists and architects, gathering together on a job to job basis, Commune has followed is own innate rhythms to become one of the hippest and most respected design firms working today. Their top-to-bottom build-out and decor of the Ace Hotel in Palm Springs was among [...]
Light on the High Line
November 16, 2009 – 8:09 am
Performa is throwing down. Friday night’s Text of Light was dynamic curation at its most inspiring. Curators Lana Wilson and Esa Nickle worked with Friends of the High Line to screen two “city symphony” films from the 1930s set to original music. The location was the High Line Park underneath where the Standard Hotel straddles [...]
Modernism After Postmodernism: Is there a future beyond capitalist realism?
October 30, 2009 – 9:29 am
Anyone in London lucky enough to have a free afternoon on Wednesday 11th of November should seriously consider heading to the Docklands for this event, which promises to be highly stimulating, and whose four speakers are responsible for some of the best writing on the blogosphere. Details after the jump…
Anna Kleberg Opening at b Store
October 13, 2009 – 12:26 pm
Tomorrow evening (the 14th) there will be an opening for Anna Kleberg’s new installation Back and Forth at b Store in London. Click “Read More” for the flyer with RSVP info.
Pike Loop, a Robot-Built Installation
September 28, 2009 – 6:55 am
This Wednesday, the Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York will inaugurate its month-long building project, Pike Loop. A curling brick wall, designed by Swiss architects Gramazio & Kohler, will be built over the course of the month entirely by a robot. The one-armed industrial claw – aptly named R.O.B. – employs the same technology and [...]
Civilization and the Ascent from Hell to Heaven
September 23, 2009 – 7:34 am
These are stills from Marco Brambilla’s video Civilization, which is currently installed in the elevators of the Standard Hotel in New York City. The video is installed so that it plays in sync with the elevators: as the elevator ascends the viewer experiences the movement from a hellish environment to a heavenly one. To see the video [...]
Life in a Koolhaas
July 30, 2009 – 8:59 am
One of the highlights of Boule to Braid, the excellent show curated by Richard Wentworth currently showing at London’s Lisson Gallery, is Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoîne’s film Koolhaas Houselife. Set in Rem Koolhaas‘ ”Maison à Bordeaux”, completed in 1998, the camera follows the villa’s live-in housekeeper and an assortment of maintenance men as they clean and [...]
Ancient
June 15, 2009 – 4:16 pm
Our friend Josh Slater curated the current show at C.R.E.A.M. Projects in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Brave the craptastic weather and soak in some art.
For more about Josh: newslaterart.blogspot.com
