There’s an article in the Times today about the 1950 Nash Ambassador owned by radio host Rich Conaty. He says that all the cars in the Superman tv show were Nashes: the police in Gotham drove the car he has, Lois Lane had a Nash Rambler (my mom also had one in the 60’s that [...]
Category Archives: Design
Designer Paul Fortune Insists on the Best
March 2, 2010 – 11:41 am
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 [...]
In A Perfect World Video Series
March 2, 2010 – 8:27 am
The second in a video series from an exhibition put on at PUB in Stockholm by graduate students from the fashion, advertising and graphic design departments of Beckmans College of Design. This video is entitled “Imagination Adds A New Dimension” by Klara Sjons Nilsson.
More videos after the jump.
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.
Into the Void
February 12, 2010 – 2:59 pm
Entry by Saunders Architecture
Contemplating the Void, Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum, opening today at Frank Lloyd Wright’s swirly conch shell up town is an absolutely delightful thought experiment. Simply put, what would you do to the great cavity within the museum if money were no object? The answers to that question, submitted by some 189 [...]
We Manifest
February 5, 2010 – 2:37 pm
Detail of a collage by participating artist Derek Gores
Operating on a template similar to their wildly successful grass roots get-out-the-vote campaign during the run up to the ‘08 election, ManifestEquality is a progressive public art project aimed at raising awareness about the discrepancy in social rights for the LGBT community in America. A call for [...]
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 [...]
Fashion Rocks
February 3, 2010 – 3:18 am
Swedish design team Sandberg & Timonen have created a series of concert t-shirts for a group of fashion’s most revered style icons which they’ll be showing at Paris’ Brachfeld Gallery. Made for those who can still remember the first fashion show they snuck into, or for those who are still doing it, the label is [...]
Nightwood Now Available in Stores
February 1, 2010 – 7:54 am
If you’ve been to Brooklyn Flea, you’re probably familiar with Nightwood. The incredibly lovely couple who do the brand, Myriah and Nadia, are there many weekends with furniture they’ve made out of tiny pieces of mis-matched reclaimed wood, chairs rescued from thrift stores and repainted and reupholstered with hand-dyed fabrics, and hand-embroidered pillows. Everything they [...]
Maison et Objet: High Design Hits Paris
January 22, 2010 – 11:34 am
If you’re a design aficionado and you’re not already en route to Paris for this year’s Maison et Objet trade show you might want to check yourself. The annual fair (a self-proclaimed “fashion show” for home furnishings) is a vital pilgrimage for those who are—or want to be—players in the global design industry. Each year [...]
