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    BEYZA SELECTS KELIMS

    BEYZA SELECTS KELIMS

    Today we present a hero close to home: Beyza Özler. In her Wild Heart Free Soul store, also known as Beyza's Temple, Beyza has selected heartbreakingly beautiful vintage Kelims from all over Turkey.

    The combination of her excellent eye, and the rich tradition that she is drawing from leads to a tightly edited selection of the most perfect colors and patterns, as a well as a real sense for place, that could be described as spiritual, if that's what you're into.

    Bildergebnis für wild heart free soul

     

    Beyza has a showroom on the...

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    CY TWOMBLY

    CY TWOMBLY

    Cy Twombly was an american artist whose romantic symbolism cuts through the abstract canvases he created.

    Very much a creature of his time, the influence of his cohort of American abstract expressionsts is clear, but something timeless shines through all of that.

    This image from his studio south of Rome reveals his engagement with a sort of shared cultural memory, that for us really shines through his canvases.

     

    Thanks Cy.

     

    Cy was short for Cyclone, in case you were wondering.

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    IMI KNOEBEL

    IMI KNOEBEL

    Minimal master of play.

    Born Klaus Wolf Knoebel in 1940 in Dresden (to become East Germany) the Knoebel family moved west to Mainz in 1950. As a student he trained with the masters of the prewar modern movement Johannes Itten and Moholy-Nagy, before studying under Joseph Beuys.

    His work balances both the clean influence of the Bauhaus with more uneasy German art of the postwar era.

    Raum 19 III, 1968–2006

    Foto: Michael Richter / VG Bild und Kunst Bonn 2017, Imi Knoebel

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    SHIRLEY KURATA

    SHIRLEY KURATA

    Shirly Kurata is a wardrobe stylist living in Los Angeles, California. She has an inspirational approach to color, blocking fresh and tasty hues against each other in suprising ways.

     

    LENA DUNHAM, copyright Refinery 29. More info here

    As architects and designers, it is her iconic home that is of the most interest to us.

    You can see a full home story on her Silverlake home over at NothingMajor.com

    What we like is the relaxed approach she has to her own space. There is plenty of stuff from IKEA, not everything is...

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    AUGUSTE BRAVAIS

    AUGUSTE BRAVAIS

    By discovering the principle of crystal’s formation, Auguste Bravais inspired more than the new generation of scientists.

     

    The discovery of the imperturbable structure of crystal breathed a wind of inspiration to the expressionist movement in Germany.

     


    Above: Bruno Taut, Werkbund Pavilion

     

    Facing a world of chaos and disharmony crystaline forms were understood both as a reassuring, repetitve order, and a jagged, dynamic force.

    Lyonel Feininger

     

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    FERNANDO TÁVORA

    FERNANDO TÁVORA

    Casa Sobre o Mar, 1950

     

    Some archtitects shift from the margins to the center with the passing of time, and with the recognition achieved by thier students, in this case Álvaro Siza and Eduardo Souto de Mora

    Tennis Pavilion in Porto, 1960

    Fernando Távora's very personal and specific approach is a great inspirtion. There aren't many architects who use such bold geometetries so sensitively.

    Casa dos 2, 1997

     

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    BRENT WADDEN

    BRENT WADDEN

    Brent Wadden is a Canadian born artist who works in textile, drawing and installation.

    His feeling for geometry and the tension between the perfection of an idea, and the flawed human drive toward that perfection is of particular interest to us.

    His works are intuitively thought provoking and still deceptively easy on the eye.

    We're excited to watch his career develop, and see which direction he will take.

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    TRON

    TRON

    TRON is a 1982 sci-fi classic that visualised a man's journey into a computer. The film baffles and inspires in equal measure. We love it because of its extremely free way of visualising the world. 

    The depiction of spaces as grids and wireframe outlines is reminiscent of late 60s early 70s Italian theoretical architects Superstudio. (below)

    The more or less outrageous use of wireframe visuals mixed with live action actors and actresses, as well as the bold and fresh colour palette inspired our SWITCH wire basket.

    However, people love this film...

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    JACOBSEN THE COLORIST

    JACOBSEN THE COLORIST

    It's a common trope among the cogniscenti that Arne Jacobsen is overrated as a furniture designer and underrated as an architect. I'm not here to dispel any conventional wisdom, but I would like to further point out that he is even more underrated as a colorist.

    Architects tend to have a simplistic relationship with color - lots of naked materials, then a strong primary contrast. However Jacobsen is adept at working with a range of tones, often greens and earth tones. Some attribute this to his passion for gardening.

     

    Jacobsen even shows that the...

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    ETTORE SOTTSASS

    ETTORE SOTTSASS

    G O O D ,   B A D   &   U G L Y

     

    Sottsass took the Art Deco sensibility, interpereted it through post war pop culture and unleashed it on the yuppies of the 80s with the help of the highly distinctive Memphis collective.

    For us, he is mainly a poet of things. Like a poet, much of what he produced are best read as fragmentary and non-sequitir, and all the more beautiful for it.

    Much of the work is flat out ugly, almost all of it...

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    AGNES MARTIN

    AGNES MARTIN

    This month we pay homage to the work of Canadian-American artist Agnes Martin.

    The sincerity and precision of this work and its humbling relationship with perfection reveals itself on closer inspecition.

    Agnes Martin (1912-2004) studied to be a school teacher, but came to New York City in the 1950s to pursue her art, living alone in a loft in lower Manhattan.

    However, she soon took flight, leaving the art world behind her, and ultimately settling in New Mexico after a long road trip. She lived alone all her life.

    ...

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    CARSTEN NICOLAI

    CARSTEN NICOLAI

    Born in Karl-Marx-Stadt in 1965, Carsten Nicolai is a musician who has, luckily for us, spent some of his considerable talent visualising sound. 

    We are inspured by his commitment to the grid and what happens when that is overlayed and interfered with.

    His book GRID INDEX was the first book we bought as a studio.

     

    It's so clean. So certian. Just a collection of grids.

     

     

     

     

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    BRECHT IN BUCKOW - October 2015

    BRECHT IN BUCKOW - October 2015

    THE PERFECT ESCAPE

     

    East Berlin in the 1950s was a tense place. German poet & playwright Berthold Brecht and his wife Helene Weigel found the perfect weekend escape: every city dweller's dream of a small plot on a lake surrounded by trees

    The property achieves a lot with some simple but generous spaces. The orientation is perfect. On the west side of the lake, the enormous window catches the last, most precious light of the day. 
    ...

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    FEBRUARY 2016 - ROSEMARIE AUBERSON

    FEBRUARY 2016 - ROSEMARIE AUBERSON

    FRENCH COLLAGE ARTIST CAPTURES ATMOSPHERES

     

     

     

     

    It's that time of year when one of our favourite, most misunderstood colours pops up. 

    Pink.

    Nobody working today has a better understanding of the colour pink than Rosemarie Auberson, who collages the colour in casual, vulnerable, warm and fresh compositions that serve to reset the perceptions of a sometimes tired and abused colour.

     

    Her sparing compositions demonstrate the central principle that must be grasped by anyone dealing in elegance;

     combining generosity with economy of means.

     

    Her works have the...

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    SEPTEMBER 2015 - T.E. LAWRENCE

    SEPTEMBER 2015 - T.E. LAWRENCE

    UNLIKELY LIFESTYLE HERO

     

    You almost certainly have an idea about who Lawrence of Arabia is, from the famous and fantastic David Lean epic were he is played by a shockingly blue-eyed Peter O'Toole.

     

      

     

    What is interesting to us, though, is how he built his nest, on an estate in Dorset owned by weathy, distant relatives. His country cottage on the Clouds Hill estate is a National Trust Property, meaning that anyone passing through the south west of England can drop in for a look.

     

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    NOVEMBER 2015 - EINSTEIN ON THE LAKE

    NOVEMBER 2015 - EINSTEIN ON THE LAKE

    HAPPY PLACES FOR HEROES

     

    In the late 1920s, Albert Einstein, celebrated physicist, was presented by the mayor of Berlin with a lakeside plot for his services to science. Einstein was known to be fond of spending his Saturdays sailing on the Wannsee.

     

     

    When the news of this hit the newspapers, Einstein had declared a preference for wooden architecture. A young industrial architect named Konrad Wachsmann got it touch with Einstein, as he had been working with a factory in Saxony which was pioneering early prefabricated architecture.

     

     

    Wachsmann felt he could get a man...

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    JANUARY 2016 - JOSEF HOFFMANN

    JANUARY 2016 - JOSEF HOFFMANN

    LINES AND SQUARES

     

    Josef Hoffmann is a bridge between the world of the Belle Epoque and international Modernism. He studied with Otto Wagner and created dreamy vernacularist works like the Hohe Warte outside Vienna in 1905.

    However, while working on these designs, he was also concieving the Sanitorium Punkersdorf, also outside Vienna, begun just one year later in 1906.

    Fans of architectural history will see why Le Corbusier and Gio Ponti cite Hoffmann as an important early influence.

    What is important to us about Hoffmann is how he embodies both continuity...

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    AUGUST 2015 - CONSTANTIN BRANCUSI'S FUNDAMENTAL FORMS

    AUGUST 2015 - CONSTANTIN BRANCUSI'S FUNDAMENTAL FORMS

    Wir bewundern Brancusi wegen seiner Beziehung zur Volkskunst. Er ließ sich von fundamentalen Formen und Erlebnissen inspirieren und wir denken an ihn, wenn wir uns daran erinnern müssen. Unsere KUGEL in einem Quader ist eine Hommage an in.

     

     

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    APRIL 2015 - LOUIS LE BROCQUAY.

    APRIL 2015 - LOUIS LE BROCQUAY.

    This 20th Century Irish artist's illustrations in the Táin are the best illustrations of a human swarm that we know.

     

     

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    JUNE 2015 - INSPIRATIONAL RUST by EDWARD BURTYNSKY

    JUNE 2015 - INSPIRATIONAL RUST by EDWARD BURTYNSKY

    Photographs from the series 'Manufactured Landscapes' of shipbreakers in Chittagong, Bangladesh. www.edwardburtynsky.com | @edwardburtynsky

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