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Design We Love: Buddha Machines
Maybe there ought to be a column in this blog called Design That Simply Catches Our Fancy—a place to explore objects that, while they may not kick the history of design ahead by much, are, nevertheless, attractive and pleasing.
Like…
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“If we actually possessed one grain of knowledge, there would be no holding us back.”
Michel de Montaigne
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Photos by Arthur Condo
We found Arthur Condo at the Art Condos site last week, staring raptly, in apparent admiration, at the rising building. “I love watching it go up,” he told us. “It feels so powerful.”
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Design We Love: the Duke Lamp
This guileless-looking but somehow cheerfully forceful lamp–the Duke table lamp by Salgado Saucier of Milford, Pennsylvania–is made of resin with a silk shade. According to Hanson Tan of Industrial Storm you can have the lamp “in any colour…
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Photos by Arthur Condo
Arthur’s photos of the Art Condos building were almost always taken from odd angles and always offered unusual views of the project. “I like this one,” Arthur told us, “because of the little patch of blue sky at the top. …
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“I have great love and respect for colour, just as I do for words. I find it very hard work to employ both effectively.”
Ettore Sottsass in The Curious Mr. Sottsass: Photographing Design and Desire, Thames and Hudson, 1994, p.75…
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Green Thumb: The Pencil Cactus
We mention to Rebecca MacLachlin of Poppies that we’re looking for houseplants that are easily grown in condos and she leads us, enthusiastically, to a great, towering, spiky-green, indoor jungle of a plant called A Pencil Cactus. We…
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Photos by Arthur Condo
Arthur Condo strolled by the Art Condos site again last week.
“You’re getting to be a fixture here,” we told him. “Same name,” he explained, taking a couple more photographs.
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Design We Love: Horse Brasses at Index G Gallery
This personable cat is a typical example of what are known as horse brasses – that is, solid brass castings used as tackle fasteners and sometimes just as decoration for parade horses. They were at the height of their popularity…
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“How one walks through the world, the endless small adjustments of balance, is affected by the shifting weights of beautiful things.”
Elaine Scarry, On Beauty and Being Just, Princeton University Press, 1999, p.15
