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Construction pics from on site
Consider the seventh floor poured!
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“I am business.
I am Profit and Loss.
I am Beauty come into the Hell of the Practical”Benjamin de Casseres, Mirrors of New York, 1926, quoted by Rem Koolhaas in his Delirious New York, 1978.
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Photos by Arthur Condo
Arthur Condo seems to be getting a bit impatient about moving into his new Art Condos digs. Today he wandered by the site to tell us that when the time came to move in, he wanted the condo with the red…
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Design we love: Prairie tables
What might first appear as mere abstract detailing in the eccentric shapes of these sleek, white, interlocking tables turns out to have geographic meaning: the tables, which have MDF tops and solid ash legs, actually come in the shape of…
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“I am enthusiastic over humanity’s extraordinary and sometimes very timely ingenuities. If you are in a shipwreck and all the boats are gone, a piano top buoyant enough to keep you afloat that comes along makes a fortuitous life preserver.
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Photos by Arthur Condo
Arthur Condo reminds us constantly that he is a quiet, meditative sort of guy, who likes things calm and peaceful. We explain to him, sometimes, that it’s not really that kind of world anymore. “Well,” he told us the other…
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Eating hearty at Piola
The truth behind the age-old question of why good Italian cooking is so deeply, endlessly satisfying is an elusive one. One hungry afternoon, a few days ago, we dropped in to Piola, a new Italian Restaurant (it opened last December…
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Photos by Arthur Condo
“What’s this then?” we asked Arthur Condo when he came by yesterday to show us his latest photos of the Art Condos site. “Coils of communication,” he told us. “Transmission! Connectivity!”
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“You can design a car so that every time you get in it, it’s a relief–you have a little vacation for a while.”
Automobile Designer Harley Earl
It ought to be the same with a condo.
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Art we love: Sacred and Profane Love (Self-Portrait II) by Harold Klunder
Harold Klunder is everywhere regarded as one of Canada’s most powerful painters. His latest exhibition, Black Sun, now at the Clint Roenisch Gallery is a remarkable experience, both for the majestic trio of paintings making up the Black Sun…
