AMERICAN HARDCORE

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The Vinyl Factory and The Mott Collection announce a new exhibition and publication: American Hardcore, 1978-1990.

The exhibition brings together 50 American Hardcore records spanning the apex of the genre from the late 70s up to the 90s, and takes place at The Vinyl Factory Chelsea from 11 April to 4 May 2013. 

The collection showcases the subtle shifts and changes, and finally the overall unification of what began as a disparate musical style that developed into a rigid set of fixed codes, sounds, and political beliefs.

From the raw stripped down sounds of Black Flag to the spasmodic reggae influenced Bad Brains, Hardcore emerged as a puritanical suburban rely to the decadence of big city Punk Rock outfits such as the Ramones or the New York Dolls. ~vfeditions

Ah, I can smell my youth just by looking at these images.

 

Apartamento Issue #10

Apartamento Issue #10 is on SALE now.  Inside you’ll find an interview by Patrick of Mondo Cane of Coverboy/Designer Jim Walrod and pics of his 2000 sq. ft space he shares with his wife Mara located at the back of a hardware store in Chinatown NYC.  Also a conversation between 3 Set Decorators/Production designers from Los Angeles : Claudette Didul (Mad Men), Coryander Friend (Beginners) , and K.K. Barrett (Where the Wild Things Are) that David John of You Have Been Here Sometime Before design blog, helped to produce.

This issue also features: Esther Mahlangu, Yorgos Lanthimos, Witold Rybczynski, Ai Weiwei, Christophe Lemaire & Sarah-Linh Tran, Lisa Larson, Devonté Hynes, Edward Colver, David Toro & Solomon Chase, Tauba Auerbach, Ken Garland, Rachel Korine, Juan Stoppani, Ola Rindal, Elein Fleiss, Jasper Morrison, Juergen Teller, Marlene Marino, Nico Krijno, Jeremy Liebman, Till Sperrle, Thea Slotover, With a portfolio by Aurora Altisentand.

If you want to get your hands on it, use the store locator here to help find a shop near you.

This Is How We Do It….

I am excited to post about this new book because it has the work of our friend Sage Vaughn on the cover.  Yay Sage!

“Milk and Honey: Contemporary Art in California” highlights new work by contemporary artists who are aesthetically and regionally joined through a variety of mediums and demographics. By showcasing unknown and emerging artists alongside established icons who all call California home, “Milk and Honey” recognizes the fact that region and lifestyle directly influence the working process and ultimately the state of contemporary imagery.

In the same spirit as Roger Gastman and Jeffrey Deitch’s recent seminal MOCA show: Art in the Streets, “Milk and Honey” celebrates a group of contemporary artists with roots across various areas, including graffiti art, surf, and skate culture, and other uniquely Californian influences. As is evident in that highly acclaimed museum show—as well as the current Pacific Standard Time Show throughout Los Angeles—California affects trends and sets the stage nationally and internationally, for some of the most creative art being made in the world today.

More than 50 artists featured, including: Ed Ruscha, Ed Templeton, Cleon Peterson, Megan Whitmarsh, Sage Vaughn, RETNA, and Ye Rin Mok. As well as essays by Lucy Goodwin, PM Tenore, and many others.~ amazon

Get it here.

Houses of the Sundown Sea

text by Lisa Germany with accompanying photos by Juergen Nogai

Gesner himself at his 1957 designed Wave House in Malibu

Wave House

Raven’s Eye in Malibu

For more than 60 years, passersby have strained to catch a glimpse of maverick architect Harry Gesner’s houses in Southern California. This is the first book to examine Gesner’s architecture, tracing his career from 1945 to the present and opening the doors to 15 of Gesner’s intriguing homes, all located in or near Los Angeles and built in the 1950s and 1960s. An insightful and revealing text accompanies new photography by Juergen Nogai along with historical photographs and Gesner’s own drawings, floor plans, and blueprints drawn from his remarkably rich archive. Gesner’s utterly unique, often eccentric and unorthodox designs are outside the canons of doctrinaire modernism, yet he is undoubtedly a Modernist, and one whose romantic, quixotic nature has caused his truly extraordinary body of work to be overlooked by many—until now. ~via Amazon

Harry Gesner draws inspiration from nature and the energy of having lived by the ocean in Malibu all his life. Gesner, an avid surfer, whose Malibu Wave House has given inspiration to such architectural icons as the Sydney Opera House, describes his experience in 1956, sketching the ideas right onto his balsa-board with a grease pencil, sitting out in the ocean facing the beach where he camped for a few nights to get to know the elements. ~Eric Minh Swenson

 

Selexyz Dominicanen Maastricht

Incredible bookstore designed by architecture firm Merkx + Girod right inside a 13th century Dominican cathedral in Maastricht, Holland.  The project, Selexyz Dominicanen Maastricht, incorporates  3 stories of shopping space, a cafe, and eating area all done in a modern aesthetic while maintaining the ancient and religious details of the space.

See more dope pics here.

ArchiZOOM

Archizoom Association was a design studio founded in 1966 in FlorenceItaly, by four architects: Andrea Branzi, Gilberto Corretti, Paolo Deganello, Massimo Morozzi; and two designers: Dario Bartolini and Lucia Bartolini.

The team produced a rich series of projects in design, architecture and large scale urban visions, a work which is still a fundamental source of inspiration for generations to come. 

Together with Superstudio, Archizoom invented “Superarchitecture“, endorsing creative processes along the lines of Pop in architectural and design development, exemplified by objects such as the “Superonda”-sofa, (still made by poltronova) which invites unconventional postures by its waved shape.

The « Dream Beds » and « Gazebos » are results of “Superarchitecture” transformed into a productive system, which by the creation of eclectic objects and kitsch, undertakes the critical destruction of functionalist heritage and the spatial concept of the modern movement. A system which finally leads Archizoom to the discovery of the concept of the void and neutral, characteristic for the projects of their final period of activity.

The research of Archizoom culminates in « No-Stop-City », one of the most enigmatic and radical visions of the city of the future; without boundaries, artificially lit and air-conditioned. To use and populate No-stop-City’s continuous surfaces Archizoom conceived and realized multifunctional furniture and clothing for the inhabitants of the highly artificial environment.

By the end of their activity Archizoom achieved an all-embracing creation, reaching from object to clothing, from furniture design to large scale urban proposals; a heritage transpiring the passionate ideals of a generation believing an a humanity liberated of the constraints of architecture, fighting for alternative cultural concepts, hoping for a nonconformist lifestyle and total freedom. ~Wikipedia

Making WET

WET: The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing was one of the most innovative and influential publications of the 1970s and early 80s. WET’s quirky, prescient editorial sensibility helped catalyze the graphic styles later known as New Wave and Postmodern. In pictures and words, Making WET: The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing tells the story of WET, from its beginnings in a Venice Beach art milieu to its apotheosis as must-have inspiration for imaginators of every stripe. ~Imperfect Publishing

From Founder Leonard Koren is Making WET: The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing, available here as a hardcover book.