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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.

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Richard Etts Lamp

 

 

I’ve always found that designing the interior for my own home to be quite challenging.  I’m not sure why that is.  You’d think that because I’m a designer that it would be easy.  right?  NOT.

Take our bedroom for instance: I have purchased and then returned 3 different style lamps to go on the side tables.  I just haven’t found the right ones the really work, design wise.  UNTIL now.  I just spotted this Richard Etts lamp in  Alex P. White and Strauss Bourque-LaFrance’s home featured in NY Magazine.  LOVE.LOVE.LOVE.

With the help of Alex’s boss, Interior Designer Kelly Behun, helped bring the artistic couple’s design ideals HOME  with “equal mix of pieces the artists had previously collected on their own and new objects they acquired or designed together”.  

Maybe I need to hire a designer?   hmmm?  Don’t think my ego couldn’t take it.

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dwell on Design 2012

 

LOS ANGELES, CA (March 13, 2012) – Dwell on Design, the
West Coast’s largest Design Show, returns to the Los Angeles Convention Center
June 22-24, 2012. Curated by the editors of Dwell Magazine the three-day celebration brings together the best and brightest products, services, and thought leaders in modern design today for a series of conversations, demonstrations, tours, and much more. In addition to featuring over 350 exhibitors on the show floor, Dwell on Design encourages an ongoing design dialogue, showcasing over 70 presentations on three separate stages. This year, the show goes beyond the urban dwelling to encompass all aspects of the modern lifestyle, seeking out a new definition for modern beyond expectations.

I will be attending on Friday.  If you see me, please be sure to say Hi!

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Style Compass : : Kenny Schachter

Style Compass via 1st Dibs  

The living room at the London home he shares with his wife Ilona Rich and their 4 sons features his rotating art collection including Blue Target Painting by Ugo Rondinone, Vases by Ai WeiWei,  Arik Levy Rocks, and Maria Pergay Ribbon Chair  ~images via Dalani Mag and London Mag

Friends and Family – show curated by Kenny and his 2 teenage sons, Kai and Adrian @ his ROVE gallery in London ~image via 1st Dibs

Zaha Hadid’s Z.Car at Philadelphia Museum of Art

Kenny in his office that also houses some of his car collection – Porches from the 60s & 80s ~image via London Mag

This month 1st Dibs is featuring Kenny Schachter in its Introspective Magazine.   In it he discusses his journey through the art world starting in New York to now in London. How he went from stock broker, to a champion for lesser-known emerging artists and private dealer selling multi-million dollar works of art.

Kenny specializes in Gerhard Richter, Sigmar Polke, Picasso (60s canvases), Warhol, Basquiat, and Ai Weiwei.  His private collection includes furniture by Iranian architect Zaha Hadid, Maria Pergay, and Arik Levy.  He has commissioned cars, and buildings from Hadid. He is, as the article states, “intelligent, witty and bang on the money” which can be read in his writings for various publications on art and posts on his Facebook page and blog. “Always interested in shaking up the norm” he has also collaborated with both Rem Koolhaas and Hadid on motorboats as well.

Check out his gallery Rove on Hoxton Square in East London and visit his website here.

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Not So Standard

 Blanket by Geoff McFetridge for Hollywood Standard Hotel with his initials “GM”

Blanket by Chris Johanson for Downtown LA Standard Hotel 
with text that reads, “all people are multi dimensional”



Check out these great Pendelton blankets designed for the Standard Hotels by Geoff McFetridge and Chris Jonahson.  The 82% pure virgin wool & 18% cotton blankets can be purchased online here .


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At Home with Marina Abramović

I read this story on harpersbazaar.com about performance artist Marina Abramović (she’s dope) and her newly purchased house she shares with her close friend Givenchy designer Riccardo Tisci.  Wanted to share a few tid bits:
She occupies the lower three floors, which open onto a Japanese rock garden and a lap pool, while he has the top two floors.
Abramović’s aesthetic definitely tends toward the minimal, especially in her house, which is sparely decorated and stripped of ornamentation. “I never hang anything on the walls. There is never any art because I’m making art. I don’t want to see it because then I’ll never have a new idea. I try to start from the whiteness and manifest something after that.” And with every new house, she sells the contents of the last one.
“I hate kitchens”.


But please read the whole article here.  She is truly fascinating.

~images Jason Schmidt

 

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Mad Love for Morocco

 
Majorelle Garden via moroccotravelblog
Villa Oasis –Lisl Dennis/”Living in Morocco,” Thames & Hudson via NYT
Villa Mabrouka via swide.com
Villa Oasis –Lisl Dennis/”Living in Morocco,” Thames & Hudson via NYT
via aestheteblog
Villa Oasis –Lisl Dennis/”Living in Morocco,” Thames & Hudson via NYT
via aestheteblog
photo by Ivan Terestchenko © 2009 courtesy of The Vendome Press, New York
This post was inspired by another movie I watched the other night, “L’Amour Fou,” a documentary about Yves Saint Laurent, the French couturier, narrated by Pierre Bergé, his partner in business and in life. You see, I haven’t really seen many movies since my son was born 3 1/2 years ago and we JUST got Netflix over the holidays, so you could say I’m catching up on MY viewing pleasure.

I LOVED this movie. It was full of amazing imagery; Yves Clothing of course, hanging with Andy Warhol, Mick Jagger & the likes from the 60s and 70s, the incredible collection of objects d′art which in 2009 sold at Christiesfor $484 Million, and the fabulous homes that Yves and Pierre owned. I’m totally fascinated by the ones they owned Morocco, 3 in total. Dar es Saada and *The Villa Oasis were both decorated by Bill Willis and Jacques Grange designed Villa Mabrouka.  *Both designers collaborated on Villa Oasis.

I found a great article in T Magazine on decorator Bill Willis here and another– The Things Yves Loved  on Vanity Fair.