Parachute Market

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Well, this weekend is off to a DESIGN filled start.  I’m headed off to downtown LA in a bit to check out Dwell on Design event at the convention center.  Then saturday will be back DTLA taking the family to Parachute Market.

From the people who brought us STOREFRONT LA and A Current Affair –  PARACHUTE MARKET  “is a quarterly design show for artists and designers to present their work in a thematic venue, chosen for its commonality and curatorial integrity. ” This weekend, for their Summer 2013 show, the theme is “Psychedelic Summer”, referencing post-modern design birthed via psychedelic culture. The market features furniture and object design, fine art, sculpture, vintage clothing, vintage furniture, fashion design, music, and the culinary arts, all cradled together under the theme of the season.~standardculture

More information and tickets here.

Remembering Willy Rizzo

A Set of Twelve Willy Rizzo Dining Chairs Dinning Table. By Willy Rizzo 1970 Sideboard by Willy Rizzo Published, Willy Rizzo, ALVEO, coffee table, 1972 Pair of Love Lamps by Willy Rizzo

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Willy Rizzo, famed celebrity photographer and furniture designer, died in Paris on Feb. 25, aged 84.

Willy Rizzo’s furniture design channelled the sophistication of Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier, his pieces combining clean, simple lines with bold geometric forms and a delicate handling of materials. His lack of formal training in furniture design placed him outside Italy’s strong, indigenous design traditions, making his style utterly unique at the time.~ wikipedia.org

~images via 1st dibs & ragoarts

 

David Stark Talks to Ghislaine Viñas

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I thought this was a really great interview with the fun and talented Interior Designer Ghislaine Viñas  on David Stark’s Blog.

As talented as she is, she tells in the interview : “actually I don’t really like designing for myself because I can never make up my mind – I am my own worst client”, which is exactly the same way I feel about designing for myself.  Hearing that just made me feel good.

See the whole post and lots more of her work here.

David McCauley : : Interior Design

It is with pleasure that I share with you the recently completed Roffoni-Graham residence designed by my good friend David McCauley and featured in the latest AD France (French Architectural Digest).  The home located in Beverly Hills was built and designed by modernist architect Richard Skinner in 1963. The article, written by Mallery Roberts Morgan, describes how David was able to marry the two differential styles of the couple – a “minimalist’s dream” mixed with organic California “70s style”.

View the full article and more pics here.

~images via malleryrobertsmorgan.com. photos by raymond meier

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.

Maria Pergay: Place des Vosges

From a 17th-century perch on the re-glamorized Place des Vosges in Paris, hip-again furniture designer Maria Pergay briefs filmmaker Pamela Hanson on why her seductive 70s metal minimalism feels so at home on the parquet. Pergay, who occupies a rarefied niche between interiors and contemporary art, began as a window dresser for couturiers and has designed limited-edition furniture and commissioned decor since the 60s. Both her new and early pieces remain in demand, and she is being recognized this year with a Légion d’honneur. To celebrate the 55th anniversary of her career, Pergay co-organized a retrospective in the French capital with galleries Demisch Danant (New York) and JGM (Paris), where she arranged a sampling of work from the past five decades into one living environment. The sculptural cabinets, seats and side tables reveal the designer’s ability to revitalize traditional boiserie with highly polished metalwork that folds back like the exquisite leaves of a “jardin sécret.” Turning her camera towards the decorative details of the showroom, Hanson flips us through a catalog of Pergay’s most recent collection, while the artist shares what inspires her with gallerist Suzanne Demisch.~nowness

~Nowness.com

Helmut Lang

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From establishing his namestake brand in 1986 Helmut Lang introduced unconventional materials into the urban uniform and by repositioning the perspectives of utility and modernity defined the silhouette of the 1990s and early 2000s. He broke away from the runway show-as-spectacle in the height of the 1980s opulence and was the first to ever stream his collection online, redefining how fashion is communicated. ~wikipedia

(Michael and Nicole Colovos now design the line for the Helmut Lang brand)

Since retiring from the fashion world in 2005, Lang has continued his artistic endevors into the world of art with Make it Hard at the Fireplace Project in 2011 where he used 6000 archived clothing pieces from his label, cutting them up and mixed with resin and pigment to create slender pipe like sculptures and collaborating with artists Jenny Holzer and Louise Bourgeois.

His recent works explore abstract sculptural forms and physical arrangements and space beyond the limitations of the human body. ~wikipedia

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.

Halston House : : Listing

Incomparable. Groundbreaking. Emulated. Iconic. Legendary. These words describe not only the spectacular architecture of 101 East 63rd Street, but the figures associated with it: Paul Rudolph, Halston, Gianni Agnelli and Gunter Sachs. Now, for the first time in generations, this unadulterated gem of architectural history and heirloom of 20th century New York’s golden age of art and culture is available for purchase. Rudolph had already served as Dean of the Yale School of Architecture and achieved international acclaim when he built the house in 1966. His clients wanted an “urban retreat,” and thus, Rudolph constructed a facade of steel and glass which purposefully demurs to its more traditional neighbors. Step inside, however, and the space comes to life, surprising and delighting guests with its unconventional use of space and light. An understated slate entry hall explodes into the vast expanse of a living room with 32′ ceilings and skylights. A double-height master suite, bamboo garden and floating staircase delight. On the top floor an additional living room, kitchen and 2nd master suite are complemented by a 1,600 s/f terrace. A garage provides the ultimate in privacy and security. All told, there are 4 bedrooms, 3 living rooms, a dining room, study, 2 kitchens, terrace and solarium. As Rudolph intended when he completed this as his only complete residential townhouse in Manhattan, and as Halston, Agnelli and Sachs all agreed, this home is truly without equal. ~ The Corcoran Group Real Estate

The only truly sexy house on the Upper East Side. Halston’s amazing collaboration with Paul Rudolph defined the pinnacle of the Studio 54 era. A timeless house for an art collector and it has a garage!!!! ~Peter Dunham

Price: $38,500,000
More here and listing here

 

~images via 1st Dibs & The Corcoran Group