UNITED NUDE
united nude make shoes. perfectly proportioned, interesting shoes. let’s check their new lookbook AND the online store. i’m totally getting some more pairs…shoe porn! fold hi black rib
GRAZ
i went to graz for a single day just to see the kunsthaus and the mur insel. it was even better than i expected! i walked through the old fashioned city waiting to see the UFO that is the kunsthaus. the building is breath taking (designed by london architects peter cook and colin fournier) and...
HOTEL EUROPARK IN BARCELONA
last time i was in barcelona, i stayed at hotel europark*** of nunez i navarro hotels. while it’s no w or mandarin, it offered fabulous services and atmosphere well beyond its price bracket. the room was modern and welcoming, the personnel was helpful and accommodating and the view from the roof terrace was great. from the...
FRANK GEHRY
frank gehry is one of those great minds who will make you think. here, you have a speech he gave in 1990 for ted, before he was the world-famous artist he is now but also a year after getting the pritzeker prize, and here, 12 years later, a discussion with richard saul wurman, again with...
SANAA
sanaa is a tokyo-based architectural company founded in 1995 by ryue nishizawa and kazuyo sejima. this year, they received the pritzker prize, architecture’s highest reward. perhaps their names ring no bell with most of us but their amazing buildings surely do. their amazing works include the new museum of contemporary art in ny, the rolex...
IN THE MEANTIME…
– record price of £26m for painting by Roy Lichtenstein at Christie’s auction – “Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty” at NY’s Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute in May 2011 – Marc Newson’s Lockheed Lounge Chair goes for 1.6$ m – the highlights of this year’s frieze art fair – Herzog and de Meuron are working on at least one...
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IN THE MEANTIME…
– First and foremost, do not miss the Saudek show opening today in Bucharest! – Can I please get this for Christmas, too? – I once had a plan to recreate my Japanese trip on Google for my boyfriend. Although it’s kinda time-consuming to re-do 22 days worth of travelling… Still, I think this is...
IL GIRASOLE: A HOUSE NEAR VERONA
this award-winning film by marcel meili and christoph schaub tells the story of ‘il girasole’, the rotating modernist house built into the po valley hillside in northern italy. affectionately termed ‘the sunflower’, the house was built in the 1930s by architects angelo invernizzi and ettore fagiuoli, with the help of their artist, sculptor, designer and...
