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Balance, Design, Products, Technology July 15, 2011

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Where we’ve been this week…


1. Dezeen for its coverage of Casa Puglia, architect Peter Pichler’s amazing update of a 14th century house in Southern Italy. And yes, those red stools pictured below in the home’s new kitchen are by Konstantin Grcic for Magis and we will be selling them come September.


2. LA Weekly for their story on John Lautner. He would have been 100 years old tomorrow.

3. Design Observer for Lorraine Wild’s piece on Sister Corita – an amazing artist and friend of the Eameses. Her posters will grace my new home office – once we get it finished! My grandparents lived in Los Angeles when she was exhibiting her work in the ’60s and I grew up with the print below in our family room. It’s good to have found her again.

4. The New Design Smell is a new online magazine with an odd name, vaguely annoying flashing blue graphics but some interesting stories. It’s heartening to see a new design magazine throwing its hat in the ring.

5. Destined to Design for its flat out beauty. (And that summer salad and ice tea look pretty damn good!)

6. MGB Architecture for this lovely backyard studio (below).


7. The House that Kat and Fred Built for lots of interiors inspiration.

8. The Travel Files. Can you tell I’m gunning for a holiday! Take a break from your work day and check out this site. Amazing places to stay all around the world – including the Moka & Vanille in Belgium (below).


9. Ecofabulous house on eBay because the bidding ends today.

10. Time magazine’s ‘Photos’ for the slideshow of Philip Johnson’s Glass House.

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A good mix of creativity & aesthetics…Great work..

posted by Dark Knight | July 15, 2011 at 10:56 am

Nice list.

Just wondering if dezeen is worth promoting (although indirectly). It’s really well-known for being a passive design promoter. Like Rick Poynor once wrote in Frame magazine (ironically, I think) that the mainstream press has to stop acting like a glorious PR agent.

Sister Corita is a long time favorite; nice to see her work resurfacing again and again.

That New Design Smell seems really interesting, but this post didn’t mention the print version (it’s some sort of print-web hybrid). Agreed about the annoying blue flashing from the website. After reading The Billion-Dollar Party, I then thought its alarmist color flashes were relevant. Maybe even disturbingly charming. Like the effects of blue police lights can have on a cold bed of pavement.

posted by Jonathan E. | August 13, 2011 at 2:47 pm

Thanks for your comment Jonathan. It’s true about the mainstream press and it’s hard, in this day of content providers instead of journalists, to really get a grip on just how pervasive the PR machine has become. I worked for years as a journalist and the PR companies were held at arms length. That doesn’t seem to be the case so much these days. This move from print to the online world has stripped, in many cases, a whole layer of people from the writing process. Sub-editors are a dying breed, editors too – the people who traditionally question question question. And the people who are actually creating the copy, the content providers, have had little or no training in spotting a story and covering it by contacting the source rather than reworking PR releases. Oh and I could go on! Dezeen offers up some good original coverage of design events which I appreciate greatly…and of course Sister Corita is an all time favorite, so glad you enjoy her work.

posted by Cerentha Harris | August 14, 2011 at 1:14 pm

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