a store visit with Galerie Half

<span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"></span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">....</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" >the </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" >melodies</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style="font-style: italic;">in my mind <span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">(2011)</span></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7031/6601631317_e83707f88d_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7031/6601631317_e83707f88d_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 702px; height: 468px;" /></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:180%;" ><br style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.galeriehalf.com/galerie_half/new_enter.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Galerie Half</span></a></span> <span style="font-style: italic;">is a transcendent place. It is a store that blends American primitive works, with the lines of great Swedish, Belgian, French, and Danish furniture works. Galerie Half is for those that believe that<span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 51);"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 51);font-size:130%;" >rooms need a soul and a sense of history and purpose</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 51);">.</span></span> On trips to the store, I've come across stunning works by Jean Royere, Kurt Olsen, Poul Henningsen, and Borge Mogensen to name a few. For those that read YHBHS, Galerie Half wrote one of my favorite Card Catalog entries last year for the site. <a href="http://youhavebeenheresometime.blogspot.com/2010/12/y-h-b-h-s-card-catalog-selection-26.html" style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 0, 0);">(read it here.</a><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 0);">)</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 0, 0);"><br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;">When researching furniture/design,<span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" > <span style="font-weight: bold;">songs are often in my mind</span></span>. I see shapes and lines that will remind me of a melody, that slowly turn into muted colors, that eventually become a room. </span><span style="font-style: italic;">These images were taken by <a href="http://www.marcoannunziata.com/" style="font-weight: bold;">Marco Annunziata</a>, a photographer based in Italy and L.A. who specializes in architecture/interior photography. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Galerie Half</span> <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">6911 melrose avenue los angeles CA 90038</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7158/6601637439_3662018f29_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7158/6601637439_3662018f29_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 685px; height: 1027px;" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Zhang Huan 'Ash Painting No. 4' 2007, ash & incense<br /><br /><br /></span></div><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">Underneath our feet, Crystals grow like plants</span><br style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"> (Listen how they grow)</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 0, 0);"> I'm blinded by the lights</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">(Listen how they grow), In the core of the earth</span><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">(Listen how they grow)</span><br /></span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFf-5bg5ZaA" style="font-style: italic;"><br />(crystalline, listen here)</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7004/6601610293_72f8046d84_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7004/6601610293_72f8046d84_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 703px; height: 469px;" /></a><br /><br style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><br />I've been looking for your touch.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">I've been looking for your touch.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">I've been looking for your touch.</span><br style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">everything, you touch</span>....<br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k3qlkOBd9o"><br style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;">listen here: <span style="font-weight: bold;">holy other</span></span></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7157/6601608579_8f8430fd98_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7157/6601608579_8f8430fd98_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 702px; height: 468px;" /></a><br /><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7013/6601610721_25e5dc934d_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7013/6601610721_25e5dc934d_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 700px; height: 466px;" /></a><br /><br /><br />Don't ask me when <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">but ask me why </span><br />Don't ask me how but ask me where<br />There is a road, there is a way<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 0, 0); font-style: italic;">There is a place, there is a place </span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">I know places we can go babe </span><br />Coming home, come unfold babe<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3P2o5gryfs"><span style="font-style: italic;">(I know places... here</span></a>)<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7171/6601631041_06c8725397_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7171/6601631041_06c8725397_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 699px; height: 1048px;" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7029/6601609951_3e39253ec8_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7029/6601609951_3e39253ec8_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 699px; height: 468px;" /></a><br /><br /><br style="color: rgb(51, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 0, 0);">Do you feel any better now? </span><br />I'm trying to follow what you told me,<br />A little, lost colony from the start,<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 0, 0); font-style: italic;">We never see what only you can say </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 0, 0);"><br /></span><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PO-n2O50BSQ"><span style="font-style: italic;">(Relocate, <span style="font-weight: bold;">KAUF</span>, here)</span></a><br style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 0, 0);"><br /><br /><a href="http://www.galeriehalf.com/galerie_half/new_enter.html"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-size:180%;" >Galerie Half</span></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">6911 melrose avenue los angeles CA 90038</span><br /><a href="http://marcoannunziata.tumblr.com/"><br style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Photography by Marco Annunziata </span></a>

a store visit with Galerie Half

.... the melodies in my mind (2011) Galerie Half is a transcendent place. It is a store that blends American primitive works, with the li...

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<span style="font-style: italic;">"All beauty that has not a foundation in use, <span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">soon grows</span></span> distasteful,<br />and needs continual replacement with <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 0, 0);">something new</span></span>. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">That which has in itself the highest use possesses the greatest beauty."</span><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7170/6594949187_844117828e_b.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7170/6594949187_844117828e_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 700px; height: 907px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">the Shakers</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">vs</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Helen Frankenthaler</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">"All beauty that has not a foundation in use, <span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">soon grows</span></span> distasteful,<br />and needs continual replacement with <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 0, 0);">something new</span></span>. </span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">That which has in itself the highest use possesses the greatest beauty."</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">------------------</span>

"All beauty that has not a foundation in use, soon grows distasteful, and needs continual replacement with something new . That which ...

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<span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">2011</span></span> light will eventually<br />fade into shadow</span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> <span style="font-size:130%;">2012</span><br /><br /></span></span><br /><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7018/6551625061_589a99ac57_b.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7018/6551625061_589a99ac57_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 697px; height: 470px;" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span></span></span></span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">resume </span><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">[ri-zoom]</span> <span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 0);">verb</span>: to begin again.<br />to take up or go on with again after interruption;<br />continue: to resume a journey.<br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;">Wishing you safe travels & happy holidays.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">YHBHS will resume in the new year.</span> See you soon.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">(image of 2 lamps, and 2 candles from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Axel-Vervoordt-Interiors-Armelle-Baron/dp/2080305352">Axel Vervoordt's book, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Timeless Interior</span></a>. )<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">------------------</span><br /></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></span></span>

2011 light will eventually fade into shadow 2012 resume [ri-zoom] verb : to begin again. to take up or go on with again after interrupti...

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