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.. "the vivid gouache and watercolor depictions of interior spaces—complete with coordinated furniture, carpets, fabrics, and decorative accessories—announced the dawn of a new era of French design and set the standards of luxury and taste that still guide us today. " <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Moderne-Fashioning-Interior-Sarah-Schleuning/dp/1568987242">(here)</a> <a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7207/6798358048_a526930ecd_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7207/6798358048_a526930ecd_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 701px; height: 1044px;" /></a> Moderne: Fashioning the French Interior by Sarah Schleuning, Jeremy Aynsley Looking forward to a long weekend ahead, working on some drawings, and beginning to pull some books off the shelves, such as this one from late 2007. Before the days of the the computer, ideas were translated and shared with pen, ink, and paper for the client. A late afternoon meeting over tea perhaps, a conversation of color, and texture. Am I naive to still desire this? - David John "Jacques-mile Ruhlmann, Pierre Chareau, Robert Mallet-Stevens, Charlotte Perriand, Eileen Gray: together these designers and their contemporaries pioneered the look of the modern French interior during the 1920s. Their use of sumptuous materials, rich jewel tones, intricate geometric patterns, and complex and varied textures has made this work a lasting favorite among interior designers, architects, and their clients. When it first appeared, the got moderne, or modern taste, was marketed through limited-edition portfolios containing unbound drawings, printed in full color using a traditional process called pochoir." <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Moderne-Fashioning-Interior-Sarah-Schleuning/dp/1568987242"> </a> <a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7178/6798360778_f8e97f1c8c_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7178/6798360778_f8e97f1c8c_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 700px; height: 1012px;" /></a> "Created in an era before color photography, the vivid gouache and watercolor depictions of interior spaces—complete with coordinated furniture, carpets, fabrics, and decorative accessories—announced the dawn of a new era of French design and set the standards of luxury and taste that still guide us today. Moderne presents the finest examples of this work in more than two hundred plates, selected by Sarah Schleuning, a curator of the Wolfsonian Museum, and faithfully reproduced to preserve their original color palettes. This sumptuous volume is comprehensive in scope, beginning with the early art moderne of Ruhlmann and concluding with the avant-garde work of Gray and Perriand." <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Moderne-Fashioning-Interior-Sarah-Schleuning/dp/1568987242">(text taken from here)</a> ---------------- -----------------

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a tour of Modern-Aire

.. "a third generation family owned and operated company which has been in business since 1956." <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7044/6793240150_f971f6e171_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7044/6793240150_f971f6e171_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 700px; height: 934px;" /></a> a custom hood in it's last moments before getting shipped. </div> <a href="http://www.modernaire.com/Home.html">Modern-Aire</a> is one of the generous sponsors for the upcoming <a href="http://www.modenus.com/blog/category/blogtour" style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Modenus</a> blog tour in NYC in a few weeks. This morning, I took a tour of their facility in North Hollywood, where they produce their stunning, custom-made hoods. It's rare to see small companies producing everything in-house these days, but this is Modern-Aire's way. I admire their dedication to craft. With over 56 years here in Los Angeles, it's impressive to hear how a company is able to produce honest, useful, and beautiful works for the home. In one area of the warehouse, sheets of metal are cut in preparation. Next they are formed by an artisan that has worked with the company 20 plus years, and assembled by hand, then powder-coated to perfection, and shipped off in their warehouse. Truly astounding to see these hoods being built before my eyes. Their custom work ranges from ultra-modern seamless hoods to traditional decorative hoods. Thanks Robert, see you in New York. - David John <a href="http://modernaire.com/Home.html" style="font-style: italic;"> </a> <a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7181/6939350493_ed0f4da686_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7181/6939350493_ed0f4da686_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 700px; height: 524px;" /></a> <a href="http://modernaire.com/Home.html" style="font-style: italic;">go here for more information....</a> <a href="http://www.modenus.com/profile/vendor/modern-aire-ventilating?page=1">and for a full photo gallery, go here.</a> -------- --------

a tour of Modern-Aire

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"For myself, being an artisan or a craftsman is an amateur or almost the same thing." "His buildings have the unique ability to evoke the past, without making direct references to history. " Pritzker Prize 2012 : Wang Shu <a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7059/6789352080_6676d9663a_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7059/6789352080_6676d9663a_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 700px; height: 466px;" /></a><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7200/6790168920_0c9ac4d960_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7200/6790168920_0c9ac4d960_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 701px; height: 466px;" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"> New Academy of Art in Hangzhou / Wang Shu, Amateur Architecture Studio, photo by Iwan Baan (lower image, faded, upside down) </div><a href="http://www.chinese-architects.com/en/amateur/en/"> </a> <a href="http://www.chinese-architects.com/en/amateur/en/">Amateur Architecture Studio</a> "I design a house instead of a building. The house is the amateur architecture approach to the infinitely spontaneous order. Built spontaneously, illegally and temporarily, amateur architecture is equal to professional architecture. But amateur architecture is just not significant." One problem of professional architecture is, that it thinks too much of a building. A house, which is close to our simple and trivial life, is more fundamental than architecture. Before becoming an architect, I was only a literati. Architecture is part time work to me. For one place, humanity is more important than architecture while simple handicraft is more important than technology." (text taken from here) The attitude of amateur architecture, - though first of all being an attitude towards a critical experimental building process -, can have more entire and fundamental meaning than professional architecture. For me, any building activity without comprehensive thoughtfulness will be insignificant. <a href="http://archrecord.construction.com/news/2012/02/Wang-Shu-Wins-2012-Pritzker-Prize.asp">more here</a> ------

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