Spaceship Earth

Today one of my architecture and design heroes: Buckminster Fuller.
A total visionary, internationally known in the 50’s because of his Geodesic Dome research and development, was a brilliant and inspiring human.
He even fully documented his whole life (every 15 minutes everyday for decades!) in a diary series called Dimaxion Chronofile!
A total recommendation for further research and inspiration... have a nice day*
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*Photographs borrowed from Flickr.
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"Archigramazed"

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot once again about Archigram (the amazing avant-garde conceptual arty architecture collective created in the 60s by Peter Cook, Warren Chalk, Ron Herron, Dennis Crompton, Michael Webb and David Greene).

Below see some Peter Cook’s collages:
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Human buildings (Yoshikazu Yamagata)

...and a little bit more of artsy fashion today. ;)

I’m fascinated with Yoshikazu Yamagata’s work, look at these amazing crotcheted houses!
This was an installation created for Arnehem Mode Bienale 2007 in collaboration with Mafuyu.

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left: photo by Fred Butler. right: photo by Koomi Kim.
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A pattern must.

One of my most profound all-time inspirations is the Wiener Werkstätte (Viena Workshop). I love their holistic approach to creativity, the amazing patterns they created, the artisan touch of everything... So contemporary but so ornamental at the same time.
Amazing.

I’ve scanned and gathered some images for you:
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These two Koloman Moser patterns are serious stuff.. huh?
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And below “Mauerblümchen” fabric designed by Lotte Frömmel-Fochler.
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and the very same fabric applied by Josef Hoffmann at the Primavesi Country House.
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John Lautner

Amazing Lautner residences...
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Architecture hybrids

I saw on BLDG BLOG these amazing pictures by Filip Dujardin.
Surreal and brilliant.
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Copo and the japanese house...

I think this is the right moment to introduce Copo, our beloved cat...I took this picture in my home studio while I was trying to tidy up...
he organized himself in a minute ;)
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Well, I wrote this “cat intro” to talk about a great post I read at The Modern Cat, a fantastic japanese cat-friendly house!
I love when architecture and design humanize theirselves enough to produce hybrids like this.
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Las Pozas: Sir Edward James house.

I don't use to watch TV...but yesterday I did, and I saw a documentary about Las Pozas, a surrealistic -and huge- “eden garden” in the middle of the Mexico jungle created by poet/humanist Edward James.
I became inmediately captivated by the beauty of it... isn’t it astonishing?
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©photographs borrowed from Flickr.
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Studio Pepe

I recently liked a lot the stylings that Studio Pepe are developing for Case De Abitare new look...
Aren’t the colours just gorgeous?

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Gordon Matta-Clark

Last june on my London vacations attended the amazing Psycho Buildings exhibition at Southbank Centre and there I saw a great “building-cut” Gordon Matta-Clark video, below you can enjoy a piece of it.
Spectacular!



Note: Psycho Buildings exhibition lasts until august 25... hurry up if you are in London! Definitely worth!
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PATTERN TALES at SWISSMISS

wow wow wow SWISSMISS posted about Pattern Tales yesterday :)
Thank you Tina*

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itte CD COLLECTION

Summer is coming up and we are getting ready for our next "Alan the Gallant music compilations". We give it away to our clients, the best way to disconnect from all...
Indie-ear playlists for all the family ;)

*In the picture “Days of the Week CD collection” created 2 years ago...

Music for mondays, tuesdays...

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Barcelona Luxe City Guide!

It's official.... Barcelona LUXE city guide is sale!
Go to LUXE CITY GUIDES for your purchase...enjoy it.

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