Friday, February 27, 2009
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Thursday, February 12, 2009
ricci screen
is nice and attractively priced at $800.
Mark Hopkins reproductions
prices. These are all about $1500 and come in various finishes.
Commitment
Room dividers tend to look cheap. I always thought it was because by
nature, a room divider looks like an after thought, or a flimsy fix
for bad architecture. I think that's partially true, but I think the
main reason is that room dividers can easily lack commitment. Making a
wall involves commitment. A room divider can be changed at any time,
so it exists in an inarticulate state. It's similar to the reason so
many Photoshop images look weak—created in layers, they look like the
artist has never made a commitment which results in an image with an
ambiguous, aimless, tepid quality. So room dividers or cheap fixes can
probably look OK if done with purpose and authority that comes from
commitment.
nature, a room divider looks like an after thought, or a flimsy fix
for bad architecture. I think that's partially true, but I think the
main reason is that room dividers can easily lack commitment. Making a
wall involves commitment. A room divider can be changed at any time,
so it exists in an inarticulate state. It's similar to the reason so
many Photoshop images look weak—created in layers, they look like the
artist has never made a commitment which results in an image with an
ambiguous, aimless, tepid quality. So room dividers or cheap fixes can
probably look OK if done with purpose and authority that comes from
commitment.
Don't get all Sharper Image on me
like a phone booth. This gas tank from Road Relics, for example, is
kind of cool but looks too much like an "I'm an unmarried guy with too
much money and a rec room and I saw this at Sharper Image" kind of a
purchase. Road Relics has both conventional gas tanks as well as ones
that turn into displays as shown above. The nicest one has a hole for
a TV set.
Literally, a phone booth
***
The 'trees' vs. 'phone booths' thing refers to the two strategies
we've come up with for the library. The library is a very unusual
space, 10 x almost 7 feet. The problem: getting adequate book storage
in that space and also creating a wall to block off the entrance so it
doesn't seem a vast cavern.
The tree strategy means sticking something smack in the middle of the
space. The tree would obscure a bookcase and provide a virtual 'wall.'
Possibilities include everything from literal trees to fake trees to room dividers to the Eames shelving system (which Mark tells me was designed expressly for this purpose).
The 'phone booth' term comes from a picture I saw of a house with a
phone booth in the entry. I think you walk through the phone booth to
get into the house. At any rate, the phone booth is a big box that
sits against the wall. It is big enough that it creates a wall to the
space. By entering from the MBR side, you can access books inside the
'booth.' The phone booth could be anything from a drywall box to a room divider to literally, a phone booth.
From Christopher's Games.
Note: $900 at van dyke restorers in WHITE.
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Monday, February 9, 2009
Friday, February 6, 2009
Freaky cool
Yesterday, while demolishing the old bar area, Tim and Britton found a bunch of crumpled up armless and legless paper dolls and two drawings inside one of the walls. They had no idea how they got in there. On the one hand I think they're really cool. On the other hand, I find them a bit freaky, like they were part of some dark suburban ritual. Also found—a whistle, a plastic indian, a Dentyne wrapper, a pencil and a chess piece.
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