We are thrilled by the publication of Donald Judd Spaces, a rare visual survey of the legendary artist’s living and working spaces. It contains a trove of new and archival photographs alongside five essays by the artist which afford a close look and greater understanding of his integrative thinking and aesthetic, and very employable ideas.
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Whenever we look at designer Paola Navone’s homes, we come away with a zillion ideas that we could actually do, without a ton of dough. Here are our favorite steal-able ideas.
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Placing a window adjacent to the Laboratory’s window gives the illusion of a corner window and reflects the spectacular view.
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Partial sheetrock walls in unexpected graphic shapes and proportions, without moldings or adornments, can add a modern architectural element to a room.
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We never really understood the possibilities in yurts, the round nomadic shelter until we saw images of William Coperthwaite’s Yurt on the Blue Hill Peninsula of Maine. Windows all around, on 3 levels.
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Another bit of brilliance from Swiss artist Not Vital found in the New York Time’s recent T Magazine Style Issue: In his studio in Sent, Vital place images high on the wall stacked vertically. It occurs to us this could be a good trick to make lowish ceilings look higher. We’re going to file it in…
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Hungry for color but don’t quite know how to pull it off? Check out this house tour of a seriously colorful modern home from the 60’s. Loud + inspiring! via Design Milk
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(Video link here.) We written before about the wonders of washi tape, Japan’s version of masking tape made of rice paper; it comes in many colors and sizes, with an adhesive that is very gentle to walls. It’s the perfect material for instant-decorating. MT is the company that started it all and has an extensive…
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If you look closely at the mirror in the image above, you’ll see sky, clouds, rooftops and a flock of birds swarming in unison in what appears to be a miraculously organized pattern. The mirror allows me to sit at my desk facing a 13-foot wall, and look out the adjacent window for an instant ‘refreshment’…
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When we stumbled on this image, we had to look twice to see what was so clever about the use of a classic white Venetian blind. Had the blind been hung inside the doorway, it would have had a very ordinary effect; and the blind’s boxy top mechanism would have obstructed the lines of the…
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Since Todd Selby hit the big time, he’s been so busy photographing the rich and famous that the images at The Selby have yielded far less useable ideas than they used to, when his subjects were seriously original, eccentric, and..’er..REAL. So we were happy to spot these two usable and oddly charming ideas in his…
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Spotted at Still + Company: a mysterious unnamed interior with many cool ideas at one fell swoop. First off: the worn wooden table that doubles as a floor! At one end you can sit at it at a Japanese-style low bench; at the other you can sit ON it. It makes for one of the most…
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We’ve been inspired by the work of artist Donald Judd since we first set eyes on his deceptively simple furniture constructed out of plywood years ago, which blurred the lines between art and utility in a totally surprising way. Recently, the five-story 19th-century cast-iron loft building in Soho where the artist lived and worked for 25…
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French by Design recently featured Veerle Wenes‘ unique home in Belgium that serves as both residence and gallery. We recommend taking the full tour for the wealth of design ideas the images hold. Take this foyer, for example, with unique, diy-able peg hooks that run horizontally and vertically, not to mention the swell two-legged plywood desk…
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We always have our eyes for ideas we could use at home, office, spaces we need to support us and lift our spirits. The right color can do that. Since we’re not being entirely comfortable picking colors on our own, we look to ways other people have done it for inspiration and guidance. First we…
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I thought it would be fun to give a sneak peak of the new space I’ve been renovating – the secret project that has run me ragged for months. It will be a sort of laboratory for many ideas we want to explore on ‘the improvised life’. Although it will probably never be ;finished;, this…
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Many years ago, I bought an amazing yellow mantle, salvaged from an old house in Maine, to surround the fireplace in an apartment I thought I’d live in forever. Then things changed (life’s operating principle) and I had to leave that beautiful space, and make a new home amidst the the harsh realities of…
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A wordless, pictures-only post on Reference Library tipped me off to Marcel Breuer: Sun and Shadow, The Philosophy of an Architect, that Breuer wrote in the fifties. I found it on Ebay for a good price, through a “buy it now” dealer of out-of-print mid-century and design books. It’s a treasure, in part because of…
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