(Video link HERE.) Insanely beautiful and daring. The absence of any sound except the simple piano accompaniment punches up the stark black and white imagery as Sutton carves across snowbanks and threads through barren trees trailing a roostertail of powered crystals. May your Monday be this luminous. —Susan Dworski via Nowness
Read MoreNoguchi-esque Rice Paper Shades Soften Modern Rooms
A recent house tour in Remodelista showed a cool, minimalist renovation of a 1940’s summer cottage in Denmark. The hard angles and rectangles so common (and problematic) with a modern aesthetic were softened by huge, translucent paper spheres hung from the ceiling, pioneered by Isamu Noguchi in the 1950’s. They’ve long been a favorite of ours because the…
Read Moremirrors as windows and views
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’…
Read Morethe enduring chic of noguchi-esque paper shades
These recent pictures spotted on Desire to Inspire affirmed the enduring chic of noguchi-esque paper shades, a subject we’ve posted about before since so many true mid-century modern houses relied on them. The formula is simple:
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