Friday Snippets 12.18.2009

Fri at 12:01am

[Addison, November 29, 2009 /Image & Artwork: designslinger]

The Tate's Christmas tree turns out to be very Christmassy. [Bloomberg]

Buffalo, New York; an architectural wonderland. [USA Today]

As the end of the year approaches, Top Ten, Twenty or Thirty Lists are starting to crop-up.
Here's one for Coolest Designed Sneakers of 2009. [Business Week]

France returns some recently "acquired" artifacts to Egypt. [Guardian]

The next bubble. [NY Times]

The Warhol Foundation has given out their Arts Writers grants and one blogger made
the cut. [Warhol Foundation]

Cezanne, van Gogh, Gauguin, Toulouse-Lautrec, they're not in Paris anymore, they're in
Australia at the National Gallery until April. [nga.gov]

Thomas Hoving on Thomas Hoving. [CultureGrrl]

Enough Tiger Woods gossip already, lets switch gears and dish on the Annie Leibovitz
mess. [NY Times]

What a difference 16 years makes, Gabriel Orozco at MoMA. [NY Times]

Have a great weekend. See you Monday.

This Old Chicago House

Thu at 12:39am

[Chicago Women's Park and Gardens, November 3, 2009 /Image & Artwork: designslinger]

For a brief moment in time this path-lined park was filled with some of city's largest
mansions. They were demolished decades ago, and the rubble strewn vacant lots were transformed into the Chicago Women's Park and Gardens.

[Henry B. Clarke House (1836/1850s) 1827 S. Indiana Avenue, Chicago /Image and Artwork: designslinger]

This urban oasis is also the current location of the Widow Clarke House, which holds the
title of the oldest surviving house built within the city limits. Constructed in 1836, the building has moved around a lot. It originally stood a block north of its current site, was moved several miles south in 1870, and relocated to this address in the late 1970s. There are some amazing images of its final move in the winter of 1977 here.

[Greek Revival details, Widow Clarke House /Images & Artwork: designslinger]

The house put on its Greek Revival porch and cupola after Mr. Clarke died in 1849, when
the Widow Clarke made some cash by selling several acres of land that surrounded her much simpler 1830s-era home.

[Widow Clarke House /Images & Artwork: designslinger]

After extensive research, replication of moldings, and many paint samples later, the house
has been restored back to its 1850s origins. The porch no longer has an unobstruced view of Lake Michigan, which it did 150 years ago, but the Widow Clarke would probably recognize the old place just the same.

designslinger: Word of the Week

Wednesday, December 16, 2009 at 12:06am

[Candelabrum /Images & Artwork: designslinger]

candelabrum n. (kan-de-LAH-bruhm); an ornamental branched holder for more than one
candle, pl. candelabra

[Candelabrum, Palmer House Hotel lobby (1925-27) Holabird & Roche /Images & Artwork: designslinger]

In architecture, a decorative motif derived from the pedestal or shaft used to support a
lamp or candles.

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