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Design Within Reach An entirely ubiquitous medium, it can be difficult to remain current on the progress surrounding the transglobal field of architecture. Architizer, a new website, aims to bring unification to the discipline by tracking daily innovations and linking architects, firms and clients around the globe.
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Architizer, a new website, aims to bring unification to the discipline by tracking daily innovations and linking architects, firms and clients around the globe. Created by architects at the Manhattan firm HollwichKushner, Architizer simulates the style of a social networking site, focusing on the ...
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Design Within Reach's flagship SoHo Studio was transformed into a festive event space for Can It!, the
gala benefit hosted by DWR and VIPP to raise money for DIFFA: Design
Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS. Five of the
one-of-a-kind customized VIPP trash bins were auctioned live at the
event. Flashbulbs popped as, under ...the supervision of Sotheby's
auctioneer Benjamin Doller, Nigel Barker and Can It! hostess Veronica
Webb auctioned off David Rockwell’s LED-covered bin for $6,500. Yoko
Ono’s bin went for $3,400, and Ralph Lauren’s leather-clad bin closed
at $3,000. Lady Bunny’s eyeful of a trashcan was auctioned off for
$1,100 with the help of Evette Rios, and Veronica Webb’s
Africa-inspired waste bin, complete with her portrait and the Robert
Lee Morris tribal jewelry she wore in the photo, brought in a whopping
$7,500.
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Above, Can It! hostess Veronica Webb autographs her portrait. Last night, Design Within Reach's flagship SoHo Studio was transformed into a festive event space for Can It!, the gala benefit hosted by DWR and VIPP to raise money for DIFFA: Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS. ...
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"What I like about the term alchemy is that you take traditional ingredients
that would separately be just "normal this" and "normal that," and when you
combine them, because of symbiotic relationships, you get much more out of the
mix than if you were to leave them separate."
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Well, in the comments on the website, there's been a lot of meticulous debate about whether or not you can actually see the Great Wall of China from the moon. (Laughs) It's a saying. The saying doesn't have the full power if you don't use the actual language that it normally comes with. ...
Design Within Reach DWR: Tools for Living SoHo Artist Window Series, No. 5. Check out our timelapse video of artist Mike Perry in action.
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For the current window, Mike revisited theme of building cities and towns through drawing. Using the idea of a city grid as the structure, but like any city, the grid is always disrupted. Mike Perry works in Brooklyn, New York, creating books, magazines, newspapers, clothing, drawings, paintings, il...
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With a career that has spanned nearly 70 years and is still in the
making, Risom made his mark designing one of the first chairs to be
manufactured by Knoll®. Constructed of a birch frame and surplus
parachute straps, the chair made the best of the few materials
available during WWII. When Risom began his collaboration wit...h Knoll in
1941, they set about on a tour of the new "modern" home to gain insight
into what would be needed to market a line of modern furniture. After
consulting with the architects along the way, Risom was encouraged to
try out a few of his Scandinavian-inspired designs that fit the modern
bill and the new modern home. The result was the Jens Risom collection,
which was featured in one of the first Knoll catalogs.
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Design Within Reach is the source for fully licensed classics that are in stock and ready to ship at new lower shipping rates.
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A request from Florence Knoll Bassett to create "a chair she could curl up in,"
led to Saarinen's 1948 design of the Womb Chair and Ottoman. In the decade that
followed, Saarinen created a range of office chairs for Knoll, as well as his
classic Pedestal Table and Tulip™ Chair. Saarinen's stated objective with the
Pede...stal Collection was to clear up the "slum of legs" in domestic interiors.
Like his furniture, Saarinen's architecture is characterized by expressive
sculptural forms. Among his masterworks are the TWA Terminal at Kennedy Airport,
New York; Dulles International Airport, Washington, D.C.; and the Gateway Arch
in St. Louis, Missouri.
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Design Within Reach is the source for fully licensed classics that are in stock and ready to ship at new lower shipping rates.
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Venice, Italy is sinking. To save it, Rachel Armstrong says we need to outgrow
architecture made of inert materials and, well, make architecture that grows
itself. She proposes a not-quite-alive material that does its own repairs and
sequesters carbon, too
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TED Talks Venice, Italy is sinking. To save it, Rachel Armstrong says we need to outgrow architecture made of inert materials and, well, make architecture that grows itself. She proposes a not-quite-alive material that does its own repairs and sequesters carbon, too.
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They may photograph well, but the city's architecturally significant home aren't selling. And so the owner of Wright's famous La Miniatura house in Pasadena,
which hit the market about a year ago for more than $7 million, lops
off another million. Just recently, he'd dropped it to $6.97 million
(that price is still reflec...ted on firm Crosby Doe's web site, but the
price just dropped again).
· Frank Lloyd Wright [Crosby Doe]
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Event follow up: Whoo! The last two weeks have been so busy here at AphroChic. My
apologies for the scattered postings. I'm quickly learning how to
balance managing a new company, traveling to promote it, and maintaining the blog that we all love so much.
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Wine and eclectic beats never sounded so good. Design Within Reach,
a trendy art furniture studio Downtown, came alive Wednesday evening,
providing a popular hot spot for the first ever Wine and Beats event,
created and hosted by Rai-Mon Nemar.
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