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Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Museum of Craft and Design Finds a Home: By way of SFGate we learn...
× Like us and you'll find top breaking news in your Facebook newsfeed. Sign up for our daily email newsletter and get top stories and breaking news delivered to your inbox. Thursday, March 1, 2012, by Sally Kuchar
Monday, December 26, 2011
Handmade is Here to Stay: Our Favorite Finds Best of 2011
Growing and expanding since 2005, it's safe to say that Etsy has brought handmade and vintage goods into the mainstream, becoming a household name and forever changing the lives of many artisans and crafters—as well as shoppers. Here are fifteen of our favorite Etsy collections from 2011—find everything from contemporary furniture to garden gnomes!
TOP ROW
• 1 Handmade Gifts for the Home
• 2 Vintage Bookends
• 3 Contemporary Furniture Finds
• 4 Ten Vintage Treasures
• 5 Etsy Does Your Garden
MIDDLE ROW
• 6 Kitchen-Inspired Art
• 7 Creative and Affordable Lighting
• 8 Encouraging Prints
• 9 Decorative Pillows Under $25
• 10 Bold Artwork
BOTTOM ROW
• 11 Calendars for 2012
• 12 Garden Party Must-Haves
• 13 Housewares to Be Thankful For
• 14 Five Festive Finds
• 15 Ten Luxury Beds
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Thursday, March 31, 2011
Featured Project: Ike Kligerman Barkley's Villa on the Atlantic Finds Italian Inspiration
× Like us and you'll find top breaking news in your Facebook newsfeed. Sign up for our daily email newsletter and get top stories and breaking news delivered to your inbox. Wednesday, February 9, 2011, by Sarah
Today Curbed sits down with John Ike of NYC-based Ike Kligerman Barkley Architects, a firm that currently holds rank on Arch Digest's AD 100 list and recently chronicled its phenomenally diverse portfolio in Houses (Random House 2010). "John Ike, Thomas Kligerman, and Joel Barkley speak architectural languages of the past with a sure command of grammar and syntax and a rich vocabulary of form and detail," writes architect Robert A.M. Stern in his forward. Here, we chat about one of IKBA's newest projects, a family house on the New Jersey coastline.
Photo: Durston Saylor
Curbed National: What was the first thing these clients asked? Was this built as an entertaining house? For family?
John Ike: A great house for entertaining was the first discussion. Of course, the family was key, but the floor plan is very simple and transparent, lending itself to having a great party.
CN: You've said before: "Just as novelists and filmmakers gravitate toward genres that suit the themes they choose to explore, we look for the historic style that represents the best vehicles for the architectural story we wish to tell." Was there a specific historic property that inspired you here?
JI: The great Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio’s Villa Trissino served as the inspiration for this house. The interior is decidedly more modern in keeping with the owner’s taste. The story line we adopted was of a modern intervention within this classic old villa, much as the great modern Italian architect Carlo Scarpa did in alterations to the Museo Castelvecchio in Verona. This combination of the antiques and modern pieces is both visually exciting and functionally illustrative.
CN: So this really does, in fact, illustrate IKBA's signature "old meets new" style.
JI: Yes, and very matter of factly. A stainless steel-and-glass curtain wall separates the conditioned living/dining room from the front and rear loggias. The rustic beamed ceiling marches unobstructed through all three spaces.
CN: Let's re-imagine this as a one-room house. Which room would you hang on to?
JI: The room I just described. It’s a room for all seasons with a great number of daily functions accounted for.
CN: Can you pinpoint a single favorite building material?
JI: Probably wood. Although it’s the juxtaposition of different materials together that heightens their natural qualities.
CN: And what can you add about the overall interior design?
JI: It's predicated on the architecture—the conversation between old and new, interior and exterior, smooth and rough. Although these aren’t exclusively modern themes, the overall tenor is modern. One piece of note, the wood center hall table, is by Italian Sculptor Mario Ceroli and dates from 1970.
CN: If you had to create a soundtrack for the house, what songs would you include?
JI: Gilberto Gil and some classic Brazilian bossa nova from the '60s.
CN: How would you describe the general experience of walking in?
JI: It's totally transparent from the time you turn in the driveway. If it weren’t for the privet hedges surrounding the sunken tennis court in the front of the house, you’d be able to see all the way through to the ocean.
CN: Finally, please describe the finished project in five words or less.
JI: Transparent in intention and execution.
· Ike Kligerman Barkley Architects [official site]
Thursday, February 24, 2011
When Love Finds You
Vince Gill's tenor combines the breathy intimacy of a whisper with the full-bodied tone of a belted gospel chorus. This is the best of both worlds, and Gill exploits his voice to make otherwise forgettable material sound like the catchiest of tunes and the most personal of confessions. The most striking song on When Love Finds You is "Go Rest High on That Mountain," which Gill wrote for his older brother Bob, who died of a heart attack after a hard life. Sounding like a processional from a church funeral, the song is simply constructed, but Gill fills it with the most passionate singing of his career, perfectly balancing sorrow and remembered affection. --Geoffrey Himes Price: $13.98
Monday, January 24, 2011
Catastrophes: So a Man Walks Into a Bar...and Finds His House Demolished
× Like us and you'll find top breaking news in your Facebook newsfeed. Sign up for our daily email newsletter and get top stories and breaking news delivered to your inbox. Thursday, January 6, 2011, by Sarah
What a delightful plot of dried-out lawn! Err, not so much. It's actually proof of the terribly sad fate that has just befallen a Pittsburgh man who came back from the holidays only to find that a contractor had accidentally demolished the house he had purchased for his family.
West End resident Andre Hall rescued the foreclosed 1,600-square-foot 1916 house from being demolished in November, hoping to turn it into a home for his girlfriend and his five children. Unfortunately, it appears that contracting firm P.J. Deller Excavating & Hauling never got the message to cease demolition, tearing Hall's house down and leaving him utterly hopeless. "Why did they demolish the house?" he told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. "They could see I had put in new windows and had slabs of drywall." Meanwhile, John Jennings, chief of the city's Bureau of Building Inspection, sagely explained, "A couple things went awry," adding, "The house next door was to be demolished, and the contractor, in error, took this house down as well." A couple things? Really? File under: unforgivable.
· Home Demolished by Accident [AOL]
· West End demolition leaves property, owner empty [Pittsburgh Tribune-Review]
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