Museum of Craft and Design Finds a Home: By way of SFGate we learn...

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Globe Trotting: Architects Craft Wood Siding Based on the Fibonacci Sequence

× 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, July 27, 2011, by Sarah Firshein

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Math! We don't write about it all that often but we relish the opportunity to do so when it arises. Thanks to Berlin-based architects Sören Hanft, the Da Vinci Code lives on: the firm (along with architect Jens Casper) has just designed a house whose glazed larch-wood siding was inspired by the Fibonacci sequence. According to the project description, "The horizontal slats of different widths are based in their arrangement on the Fibonacci series of numbers,” creating "an anomaly that affects the design harmoniously." Please make like Robert Langdon and bolt over to Freshome for additional photos.

· Exterior Home Slats Based on Fibonacci Series of Numbers: HHGO Garden Residence [Freshome]
· Sören Hanft [official site]
· Jens Casper [official site]

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On The Market: Kentfield: Warren Callister and Jack Hillmer Craft a House

× 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, June 2, 2011, by Philip Ferrato [Photo Credits: Renee Adelmann, Marin Modern]

Kentfield, up in Marin County, is a little far afield for us here at Curbed SF, but we'd walk there to see this pristine 1946/47 house by Warren Callister and Jack Hillmer. It was their first project together- they remained close friends for seventy-one years until Hillmer's demise in 2007, with Callister's death just months later in 2008- and it was built for painter/illiustrator William Haines Hall. The 4-bed, 3-bath house on a .75-acre lot in Kent Woodlands came on the market two days ago, asking $2,100,000. There's also a separate studio building and an organic vegetable garden. The house is very much still as-built and well-maintained, plus it's easy to see the joy these two young architects took in both the materials they were using and the exuberance of that cantilever. Along with the fact that the end of WWII had freed up supplies of wood, steel and concrete. (click on the images in the gallery.) Despite their deep and abiding friendship, this is one of their few collaborations, with Callister developing a large and successful architectural practice and Hillmer building very little over his career. 405 Goodhill Road in Kentfield is open Sunday, June 5, from 11am to 4pm.
· Warren Callister Coverage [Curbed SF Archives]
· Appreciation: Jack Hillmer Practiced Architecture as Fine Art [Dave Weinstein/SF Gate]
· Appreciation: Architect Warren Callister [Dave Weinstein/SF Gate]
· William Haines Hall [Askart]
· 405 Goodhill Road, Kentfield405 Goodhill Road, Kentfield [Marin Modern]

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Video Interlude: Amy Sedaris Tells Jimmy Kimmel That All Craft People Are Ugly

× 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. Tuesday, February 8, 2011, by Sarah

Last night, talkshow host Jimmy Kimmel introduced guest Amy Sedaris as "kind of like a Martha Stewart for people who wear Halloween costumes all year long." Well, after a bit of witty Super Bowl-related badinage, Sedaris deftly rebutted, backhanding Martha and all her minions in one fell swoop. Asserting that she keeps her distance from "craft people" as much as possible, she continues by calling all of them ugly (with long teeth). On the upshot, she didn't call any of them poor!

VIDEO: AMY SEDARIS RAILS AGAINST CRAFTERS

· Amy Sedaris on Jimmy Kimmel Live PART 1 [YouTube]

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