interiors & exteriors
wood + black + stone


















































































interiors & exteriors
wood + black + stone

(slowly beginning to collect images /samples for current project.)



1. Pinch Design, go here. London designers.
2. Thomas M. Beeton & Associates
3. Saunders & Wilhelmsen Arkitektur AS, go here...
4. The Brick House Tumbler, go here.. (Is there a better tumbler out there for interiors?)











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black botany
1851 and 2008


















black botany

1. Frederick Crook, 1851, steel
2. Paul Morrison, Industrial powder coated
marine aluminum and galvanized steel, 2008





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bright
(black) light: 1958

bright black
morning light 2010



























bright
(black) light

bright black
morning light




images:
1. gino sarfatti, Ceiling light, model no. 2110, c.1958
2. jacco morris, 2010, go here..




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"because there's 40 different shades of black
so many fortresses and ways to attack
so why you complaining?
Ta!"


- elevate me later, pavement


























































"because there's 40 different shades of black
so many fortresses and ways to attack
so why you complaining?
Ta!"


- elevate me later, pavement......


1. Ester Partegas, Christopher Grimes Gallery. New work this month!!!!! go here..
2. Richard Powers photographer, interiors by Carole Katleman and Daniel Cuevas
3. Eric Dever, paintings. go here!







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THE BLACK VOID

one square, two square.

Looking for a man with a focus and a temper
Who can open up a map and see between one and two

"Everybody's talking 'bout the stormy weather
And what's a man do to but work out whether it's true?
Looking for a man with a focus and a temper
Who can open up a map and see between one and two"

thurston, teenage riot.

the black void.


1. richard wilson, 1987, used sump oil and steel, dimensions variable
2. unknown black square interior.
3. parque humano
4. mark rothko





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W A D E G U Y T O N

homes,
tumblers,
and
the
black.



























homes,
tumblers,
and
the
black.

1. Wade Guyton
2. Wade Guyton and Kelley Walker: Tumblers A set of six glass tumblers by artists Wade Guyton and Kelley Walker, printed with metallic patterns. Bottoms up! SOLD OUT! (boo!)
via ooga booga store here in los angeles!




...

b l a c k

"where there is smoke....."

&

"double black wins the bet"

Smokey Robinson Where There's Smoke... 1970

"Although the LP is divided into "Smoke" and "Fire" sides, both sides start out with rhythmic songs and gradually slow down to near-ballad speed, with the sensuous "Cruisin'" the final "Fire" track. In retrospect, the album may be uneven and a touch too disco-ish in places, but in 1979-1980, Where's There's Smoke... brought Smokey Robinson back into the limelight"

"Trying to stop an object falling by re-suspending it, an arrested trajectory.

Resurrecting it, by which I mean giving something has met its end in a violent way a new existence. The demise of object might have been my doing, or it might have happened by chance (like the cliff fall). There are processes and frictions out in the world naturally already, then there are man-made frictions of guns, explosions and guillotines.

My work is somehow very quiet and not really violent at all - it's calm, like the eye of the storm. "

- Cornelia Parker...

1. Maarten Baas
2. Cornelia Parker
3. Jackie Winsor. Burnt Piece. 1977-78, c/o MOMA
4. William J O'Brien, c/o Marianne Boesky, New York
5. Leonardo Drew,
6.. Aaron Spangler, wood

a
life
in the
desert.
(or forest)
creating (reality.).












"Ever read the classic 1975 utopian novel Ecotopia? People in Northern California and the Pacific Northwest break from the US to form their own country. We love the book because in Ecotopia, everybody lives in a commune!

With Ecotopia as inspiration we're visiting as many 'communal hotspots' as possible in an 8-day period: Ojai, Big Sur, Santa Cruz, Oakland, Bolinas, Sonoma County and beyond... from Aug 12 - 20, or so." .... Stephanie Smith..


read more about this incredible voyage here...

Earthbag homes.

"In addition to their do-it-yourself, easy-to-build and other sustainability-related benefits, “earth bag” homes – constructed of bags filled with local dirt, mud, sand and/or rock – are also potentially extremely expressive as works of design. Their structural properties and the ways in which they are stacked certainly preclude some design possibilities but they enable others.

The end product reflects not only the more universal properties of sand-and-dirt-built structures but also can indicate individual stylistic preferences and regional building practices. The final appearance is generally curved, organic and assymetrical – not things we are used to in home design – but invariably are anything but boring. All in all, they have a great deal of expressive potential for something so cheap, easy and fast to build – if nothing else as an eccentric guest house or secondary rural cabin....

see the site here.. and blog here..

Andrea Zittel, Joshua Tree

Interview with Andrea here..

Q: When I think of your work and how you live, it seems like you are working toward a kind of utopianism. Is that overstatement?
A: It's funny. I was thinking about that the other day because I've noticed that a lot of people are afraid to use the word "utopia." And I think by nature I'm drawn toward utopian solutions. I'm really drawn to these different earlier stabs at making utopian communities, so I'm trying to figure out why having utopian impulses is a bad thing.

Q: People often associate utopianism with escapism.
A: No, actually I think they associate it with fascism: Look at the early 20th century and the utopian movements in Europe, and how some of them ended up going so wrong. I think that's the danger. And I've noticed that Europeans are a little more wary of that word than Americans, especially in the West Coast, where, at worst, utopian movements ended up being hippie communes gone wrong.

Rosa Muerta, Joshua Tree

"Pretty Vacant Properties is a vacation rental site in Joshua Tree, California. One at a time, we are building a new kind of desert modern architecture that offers you a chance for you to re-frame and re-create your own world . . . if only for a weekend. Authenticity of place is the most rare and valuable quality that we can offer to people who want to escape from the grind, so the houses are envisioned and handcrafted by the builder (www.robertstonedesign.com) with only that in mind. If you think they look good then contact us and plan a trip."

read more here..
(dying to rent this house for the weekend, any believers?)

(image by colin lawson 2006)

Marconi Union : "a Japanese-themed suite of minimalist ambience"
listen here too....

"Richard Talbot and Jamie Crossley met while working in a Manchester record shop. At the time Richard was making long ultra minimal ambient pieces of music, Jamie borrowed a CD of these and added more instrumentation, he then gave the new recordings back to Richard who then overlaid more music onto Jamie's version, they carried on bouncing tracks backwards and forwards, taking turns to add or remove layers of sound. Tracks would develop almost organically sometimes only taking shape after months of work. The process was repeated several times over the course of 18 months. Neither of them had any intention of doing anything more than make music that they would enjoy listening to. Occasionally they would play a track in the shop without revealing who it was by and they found that they quickly started getting repeated enquiries from customers about whether the music was available to buy. After a few months it became apparent that they had recorded the basis of an album almost by default and in response to encouragement from a number of interested people they mixed a final version."

Thick black lines creeping quietly against a stain-free floor.



images....
1.. Fontana Arte
2. Anthony Caro
3. Brent Hallard
4. Louis Kalff

The Black Square.

1. Edward Wormley, side tables
2. Kazimir Malevich, 1914
3. Charles Ray, ink box, 1986



"When, in the year 1913, in my desperate attempt to free art from the ballast of objectivity, I took refuge in the square form and exhibited a picture which consisted of nothing more than a black square on a white field, the critics and, along with them, the public sighed, '

"Everything which we loved is lost. We are in a desert . . . . Before us is nothing but a black square on a white background!" . . . .

Even I was gripped by a kind of timidity bordering on fear when it came to leaving "the world of will and idea," in which I had lived and worked and in the reality of which I had believed. But a blissful sense of liberating nonobjectivity drew me forth into the "desert," where nothing is real except feeling . . . and so feeling became the substance of my life.

This was no "empty square" which I had exhibited but rather the feeling of nonobjectivity. . . . Suprematism is the rediscovery of pure art that, in the course of time, had become obscured by the accumulation of "things" . . . . The black square on the white field was the first form in which nonobjective feeling came to be expressed.

taken from here...

"Suprematism is an art movement focused on fundamental geometric forms (in particular the square and circle) which formed in Russia in 1915-1916. It wasn't until later that suprematism received conventional museum preparations."
































variations on a rectangle.
red, white blue,

1. unknown.
2. chris tosic
3. charlotte posenske
4. chris tosic
5. henning bohl

Tony Smith, sculptor, architect.
1912-1980

"Some critics went so far as to call Smith the father of Minimal Art. Yet he had been working independently of the initiators of that exciting movement, Carl Andre, Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt and Robert Morris. They were similarly unaware of what Smith was doing. "Morris and Judd and all those guys really thought about what they were doing," Smith was quoted as saying. "I never thought about anything that I did. I just did it."

all text taken from artnet article here...























"The story has become one of the most repeated anecdotes in the annals of contemporary art. As Smith told it, the incident sounds much like an occurrence in a Joan Didion novel, hardly the stuff one relates to Minimalism.

According to Smith, "It was a dark night and there were no lights or shoulder markers, lines, railings or anything at all except the dark pavement moving through the landscape of the flats, rimmed by hills in the distance, but punctuated by stacks, towers, fumes and colored lights. This drive was a revealing experience. The road and much of the landscape was artificial, and yet it couldn't be called a work of art. On the other hand, it did something for me that art has never done.

"At first I didn't know what it was, but its effect was to liberate me from many of the views I had about art. It seemed that there was a reality there which had not had any expression in art." The industrial environment captivated him more that evening than many smaller sculptures and colorful paintings he had seen and previously admired in art galleries. The large looming unlit shapes combined mystery with power. Smith wanted his three dimensional forms to operate the way the stacks, towers and fumes had that "dark night."

black (friday). working with the absence of color. a weekend of sun.
1.black hanging lamp
2. black ceiling
3. unknown
4. jacob hashimoto
5. gino sarfatti lamp
6. louis kalff lamp, black staircase
7. liat yossifir