Showing posts with label gifts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gifts. Show all posts
Abitare 1994
and more.









Spending the morning reading vintage ABITARE magazines that Beth, of By Land By Air By Sea, sent to me in the mail yesterday. Beth's gorgeous collaged packaging almost makes one not want to open and destroy her art. She has just posted some new work on her site that will be part of an upcoming project for Chronicle Books. Thanks again for your generosity........



The first ABITARE AIA Edition is from May 1994,
and the entire edition is devoted to Los Angeles.


Los Angeles, 1994,
The Urban Landscape and Development
The Wonders of Sunset Boulevard
The Geography, The Architecture and Styles
The Young Architects, The City of Signs
The Film Industry
Schindler, Neutra, Eames, Wright, Ellwood







Thank you Beth!
Abitare 1994
and more.






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some
good gifts.






bart exposito, c/o the company flat files. buy it here.



Bart Exposito
22 x 15 inches
Lithograph on paper (edition 4 of 10)
From Pruess Press archives
$800 (framed)




















shrimp shop at south willard.
but it here... via here.

"
Alphabet posters available at the Shrimp Shop. Ten bucks.

Flourescent green or flourescent pink.
Letterpress'd in LA by Colby Poster Printing Co.
22" x 28"

South Willard
8038 W. Third St.
Los Angeles




















nothing is new blog, poster, buy it here!

go to the blog here..



















and a book!







The Age of Comfort: When Paris Discovered Casual--
and the Modern Home Began
by Joan DeJean


"French cultural historian DeJean presents an entertaining account of how home life was virtually reinvented in Paris from 1670 to 1765 as sofas, running water and flush toilets appeared in modern residences: the city became a giant workshop in which inventions in the arts and crafts and innovative technologies were tried out. Louis XIV's and Louis XV's royal mistresses displayed a bold vision for integrating architecture, interior decor and fashion, thus influencing modern comfort. In private mansions, French architects subdivided interior space to allow for varying degrees of privacy. As bathing became a pleasurable, commonplace activity, tubs became more comfortable and were redesigned as decorative objects in their own right. Men fell in love with the superexpensive flush toilet; the sofa—created by the architect Meissonnier—attained instant celebrity status; and interior decoration became a subset of the new architecture of private life as Parisians discovered that domestic interiors should be the expression of their personal taste. DeJean's latest (after The Essence of Style) is well researched and brimming with anecdotes and architectural and design details."


buy it used here.





more gifts to follow.