House of Light.

House of Light.
Olson Kundig Architects

I'm hoping to get an invite very soon.....

"As a counterpoint to the solid outdoor structure,
a spine-like band of light runs the length of the home
culminating in a monumental installation by artist James Turrell."

House of Light.
Olson Kundig Architects

Landscape, light and art are elements which contribute to the natural flow of the home’s design. Reflecting an interaction with the natural surrounding, the design becomes part of the landscape facilitating movement inside and out. Already located on the property is a 130-foot long solid-steel sculpture by Richard Serra. As a counterpoint to the solid outdoor structure, a spine-like band of light runs the length of the home culminating in a monumental installation by artist James Turrell. The home is a place to display art and entertain groups of art lovers. Also incorporated into its design are “green” aspects—the roof is planted with buffalo grass and trellises with hanging vines further integrate the home with the lush garden setting.















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the New Decor

Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre
19 June - 5 September 2010

This summer the Hayward Gallery presents The New Décor; an international survey of over 30 contemporary artists, including some of the leading sculptors of our time, who explore interior design as a means of engaging with changes in contemporary culture. By reconfiguring and reinventing the familiar objects of our domestic life, these artists look beyond design and function to create provocative sculptures and installations. Along with a solo exhibition of Ernesto Neto which runs concurrently in the upper galleries, The New Décor is a highlight of Festival Brazil, a major summer festival celebrating the dynamic culture of today’s Brazil, sponsored by HSBC.

The exhibition features work by 30 artists including: Martin Boyce (Britain), Los Carpinteros (Cuba), Jimmie Durham (USA), Elmgreen & Dragset (Scandinavia), Gelitin (Austria), Mona Hatoum (Lebanon), Jim Lambie (Britain), Sarah Lucas (Britain), Ernesto Neto (Brazil), Ugo Rondinone (Switzerland), Doris Salcedo (Columbia), Rosemary Trockel (Germany), Tatiana Trouve (Italian), Franz West (Austrian).

Like the Hayward’s previous summer exhibitions, Psycho Buildings and Walking in My Mind, and Ernesto Neto’s exhibition, the artists in The New Décor are concerned with the evolution of our interior and exterior environments. They shed light on their experiences and ask the viewer to consider their own relationship to the spaces they inhabit and look again at objects they may take for granted.

Curated by Ralph Rugoff, Director of the Hayward Gallery, the exhibition draws on artists from around the world, but what unites them is their ability to transform objects we associate with the everyday – a bed, a shelf, a lamp – into something uncanny and compelling.

In French the word décor refers to stage sets as well as interior design, and in a similar spirit the works in this exhibition explore an arena between practicality and imagination, theatre and everyday life.

via here...

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when
paintings
become
tables,
we all
celebrate.

"Polygons with Progressive Sides,
1.2.3.4, 1.2.3.4.5, 1.2.3.4.5, 1.2.3.4.5.6.7"

I was recently attracted to this screen print by Getulio Alviani (1939 ).
He is an Italian painter born in Udine. He is considered to be an important International Optical - Kinetic artist. And then this morning, I came upon this table!

"Moving to Milan, he became friends with Piero Manzoni and Lucio Fontana, who was very interested in his works and bought some of his "surfaces". He also worked with other famous artists like Max Bill and Josef Albers. In 1964 he was invited to show at the Venice Biennale, successfully sharing a room with Enrico Castellani. In subsequent years Alviani won international acclaim: at Kassel's Documenta he exhibited a big vibrating surface; in [1965] he took part in what was considered to be one of the top exhibitions of the decade: "The responsive eye" at the New York MoMa, together with all the world's most famous artists of Kinetic and Programmed Art.

trans-forma

His work was so successful it was purchased by MoMa itself and chosen as the cover image representing the museum's next exhibition: "The New Acquisitions". Throughout the 1970s he travelled continually, mainly in South America, and accepted, upon request of Jesús Rafael Soto, the directorship of the Jesús Soto Museum of Modern Art, Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela.



He was again an invitee at the Venice Biennale in 1984, 1986 and 1993. Among his works the most appreciated by the market are the "Superfici a testura variabile" where the polished aluminium reflects the light in different hues according to the angle at which they are viewed. Other works by Alviani are the "chromodynamic surfaces", where primary colour interactions are studied, and his "mirrors" with their illusion of rings created on reflecting metal surfaces."




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I N T E R I O R S

a
home:
Charles
De Lisle.

(um, i'm kinda obsessed with this picture.)
i will have you, yes i will have you, like a butterfuly, i will capture you.





Charles de Lisle Workshop
643 Seventh St
San Francisco, CA 94103
take a look at portfolio here.
(to many amazing photos to post...)

(blue slab table, rope fixture. all white painting
with an all white wall! sign me up.)





"Charles De Lisle was all set to enroll in the architecture program at the University of California, Berkeley. But then, while surveying a grand living room by Michael Taylor, came his "aha" moment. "Why spend years and go into debt when I already had skill sets for interior design," mused De Lisle, who was already a trained ceramicist, welder, and lighting designer. This sudden perception led to his joining forces with designers Marion Philpotts-Miller and Jonathan Staub. Today, 10-year-old De Lisle, Philpotts & Staub Interiors maintains offices in San Francisco and Honolulu, with a workload evenly split between residential and commercial projects."


read article here..
via interiordesign.net

the dining room.
cue the music!

"The Charles de Lisle Workshop, a design practice focused on interiors, attentive personalized service, the innovation & execution of handmade custom furnishings, concept design and visual brand identification.

The Charles de Lisle Workshop developed from Charles’ successful years as creative director, principal & partner at the firm De lisle, Philpotts & Staub. Our present practice continues to assist our clients in achieving award winning, quality residences, vacation homes, hotels and restaurants. The idea of a workshop has evolved though an eighteen year history of producing inventive ceramics, metalwork, custom furniture, product design, co-branding and collaborative design consultation."

seriously, go to
the site here to see more..
and the whole house here..