Montreal, Summer 2023
"Beware what you set your heart upon.
For it surely shall be yours. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Recent travels to the coast of Mendocino, CA.
A town that felt lost in time.
A town that felt lost in time.
"There are so many possibilities for "empty".
Let's say: this word will take me to the immense beyond, to space.
Without further argument or thought I come to this place.
A vast, immortal beyond that remains as mysterious as it is unattainable."
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Recent travels to Beijing, Hangzhou, and Suzhou, China
November 2018
Day trip to Tongli, 900 year old water town.
Incense Service at Lama Temple in Beijing : We arrived early morning at the temple, incense service was underway, each temple filled with the smoke and shadows of the incense.
"The Lama Temple is the biggest temple of Tibetan Buddhism in Beijing. Its name means The Temple of Harmony. The palace was built in 1694 by Emperor Kangxi of the Qing as a residence for his son Prince Yin Zhen."
Sunset at The Summer Palace, Beijing.
A few nights stay at Amanfayun in Hangzhou.
Details from the interior of Amanfayun
Installation of Yu Han's work at Suzhou Museum.
"The current building of Suzhou Museum was designed by Pritzker Prize-winning Chinese-American architect I.M. Pei in association with Pei Partnership Architects."
"Humble Administrator's Garden is a Chinese garden in Suzhou, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the most famous of the gardens of Suzhou.
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A recent 2 week trip to Morocco.
First stop in Fez, Morocco
more photos to come soon...
First stop in Fez, Morocco
Dar Seffarine, view from the bedroom windows. Truly an amazing Dar to stay in..
"DAR SEFFARINE, a very old house in the ancient medina of FEZ, has been lovingly restored to all its former splendour and is now open as a guesthouse. Experience traditional moroccan living at its best in the oldest part of the medina. And feel the special magic of Fez, an important spiritual and cultural centre of the Islamic world..."
more photos to come soon...
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DISC Interiors included in a new book,
"Hollywood Interiors" by Anthony Iannacci
"The homes showcased here in over 200 full-color images are in the hills and on the flats—they evoke Old Europe with antique or hand-crafted finishes, keep guests riveted to the moment with intensely rich details, or defer, with restrained palettes, to stunning views of the Pacific Ocean."
I finally received a copy of the new book by Anthony Iannacci, "Hollywood Interiors" and the book is nothing short of stunning. We are so thrilled to be a part of this collection, and to be included in a book along with some of our favorite LA designers, Commune, Jamie Bush, Paul Fortune, Rose Tarwlow, Chu Gooding, Trip Haenisch, to name a few. Buy a copy of this book here...
"Hollywood individualism pervades every aspect of life in Los Angeles including interior design, where it manifests as highly original spaces from Malibu to Silver Lake in a dizzying assortment of styles—from 1920s and 1930s Spanish Revival houses in the Hollywood hills, to highly adorned Storybook houses, and airy and transparent midcentury modern forms.
Status in Los Angeles, like success in the ever-fascinating movie industry that sets it apart, is based on the creation of truly unique moments. A relentless celebration of personality fuels the city, creating a cult of the individual and driving the city’s collective exaltation of talents and quirks. This collection of nineteen homes designed by Los Angeles-based architects and designers illustrates this exuberance and diversity. The homes showcased here in over 200 full-color images are in the hills and on the flats—they evoke Old Europe with antique or hand-crafted finishes, keep guests riveted to the moment with intensely rich details, or defer, with restrained palettes, to stunning views of the Pacific Ocean. They are of new construction by iconic figures such as Richard Meier & Partners, as well as classic homes such as a Spanish Revival by George H. Freuhling, a fanciful Storybook streamlined for contemporary life, and immaculately restored midcentury homes by Harwell Hamilton Harris and John Lautner.
Work by individuals who are relatively new to the design world and who are quickly making names for themselves—Courtney Applebaum, Andrew Benson, Chu Gooding, Trip Haenisch, Nickey Kehoe, and Olivia Williams—is featured alongside the city’s established, award-winning designers including Commune, Paul Fortune, Melinda Ritz, Rose Tarlow, and Kelly Wearstler. The California Dream relies first and foremost on a willingness to be seduced by the place itself, and these architects and designers actively participate in a love affair with the place that makes their work possible, and which is tangible in this stunning presentation of residential spaces."
"Hollywood Interiors" by Anthony Iannacci
"The homes showcased here in over 200 full-color images are in the hills and on the flats—they evoke Old Europe with antique or hand-crafted finishes, keep guests riveted to the moment with intensely rich details, or defer, with restrained palettes, to stunning views of the Pacific Ocean."
I finally received a copy of the new book by Anthony Iannacci, "Hollywood Interiors" and the book is nothing short of stunning. We are so thrilled to be a part of this collection, and to be included in a book along with some of our favorite LA designers, Commune, Jamie Bush, Paul Fortune, Rose Tarwlow, Chu Gooding, Trip Haenisch, to name a few. Buy a copy of this book here...
"Hollywood individualism pervades every aspect of life in Los Angeles including interior design, where it manifests as highly original spaces from Malibu to Silver Lake in a dizzying assortment of styles—from 1920s and 1930s Spanish Revival houses in the Hollywood hills, to highly adorned Storybook houses, and airy and transparent midcentury modern forms.
Status in Los Angeles, like success in the ever-fascinating movie industry that sets it apart, is based on the creation of truly unique moments. A relentless celebration of personality fuels the city, creating a cult of the individual and driving the city’s collective exaltation of talents and quirks. This collection of nineteen homes designed by Los Angeles-based architects and designers illustrates this exuberance and diversity. The homes showcased here in over 200 full-color images are in the hills and on the flats—they evoke Old Europe with antique or hand-crafted finishes, keep guests riveted to the moment with intensely rich details, or defer, with restrained palettes, to stunning views of the Pacific Ocean. They are of new construction by iconic figures such as Richard Meier & Partners, as well as classic homes such as a Spanish Revival by George H. Freuhling, a fanciful Storybook streamlined for contemporary life, and immaculately restored midcentury homes by Harwell Hamilton Harris and John Lautner.
Work by individuals who are relatively new to the design world and who are quickly making names for themselves—Courtney Applebaum, Andrew Benson, Chu Gooding, Trip Haenisch, Nickey Kehoe, and Olivia Williams—is featured alongside the city’s established, award-winning designers including Commune, Paul Fortune, Melinda Ritz, Rose Tarlow, and Kelly Wearstler. The California Dream relies first and foremost on a willingness to be seduced by the place itself, and these architects and designers actively participate in a love affair with the place that makes their work possible, and which is tangible in this stunning presentation of residential spaces."
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Who Knows If The Moon’s
who knows if the moon’s a balloon,
coming out of a keen city in the sky—
filled with pretty people?
Who Knows If The Moon’s
who knows if the moon’s a balloon,
coming out of a keen city in the sky—
filled with pretty people?
(and if you and i should get into it,
if they should take me
and take you into their balloon,
why then we’d go up higher with all the pretty people
than houses and steeples and clouds: go sailing away
and away sailing into a keen city which
nobody’s ever visited,where always
it’s
Spring)
and everyone’s in love and flowers pick themselves
e.e. cummings + moon jars.
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who knows if the moon’s a balloon,
coming out of a keen city in the sky—
filled with pretty people?
Who Knows If The Moon’s
who knows if the moon’s a balloon,
coming out of a keen city in the sky—
filled with pretty people?
(and if you and i should get into it,
if they should take me
and take you into their balloon,
why then we’d go up higher with all the pretty people
than houses and steeples and clouds: go sailing away
and away sailing into a keen city which
nobody’s ever visited,where always
it’s
Spring)
and everyone’s in love and flowers pick themselves
e.e. cummings + moon jars.
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Ellsworth Kelly Photographs
at Matthew Marks Gallery
Ellsworth Kelly is credited with inventing a new kind of painting, one inspired by nature and chance compositions encountered in the world. This artistic breakthrough took place in the late 1940s, while he was living in France: “Everywhere I looked, everything I saw became something to be made, and it had to be made exactly as it was, with nothing added. It was a new freedom; there was no longer the need to compose.”
Matthew Marks is pleased to announce Ellsworth Kelly Photographs, the next exhibition in his gallery at 523 West 24th Street. Featuring over thirty gelatin silver prints of photos taken between 1950 and 1982, this exhibition is the first ever devoted to Kelly’s photography. Kelly finished preparing the prints and planning the exhibition shortly before his death, on December 27, at the age of ninety-two.
Ellsworth Kelly is credited with inventing a new kind of painting, one inspired by nature and chance compositions encountered in the world. This artistic breakthrough took place in the late 1940s, while he was living in France: “Everywhere I looked, everything I saw became something to be made, and it had to be made exactly as it was, with nothing added. It was a new freedom; there was no longer the need to compose.”
Kelly’s fascination with already-made compositions is clear in his photographs. He started taking pictures in 1950, using a borrowed Leica to “make notations of things I had seen and subjects I had been drawing.” Unlike his sketches and collages, his photographs were never part of the process of making a painting or sculpture; they were simply a record of his vision. As such, they convey his enthusiasm for the visible world around him — the compositional possibilities to be found in an asparagus plant, for example, or a stack of bricks.
Kelly bought his own camera in the 1960s and used it to photograph barns on Long Island, their interlocking forms evoking the planes of his own paintings and sculptures. Architectural details were the focus of several subsequent photographs, which he shot primarily in France and upstate New York, where he lived from 1970 until the end of his life. Central to many of these images are windows, roofs, and the shadows they cast. In a 1963 interview he explained that his works up to that point had primarily been “paintings of things I’d seen, like a window, or a fragment of a piece of architecture, or someone’s legs; or sometimes the space between things, or just how the shadow of an object would look. […] I’m not interested in the texture of the rock, or that it is a rock, but in the mass of it, and its shadow.”
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at Matthew Marks Gallery
Ellsworth Kelly is credited with inventing a new kind of painting, one inspired by nature and chance compositions encountered in the world. This artistic breakthrough took place in the late 1940s, while he was living in France: “Everywhere I looked, everything I saw became something to be made, and it had to be made exactly as it was, with nothing added. It was a new freedom; there was no longer the need to compose.”
Matthew Marks is pleased to announce Ellsworth Kelly Photographs, the next exhibition in his gallery at 523 West 24th Street. Featuring over thirty gelatin silver prints of photos taken between 1950 and 1982, this exhibition is the first ever devoted to Kelly’s photography. Kelly finished preparing the prints and planning the exhibition shortly before his death, on December 27, at the age of ninety-two.
Ellsworth Kelly is credited with inventing a new kind of painting, one inspired by nature and chance compositions encountered in the world. This artistic breakthrough took place in the late 1940s, while he was living in France: “Everywhere I looked, everything I saw became something to be made, and it had to be made exactly as it was, with nothing added. It was a new freedom; there was no longer the need to compose.”
Barn,
Long Island 1968
Kelly’s fascination with already-made compositions is clear in his photographs. He started taking pictures in 1950, using a borrowed Leica to “make notations of things I had seen and subjects I had been drawing.” Unlike his sketches and collages, his photographs were never part of the process of making a painting or sculpture; they were simply a record of his vision. As such, they convey his enthusiasm for the visible world around him — the compositional possibilities to be found in an asparagus plant, for example, or a stack of bricks.
Kelly bought his own camera in the 1960s and used it to photograph barns on Long Island, their interlocking forms evoking the planes of his own paintings and sculptures. Architectural details were the focus of several subsequent photographs, which he shot primarily in France and upstate New York, where he lived from 1970 until the end of his life. Central to many of these images are windows, roofs, and the shadows they cast. In a 1963 interview he explained that his works up to that point had primarily been “paintings of things I’d seen, like a window, or a fragment of a piece of architecture, or someone’s legs; or sometimes the space between things, or just how the shadow of an object would look. […] I’m not interested in the texture of the rock, or that it is a rock, but in the mass of it, and its shadow.”
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new work
by DISC Interiors
DISC Interiors recently designed a room for Architectural Digest and Volvo Lounge for the West Edge Design Fair in Los Angeles. Our concept for the Volvo lounge was to evoke a Swedish Summer House, a nod to classic Scandinavia design, while evoking a sense of modernity. We imagined the windows of the Swedish home being open, wind blowing through the kitchen, and sunlight casting shadows through the wooden arms of the furniture. The room was layered with textured and colorful rugs from Marc Phillips. We collaborated with Carl Hansen and Son for the furniture, Marc Phillips on the rugs, Mirena Kim a local ceramicist for the table works, and we designed large oak walls with blackened steel brackets to install photography. - David John
by DISC Interiors
DISC Interiors recently designed a room for Architectural Digest and Volvo Lounge for the West Edge Design Fair in Los Angeles. Our concept for the Volvo lounge was to evoke a Swedish Summer House, a nod to classic Scandinavia design, while evoking a sense of modernity. We imagined the windows of the Swedish home being open, wind blowing through the kitchen, and sunlight casting shadows through the wooden arms of the furniture. The room was layered with textured and colorful rugs from Marc Phillips. We collaborated with Carl Hansen and Son for the furniture, Marc Phillips on the rugs, Mirena Kim a local ceramicist for the table works, and we designed large oak walls with blackened steel brackets to install photography. - David John
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