Sporting Grotesque by Velvetyne Type Foundry
Antwerp
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Karel Martens, Three Times (in Blue and Yellow), 2016. Painted aluminum, acrylic, 3D printed components, electronic timers, motors. 40x12x6 inches. Edition of 10.
Like the pavilion holding the public spaces, the structure containing the bedrooms is clad in glass on the interior sides facing the courtyard, allowing a constant connection to the outside. Rodriguez (with dog Lupe) designed the steel stairs leading from the mezzanine-level home office to the master bedroom below. The stairs were fabricated by Austin-based Steel House MFG.
Jenson Old Style Bold Condensed by Linotype
Chesterfield by Linotype
Seen from the guesthouse, the new home touches every corner of the property without overwhelming its natural beauty.
OIVA TOIKKA, Polar Night Owl Male, Iittala. Photo: Panik.
Photo by Benedetta Ristori
Parson Russell terriers Pepper and Trixie get a glimpse of the large courtyard through a glassy expanse by Marvin Windows and Doors.
Roscoe, the couple’s English bulldog, enjoys the sun on the covered deck that connects the living room to a bedroom that was added before they arrived. It’s now occupied by the Lemkins’ daughter, Lucille.
In the dining area a vintage table from a shop in Barcelona is surrounded by Giandomenico Belotti Spaghetti chairs. The space, which also includes the kitchen, occupies a 1970s addition.
Elephant magazine illo by La Tigre
Caussols Observatory, France. Photo by Vincent Fournier
The Royal Republic of Ladonia, a micronation on the shores of the Kullaberg peninsula in Southern Sweden
Buckminster Fuller Dymaxion House
Biomuseo in Panama City, designed by Frank Gehry
Kruševo Makedonium, monument to 1903 uprising against the Ottoman Empire, built in 1970s, located in Macedonia. Photo by Wikipedia user Rašo
The exterior is clad in red cedar.
Wenes asked artists from Studio Simple to devise an imaginative storage solution for the bathroom. Starting at one end of the room and working their way across, the team assembled chests and cabinets found at a thrift shop and painted them all white. “It’s like a mosaic,” says Wenes. “It’s a very personalized concept—I feel like it’s my bathroom.”
A print poster Felix Pfäffli designed last year for the French graphic design festival Une Graphique.
Tim Lahan, "Into Onto Unto" series
portrait of Tchaikovsky by Michele Rosenthal for her project queerportraits.com
Architect Anssi Lassila de-signed House Riihi to run on Control Intelligence’s Talomat system, which enables the build-ings to be powered by battery. “Often, we don’t know that there has been a power outage,” says resident Petri Mäkelä, “since the lights haven’t even flickered.” By designing the automation system and the house simultaneously, Lassila had maximum control over its integration.
and MycoWorks’s fungus bricks.
City in the Air by Arata Isozaki
Passive House guidelines, like thick insulation, can often result in very simple forms, she says. Here, a recessed entrance in the shou sugi ban front facade provides privacy without complicating the design.
Fractal alcoves punctuate the cabinetry.
QT-50 Cassette Recorder
This portable tape player and recorder by William Lansing Plum for Sharp, released in 1985, also played AM/FM radio. The colorful pastel shell and control buttons nodded to an emerging—and enduring—trend: electronics as personal fashion accessory.
In the dining room, a Brendan Ravenhill fixture hangs above a custom walnut table and Wishbone chairs by Hans Wegner. Customized features, like an outlet flush-installed beneath the kitchen cupboards, subtly conceal signs of a wired house.
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