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Grease (1978) Another Los Angeles period piece (albeit one with more duets than duels), Grease excises the River's dangerous core, while retaining a rough enough edge to stage the climatic race scene there.

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The MASS MoCA exhibition Free Roses is the first museum survey of the work of Alex Da Corte, an artist who has burst onto the scene with otherworldly installations that bring together art history, movie references, and everyday kitsch into bold interiors.

London-based designers Lightning and Kinglyface presented a collection of three tables made from a variety of exotic hardwoods, including Zebrawood from West Africa and Tiger Fig from Brazil. Called Zebra, Tiger, and Larch, the table's tops each feature an intricate geometric inlay pattern.

Like much of his recent work, the show references the hallucinatory sensation described in Author Rimbaud's prose poem A Season in Hell. Da Corte plays up this sense of the uncanny by incorporating conspicuously artificial elements from sets and stages, like the disembodied facade seen here, as well as strangely familiar objects that simultaneously provide cultural touchstones and confound.

In his largest showing ever, Da Corte presents a retrospective of recent works plus the new installation "Lightning," seen here.

Having never renovated an Airstream before, Tristan and Lynne Knowlton took to the challenge with plenty of gusto (and elbow grease).

A tight budget, a bunch of elbow grease, and a whole lot of love transform these campers, trailers, and buses into incredible homes on wheels.

With ingenuity and plenty of elbow grease, architect John Tong turned an old Toronto dairy into the ultimate family clubhouse. Photo by Christopher Wahl.

The 510 Cabin is one of Leggitt's designs, executed with the help of student apprentices.

Two El Dorado principals, Douglas Stockman and David Dowell, enlisted the elbow grease of students in their fifth-year design studio at Kansas State University to help design and fabricate the bunkbeds that line the cabin walls.

Robert Williams, a graduate student in architecture at RISD, explains lightning fields, Hawaii's new energy policies, and more.

The cover of Murakami Versailles.

Pendant by Matthew Fairbank Design.

Clock by Ding3000 for Discipline.

The structure of the coop was inspired by the new bus shelters and newsstands in New York City.

William Lamson's Solarium.

During the time he spent exploring the West, Spellman lived and worked in an old Ford van that ran off of vegetable oil. "I lived in the van on and off for two years, maybe more—I can't remember how long exactly" he says. "Most of the time it was fueled by used cooking oil out of grease traps, or other people's trash. It was liberating."

Crump played with the traditional gable roof form common to Australian farmhouses and transformed it into something entirely modern. The house’s three distinct ridgelines follow each other in succession, their simple contours conjuring a cartoon lightning bolt. The wood cladding covering the exterior also lends the house an impenetrable feel, heightening the surprise visitors experience upon entering and seeing its open, seaside views.