All images and captions courtesy Kimberly Turner and W.W.Norton
A landscape architect’s charge, according to the American Society of Landscape Architects, is the stewardship, wise planning, and artful design of our cultural and natural environments. As students budding landscape architects are taught the practices of principles such as drainage, grading and spatial relationships. Continue reading
All photos courtesy Linda O’Keefe and the Monacelli Press
It has been said that one of the greatest achievements of a designer is to make white look new again. Author Linda O’Keffe has accomplished exactly that in her new book Brilliant White. The pages are filled with ample and glorious photography showing the color in art, design, architecture and nature and the pictures are punctuated with thoughtful musings
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“Great Falls, Montana 8-97” from the Souvenir postcard series, set 1. All photos courtesy Cynthia Connolly, www.cynthiaconnolly.com.
The frame captures an instant, a flash, something out of the corner of your eye as you walk. It is this immediacy which makes you look twice and then you recognize that bit of the familiar: an ice box from an old gas station, a logging truck as it passes you on the highway. Cynthia Connolly’s work is a memory of something real. Once you see it you are happy for the reminder. Continue reading
A decorative semi-circular retaining wall with bench, designed and built by Shayne Izatt in New Haven, Connecticut. Photo courtesy Shayne Izatt
Stone walls. Driving down the roads of New England you see them companionably hugging the side of the road, or meandering away up a hill, or nestling between trees in the woods. As simple and natural as they look stone walls are a designed phenomenon, each one consciously constructed using a specific type of order which accommodates the shapes of rock. Continue reading
EVERYONE IN THE POOL! The class enjoys the once in a lifetime opportunity to soak their feet in a Frank Lloyd Wright pool!
As we posted before, we teamed up with the California College of Art to host this year’s student chair competition. Recently, Wilsonart and professor Russell Baldon decided to take advantage of the amazing partnership between 30 Southern Californian museums, galleries and cultural centers called “Pacific Standard Time.” Many of these institutions showcased work which explored the question: What is California Design? What does Californian design entail? What does it look like? And why? Continue reading
Gertrud Natzler (b, Austria 1908-1971, active Los Angeles), Otto Natzler (b. Austria 1908-2007, active Los Angeles), Bowl, 1943;Earthenware; Height: 3.5 in (8.8cm); diameter: 8.5in. (21.5cm), LACMA, Gift of Rose A Sperry 1972 Revocable Trust; © 2007 Gail Reynolds Natzler, Trustee of The Natzler Trust; Photo © 2011 Museum Associates/LACMA
Opening October 1st at the LA County Museum, this new exhibition examines the state’s key role in shaping the material culture of the country at mid-century. California Design features more than 350 objects as well as two period re-creations. Last week, we introduced the exhibit. Now here’s a closer look at the four sections: “Shaping,” “Making,” “Living,” and “Selling.” Continue reading