I love Mann’s use of colour in revitalising such a community space. This application of surface colour and pattern [in geometry and stripes] seems to carry a timeless message of vitality. There are no motifs or imagery to define or segregate, but the message ‘comes across’ for this application.
Favorite Manhattan stores… Bardith is on this list for sure…the beginnings of an education.
There is a quality of wild, abandoned, unabashed florality about these hand painted pieces from the early 1800s.
“For you to know the idea yourself, you do not need to know the language. It is only when you want to affect someone else’s mind that language must be brought to play”…
Up and around the corner you walk past pimply pubs on ramshackle corners until a leafy lane way lures you into the driveway of the Guinness factory itself. The rising machinery of its pumping and grinding furnaces peaks out over the dull brick walls.
A worn, torn warehouse loft is the epitome of bedraggled style and finesse. Spot the saddle blanket if you can…
Inside a spacious artists loft on the top floor of a Berlin warehouse apartment block. The surfaces!… need I say more.
One astounding side to Berlin life is it’s patinas. Gorgeous surfaces all over the cities meandering neighborhoods; Mitte, Prenzlauer Berg, Kreutzberg. Berlin has seduced my senses, I am patina pondering and poster dazzle eyed.
Who knows where inspirations come from, but since there really isn’t much new new under the sun I think the only one of a few things that is new is our own realisation of the things we love. Shotz’s work is in that book for me.
“The Web as I envisioned it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.” Tim Berners-Lee Artist Anne De …
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