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20 Oct

More animal architecture

More animal architecture

I’m not sure if it’s the fact that my brain was soaked in Beatrix Potter at a young and impressionable age, or maybe it’s just the profundity of the drawings of Daniel Arsham.

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10 Aug

the fence as lace

the fence as lace

It’s ability to create illusion, define space without and within, and it’s dichotomous nature allures us. It is a protection and an exposure at once. It is a controller of the senses and an elevator.

 
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22 Oct

Nigel Coates & the Poltronova Connection

Nigel Coates & the Poltronova Connection

Coates’ latest collection delves into bones and limbs, joints that connect and form skeletal frameworks that sustain weight….the genesis of this idea had come from thinking about the body’s supporting structures and one stool in particular that had started the ball rolling.

 
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06 Sep

Russborough House

Russborough House

The abundance of yellow and the wall-to-wall tomes in a square room of not too large a scale make it very cosy. Having said that I think I would want to be sticking my head around the door at the Picasso, Gainsborough and tapestries in the sitting room next to it; not to mention that music room.

 
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12 Aug

Jan Plecháč iconic chair

Jan Plecháč iconic chair

Wire worked icon chairs, a throwback to the wire work of Harry Bertoia, and an homage to major design silhouettes in furniture. The exploration of …

 
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07 Aug

Ptolemy Mann

Ptolemy Mann

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.

 
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04 Aug

Luas to Guinness

Luas to Guinness

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.

 
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28 Jul

a place for the bike and the saddle blanket, Berlin loft

a place for the bike and the saddle blanket, Berlin loft

A worn, torn warehouse loft is the epitome of bedraggled style and finesse. Spot the saddle blanket if you can…

 
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28 Jul

“Ich bin ein Berliner!” Patina

“Ich bin ein Berliner!” Patina

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.

 
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04 Jun

Alyson Shotz latest work

Alyson Shotz latest work

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.

 
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