Cliche themes and storyline aside, this is a film worth watching. Very well done.Most definitely Oscar-worthy.
Watch the trailer and see photos: http://www.atonementthemovie.co.uk/site/site.html
-S
Saturday, January 5, 2008
Atonement
Cliche themes and storyline aside, this is a film worth watching. Very well done.Most definitely Oscar-worthy.
Atonement
Cliche themes and storyline aside, this is a film worth watching. Very well done.Most definitely Oscar-worthy.
Watch the trailer and see photos: http://www.atonementthemovie.co.uk/site/site.html
-S
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
Robber Baron Series By STUDIO JOB
MANTEL CLOCK
CABINET
STANDING LAMP
TABLE
JEWEL SAFE
Robber Baron Series - Tales of POWER, CORRUPTION, ART, & INDUSTRY. Cast in bronze - by Studio Job
The Robber Baron series by Studio Job is an important suite of five cast-bronze furnishings, consisting of a Cabinet, Mantel Clock, Table, Standing Lamp, and Jewel Safe, each to be offered in a limited edition of five.
"Magnificent in scale, [...] the series reflects the outrageous excesses of America’s 19th century tycoons and Russia’s new oligarchs. These surreal, highly-expressive furnishings, each a complex composition of multiple visual elements depicting a narrative - much like a cathedral’s stained glass windows or its majestic bronze front doors - represent an interior belonging to a powerful industrial leader or his heirs. With clouds of pollution belching from towering smoke stacks, and missiles, falcons, gas masks, warplanes, and wrenches adorning golden surfaces, Robber Baron celebrates and shames both Art and Industry." mossonline.com
About Studio Job (source, dezeen.com) : Graduates of the renowned Design Academy Eindhoven, the Netherlands, Job Smeets (b.1970, Belgium) and Nynke Tynagel (b. 1977, the Netherlands), who both live as well as work together, form Studio Job.
From the beginning, their collaboration resulted in highly expressive, usually one-off or limited-edition artisan works, often cast in bronze or, later, finely constructed in laser-cut inlaid woods.
Employing iconographic, pan-historic imagery which can be in the same moment both heraldic as well as cartoon-like, the results are consistently monumental and yet somehow primitive, and generally read neo-baroque, clearly fantasist, and certainly more mannerist than modernist.
Projecting a strong narrative quality, suggesting often a heroic battle between good and evil, their gorgeous collections seem born more from a medieval, guild-like process than an industrial approach.
Although, by definition, their work has primarily been geared to collectors and museums, Studio Job has collaborated successfully with various like-minded industrial manufacturers, including Swarovski, Austria, and Koninklijke Tichelaar Makkum and Moooi, the Netherlands.
Their work has been shown internationally in numerous museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, the Central Museum, Utrecht, the Dutch Textile Museum, Tilburg, and the Groninger Museum, Groningen.
The Robber Baron series by Studio Job is an important suite of five cast-bronze furnishings, consisting of a Cabinet, Mantel Clock, Table, Standing Lamp, and Jewel Safe, each to be offered in a limited edition of five.
"Magnificent in scale, [...] the series reflects the outrageous excesses of America’s 19th century tycoons and Russia’s new oligarchs. These surreal, highly-expressive furnishings, each a complex composition of multiple visual elements depicting a narrative - much like a cathedral’s stained glass windows or its majestic bronze front doors - represent an interior belonging to a powerful industrial leader or his heirs. With clouds of pollution belching from towering smoke stacks, and missiles, falcons, gas masks, warplanes, and wrenches adorning golden surfaces, Robber Baron celebrates and shames both Art and Industry." mossonline.com
About Studio Job (source, dezeen.com) : Graduates of the renowned Design Academy Eindhoven, the Netherlands, Job Smeets (b.1970, Belgium) and Nynke Tynagel (b. 1977, the Netherlands), who both live as well as work together, form Studio Job.
From the beginning, their collaboration resulted in highly expressive, usually one-off or limited-edition artisan works, often cast in bronze or, later, finely constructed in laser-cut inlaid woods.
Employing iconographic, pan-historic imagery which can be in the same moment both heraldic as well as cartoon-like, the results are consistently monumental and yet somehow primitive, and generally read neo-baroque, clearly fantasist, and certainly more mannerist than modernist.
Projecting a strong narrative quality, suggesting often a heroic battle between good and evil, their gorgeous collections seem born more from a medieval, guild-like process than an industrial approach.
Although, by definition, their work has primarily been geared to collectors and museums, Studio Job has collaborated successfully with various like-minded industrial manufacturers, including Swarovski, Austria, and Koninklijke Tichelaar Makkum and Moooi, the Netherlands.
Their work has been shown internationally in numerous museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, the Central Museum, Utrecht, the Dutch Textile Museum, Tilburg, and the Groninger Museum, Groningen.
Quick Note: The term "robber baron" dates back to the twelfth & thirteenth centuries, originally referring to certain feudal lords of land through which the Rhine River in Europe flowed. The term was again used in the early twentieth century referring to the economic princes of the day, AKA billionaires.
Robber Baron Series By STUDIO JOB
MANTEL CLOCK
CABINET
STANDING LAMP
TABLE
JEWEL SAFE
Robber Baron Series - Tales of POWER, CORRUPTION, ART, & INDUSTRY. Cast in bronze - by Studio Job
The Robber Baron series by Studio Job is an important suite of five cast-bronze furnishings, consisting of a Cabinet, Mantel Clock, Table, Standing Lamp, and Jewel Safe, each to be offered in a limited edition of five.
"Magnificent in scale, [...] the series reflects the outrageous excesses of America’s 19th century tycoons and Russia’s new oligarchs. These surreal, highly-expressive furnishings, each a complex composition of multiple visual elements depicting a narrative - much like a cathedral’s stained glass windows or its majestic bronze front doors - represent an interior belonging to a powerful industrial leader or his heirs. With clouds of pollution belching from towering smoke stacks, and missiles, falcons, gas masks, warplanes, and wrenches adorning golden surfaces, Robber Baron celebrates and shames both Art and Industry." mossonline.com
About Studio Job (source, dezeen.com) : Graduates of the renowned Design Academy Eindhoven, the Netherlands, Job Smeets (b.1970, Belgium) and Nynke Tynagel (b. 1977, the Netherlands), who both live as well as work together, form Studio Job.
From the beginning, their collaboration resulted in highly expressive, usually one-off or limited-edition artisan works, often cast in bronze or, later, finely constructed in laser-cut inlaid woods.
Employing iconographic, pan-historic imagery which can be in the same moment both heraldic as well as cartoon-like, the results are consistently monumental and yet somehow primitive, and generally read neo-baroque, clearly fantasist, and certainly more mannerist than modernist.
Projecting a strong narrative quality, suggesting often a heroic battle between good and evil, their gorgeous collections seem born more from a medieval, guild-like process than an industrial approach.
Although, by definition, their work has primarily been geared to collectors and museums, Studio Job has collaborated successfully with various like-minded industrial manufacturers, including Swarovski, Austria, and Koninklijke Tichelaar Makkum and Moooi, the Netherlands.
Their work has been shown internationally in numerous museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, the Central Museum, Utrecht, the Dutch Textile Museum, Tilburg, and the Groninger Museum, Groningen.
The Robber Baron series by Studio Job is an important suite of five cast-bronze furnishings, consisting of a Cabinet, Mantel Clock, Table, Standing Lamp, and Jewel Safe, each to be offered in a limited edition of five.
"Magnificent in scale, [...] the series reflects the outrageous excesses of America’s 19th century tycoons and Russia’s new oligarchs. These surreal, highly-expressive furnishings, each a complex composition of multiple visual elements depicting a narrative - much like a cathedral’s stained glass windows or its majestic bronze front doors - represent an interior belonging to a powerful industrial leader or his heirs. With clouds of pollution belching from towering smoke stacks, and missiles, falcons, gas masks, warplanes, and wrenches adorning golden surfaces, Robber Baron celebrates and shames both Art and Industry." mossonline.com
About Studio Job (source, dezeen.com) : Graduates of the renowned Design Academy Eindhoven, the Netherlands, Job Smeets (b.1970, Belgium) and Nynke Tynagel (b. 1977, the Netherlands), who both live as well as work together, form Studio Job.
From the beginning, their collaboration resulted in highly expressive, usually one-off or limited-edition artisan works, often cast in bronze or, later, finely constructed in laser-cut inlaid woods.
Employing iconographic, pan-historic imagery which can be in the same moment both heraldic as well as cartoon-like, the results are consistently monumental and yet somehow primitive, and generally read neo-baroque, clearly fantasist, and certainly more mannerist than modernist.
Projecting a strong narrative quality, suggesting often a heroic battle between good and evil, their gorgeous collections seem born more from a medieval, guild-like process than an industrial approach.
Although, by definition, their work has primarily been geared to collectors and museums, Studio Job has collaborated successfully with various like-minded industrial manufacturers, including Swarovski, Austria, and Koninklijke Tichelaar Makkum and Moooi, the Netherlands.
Their work has been shown internationally in numerous museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, the Central Museum, Utrecht, the Dutch Textile Museum, Tilburg, and the Groninger Museum, Groningen.
Quick Note: The term "robber baron" dates back to the twelfth & thirteenth centuries, originally referring to certain feudal lords of land through which the Rhine River in Europe flowed. The term was again used in the early twentieth century referring to the economic princes of the day, AKA billionaires.
Monday, December 24, 2007
The Father of "Hollywood Regency"
David Hicks (1929-98) has emerged as the most influential interior designer of his generation. His signature style has inspired contemporary designers of both fashion and home, and yet many individuals in and out of the design biz don't seem to be familiar with his work.
Often, popular interior designers Kelly Wearstler (kwid.com) & Jonathan Adler (jonathanadler.com) are credited with the "Hollywood Regency" look which has exploded in the mainstream in the past few years. And although these designers are brilliantly talented at what they do, they are more or less creating spaces that are an homage to the look that David Hicks created decades ago.
Long before the look was coined as "Hollywood Regency", David Hicks was creating beautiful spaces across the atlantic in England. He launched his career with the decoration of his own house in London in 1954, and soon began to design interiors for aristocracy, media and fashion (Vidal Sassoon, Helena Rubinstein, the Duchess of Rutland and Mrs Condé Nast).
In 1960, Hicks married Lady Pamela Mountbatten and was soon making carpets for Windsor Castle and decorating the Prince of Wales' first apartment at Buckingham Palace.
The resurgence of his design aesthetic can be found all over L.A. today. The Viceroy and Roosevelt hotel are two prime examples of Hicks style, so next time you're there compare the interior spaces with the photos of Hicks work; circa 1970's (above).
The Father of "Hollywood Regency"
David Hicks (1929-98) has emerged as the most influential interior designer of his generation. His signature style has inspired contemporary designers of both fashion and home, and yet many individuals in and out of the design biz don't seem to be familiar with his work.
Often, popular interior designers Kelly Wearstler (kwid.com) & Jonathan Adler (jonathanadler.com) are credited with the "Hollywood Regency" look which has exploded in the mainstream in the past few years. And although these designers are brilliantly talented at what they do, they are more or less creating spaces that are an homage to the look that David Hicks created decades ago.
Long before the look was coined as "Hollywood Regency", David Hicks was creating beautiful spaces across the atlantic in England. He launched his career with the decoration of his own house in London in 1954, and soon began to design interiors for aristocracy, media and fashion (Vidal Sassoon, Helena Rubinstein, the Duchess of Rutland and Mrs Condé Nast).
In 1960, Hicks married Lady Pamela Mountbatten and was soon making carpets for Windsor Castle and decorating the Prince of Wales' first apartment at Buckingham Palace.
The resurgence of his design aesthetic can be found all over L.A. today. The Viceroy and Roosevelt hotel are two prime examples of Hicks style, so next time you're there compare the interior spaces with the photos of Hicks work; circa 1970's (above).
Sunday, December 23, 2007
Forecast: Design In 2008
On Thursday, New York Times Style section published an exceptional article on which of the year's interior design trends passed from hot to not. More importantly, the article unbiasedly forecasts home design for the coming year...awesome!
What's OUT for 2008!
1. Ceramic deer heads in white
2. Cowhide rugs (heavily used in minimalist modern homes to soften the edges)
3. Mass produced interpretations of the ever-popular "Hollywood Regency" look. A backlash is absolutely mainstreaming in 2008.
4. Baroque mirrors
5. Flatscreen TV's over fireplaces
6. Bamboo
7. The vague standards put on "green" products
What's IN for 2008:
1. Customization. The democratization of design is experiencing a backlash, and out of it is a new group of consumers who are looking to custom one-of-a-kind pieces to furnish their homes with.
2. Blue movement. Like the green environmentally conscious movement, but with more accountability. Green 2.0 if you will.
3. Commitment - Today, you can click and buy anything. This often leads to homes that are filled with objects that have not been well thought out. For 2008, commitment and re-thinking the design direction of your home will be big. In line with this idea, 2008 consumers will be looking for products that have sustainability...furniture and accessories that can live past trends.
...do we agree?
-S
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