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Fleeting moment captured in Malta, where sharp modern geometry meets historical streetscapes. The mirrored installation acts as a living kaleidoscope, fracturing reality into striking, angular shards.
When reflections, perception and architecture can deconstruct the everyday environment into quiet, cinematic art.
Enjoy the set on Insta, @35_aytoteleis!
Inspired by MC Escher
Escher inspired architecture by Murat Yildirim
Girls and Boy from Aykut Aydogdu
For Seated Ballerina—an inflated sculpture that towers 45 feet high, peering down at visitors to the popular tourist destination in Midtown Manhattan—Koons, who famously references historical imagery and found objects in his work,was inspired by a small porcelain figurine. The piece, according to a statement, “symbolizes notions of beauty and connectivity. Its reflective surface mirrors its immediate environment and engages with each viewer.” (www.architecturaldigest.com/story/jeff-koons-seated-balle...)
This is the Double RL Ranch located near Ridgway, Colorado, in the foothills overshadowing the San Juan Mountains. If this were a panoramic view, it would take in Mount Sneffels, just to the left of these mountains. For those that don't know, this is the Ralph Lauren Ranch....quite lovely!
"Occupying some 16,000 acres beneath the snowcapped San Juan Mountains is the Double RL Ranch, the Colorado getaway of fashion designer Ralph Lauren and his wife, Ricky. 'Colorado was for us an escape,' he says. 'It wasn't about being in fashion. It wasn't about saying, Wouldn't it be nice to have this cute ranch!' It was about a life that would be different, that would be freer—that would have nature and trees and animals and big sky.'" --www.architecturaldigest.com
Double RL Ranch
Ridgway, Colorado
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The intimacy as well as the chaos of Chicago artist Ed Paschke have been recreated on the second floor of the Ed Paschke Art Center, located at 5415 W. Higgins.
While staying in Stockholm's Old Town (Gamla Stan), we often cross Stortorget square. There's always something going on here. Whether that be street performers or tourists milling about, it's a very colourful place to stop and have fika (coffee) and desert.
The Alfred Nobel museum is at the far right. Well worth the price of admission!
Look for it at Getty Images
Also seen here: www.architecturaldigest.com/story/design-travel-destinati...
This spring at the Musée National Picasso in Paris, a celebration of Pablo Picasso and Alexander Calder's Symbiosis.
The Car -
1929 5-Passenger, 4-Door Sedan. Recorded at the Buick Club of American National meet in Lisle, Illinois by your’s truly.
The Brownstones
The brownstone townhouse has firmly established itself as an emblem of elegant urban living—the Brooklyn equivalent of 5th Avenue’s Millionaire Row mansions if you will. However, the brownstone was not always the status symbol that it has become today. Join me as we take a deep dive into the background of this famous piece of New York City’s architectural landscape.
What Exactly Is a Brownstone?
It may surprise you to learn that many of the row townhouses you see advertised as brownstones do not actually live up to their name. In order to pass muster, a building must be veneered with actual brownstone rather than the brown-tinted cement designed by crafty real estate developers to mimic the real deal. Brownstone townhouses are not constructed entirely of brownstone; rather, they are brick buildings that make use of the stone as a decorative facade. Brownstone is a type of soft, pinkish sandstone that eventually matures into a warm shade of cocoa brown as the iron hematite embedded within the stone is slowly oxidized. While the stone is extremely malleable, allowing for beautiful engravings to be carved into the lintels, stoops, and window stills of brownstone townhouses, brownstone is unfortunately extremely prone to cracking and crumbling.
Much of the stone used in New York City’s brownstones were sourced from the now-defunct Portland Brownstone Quarry in Portland, Connecticut, whose proximity to the Connecticut River meant that stone could be easily shipped into the city by boat. While brownstone quarries exist in several other locales, including Pennsylvania, across the pond in Wales, and scattered over the Midwest, Portland brownstone has unique geological properties that give the stone a distinct appearance and texture.
The Early History of the Brownstone
Brownstone first saw use as a building material in the mid-19th century because it offered a cheaper alternative to marble, granite, and limestone. Stone houses provided a greater sense of permanence and dignity than homes constructed of wood, and as the city’s population experienced a boom in the aftermath of the Civil War, there were more people seeking to become homeowners than ever. As a bonus, the elevated stoop of the brownstone offered a reprieve from the literal heaps of horse manure that swamped city streets during this era.
Brownstone also came to be seen as desirable in its own right as Romantic Classicism came into vogue. Exemplified by the glorious, sweeping landscape paintings of the Hudson River School, this artistic movement prized terrestrial beauty and natural aesthetics—which the earth-toned brownstone fit to a T.
In spite of their popularity, brownstone homes were still very affordable even for middle-class families. This was in part because technological advances from the Industrial Revolution helped to automate the stone carving process and made construction much more efficient. In fact, brownstone was so widely used that an 1880 building census tally found that 78.6% of stone buildings in the city at the time were made wholly or partially from brownstone.
Still, brownstones had their share of detractors. City officials were dismayed at how quickly the stone weathered in New York City’s continental subtropical climate, noting its tendency to flake and peel even within a few decades of installation. New York-born novelist Edith Wharton had a particular grudge against brownstone, describing it as the “most hideous stone ever quarried” and asserting that its ubiquity left the city “hide-bound in its deadly uniformity of mean ugliness.”
The Evolution of a Status Symbol
The brownstone was propelled into a hot commodity by a single, simple force: scarcity. Following a hurricane and intense flooding in the late 1930s, Portland Quarry was forced to close. Geologist Mike Meehan reopened a scaled-down quarrying operation at the Portland Quarry in the mid-1990s, but the quarry was finally shuttered for good in 2012. Suddenly, the New York City brownstone had become irreplaceably one of a kind.
It also helped that the fragility of brownstones meant that many of the city’s historic brownstones had deteriorated badly enough that they had been replaced with cement-based substitutes, making ownership of an authentic brownstone even more exclusive. The expensive upkeep required to maintain a brownstone facade—and the fact that many brownstones are located within historic districts that have specific regulations regarding these renovations—also contributes to their luxury status.
The iconic nature of the brownstone has also become self-perpetuating: brownstone townhouses have served as the fictional residences of dozens of iconic TV and movie characters, from Carrie Bradshaw in Sex in the City to Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany’s. The brownstone has fully affirmed its place in pop culture and now has the price tag to prove it.
Where Can Brownstones Be Found?
Brooklyn is famous for its brownstones, and the densest concentration of authentic brownstone townhouses can be found in the neighborhoods of Park Slope, Brooklyn Heights, Fort Greene, Carroll Gardens, and Bedford-Stuyvesant. Brooklyn Unplugged Tours even offers a brownstone walking tour of Brooklyn Heights that highlights some of the most pristine examples of brownstone architecture in the borough. In Manhattan, your best bet to find some good brownstones is to take a promenade through the Upper West Side or Harlem.
Brownstones - today
666 10th Street, Park Slope -
Purchase Price $3,500,000 Monthly Rental $3,325
210 West 122nd Street, Harlem -
Purchase Price $4,650,000 Monthly Rental $6,995
169 Hicks Street, Brooklyn Heights’ -
Purchase Price $4,300,000 (Sold)
21 Brevoort Place in southern edge of Bedford-Stuyvesant - Purchase Price $2,850,000 Monthly Rental $10,000
Source: CITYSIGNAL
Credits A Stunning Photographic Timeline of New York City’s Iconic Brownstones
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sneaky one
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WTA tour 2004 champ
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...and was ready# to do it again in 2018 but instead received a walkover at French Open after Serena Williams withdrew
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Maria Sharapova's domostroi and chairs at 2:30
Interior Design
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Last year on our annual walk in Carmel-by-the-Sea Mrs. Orca and I ogled the spectacular Butterfly House, which was then for sale with an asking price of $40 million US. Perhaps its only rival on the whole coast sits just a few hundred yards away (above). It was built by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1951 for Mrs Clinton Walker and recently sold for $22 million.
After our walk the realization that it would take a miracle for me to spend the rest of my afternoons watching dolphins and sea otters from the deck of this house inspired me to do something I have done--at most--five times in my life: buy a lottery ticket.
I told Mrs. Orca my intentions in the grocery line and left her to go buy a $2 ticket. Unfortunately, I'm out of practice at buying tickets and didn't realize when I put in a twenty that the ticket machines don't give change, so I had to buy ten tickets.
I returned, embarrassed, to Mrs. Orca and told her what happened.
Mrs. Orca: "So you just lit $20 on fire?"
Me: "Yep."
Mrs. Clinton Walker House, Carmel-by-the-Sea, California.
at the Architectural Digest / Home Design show.
I did not take the opportunity to note contact information for many of the exhibitors I photographed. If anyone can provide me the name of this exhibitor or her firm, I will happily publicize it.
Swingers Coffee Shop
Googie architecture developed in post–World War II Southern California. The name Googie itself comes from a now-demolished coffee shop in West Hollywood, which opened in 1949. Through the '50s and '60s—the space age—Americans watched their country put men into orbit and onto the moon, which inspired the futuristic style. A strong car culture developed around the same time, meaning that it was in a business’s best interest to be visible from a moving a vehicle. Googie buildings have large, bright, and bold signs to draw in potential patrons, and roofs angle up like wings or flying saucers. If built, many of the buildings in The Jetsons would be considered Googie. While the style is light and fun, attracting customers in its heyday, many fine examples have been demolished. Source: Architectural Digest
5 of the Best Googie Buildings in L.A. www.architecturaldigest.com/gallery/googie-buildings-la
Edited with Glorious Nature Overlay - tequilla sunrise
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I just watched the movie "It's Complicated."
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The set design was so amazing, i fell in love with the house and the interior set decor.
www.traditionalhome.com/design_decorating/showhouses/set-...
Beth Rubino was the designer and she used a lot of warm orange pillows, browns, and cozy inviting colors. The same designer also created the set from "Somethings Gotta Give." (another divine set)
www.architecturaldigest.com/homes/spaces/2007/07/somethin...
The Cuban artist collective Los Carpinteros designs an art installation. A Victoria and Albert Art Installation.
When New York interior designer Victoria Hagan bought her house, “a real fixer-upper” in Connecticut, she could see it had serious potential. The kitchen, with its view of Long Island Sound and an enormous old stove, was a space to fall for. But first it needed a makeover. “The most important things in a kitchen are function, quality of light and lots of surface space,” she said.
To increase all three, she raised the ceilings and installed new cabinets and Carrara marble countertops. She also refurbished the stove and added a V-groove board on the walls, to add “texture and verticality.” The farm sink and faucet are from Waterworks; the lighting is from Urban Archaeology. “I’ve designed some wonderful kitchens, but this is one I truly love,” Hagan said. “I like standing at my sink and watching the sun rise over the water.”
Photo by Scott Frances, architecturaldigest.com.
I love going into paint stores and looking at their colour samples, always want to bring some home with me. Their colour of the year, if you watch the video link, is more purple than in the poster, where it looks smokey blue to my eyes.
www.architecturaldigest.com/story/benjamin-moore-2017-col...
For many months now there has been a huge construction project at my building, 30 Rockefeller Center, and it's finally nearing completion.
I've been involved in several parts of the project over that time, but by far, the best part has been photographing the spaces.
Architectural Digest was interested in doing a small story for the "Daily AD" section of their website and ended up using two of my photographs, one of which is shown above in a screen grab from Architectural Digest's page.
My title refers to the fact that the images shown on the curved screens of the newly reconstructed rotunda are photos that were taken by Margaret Bourke-White and displayed as giant photomurals when the rotunda was first opened to the public in the early 1930's.
I love the photographic connection between our digital-age and Margaret's. It really is stunning to stand in the space and experience it in person.
Here's the link to the story if you're interested...
www.architecturaldigest.com/blogs/daily/2015/05/rockefell...
College roommates and colleagues Thad Hayes (an interior designer) and Doug Reed (a landscape architect) collaborated on this sleek, modern home in rural Massachusetts. The galley kitchen, by Poggenpohl, is part of a hallway that runs through the residence. “There’s a spatial ambiguity that I love,” says Maryann Thompson, the home's architect. “Cooking and living and eating come together in a very fluid way.”
Saarinen table with Hans J. Wegner wishbone dining chairs. Interior design by Thad Hayes. Photo by Scott Frances, Architectural Digest, June 2007.
These were seen at the Architectural Digest Home Design Show in New York. Because I was wandering around shooting, I did not take time to note the artisans behind the work. If this is your work, or you know whose it is, please let me know and I will include their name and a link in the tags and description.
The World Trade Center, picture taken on August 5, 1997. Click Here is a graphic from the September 6, 2006 Wall Street Journal on the come back of Lower Manhattan. And here is a discussion forum on the Journal's web site.
This photo ranked #378 on Flickr Explore/Interestingness on September 30, 2006. Thank you.
www.architecturaldigest.com/story/facts-original-world-tr...
Facts You Didn’t Know About the Original World Trade Centers
“The precision may make it look severe to some people,” says interior designer Thad Hayes, “but the fabrics are tactile, and the house is made for comfort.” The cedar paneling in the master bedroom of this rural Massachusettes home, as elsewhere in the house, reinforces the interior’s relationship to the outdoors. The painting is Day and Night by Monique Prieto. Drapery fabric from Donghia.
Photo by Scott Frances, Architectural Digest, June 2007.
Howard Backen’s clients know that the Northern California architect has an affinity for designing indoor-outdoor kitchens that typically become the most popular room in the house. In a barnlike residence that he designed in Napa Valley for the owners of a winery (also on the property), a 16-by-10-foot expanse of windowed doors slides up and into the wall so that the kitchen gives completely onto a terrace overlooking the valley.
But the room itself is worth staying inside for. The ceiling—which rises to 21 feet—and walls are sheathed in recycled timber, while antique terra-cotta tiles from Jerusalem cover the floors. Above the Wolf range are locally produced concrete tiles in shades that echo the landscape just outside. Countertops are cast concrete; butcher block tops the island. “All the surfaces are lit,” says Backen. “At night, the room just glows.”
Photo by Christopher Irion, architecturaldigest.com.
Ísland / Iceland
Stykkishólmskirkja er teiknuð af Jón Haraldssyni (1930-1989). Fyrsta skóflustungan var tekin í júlí 1975. Hornsteinn kirkjunnar var lagður á ágúst 1984. Kirkjan var vígð 6. maí 1990.
Október 2006 var kirkjan valin sem eitt af 100 merkilegustu hönnunarverkum Evrópu (Best of Europe – Die 100 Still-Highlights) af þýska arkitektatímaritinu AD – Architectural Digest.
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The church at Stykkisholmur was designed by architect Jón Haraldsson (1930-1989). Construction on the church began in July 1975 and the cornerstone was laid in August 1984. The church was consecrated in May 1990.
October 2006 the church was selected as one of the 100 most important works of European Design (Best of Europe - Die 100 Still-Highlights) of the German architect magazine AD - Architectural Digest.
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Kirche von Stykkisholmur – Entwurf des Architekten Jón Haraldsson (1930-1989). Juli 1975 – Ersten Spatenstich. August 1984 – Grundsteinlegung. Mai 1990 – Einweihung.
AD – Architectural Digest (Oktober 2006): Best of Europe – Die 100 Still-Highlights