Are you ready for just a few more beautiful things from the show? The MADE section of the Architectural Digest Home Design Show was launched in 2008 to give individual artists and designers of limited edition and/or one-of-a-kind objects and furnishings an opportunity to promote themselves – and it was a real treat to walk ...
I’ve seen so many pictures if Gaudi’s architectural creations that emphasize the wild colours and crazy forms. Beatiful stuff, of course, but I’m loving the stark simplicity of his attics: The attic is where you see the bones of the structure, free of ornament. And in La Pedrera, “bones” is the appropriate word -the catenery ...
Fireclay Tile is one of our local treasures here in the San Francisco Bay Area – making beautiful artisan tile right on our doorstep in San Jose, and making it in ever more environmentally efficient ways, too: Lately they’ve been getting national recognition for the innovative re-use of landfill bound porcelain – a difficult material ...
I spent some time last week at West Coast Green in San Francisco. Fort Mason on San Francisco’s water front is always a great place for a conference: Edible gardens are brought in specifically for the conference, and attendees are encouraged to ride bikes, car pool, or take public transport to the venue. Plastic water ...
Happy Friday from West Coast Green. Great to hear Bill McDonough yesterday, talking about an abundant future for 9 billion people. Buildings that work like trees, cities like forests…. I’m a designer who dreams stuff Bill McDonough in Fast Company The dreaming is important – somebody has to do it! More to follow when I’ve ...
Here’s a thought provoking product from young Serbian designer Jovana Bogdanovic, via Yellowtrace: It’s a simple and powerful message, though deep depressing thoughts about polar bears are perhaps not exactly what I need with my afternoon cup of tea. I don’t know what proportion of the world’s energy resources are used boiling kettles, or whether ...
Yesterday I had the good fortune to attend a lecture by lighting guru Randall Whitehead – he’s a great entertainer as well as a supremely knowledgeable designer, if his books aren’t already in your library they should be. It would be impossible to distill the entire talk into one little blog post, but today I’d ...