INK+WIT: 07.10

7/30/10

FURNITURE: Sixagon Side Table Misewell

Sturdy stylish colored steel by Misewell. Found at Horne.

INSPIRE: TINE K Home

A lot to look at TINE K Home. Of course, it is in Denmark. I think I need to move.

TRAVEL BUG: Singita Lodge / South Africa

I could get use to Singita Lombombo in South Africa. Organic, natural, animals around, so great. I found Inspired Home Page with a luxe list of cottage, summer, apartment, and family home rentals on one of my favorite blogs, Blue Pool Road.

7/28/10

Aaron Feaver Photography

Found on Aaron's blog, Feverish Photography

7/27/10

Stellar Graphics at Designers Go To Heaven

from top to bottom / found on designers go to heaven

1. Piano Concerto No. 1 (Decca) - link

2. Owl City by Aaron James Gresham - link

3. ©1958 / Design: George Giusti - link

Origin of the Color Wheel

If you love Pantone books as much as I do then you will love reading about the history of color and seeing all the many ways art historians and theorists broke down the shades, hues, and complements.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Theory of Colours designed in 1810 rebutted Newton’s color-spectrum theory by imagining darkness not just as absence of light but as its own active force. As light struck dark, in Goethe’s view, their battle threw off observable sparks of color. (by Jude Stewart / Print Imprint Blog) Goethe searched widely for colors. He breathed on glass panes and flapped his arms to see how colors changed with each movement. It makes sense how so many colors are logged in our Pantone books, web palettes, and paint sections of the hardware store. It is like blowing bubbles and noting all the different colors you see when the light and shadow hits each glassy sphere.

[from Sarah Lowengard’s project The Creation of Color in Eighteenth Century Europe and COLOURLovers’ concise summary of the project]

7/25/10

collection + coloured bowls by kirstie van noort

inspired by kirstie van noort
see ceramics also at www.hedgegallery.com for more info

7/23/10

Charlie Harper

Cincinnati Federal Building with mosaic by Charlie Harper.

found via Style Swoon

7/21/10

A Great Message

This is actually a graphic design made by Font Shop using information from writer Janine M. Benyus.

Eben Goff's Etchings

Eben Goff
'batholith etchings': Aluminum plate monotypes printed on Rives BFK; 22" x 30" each, 2009.

7/20/10

Collages by Jacob Whibley

found: but does it float

Sculptures by Anish Kapoor

interesting -
found on but does it float

TOKENnyc Lighting

- Bell Kelp Etched Pendant

- Hand-blown from partially recycled, colored glass & finished with a traditional antiqued gilding process

Photography courtesy of Guy Aroch.

TOKENnyc

Brooklyn, New York 11211109 South 5th Street, Suite 306 / info@tokennyc.com / 347.419.2095

7/16/10

Matter

new picks at Matter

new at Merchant no. 4

My favorite store. New Cara Milk Cup and Totem

zakka / billet

fun at triton-cafe Zaka and billet

7/15/10

My and Roo Beanbags

This is the kind of beanbag I am talking about. Perfect place to read and on our new screened in porch it would be perfect.

Designer:
Ulla Koskinen

Description
My and Roo

Cover fabric is a combination of paper yarn and cotton. The material is dust-resistant, antistatic and treated with soil-repellent.

Roo and My were honored with the Interior Innovation Award at the international IMM Cologne furnishing fair 2009.

7/14/10

Our bathroom remodel coming up

Why is it remodeling takes FOREVER! We have been in our 2nd home 2.5 years. Our last one we had to sell housed us for 8 years. Both home never had decent bathrooms. And, I do not mean some old dusty floors. The bathrooms we have lived in have been less than fun. My husband and I are in our second fixer upper and the list is just endless.

Now, this coming week I am finally putting in the calls to a few talented chaps that will turn our dumpy bathrooms around. Our downstairs bathroom is a storage place right now. Good times, right? And, so many times while being near it I have had to walk past it thinking, when is this going to get done?!

We have to keep it simple since we are redoing 2 and by simple I mean brilliant and thoughtful but to the point.

This bathroom is like a shoebox which is good for our budget. Not much tile is needed and we only need 1 light. Above is what I am thinking to fix this super small space only 12ft wide by 3ft deep. Classic and modern.

light: Schoolhouse Electric
penny round tiles: The Tile Shop
wall mount basin: Vintage Tub
shower head/lever: Kohler

BASF Basotect Baffles designed by Jordi Gali

BASF Basotect Baffles designed by Jordi Gali for the Barceló Raval Hotel in Barcelona, Spain. Photo © Jordi Miralles.

"The Barceló Raval hotel in Barcelona, Spain, features 2200 Basotect ceiling baffles made from BASF's flexible melamine resin foam. Basotect’s low weight, sound absorption properties and ability to be manufactured in different shapes made it an obvious material choice for the ceiling design of the hotel lobby. An open-cell, fine-foam structure that is inherently flame-retardant and acoustically absorptive, Basotect reduces noise reverberations and improves speech intelligibility throughout the entire space."

sources: notcot / FURFIN

7/12/10

MId-Century Graphic Design

Floor Corporation Ltd. Booklet Cover | Jerome Gould | Graphis Annual 61/62

(found at Aqua Velvet)

7/7/10

My "Type" is Architype Van Doesburg

This is really fun. Jump on to Pentagram's site, What type are you? You take a quiz about being assertive, understated, relaxed, disciplined, etc. I was emotional, assertive, disciplined, and progressive. My type is Architype Van Doesburg, a geometric alphabet created in 1919 formed from a square divided into 25 equal unit completed using a strict grid method. Created by Dutch artist, Theo van Doesburgc.