Speaking of genius...

The shell chairs are Miller ones.
The price: zero dollars.
Tattoo chair also zero dollars.
Record browsers, zero dollars.

Design Within Reach indeed!

Thought so.

I'm a very proud owner of 2 Gispen and 3 black skai Arne Jacobsen chairs.
Love them.

true:

Who would've thought that washing machines could be so beautiful.







Wright = God

yes, but Hilla Rebay to his right was the spirit behind that design... to the extent that she pushed wright to design a museum she thought worthy of kandinsky. which wright probably would never have done on his own.

...whether or not you like any of these pieces above, none of them would have been possible without Hilla's conception of a fluid continous space to show exhibit art...

she had been the curator of the precursor to the Guggenheim, called The Museum of Non-Objective Painting, which was where many of the Guggenheim's paintings had been before FLLW designed the new building.

now i'm jealous!

I saw a documentary about Daniel Buren's Eye of the Storm a while back.
Amazing.

...well, shall we go upstairs?

I love the fact that he used local materials to build that house.

Here's another beauty. Restored after the dreadful fire.

...down the hall




...past the past bedroom...




...which takes us out on the cantilevered patio...




...where you can look down on the falls, which this year were less than spectacular on account of the environment sucking...

Enough already!!! :)
It's late. I gotta get some shuteye.

they'll be here later... i've been meaning to upload these for a while...

...going back in another door takes you to the study.









...which features a cut away desk and a small bathroom.

I'm in charge of the "Interior Design" section of our bookstore. Lately, I've seen some very inspirational photos. Especialy those regarding the "Living Room" section. I should do some research on monday.

My dream home would be in a loft...

...out again to another patio.




...across to the guest bedrooms.







...and out to the roof terrace.

...back down stairs



and out the back door...



takes you up the hill



to a detached guest house looking down on the main house from above.





...but i don't feel like doing that right now, so ...