Is this the world’s wackiest bookstore? The defining feature in the newly opened Zhongshuge bookshop in the city of Shenzhen, China, is an enormous spiral staircase that twists around the shop – but customers can’t climb it. The jaw-dropping snaking staircase, which even features an ornate bannister, in fact serves as a fantastical bookshelf.
Li Xiang of Shanghai-based X+Living studios is behind the design of both the shop and the bookshelf, which doubles as ‘a huge artistic installation’. Describing the story behind the design, Li Xiang says: ‘In the process of researching the cultural background of this city, I realized that I could design a space which could become a symbol of Shenzhen itself as an inclusive and vibrant city of migrants, paying tribute to all those who have struggled to make history in this city. Thus, this retail space, which seems to have grown out of a giant art installation, was born.’
The bookshop, which opened this autumn, is divided into four separate spaces – a ‘concept’ area, a ‘forum’ area, a children’s reading bay and a conference space. There are also ‘levitating tables’ with legs that blend in with the black-tiled floor to create a ‘surreal atmosphere’. According to a statement from the studio, the staircase-bookshelf runs ‘in a curved trajectory through the entire concept area’ and connects with the entrance and exit, with bookworms able to wander through the coils, picking up novels along the way.
‘The designers have taken the symbolism of the ladder of wisdom and integrated the elegant and dignified bookshelves in the forum area into a towering ladder, creating a sacred temple of knowledge,’ the statement explains, adding that the structure intends to create an ‘intimate reading experience’.
Elsewhere in the shop, the children’s reading area is a riot of pastel colors and cartoonish shapes that aims to conjure up ‘colorful and joyful memories’. A Ferris wheel and a castle are built into the wall in yet more whimsical bookshelves, created using ‘simple lines and graphics’ and ‘childlike brushstrokes’. The table at the center of the space was designed to look like an amusement park carousel, ‘inviting children to make friends with books’. Zhongshuge bookstores are a chain of bookshops across China, founded by book publisher Jin Hao. Since 2010, X+Living studios has designed over 20 of the chain’s premises, creating spaces with spectacular, awe-inspiring interiors.
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Over the past 160 years Louis Vuitton has collaborated with many leading artists. To celebrate, they created an exhibition in Los Angeles. At the exhibition there were custom bags and a tropical pop-up shop. The Louis Vuitton X exhibition was located at 468 North Rodeo Drive, Beverly Hills. There were also almost two hundred items from their fashion house’s archive on display.
Above, is one exhibit room featuring rosey checkerboard walls, ceiling, and floors. Toward the top of the room is the illusion of an ocean complete with a boat, dock, and cliffs. Another space, below, is covered in large, black Louis Vuitton writing on a stark white backdrop for the contemporary art display.
Included in the exhibition are six Louis Vuitton Monogram leather duffle bags that have been reinterpreted by renowned artists and designers, including the late Karl Lagerfeld and Zaha Hadid, as well as, Rei Kawakubo, Yayoi Kusama, Cindy Sherman, and Frank Gehry.
The display above shows custom-designed Capucines bags designed by Sam Falls, Urs Fischer, Nicholas Hlobo, Alex Israel, Tschabalala Self, and Jonas Wood. The designs are part of the Artycapucines collection.
On the top floor there was a pop-up store. The space was decorated with pink palm trees and a domed yellow ceiling that gives the illusion of a glowing sunset. The shop included products curated by Sarah Andelman who is the founder of the consulting and curating company “Just an Idea” and former creative director of the Parisian concept store Colette. The store offered everything from women’s ready-to-wear clothes, leather goods, accessories, shoes, and fragrances.
Additional highlights included a collection of early twentieth-century special order Louis Vuitton trunks, art deco perfume bottles, and window displays designed by Louis Vuitton’s grandson, Gaston-Louis.
The exterior was vibrantly colored creating a cohesive flow in the design of the interior and the exterior.
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Take a look at the many ways to incorporate Shaker style into your design. Clean lines, function over frill, and natural wood with a focus on craftsmanship; built to last sums up the style.
The bedroom above, in the Círculo Mexicano Hotel in Mexico City, embraces the Shaker style with a traditional peg rail. The rail was typically used to hang garments and light weight furniture. The warm wood tones are framed by the white walls.
This artisanal bakery, Flourist, in Vancouver, Canada, was designed by Ste Marie. Shaker influences can be seen in the simple, natural wood, and clean lines giving the bakery a handmade feel.
The Toronto store Mjölk had an exhibition and on display was the above furniture piece made by the Shakers. The pressed flowers in the simple frames pay homage to the connection to nature that the Shakers relished.
The seating above is a great example of function being the primary goal of the Shaker design. Even the light fixture and accessories repeat the concept of simple, clean lined forms.
Architect Ravi Raj designed the above Clover Hill Residence with the traditional angular Shaker style stove as a focal point. The warm, neutral color palette is framed by the dark blue accents. Again, we see simple, clean lined, wood furniture to finish out this Shaker inspired bedroom.
Designed for the Furnishing Utopia exhibition, above is a wooden bench with a matching table. The simple setting of stone and wood further the design esthetics of the furniture pieces.
Above we see Terracotta House, in Australia, which is a communal space designed after the Shakers’ common practice of communal living spaces. Simple, functional furniture anchors the room.
In your next design Shaker it up!
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Boxing bags printed with Hermès scarf motifs at the HermèsFit installation in Brooklyn. Courtesy/Hermès
Against all likelihood, Hermès has headed for Brooklyn to open something of a branded jungle gym. The French house has opened an installation in Williamsburg called HermèsFit. Forget working out with therabands and stainless steel weights, though. Through Sunday, fans and customers can book special exercise experiences featuring Hermès scarves, which have been applied to boxing bags and inspired new yoga sequences. Those with more of a taste for jewelry can participate in a “kickboxing with bracelets” class that incorporate Hermès’ classic enamel Clic Clac bangle designs.
There are Hermès-inspired barbells, a climbing wall, photobooth and juice bar. Interested participants can pre-register for classes on Hermès’ website or drop by the space at 60 North 6th Street for a peek at the experience. Proof of vaccination is required for entry.
Inside Hermès’ temporary gym in Brooklyn. Courtesy/Hermès
This is the HermèsFit concept’s first stop in the United States after an inaugural run in Chengdu, China, this past May. From here the concept will travel to Paris, Taipei and Shanghai.
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Palm Springs Art Museum Architecture and Design Center.
September 9, 2021 – April 3, 2022
Palm Springs Art Museum has reopened the Architecture
and Design Center, Edwards Harris Pavilion with the exhibition The Modern
Chair.
This special exhibition will follow a timeline of the
development of the modern chair starting with the famous Thonet “B-9” bentwood
armchair (circa 1905), which is widely considered the first modern chair. Le
Corbusier frequently used it in his early architecture as there was no other
modern furniture readily available at the time.
The Modern Chair will trace the evolution from the first cantilevered
example by Mart Stam, and then onward to designs of current times including
examples by Cini Boeri, Charles and Ray Eames, Frank Gehry, Eileen Gray, George
Nakashima, Charlotte Perriand, Rudolph Schindler, among many others.
Technological and stylistic advances pushed chair design
forward at a breakneck speed in the 20th century like no other time before. The
exhibition will also contain important examples of 21st century as well.
Drawn in part from the rich collection of Palm Springs Art
Museum, the exhibition will also include key loans from noted collectors and
collections. In total, The Modern Chair will include more than 50 works by
designers of international scope, and is open to the public on September 9,
2021.
Palm Springs Life’s editor Steve Biller recently
took a deep-dive into the exhibition in an article entitled Hot Seats
The Modern Chair exhibition expresses how design reflects
the way we live.
Tokujin Yoshioka (Japanese, born 1967), Honey-Pop Chair, 2001, honey-comb glassine paper, 32 × 29 × 32 inches. Courtesy of Palm Springs Art Museum, Promised gift of Donna J. and Cargill MacMillan, Jr., L2009-48. Photograph By Yoshihiro Makino
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Sometimes, a chair is more than something to sit on. It might be a work of art or a precious heirloom with great sentimental value. To a collector, it could be a trophy object, while others may value its familiar and reliable comfort. The go-to chair in my living room, a reproduction of Eero Saarinen’s Womb Chair and Ottoman, appeals in all these ways — a curvaceous ergonomic design in a molded fiberglass frame, padded and upholstered in fabric, and set on chrome legs to accommodate all the ways I sit in it: usually with my feet up on the ottoman and sometimes sideways across the arms of the chair. Its 1946 design responds to architect and fellow furniture designer Florence Knoll’s request for “a chair that was like a basket full of pillows,” something she could “really curl up in.”
Charles Eames (American, 1907-1978) and Ray Eames (American, 1912-1988), Side Chair (model DCW), ca. 1945, molded plywood, rubber shock mounts, 30 × 19 1/2 × 21 1/4 inches. Collection of Tracy Conrad, L2021.7. Photograph By Yoshihiro Makino
The Womb Chair was
the pinnacle of design, beautiful in form and function and embodying modernism’s
spirit of experimentation and innovation. Seventy-five years later, it’s a
midcentury classic, with Knoll reproductions and a variety of knockoffs still
in high demand.
Although it’s not included
in The Modern Chair, the season-long exhibition at the Palm Springs Art
Museum Architecture and Design Center, Saarinen is represented by his iconic Tulip
Chair. The show, drawn from museum’s collection as well as from other
public and private collections, continues through April 3, 2022, and features
60 eye-popping and comfy-looking specimens spanning more than 100 years.
“During the last century,”
says curator Brad Dunning, “new industrial materials and technological and
stylistic advances pushed chair design forward faster than at any previous
time. The exhibition follows the development and evolution of the modern
chair.”
It begins with two early
examples — a simple and unadorned bent wood Thonet B-9 armchair created
in 1904 and used in the designs of architect Le Corbusier as well as the first
cantilevered chair created by Mart Stam — and continues through the “fertile
and innovative” midcentury years and concludes with contemporary designs.
Harry Bertoia (American, born Italy, 1915-1978). Welded Wire Side Chair, ca. 1952, steel wire, vinyl, 24 × 16 × 16 inches. Collection of Palm Springs Art Museum, Gift of Wilbert and Marybeth Waterman, 125-2002. Photograph By Yoshihiro Makino
Visitors can trace the
history of the cantilever chair from Stam to the diminutive Rudolph M.
Schindler example commissioned by Herman Sachs for the Manola Court Apartments
in Silver Lake, and find many familiar designs, such as the Charles and Ray
Eames’ molded plywood Side Chair (Model DCW), which Time magazine
named as the best design of the 20th century in 1999. “I’m showing a rare early
version,” Dunning says of the low-slung icon and Herman Miller best seller. “It
launched the Eames’ career.”
Innovative entries reflect
technological advances and aim to solve problems. Saarinen’s Space Age and
single-legged Tulip Chair, for example, resolved what the
Finnish-American designer described as the “ugly, confusing, unrestful world”
underneath tables and chairs — the so-called, “slum of legs,” while the Danish
designer Verner Panton’s S-shaped Panton Chair, created in the 1960s,
became the world’s first molded plastic chair designed in one piece without
legs.
Terje Ekström (Norwegian, born 1944), Ekstrem Chair, 1984, polyurethane foam, metal, fabric, 31 × 28 × 27 inches. Collection of Palm Springs Art Museum, Gift of William G. Butler, 34-2012.1. Photograph By Yoshihiro Makino
Panton has a second work
in the exhibition: his bright red Heart Cone Chair. He designed it in
1958, based on his striking Cone Chair. The heart-shaped form of its seat
shell, also molded as a single piece, inspired the chair’s name. “Panton always
loved the big English wingback chairs that envelope you,” Dunning says. “He was
trying to do his own version of it. It was out in the 1960s and really has that
pop sensibility.”
Vitra, which has produced
Panton’s designs since the 1960s, reissued the Heart Cone Chair in the
1990s; the newer version replaces the cross-shaped foot with a round plate,
lowers the heart “wings,” and adds a leather option.
Terje Ekström offers one
of the most unusual forms in the playful and ergonomic Ekstrem armchair,
created in 1972, commercialized in the 1980s, and now experiencing a revival.
Its spider-like design was an instant hit for its odd look and imaginative
versatility: You can sit on it like a regular chair, sideways, or even
backward. “It’s fun to imagine how many ways the chair can be used,” Dunning
says.
One of Dunning’s favorites
in the exhibition is the Module 400 chair by French designer Roger
Tallon. It has a cast aluminum pedestal base and egg crate latex foam seat and
back. “It looks so industrial,” he says. “Tallon was fascinated with the foam
that’s in packing crates. He [designed the chair] for a friend who had a disco
in Paris. The whole floor was made of interchangeable tiles the same dimensions
as the base of the chairs, as well as matching barstools and standing
ashtrays.”
R.M. Schindler (American, born Austria, 1887-1953) Cantilevered Armchair, ca. 1926-1940, painted wood, 26 3/4 x 21 1/4 x 18 3/8 inches. Collection of Palm Springs Art Museum, 75th Anniversary gift of Bill Stewart, 7-2013. Photograph By Yoshihiro Makino
Materiality plays an
important role in the exhibition, which includes two chairs constructed with
paper, including Frank Gehry’s Beaver Chairand Ottoman, designed
in 1980 and produced by Vitra in 1987.
“Gehry was doing
architecture way before furniture and always made his models with corrugated
cardboard,” Dunning explains. “There would always be tons of scraps around his
studio. One night he started gluing them all together, took an X-Acto knife and
hacked at them, and ended up with the Easy Edges [Cardboard Furniture series].
We’ve all seen the squiggly [Wiggle] Chair; this armchair is
quite rare.” (It’s from an edition of 100 pieces.)
More delicate, at least in
appearance, is the Honey-Pop Armchair by Tokujin Yoshioka, who formed
wafer-thin sheets of paper into a honeycomb design to create a strong
structure. It arrives folded flat, opens like an accordion, and takes the
impression of the first rear end to sit on it.
Other chairs in the
exhibition, like Danish designer Hans Wegner’s Round Chair, became
popular in part because of the people who used them. This piece gained
worldwide publicity in September 1960, when Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy
sat for the first nationally televised presidential debate. “This may be one of
the most beautiful chairs in the museum collection,” Dunning says. “Talk about
delicacy. Wegner is the master of the wooden chair. This one is made of 11
different parts of wood, and he somehow joins them so they’re seamless and
elegant.” The chair actually debuted in 1949 at the annual exhibition of the
Cabinetmakers’ Guild in Copenhagen.
A few chairs might ring
familiar to visitors, including Eames’ classic 670 and 671 Lounge and
Ottoman — “The design for this chair has never gone out of production and
remains a bellwether of success and status,” Dunning says — as well as Harry
Bertoia’s Welded Wire Side Chair based on steel grid wire forms and
Marcel Breuer’s reductive Wassily Chair.
Some are artful, like
Gerrit Rietveld’s Red Blue Chair, which epitomizes the Dutch de Stijl
aesthetic pioneered by Piet Mondrian and Theo van Doesburg.
Others, like Cini Boeri’s
glass Ghost Chair, will surprise. “Boeri wanted a chair that just
disappeared,” Dunning explains. “Of course, it doesn’t, but it’s less than a
half-inch thick of poured sheet glass.”
Frank Gehry (American, born Canada, 1929), Beaver Chair and Ottoman, 1987, corrugated cardboard, chair: 32 1/2 × 34 × 37 1/2 inches, ottoman: 17 1/2 × 19 1/2 × 20 1/2 inches. Courtesy of Palm Springs Art Museum, Promised gift of Donna J. and Cargill MacMillan, Jr., L2008-59.a-b. Photograph By Yoshihiro Makino
Visitors to the show might
be tempted to pick up Italian designer Gio Ponti’s Superleggera chair.
Its name translates to “superlightweight,” as it weighs only 3.7 pounds but can
support the weight on a 350-pound person. Advertisements for the chair,
designed in 1949 and continually produced by Cassina since 1957, featured a
young boy lifting it with one finger. (Security will stop anybody who attempts
it.)
In the center of the
exhibition space, Dunning has organized a section to focus on California design
that includes William Haines’ Custom Armchair (circa 1950), as well as a
wicker example by Miller Lee Fong, who, Dunning says, “found a way to make rattan
hip. It fit the sophisticated yet casual California lifestyle of the 1960s. The
lines are both organic and sculptural.”
The California section
also includes examples by the Eames duo, such as the popular Rocking
Shell Chair, as well as Richard Neutra, Paul Tuttle, Luther Conover, Daniel
Wenger and several underappreciated women, including Muriel Coleman and Dorothy
Schindele.
The Modern Chair makes no attempt to be
comprehensive; rather, it’s a survey exhibition that showcases the evolution of
design over more than a century. “So much of design is cyclical and
transitory,” Dunning says, “but a lot of the chairs that we’re showing are in
the design zeitgeist now. There’s interest in them again.”
While visitors cannot sit
in the chairs on display, he adds, each demonstrates how design reflects and
expresses the way we live and have lived. psmuseum.org
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The postmodernist AT&T building in Midtown Manhattan was redesigned by Gensler’s New York studio. The goal was to pay homage to the existing structure. The landmarked Philip Johnson-designed building is located at 550 Madison.
The building’s large 110 foot entrance, along Madison Avenue, leads visitors to the triple height, vaulted lobby. According to Gensler they set out to create a “bright, minimalist space.” The redesign maintained the lobby’s height, volume, and vaulted features.
The lobby entrance welcomes visitors through a large scale arch. The grandeur of the entrance area surrounds guests with lavish finishes; such as, bronze mesh, leather, and stone. The geometric patterns on the floor were created with terrazzo in varying greys.
To help define the space and bring it to a human scale Gensler incorporated bronze mesh panels. The panels bring the eye line down from the marble above which leads to the triple height ceilings. Rust hued leather wrapped, recessed seating booths are inset into the bronze mesh panels. In line with the geometric floor pattern, you can see a welcome desk made of stone.
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Above marble covers all the surfaces creating an opulent space. Ghanian-British architect David Adjaye designed the interiors for the apartments in the 130 William skyscraper in New York.
Marcante-Testa used colorful marble in the Teorema Milanes remodel above. The modern design above combines ancient marble and modern fixtures to create a truly unique space.
The project above, in Porto, designed by Portuguese studio Fala Atelier combines ceramic tile with marble floors and vanity. The geometric quality of the tile contrasts the marble veining.
Above we see emerald green marble designed by Sārānsh in the VS House in Ahmedabad. The curvilinear layout of the marble repeats the shape of the mirror adding a dramatic look.
The home above was designed by Innauer-Matt Architekten in the Rhine Valley. By bringing in the natural elements of wood and marble the outside and inside flow into one another.
The late 19th-century Lisbon apartment above was renovated by local firm Rar.Studio. The veining on the marble was installed both horizontally and vertically drawing the eye around the room.
London and Vienna-based design firm SIRS redesigned the above home which is located in a 1960s apartment building in England’s capital.
Above the 19th-century house near Paris that was renovated by Spanish studio 05 AM Arquitectura. The bookmatched slabs in the shower add a dramatic touch.
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Photoshop is the first computer class that the AA students explore. Many students start the class with very little computer skills. This can cause some students, in the first few classes, to feel tense and overwhelmed. In a very short time students become quite comfortable with the program and thrive. The first step is to learn the interface.
Students learn to take their hand sketched layouts and build them into digital files.
Throughout the class students create their own notebook. The tools they learn and the steps they take to utilize the tools are recorded. This allows students to function in Photoshop many semesters/years later.
Image searching is a skill that students learn in class, as well. They bring their high quality images into their canvas so that they can then start developing their layouts.
Preliminary layouts are reviewed in class with peer review and professor feedback. Then they use the feedback to further develop their projects.
Students learn new tools that they present in class. Their fellow students ask questions about the tools which allows them to add new tools to their notebook for projects in future classes. Final layouts are presented in class for further peer review and professor feedback.
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Tones: Tones are created when grey is added to a color. The final tone depends on the amount of black and white used, and tones may be lighter or darker than the original hue.
Shades: Shades are created when black is added to any hue found on the color wheel. This process darkens the hue and creates a more intense color.
Texture
Rich textured accessories tend to add to the warmth of a space. Items like blankets, throws, and baskets in warm colors can bring out the fall feel in a space.
Also, bring the outside in with fall foliage, floral, and gourds. They can be used separately or combined for added interest. Enjoy mixing it up a little this fall season!
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In the Associate of Arts Degree in Interior Design, students will learn how to tackle AutoCAD. Most students come to the class with no AutoCAD experience. This can be exciting, scary, and fun all at the same time.
First we look at the interface above and start working with some basic commands. After the first few classes students know how to draw walls and make openings for windows and doors.
Throughout the class students will create a notebook covering all the topics discussed in class. Each step that they learn is documented so that they can utilize their notebook in future classes and effectively produce drawings.
Students continue on to learn how to annotate their drawings. They prepare their first full size drawing with a title block, legend, and notes.
Another important part of a drawing set are the schedules. In class the students develop a door and hardware schedule, in addition to other schedules. Campus field trips are taken to explore the pieces and parts that make up a building. It is one thing to have walked through buildings with storefront systems all their lives. Now the students are able to understand how to draw and specify the parts so that a contractor could build from the students’ drawing set.
Reflected ceiling plans are another type of drawing that the students learn to develop. Ceilings are not only functional, they can also add a layer to a building that adds character to the space.
By the time students complete their CAD 1 class they are ready to create a drawing set for their next class. Students are encouraged to work with the CAD program during the semester breaks so that they have an opportunity to apply what they have learned to real world situations.
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