May 2011
28 posts
Ten Design Lessons
ummhello:
1. Respect “the genius of a place.”
2. Subordinate details to the whole.
3. The art is to conceal art.
4. Aim for the unconscious.
5. Avoid fashion for fashion’s sake.
6. Formal training isn’t required.
7. Words matter.
8. Stand for something.
9. Utility trumps ornament.
10. Never too much, hardly enough. from Frederick Law Olmsted, the father of American landscape...
The Spy House
The Spy House was built around 1912 in historic downtown Albuquerque, New Mexico. At the time it was built, the Spy House, and Arts and Crafts style home, was different than the neighboring Victorian-style houses. After being built, it went through a variety of owners until being purchased in 1944 by WB Freeman and his wife Margaret. At the time they bought the house, the three upstairs rooms were...
Emmanuelle Moureaux →
John Ashbery
A MOOD OF QUIET BEAUTY
The evening light was like honey in the trees When you left me and walked to the end of the street Where the sunset abruptly ended. The wedding-cake drawbridge lowered itself To the fragile forget-me-not flower. You climbed aboard. Burnt horizons suddenly paved with golden stones, Dreams I had, including suicide, Puff out the hot-air balloon now. It is bursting, it is...
Adam Zagajewski
Lullaby
No sleep, not tonight. The window blazes. Over the city, fireworks soar and explode. No sleep: too much has gone on. Rows of books stand vigil above you. You’ll brood on what’s happened and what hasn’t. No sleep, not tonight. Your inflamed eyelids will rebel, your fiery eyes sting, your heart swell with remembrance. No sleep. The encyclopedias will open and poets,...
