Eileen Gray’s E-1027 house
In the late 1920s, the modernist designer and architect Eileen Gray designed and built a landmark piece of modernist architecture in the form of a seaside house. The Irish-born Gray is best known...
View ArticleMarguerite Duras’ bedroom in Neauphle, France, 1960s
There’s something compelling about this photo of the bedroom of novelist Marguerite Duras in the house she bought in Neauphle, outside Paris, in the 1960s. The thin cot bed is so peculiar, like...
View ArticleLivingstones, a sort of minimalist Flintstones
This is the one kind of pillow you actually can’t have too many of. The pillow rocks, called Livingstones, are by Smarin, a French design company named for designer Stephanie Marin. Via unearthedtees.
View ArticleEveryone loves the lamps in the Palais de Tokyo cafe
Various incarnations of the cafe in the Palais de Tokyo art museum in Paris, and its simple but excellent lamp array. A selection of Flickr photos by pavilion tone, Purple Cloud, roryrory, photocapy,...
View ArticleRoger Tallon’s helicoid spiral staircase
This disassemblable spiral staircase by French industrial designer Roger Tallon is, not surprisingly, in the design collection of the MOMA. It is both industrially ingenious and ridiculously...
View Article2thewalls
2thewalls is the closest thing on the internet to the much-missed and now cult-status Nest: Quarterly of Interiors. Finding 2thewalls is a bit like falling down the rabbit hole, and not just because...
View ArticleUnplugged eco-barn in Normandy, from the Eco House Book
These photos are from an an article by Terence Conran in UK’s Telegraph online, based on his new Eco House Book(Octopus, 2009). This house is completely off the grid, and was built by one man alone...
View ArticleUpdate: Eileen Gray’s e-1027 house as of summer 2009
See a previous post for more information on this famous modernist house by Irish architect and designer Eileen Gray. There has been a lot of concern about the house’s survival, but as these recent...
View ArticleSports and Leisure Center in Saint-Cloud by KOZ Architectes
Sports and Leisure Center in Saint-Cloud by KOZ Architectes, via ArchDaily. Photos by Stephan Lucas. This building, designed for children, is so well thought out it’s worth going to ArchDaily and...
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