30 November 2009

New Orleans


Cheryl Gerber/The New York Times

A home commissioned by Brad Pitt's Make It Right Foundation.

NYTimes: In 2007, frustrated by the slow pace of rebuilding in the Lower Ninth, Brad Pitt set up a foundation called Make It Right; the foundation then commissioned 13 architecture firms to design affordable, green houses. The organization plans to build 150 homes, all for returning Lower Ninth residents. So far, just 15 of them are occupied, but those 15 make a big impression.
Indeed, from the main route into the Lower Ninth, the Claiborne Avenue Bridge, it’s impossible to miss the Brad Pitt Houses, as everyone here calls them. They are sprawling, angular buildings in bold hues not usually seen outside a gelateria. Monuments to the city’s resilience, and to Hollywood’s big heart, they are also New Orleans’s newest tourist attraction.
Story here.

San Francisco














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NYTimes: The Golden Gate Bridge under construction in 1937, when an era of huge public works projects was under way. Story here.

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Photo: DH

Reproduction Malibu Tile, PD 136D; Ceramic tray, IKEA, 100.951.87; Domestic Furniture (Roy McMakin) Pine End Table, c. 1980

20 November 2009

Almodóvar


Photo: Emilio Pereda & Paola Ardizzoni/Sony Pictures Classics
Penelope Cruz: "Abrazos Rotos (Broken Embraces)" (2009)

19 November 2009

Bertoia


Photo: Sotheby's
Auction: Robert Isabell's collection.
A copper Bertoia "Bush" sculpture is estimated to sell for $30,000 to $50,000.
Story here.

17 November 2009

Terence Koh


Photo: Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times

Terence Koh for Converse 1HUND(RED) Artists Chuck Taylor All Star sneakers, $150, available Nov. 21 at Opening Ceremony, 35 Howard Street; (212) 219-2688.


16 November 2009

Atlantis


Photo: Chris O'Meara/Associated Press
NYTimes: The space shuttle Atlantis lifting off from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

12 November 2009



Via GQ:
Military Peacoat
Coat, $385, by Nautica. Sweater, $168, by Tretorn. T-shirt, $30 (for pack of three), by Calvin Klein Underwear. Jeans, $155, by A.P.C.


Photo: Tintype Photographs by David Sokosh for the New York Times; Photographed on Governors Island, New York.
NYTimes: Left, Spurr gray cashmere-wool coat, $2,695 to order at Bergdorf Goodman; Ann Demeulemeester black wool vest, $815 at Barneys New York; tan cotton-wool henley, $98 at Amoskeag XX; black wool pants, $238 at Marc by Marc Jacobs. Right, gray wool trench coat with black detail, $3,795 at Dolce & Gabbana; Engineered Garments black wool serge vest, $265 at Barneys; Trovata ivory cotton henley, $160 at Odin; charcoal gray wool pants, $630 at Prada.


06 November 2009

Bauhaus


Josef and Anni Albers Foundation/Art Resource, Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

NYTimes story here.

04 November 2009

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Photo: DH

Berlin


Photo: Andreas Meichsner for The New York Times

NYTimes: Juerg Judin, an art dealer and collector, spent three years renovating this former midcentury gas station in the Schöneberg district in Berlin.

Story here.

02 November 2009

Emitt Rhodes



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Kevin Demaria


A photo essay in remembrance of Gourmet Magazine.

U.S.S. New York


Photo: Josh Haner/The New York Times

NYTimes:
The ship, an amphibious assault dock, has 7.5 tons of steel from the World Trade Center in its bow.

Bio-D Collection


NYTimes:

[Nike]....is developing shoes and apparel that use less material, incorporate sustainable materials like organic cotton and are easier to recycle, and by developing adhesives made from water instead of toxic chemicals. Notably, they’ve open-sourced much of their research, allowing other companies to make use of their advancements.

Though they hold considerably smaller market share, Simple Shoes (pictured) is also working to make it better, not over, having just introduced a new collection of biodegradable footwear with outsoles and midsoles designed to break down to dirt in a landfill environment in 20 years.

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Photo: DH

Moving in.