David Hargrove

Mama

2011-08-18T06:55:00.000-07:00

"Grieve not, nor speak of me with tears, but laugh and talk of me as if I were there beside you.

I loved you so -- t'was Heaven to be here with you."

Isla Peschel Richardson

Provence

2011-07-08T08:17:00.001-07:00

Photo: Remi Benali for The New York Times

Nova Scotia

2011-07-07T08:11:00.001-07:00

Photo: Tony Cenicola/The New York Times

Cape Breton Island, a remote corner of Nova Scotia. A wood-shingled house inspired by local barns.

Designer: Coralie Bickford-Smith

2011-06-21T10:45:00.000-07:00

Penguin Clothbound Classics Series
Design: Coralie Bickford-Smith
http://www.cb-smith.com/

Yes

2011-05-25T10:09:00.000-07:00

Type Design: J. Sueda

2011-04-27T12:02:00.001-07:00

Riga, Latvia

2011-04-21T11:45:00.001-07:00

Photo: Janis Pipars for The New York Times

Vita Gaisma’s two-story home near Riga, Latvia, is made of a dark pine that is painted metallic gray and glistens black in the sun. The boxy-shaped house was designed by the Latvian architect Zane Tetere.

Artist: Yamaguchi Akira

2011-03-18T07:50:00.001-07:00

"Narita International Airport: Various Curious Scenes of Airplanes, 2005"

Through June 12
Japan Society
333 East 47th Street, Manhattan

2011-02-25T09:16:00.001-08:00

Egypt: 11.02.2011

2011-02-11T08:30:00.000-08:00

Photographer Unidentified

Illustrator: Stephen D'Amico

2011-02-10T10:47:00.000-08:00

Photo: Andreas Schlieter

2011-01-25T10:44:00.001-08:00

David Hargrove: Miller Drive: January 23, 2011
http://andreas-schlieter-photography.tumblr.com/

Photo: Steve Powers

2011-01-25T10:43:00.000-08:00

Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec

2011-01-19T10:36:00.001-08:00

Illustrator: Mark Weaver

2011-01-14T08:03:00.001-08:00

NYTimes: Is Extreme Parenting Effective?

Farewell, Kodachrome

2010-12-30T07:22:00.001-08:00

Steve Hebert for The New York Times
Kodak stopped making Kodachrome film in 2009.
"That celebrated 75-year run from mainstream to niche photography is scheduled to come to an end on Thursday when the last processing machine is shut down here to be sold for scrap."

Winter

2010-12-22T07:04:00.000-08:00

Photographer: Unidentified

2010-12-07T11:24:00.000-08:00

Illustrator: Kyungduk Kim

2010-11-23T09:56:00.001-08:00

NYTimes: On Mrs. Kennedy's Detail

Brian Shaffer

2010-11-19T09:30:00.000-08:00

Illustrator: Michael Sloane

2010-11-08T11:41:00.001-08:00

NYTimes Editorial: "My Endless New York"

Corfu

2010-11-05T07:00:00.001-07:00

Photo: NYTimes

Paris: 17th Arrondisement

2010-10-28T10:06:00.001-07:00

Andreas Meichsner for The New York Times

Illustrator: Christopher Silas Neal

2010-10-28T07:02:00.000-07:00

"Why Sisterly Chats Make People Happier"
NYTimes

2010-10-15T09:47:00.001-07:00

New York Times:
Pskov Region, Russia
Credit: Dmitry Markov

Reclaimed wood

2010-10-15T08:41:00.001-07:00

A bedroom at the Ace Hotel in Portland, Oregon.

2010-10-15T08:06:00.001-07:00

Angelidakis

2010-10-15T07:41:00.001-07:00

Proposal for Hollywood Hills home.

2010-09-20T17:36:00.000-07:00

Photographer: Vee Speers

2010-09-20T11:53:00.001-07:00

http://www.lensculture.com/speers_immortals.html

Boeing

2010-09-15T13:48:00.000-07:00

An artist’s rendering of Boeing’s Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 spacecraft.

NYTimes:
Boeing said on Wednesday that it was entering the space-tourism business, an announcement that could bolster the Obama administration’s efforts to transform the National Aeronautics and Space Administration into an agency that focuses less on building rockets and more on nurturing a commercial space industry.

Boeing, which is developing a capsule that it hopes will take NASA astronauts to the International Space Station, announced that it will offer for sale any seats that NASA does not need. The entrance of an aerospace giant like Boeing perhaps marks the transition of space tourism from a dreamy pursuit of start-up entrepreneurs to a mainstream aerospace market.

“We’re ready now to start talking to prospective customers,” said Eric C. Anderson, co-founder and chairman of Space Adventures, a Virginia-based space tourism company that would market the seats for Boeing.

Bourg, France

2010-09-08T08:33:00.000-07:00

Photo: Ed Alcock/NYTimes

Barack and Michelle

2010-09-02T13:14:00.001-07:00

Photo: The White House

Scandinavian Design

2010-08-26T11:14:00.000-07:00

A source of inspiration for my sister, this site gathers examples of an aesthetic that I truly love.

President Obama

2010-08-26T09:20:00.001-07:00

Photo: White House via Facebook

Summer

2010-08-19T07:33:00.001-07:00

Ryan Lochte, left, and Michael Phelps after the 200-meter individual medley at the national championships. Lochte finished first, his first major victory over his longtime rival Phelps.

Jérôme Vinçon: Lode Architecture

2010-08-03T13:03:00.000-07:00

Normandy

Summer 2010

2010-08-01T19:36:00.001-07:00

Excellence

2010-07-27T10:37:00.001-07:00

Penguin Books

Sweden

2010-07-19T08:37:00.001-07:00

From Remodelista:
Innovative architects Bolle Tham and Martin Videgard of Stockholm firm Tham & Videgard devised the triangular Garden House in Viksberg, Sweden, to "blur the line between indoors and out, so that indoor and outdoor spaces gradually blend and interact." The house's trellis enclosure will eventually be covered with vines, providing shade and greenery; the interior also features a double-height indoor winter garden. Go to Tham & Videgard for more information.

Thorsten van Elten

2010-07-14T12:40:00.000-07:00

http://gretelhome.com/

Puerto Rico

2010-07-14T12:29:00.001-07:00

Photo: Moris Moreno For The New York Times

Illustration: Always With Honor

2010-07-07T07:26:00.001-07:00

NYTimes: Op-Ed Page: "Sweet Honey on the Block"

Félix Fénéon

2010-06-25T07:30:00.001-07:00

Against the Enamel of a Background Rhythmic with Beats and Angles, Tones, and Tints, Portrait of M. Félix Fénéon in 1890

"The Killer Inside Me"

2010-06-18T09:35:00.001-07:00

Casey Affleck in Michael Winterbottom's film of the Jim Thompson novel.

County Down, Ireland

2010-06-17T12:18:00.000-07:00

NYTimes: Built in 1810, this 2,400-square-foot stone house in County Down near Belfast was once a complex of stables.

Illustrator: Matt Rota

2010-06-02T13:09:00.001-07:00

For the NYTimes: Letters
"The Israeli Commandos and the Flotilla"

Bethany Jean Fancher

2010-06-02T12:03:00.000-07:00

"Crossing"
2003: Archival inkjet print
Here.

French Open

2010-06-02T10:35:00.000-07:00

Edie Falco

2010-06-01T06:40:00.000-07:00

Photo: Ken Regan / Showtime

As Nurse Jackie.

Atlantis

2010-05-26T07:33:00.001-07:00

Photo: Don Emmert/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

NYTimes: Space Shuttle Atlantis landed at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday after its final mission.

1927

2010-05-24T06:59:00.001-07:00

From Flowing Data: Map from Paramount Studios, produced in 1927, showed investors locations that would replicate far-off locales without leaving California. I live in Bret Harte, California, just south of Spanish California.

New York City

2010-05-21T11:08:00.001-07:00

Béatrice de Géa for The New York Times
NYTimes: Lincoln Center’s new lawn, atop a two-story structure along West 65th Street, curves up on two ends and is adjacent to a extended reflecting pool and a grove of trees.

Photo: Tony Cenicola

2010-05-20T13:46:00.001-07:00

For NYTimes: Marijuana Fuels a New Kitchen Culture

White Brick

2010-05-20T08:01:00.001-07:00

Linen

2010-05-20T07:28:00.000-07:00

Adam Kimmel linen blazer, $1,312 at Barneys; Neil Barrett short-sleeve cotton button-down shirt, $425, and Alexander Olch linen tie, $140, both at Bergdorf Goodman.

Credit: Richard Phibbs for The New York Times

Catskills

2010-05-20T07:22:00.001-07:00

Patmos

2010-05-05T06:41:00.001-07:00

Photo: Jim Greenberg
The new wall. Building progresses.

Stephen Fry

2010-05-04T12:09:00.001-07:00

When I was growing up ‘elitism’ was a word sneered from the lips of the Left, now it is sneered from the lips of the Right. The sneering was ugly then and it is ugly now. Knowledge, science, understanding, literacy and curiosity are absolute goods and to hell with anyone who tries to follow that American habit here and attempts to construct a discourse in which only a despised liberal elite are interested in science, the arts, history and ideas. Such wickedness reminds one of those who opposed Education For All at the end of the nineteenth century. All knowledge should be free and available and all people should be encouraged to acquire it. It will not necessarily lead to liberalism, but it will lead to understanding and a desire for openness and decent, non-tribalist exchanges of the kind that can only enrich our democracy.

bulthaup

2010-05-04T10:29:00.001-07:00

Kitchen design

Illustrator: Stina Löfgren

2010-05-03T13:14:00.000-07:00

NYTimes:
Book Review
KISSING THE MASK
Beauty, Understatement and Femininity in Japanese Noh Theater With Some Thoughts on Muses (Especially Helga Testorf), Transgender Women, Kabuki Goddesses, Porn Queens, Poets, Housewives, Makeup Artists, Geishas, Valkyries and Venus Figurines
By William T. Vollmann

Home

2010-04-28T09:52:00.000-07:00

Travel

2010-04-23T07:48:00.001-07:00

Courtesy of Worldwide Aeros Corp.
Model of the Aeroscraft, a hybrid airship, designed mainly to carry cargo. It would be faster than a conventional airship but much slower than a jet.

Manhattan

2010-04-22T10:13:00.001-07:00

Photo: Peter Lappin

Seattle, Washington

2010-04-22T08:52:00.001-07:00

Manhattan

2010-04-16T09:30:00.001-07:00

Photo: Trevor Tondro for The New York Times
Matthew Willey's studio, Greenwich Village.
Story here.

A Cabin in Georgia

2010-04-15T11:32:00.001-07:00

Photo: Robert Rausch for The New York Times

NYTimes (here):

The house is built into the side of a hill, and the bedroom is half-underground, which keeps it cool in the summer. A rusty mattress spring from an antique bed makes a wall hanging; ladder-back chairs have seats woven from old ties.

Cypress Island, Washington

2010-04-15T11:25:00.001-07:00

Photo: Stuart Isett for The New York Times
http://isett.com

New York State

2010-04-09T12:03:00.001-07:00

Photo: Phil Mansfield for The New York Times

Play ball!

2010-04-06T12:43:00.001-07:00

Alex Israel

2010-04-05T12:02:00.000-07:00

Photo: Lars Klove for The New York Times
Freeway Eyewear

Scandinavia

2010-04-01T13:36:00.001-07:00

Via Remodelista:
Product: Snow Dresser by Asplund, Sweden
Price: $1,450.00
Designers: Jonas Bohlin & Thomas Sandell

Runner's Briefs

2010-04-01T13:18:00.001-07:00

The Future of Publishing - created by DK (UK)

2010-03-25T09:36:00.001-07:00

Drakes Island, Maine

2010-03-25T07:32:00.001-07:00

Photo: Stacey Cramp for The New York Times

2010-03-25T07:18:00.001-07:00

Qatar

2010-03-23T07:35:00.001-07:00

Architect: Jean Nouvel
Design for National Museum of Qatar

Victory for Americans

2010-03-22T07:55:00.001-07:00

Andrew Sprung:

The flip side of Obama's perhaps naive belief that he can win Republicans over is his ability to show them up. Americans are confused about the plan, but they are not confused about the man. By large margins they trust Obama more than they do the Republicans to produce rational solutions to the country's problems. In the past month, he exploited his mastery of policy detail, his pragmatism, his focus on effectively alleviating the suffering he spotlighted, and his willingness to stake his political future on getting this bill passed to the utmost. The full eloquence and passion of the campaign came back to his lips in forum after forum and speech after speech.

Topanga Canyon

2010-03-19T07:44:00.001-07:00

Home
Photo: DH

Lightbotz

2010-03-12T10:55:00.000-08:00

NYTimes: Lightbotz come with a 9-volt battery, and are signed and numbered, in editions of 20 or 30, with the exception of the D.J., above, which is an open edition; prices are $475 to $675. Information: (877) 762-6543 or kidrobot.com.

Bleu Nature

2010-03-09T13:42:00.001-08:00

Stool Tasiilaq
Brown Calfskin Seat
Website here.

Hooray for Hollywood

2010-03-08T08:14:00.000-08:00

Chateau Marmont by Eric Hanson

Congratulations to Oscar's nominees and winners.

Robert T McCall, 1919-2010

2010-03-05T11:02:00.001-08:00

McCall's work included the painting of the wheel-shaped space station used in a poster design for Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.'

Hot

2010-03-04T12:45:00.001-08:00

At Priscillawoolworth.com
Small: $12.00

New York City

2010-03-01T13:45:00.001-08:00

Photo: Yana Paskova for The New York Times
Wall lights by Acme World Zoo.

Ellsworth Kelly

2010-02-26T08:59:00.001-08:00

Photo: Whitney Museum of American Art
"La Combe I"

Berlin

2010-02-24T09:38:00.001-08:00

Photo: NYTimes

Rag & Bone

2010-02-19T08:30:00.001-08:00

Photo: Greg Scaffidi for The New York Times

Men's collection at New York Fashion Week.

Anish Kapoor

2010-02-19T08:27:00.001-08:00

Photo: Anish Kapoor

Concepts for the Guggenheim, NYC

From the NYTimes:

Anish Kapoor
London

Mr. Kapoor, the sculptor, who currently has a huge steel installation on view at the museum, proposed what he called a “smoke event,” a bright red plume that would be released from a smoke machine at the bottom of the rotunda and travel upward. “Much of my work results in an ephemeral moment,” he said.

The key to the plan, he added, was recognizing that Wright’s void is not really a void. “It’s never an empty volume,” Mr. Kapoor said. “It’s always active, and your body is always active in it.” The inherent energy of the space, he said, calls for a “very playful” response.

Unlike some of the submissions Mr. Kapoor’s is “perfectly doable,” he said. “We can have an extraction point at the top of the atrium that controls the movement of the air in the space. The smoke doesn’t just dissipate. You can get it to move very slowly.”

Napa, California

2010-02-17T13:02:00.000-08:00

Photo: Jim Wilson/The New York Times

Nickel & Nickel Winery

Hugh Dancy

2010-02-17T12:39:00.001-08:00

Photo: Sara Krulwich
NYTimes:
"The Pride": Hugh Dancy, left, and Ben Whishaw: in Alexi Kaye Campbell's play they portray gay men, one of whom is closeted.
At the Lucille Lortel Theater, 121 Christopher Street, West Village; (212) 279-4200. Through March 20. Running time: 2 hours.

Istanbul

2010-02-10T10:42:00.001-08:00

Endeavour

2010-02-08T11:19:00.001-08:00

Jim Watson/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

NYTimes: The space shuttle Endeavour lifted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday on its way to the International Space Station.

Read

2010-02-03T09:56:00.001-08:00

Brooklyn

2010-02-03T09:47:00.001-08:00

Photo: Chester Higgins Jr./The New York Times
NYTimes: Near Kings Highway in the Madison section of Brooklyn, the Wyckoff-Bennett Homestead, a colonial-era Dutch farmhouse, is one of only a few such buildings remaining in the city. Built by Hendrick H. Wyckoff in 1766, it has been owned by only three families.

The Village

2010-02-03T09:38:00.001-08:00

Photo: Marilynn K. Yee/The New York Times
The White Horse Tavern, 567 Hudson Street, was my favorite neighborhood bar when I lived on Bank Street. Dylan Thomas, the Welsh poet, died shortly after drinking there in 1953.

Illustrator: Lars Leetaru

2010-01-28T08:01:00.000-08:00

NYTimes: "Kids Today: Tethered to Electronic Devices

Fall 2010 Mens Wear

2010-01-22T08:43:00.001-08:00

Moncler Gamme Bleu

Joe Levitt

2010-01-22T08:33:00.001-08:00

Photo: Sundance Film Festival
Joseph Gordon-Levitt stars in the dramedy "Hesher" from the director Spencer Susser, who, after directing a variety of commercials and music videos, makes his feature directorial debut.

Bronzino

2010-01-22T07:59:00.001-08:00

"Studies for a Portrait of a Boy," circa 1527-28
Photo: J. Paul Getty Museum