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“Growth for the sake of growth is the philosophy of the cancer cell.” – Edward Abbey “Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.” – the late eminent economist Kenneth Boulding. “When Saquasohuh, the Blue Star Kachina dances in the plaza and removes his mask before the unintiated, [...]
Filed under: ARCHITECTURE, ART, BRAZIL, FASHION, HOME, NEW GREEN, SAO PAULO | 4 Comments
Tags: #artdesignbrazil, Alexandre Herchcovitch, Amory Lovins, Anywheredoor, Blue Star Kachina, bookstore sao paulo, BOOMSPDESIGN, Bucky Fuller, by kamy, Campana Brothers, CAt, CAt Architects, Chad Oppenheim, Coletivo Amor de Madre, Corbusier 5 points, Corbusier in Brazil, Cristallo, Cristallo coffee, D&D Decoracao & Design Center, Dror, Edward Abbey, Ekel, Emmanuel Rengade, Esther Schattan, Etel, Fazenda Catucaba, feral houses, Fernando & Humberto Campana, Fernando Amorosolo, Friendswithyou, Glauco Diogenes, Green Galactic, Green Provocateur, Guilherme Torres, Hopi Prophecy, Isay Weinfeld, Jaboticaba, jade dressler, Jardim Europa, Kazuhiro Kojima and Kazuko Akamatsu, Kenneth Boulding, le Corbusier, Livraria da Vila, Lynn Tejada, Marche, Marcio Kogan, Mariana Amaral Comunicacao, Mattali Crasset, Metropolis magazine, Moqueca fish stew, Negawatt power, new technology, Niemeyer, non architecture, not architecture, Nurai, open school desing, Ornare, Pasha, Paul Clemence, Petra, Phuong Cac Nguyen, PicinGuaba, post Steve Jobs, Robert Landon, Rudolf Steiner, Samuel Borkson and Arturo Sandoval lll, Sao Paula design, Sao Paulo, Sao paulo architecture, Sao Paulo art, school design, The Farm Store, Total Sao Paulo, Viking, Wadi Run, Zachary Aders, Zoe Melo
Tracy Stern is A Teas
Very Short Schiaparelli Pink and Orange Creamsicle Cocktail Minis in the Wardrobe. It’s 1967 and I am age 7, in my mother’s closet. Little hands reach up to the hem edges of hot pink and orange popsicle colored wool mini-dresses dresses hanging there and I am “seven-year old swooning” over the juice of the colors, the weight [...]
Filed under: HOME, LIVES, NEW YORK | 1 Comment
Tags: 1960's mini skirts, Alice Mad Hatter, Alice's Tea party, Billie Holiday, business of tea, Catherine of Bragnaza, Dame Lori, dandies, disco balls as earrings, disco balls in decor, dowry, Famous Lovers, Food of the gods, gold upholstery, jade dressler, Miriam Haskell, murdering Time, Natacha Atlas, orange and hot pink, Palm Beach thrift shop, party dresses, penthouse, Pleasure Expert, Richer Than Spices" by Gertrude Z.Thomas, Salon Teas, Salons, Schiaparelli Pink, silhouettes in decor, Sonia Rykiel, tea entrepreneurs, tea hostess, tea parties, Terence McKenna, Tracy Stern, tracy stern Tea party, vintage collector, vintage Dior jewels, vintage party dresses
Visionary Buckminster Fuller famously said, “I am not trying to imitate nature, I’m trying to find the principles she uses.” Come. If the “Design to Function” ratio of Nature is always brilliant, then we proclaim these four (plus ONE) playful and innovative inventors as MAGICIANS mixing the old principles of nature, simplicity, cooperation and synchronistic balance [...]
Filed under: FASHION, HOME, MEN, NEW GREEN, STYLE, TRENDS | 3 Comments
Tags: Adam Kalkin, aerial view peace sign, African Americans and the environment, Alexander McQueen, Architechiture and Hygiene, artists who knit, box houses, brand new sexy economic fun, buckminster fuller, Cee-Lo, Cesaria Evora, cnn, cnn recycled houses, co-working, container homes, cool knit clothing, craft clothes, crate homes, creative new economy, crochet clothes, crochet ideas, Dwell Adam Kalkin, Earth Hour, Fabricatng the Modern Dwelling, Global Peace Film Festival, green architecture, green pioneers, green urban, green urban living, Green Worker Cooperatives, green worker coops, Home Delivery, I'm Outta Here!, India Ari, India Arie style, jade dressler, knit artists, knit clothes, knits, knitting ideas, Ladene Clark, Len Burnett, Little Marvin, little marvin producer, MOMA, new craft style, new economic ideas, new economy, new economy ideas, new knitting ideas, newcrochet artists, Omar Friella, one box at a time, peace sign, people in a peace sign, People of Color Don't Care About The Environment, Princeton architect, Princeton crate homes, Quik build, ready made houses, readymade houses, ReBuilders Source, recycled homes, recycled houses, Rollins College Peace, Sanford Dickert, Sharon Pendana, shipping box homes, shipping container home, shipping container homes, shipping crate homes, Simran Sethi, Sundance Channel's The Green, Superreal, The Runway Project, Tony Bacigalupo, Uptown magazine, Van Jones, whiteness of green movement, worker coops
LIVING DESIGN 1
May in New York City is International Contemporary Furniture Fair Month. Trust that every year the crowd, the design is intoxicating and the people are the most supremely chic. (Somehow refreshingly less affected than fashion people too) TREND: TENDANCE The Brits are Very Into Faerie Influences. The nature designs and inspiration in art, advertising and [...]
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Tags: contemporary furniture fair, Design Democracy, Downstairs Studio, Fiona Gall, ICFF, jade dressler, Lindsey Adelman Studio, Miranda Meilleur, new furniture, threadless.com
LOVE NOTES 1
This Spring we have an outright obsession with words, letters, the printed word, handwritten fortunes, art and hand wraught Love Notes. Meaning and power become altered inside of us and take on new forms when simple messages appear in places you would least expect. Like Etsy proves, the handmade is hot. A new book, Script & [...]
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Tags: Al Montagna, Alvaro Montagna, banksy, crop circles, found gold notes, found notes in the city, ghandi in union square, gold fortune notes, gold fortunes, gold notes in Union Square, gold tube notes in NYC, gold tubes on the street, golden love notes, grafitti, ICFF, jade dressler, Jenny Holzer, Jenny Holzer on Twitter, Love Notes, mahayana buddhist temple, Myth Can Make Reality More Tangible, NYC urban intervention, PSFK, script & scribble, Small Earth, street art, The Big Word Project, the rise and fall of handwriting, Travey Kendall, union square, urban intervention, who is leaving gold notes in NYC?
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