World of Interiors!

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Our performance fabric Heaviest Linen is included in February’s World of Interiors! The whole charming article of the prettiest tool belts ever made is available here.

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Heaviest Linen wears like iron, never stretches or puddles, and is water proof because the fibers swell and water can’t pass through. It is cottage woven in Italy and used there to cover ships sails when they are down.

Our soundtrack for this glorious collections of tool belts and braces.

Broken Nature in Milan!

Our fabric MixTape is included in the the show Broken Nature. Curated by Paola Antonelli, head of Architecture and Design at the Moma, Broken Nature was the 26th Triennial design show at Milan’s Triennale. The Triennale is one of my favorite museums. Every part of it is a pleasure, even the cafe.

photo: Cristina Vimercati

photo: Cristina Vimercati

The show is so dense and so smart. Not a dirge of we-are-failing, but rather a call for dialogue about how to proceed in our current environmental situation. The symposiums put on in conjunction with the show are worth a deep dive.

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It has a great write up in the New York Times and Mixtape gets a wonderful shout out.

Finally the catalog is a wonder- like the show it puts forward projects and asks for us all to keep thinking.

Fabio and I on opening night. Photo Cristina Vimercati

Fabio and I on opening night. Photo Cristina Vimercati

Inspired Living: Sottsass in Hawaii

Two great tastes that go great together. One of Sottsass’s seven architectural commissions is for sale in Maui. The whole listing is here. I love Hawaii and I love Sottsass. Oh to be able to make this happen!

In case this tropical abode is too homey there is this Nathalie Du Pasquier at Wright with original fabric and from Karl Lagerfeld’s home in Monaco!

Inspired Living: Ryuichi Sakamoto

     

All photos by Mariko Reed

All photos by Mariko Reed

Ryuichi Sakamoto’s house in Honolulu is on the market!  Ryuichi is loved by many for many reasons.  I love his time in the Yellow Magic Orchestra.  YMO made awesome and challenging music in the late 70s and 80s.

Sakamoto home Honolulu, photo Mariko Reed. Bodenner Collection 2
Sakamoto home Honolulu, photo Mariko Reed. Bodenner Collection 3

The place is built by Sid Snyder of Ossipoff Snyder Architects Inc.  When I learned about Ossipoff’s work at the Honolulu Academy they said his office often refused clients who insisted on air conditioning and things they thought didn’t make sense in the paradise of Honolulu.  I also heard they’d work hard to make inexpensive houses out simple materials.  Most of these houses are now gone, sadly.  
 I just can’t stop looking at pics of this one by Mariko Reed.
If only Ryuichi would accept a lot of Moiré in trade.

Sakamoto home Honolulu, photo Mariko Reed. Bodenner Collection 4
Sakamoto home Honolulu, photo Mariko Reed. Bodenner Collection 5
Sakamoto home Honolulu, photo Mariko Reed. Bodenner Collection 6
Sakamoto home Honolulu, photo Mariko Reed. Bodenner Collection 7

Thank you Becky for telling me about this.

I'm at auction therefor I am: Fantastic Voyage!

I'm so thrilled to have found one of my very first industrial fabrics up for auction at Rago.  And to be on these Saarinen chairs.  While working at a truly fantastic German mill I made a fabric based on Fantastic Voyage.  Then it sold to Knoll!  It is hard to see, but inside of the ovals there is a thick cotton deflecting thread.

Precious Plastics

   

Dave Hakkens has created Precious Plastics, a system for chopping up, heating and forming post consumer plastics.  Like an exceptional citizen of the world he has made the plans available on line, and has tutorials aplenty.  He really wants small localized recycling to form and gain momentum.  Here is his tutorial on making planks and rods:

Turns out he's the guy behind Phoneblocks too!

Thank you Jesse for the tip.