Hotels: The Waterhouse Shanghai

above photos © image courtesy of Nerhi & Hu, Derryck Menere via stylepark.com

above photos © image courtesy of Nerhi & Hu,Tuomas Uusheimo via stylepark.com

above photo via dailytonic.com © Pedro Pegenaute

The Waterhouse, Shanghai. Located in Shanghai's historic Shuliupu district. The Waterhouse is a  4 floor 19-room boutique hotel. It was built into an existing 3 floor Japanese army building from the 1930's. The hotel contrasts between the new construction and furnishings and the old restored concrete building. Check out the full post at stylepark.com for more images including construction photos.

Photographers Backdrops circa 1900

German photographers backdrops circa 1900. Approx 7ft wide. Installation Antiques, available on 1st dibs.

Japanese Boro Cloth from Sri Gallery

Sri is a textile gallery in Brooklyn that specializes in antique Japanese folk textiles. They have some incredible Boro cloths.

At Auction: Jens Peter Schmid

 

Concrete Table by Jens Peter Schmid, ca. 1986  71w x 35d x 30.5h

Important Design, Wright20 Lot #342 

Estimate $20,000 - $30,000

Result No Sale

Lighting: Christien Meindertsma

 

Flax rope lighting by Christien Meindertsma for Thomas Eyck Available from Pavililon Antiques in Chicago.

Knots

So many beautiful knots, so many potential applications.

The More You Know: Urban Crude

Los Angeles has active oil wells, the CLUI has a detailed project which covers all of the locations; The Center For Land Use Interpretation, via i heart photograph

Max Lamb's Construction Videos

   Hexagonal Pewter Stool 2008 from Max Lamb on Vimeo.

Max Lamb has a number of construction process videos. The one above shows a stool being cast in the sand. There are also some great time lapse videos of his stone work. Such as the La Cernia Limestone Chair.

Graphic Design: Military Documents

images found during a ebay search for military documents. (sorry I dont have links to the auctions)

Visiting: Rietveld's Universe

image ©kim zwarts

Gerrit Rietveld, Cupboard (l) and design for a music cupboard (r), (1923). via phaidon

Gerrit Rietveld, Model of Mees House (l) (1934-6), The Hague and Metz & Co. rooftop pavilion (1933), Amsterdam. via phaidon

Gerrit Rietveld and model for the Schröder House (l) and wrap-around windows in the Schröder House eastern corner. via phaidon

Gerrit Rietveld, Child's beach buggy (1922-23) via phaidon

An exhibition of Rietvelds work that aims to show he designed much more than the classic Red-Blue Chair & the Schroder House. He completed more than 100 building and many pieces of furniture. The exhibition places his work in a broad context by comparing his work and manner of working to contemporaries such as Wright, Les Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe. 20 Oct 2010 - 30 Jan 2011. Centraal Museum Utrecht, NL via Abitare

Graphic Design: August Stenman

via Byggfabriken blog  Graphic design by fittings factory owner August Stenman, ca 1956

The More You Know: Wikileaks Atomic Bunker

Thanks to a misleading article by the NY Post, this former atomic bunker in Stockholm was briefly believed to be the headquarters of Wikileaks. 

But sadly its not. Its a Bahnoff center that hosts 2 of their servers. Which doesn't make the space any less cool. Just less headline worthy.

Via archdaily, Albert France-Lanord Architects

Watching: Duck, You Sucker

Such great sets (especially on the train), wonderful walls and plenty of Ennio Morricone. Sergio Leone's "Duck, You Sucker" (1971)
Art Direction Andrea Crisanti, Set Decoration Dario Micheli