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Yes is More by Bjarke Ingels Group
DAC, 2009
Paperback, 400 pages

The monograph has become a fairly predictable format for architecture books, varying, it seems, only in terms of how much content is presented and what the page looks like. Collecting photographs of finished buildings, renderings of unbuilt or soon-to-be-built projects, conventional architectural drawings, descriptive [...]

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We’ve featured a few articles about MR+A’s work in the past, from furniture to prefab, so I was pretty stoked to open the mailbox today and find a copy of Princeton Architectural Press’ recent book, Marmol Radziner + Associates: Between Architecture and Construction. Published in July 2008, this book runs the gamut of MR+A’s [...]

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“The closet command-chair Trekkies have come out of the closet,” said Keith Marshall, 45, an unemployed phlebotomist, emergency medical technician, corrections officer and firefighter whose uncompleted chair, currently sitting in his brother’s garage, is slated for his own living room in Bonney Lake, Wash. “For a lot of people in the last few years,” [...]

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Every issue gets better and better. You kill me.
I adore this sofa, and I am usually no fan of hippie dippy fabrics. HB can get any style right, that’s all I am sayin’.
The current issue is all about getting “cozy” right. Who can’t use an extra helping of cozy these days? I was happy [...]

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GARY CHANG stood in the middle of his apartment on a recent Saturday morning, ignoring a message from his Nintendo Wii on the wall-size screen: “Are you fidgeting? I can’t seem to analyze you.” He repositioned the game system’s balance board, stepped on for a second run of downhill skiing and began to shift from [...]

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Gerd Arntz was commissioned by Otto Neurath to develop the Isotype visual dictionary, consisting of over 4000 symbols. According to his website, “The idea was to create a series of iconic images that can bridge between languages, are easy to grasp and, when done well, also nice to look at.” Gerd lived in communist [...]

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idFX has put their entire magazine online (at least over the next few months). I’m liking what I see.
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VINTAGE Inside Out Interior Design Style 2003 Magazine

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PLAZA mag, a swedish glossy get-together of interiors, design and fashion. Not ad-less, but you get into the features & editorials fairly quickly, with fashion interludes here and there. Woman in design is the general theme for this issue, which features many well illustrated articles. I enjoyed the interview with Ilse Crawford, Elle Decor’s [...]

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In the September 15 issue of New York Magazine, Justin Davidson admirably tackles the building boom of the last 15 years, looking at how buildings have transformed their immediate context. “The Glass Stampede” is a lengthy article (one I’ve yet to tackle, so I can’t comment at length on the text here) with [...]

Fifty Designers’ Current Favourite Typefaces is a project created by Create/Reject to help raise money for the UNICEF Myanmar Cyclone Children’s Appeal in the wake of Cyclone Nargis that hit Myanmar (Burma) on 2nd May 2008. The book is available online for £3 GBP and 100% of the cover price goes to UNICEF.

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nytimes style section – bookcase, originally uploaded by ooh_food.

I love bookcases… How lovely to see bookcases in a Modern interior. Love the shag rug.

Ikea Bookcase, book case, bookshelf (Atlanta Area)

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nytimes style section – floating staircase, originally uploaded by ooh_food.
I love the artistic aesthetics of this staircase.

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The Endless City (2008) edited by Ricky Burdett and Deyan Sudjic
Phaidon Press
Hardcover, 512 pages

The stats on the cover of Phaidon’s recent tome to expanding global urbanism paint a picture of what many people know but what many people don’t want to believe: the world is primarily urban and it’s becoming more so every day, from [...]

Building London: The Making of a Modern Metropolis (2008) by Bruce Marshall
Universe
Hardcover, 304 pages
Paris 2000+: New Architecture (2007) by Sam Lubell
Monacelli Press
Hardcover, 240 pages

These two image-drenched coffee table books focus on what can be seen as Europe’s two most cosmopolitan cities, using photographs to tell the story of London and Paris, each in its own [...]

It is hard to find the words to express what a fraudulent, pathetic excuse for an energy policy President Bush’s new plan is.
read the whole AMAZING article here

George W. Bush 24K Gold-plated Commemorative Coin c36

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Some more kitchens to add to the Kitchen Love files above! I love the pretty celadon green and white china collection in the cabinets in the first image and the little vintage painting leaning against the splash back and I also love the little bench seat breakfast nook in the last image – so gorgeous!!
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A new "paperless" architecture book featuring facades from around the world.
This book is the result of two years of architectural research. Dynamic facades, ventilated, high-tech or traditional composites with new features. This book shows that currently new skins not only act as an isolating element, besides interact with the environment, optimizing energy exchange with the [...]

One of our most popular posts here at L+L is the Finland Summer House posted by James back in January 2005. If exploring summer houses in Finland is your raison d’être, then we have a book for you. Finnish Summer Houses by Jari & Sirkkaliisa Jetsonen is a new book from Princeton Architectural Press [...]

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ROOM WITH JORDAN CAPPELLA OTTOMAN page 46
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If you get the chance check out the latest issue of HL magazine. Page 46 has a room designed by Vanessa De Vargas, and features a picture of the Jordan Cappella Lucite based ottoman upholstered in a black ostrich vinyl.
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No Look Too Expensive to Knock Off
The 2008 Kips Bay Decorator Show House, open through May 22, is a good source of inspiration, even for those on a modest budget. Although most of the designers used expensive materials and accessories, an enterprising shopper could adapt many of the looks for a reasonable price.
Some decorators juxtaposed [...]

When he’s not living in his West Village loft, performer and photographer Joel Grey (Cabaret , Wicked , Brothers & Sisters ) resides in a 650-square-foot former surf shack in Venice, California. The New York Times takes a peak into the simple, pared-down space that was built in the 1920s. True to its beach roots, [...]

LoftLife believes that, in the words of urbanist Jane Jacobs, "in order for a society to flourish, there must be a flourishing city at its core." The desire for open space, good design, and adaptive reuse combined with the cultural and community benefits of living in the city are the main reasons readers [...]

Here is my husband, Kurt Wenzel’s third and latest novel’s book jacket, Exposure: A Novel . I love it! Can you guess who it is? I won’t give it away in case you read it some day. But I just love the way Little, Brown & Co’s design team pulled this off. The squares [...]

"Behind Bars" in Japanese , originally uploaded by designshrine .

This was my favorite cover of all of the versions for my book, Behind Bars: The Straight-Up Tales of a Big-City Bartender . It really captured my experience as a bartender on the Bowery before the rich folks took over. They captured my old look, [...]

Another design blogger publishes a book, this time it’s David Carlson of the David Report blog with Designboost 07, “the first in a series of books that in words, pictures and moving media describes the work of Designboost. Designboost is a knowledge company that helps companies and organisations to learn more about design in general [...]

Green Roof – A Case Study: Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates’ Design For the Headquarters of the American Society of Landscape Architects (2007) by Christian Werthmann
Princeton Architectural Press
Hardcover, 160 pages

The roof of the book’s title sits atop the American Society of Landscape Architects’ (ASLA) headquarters in Washington D.C. It is a relatively small roof of 3,300 [...]

Pocket Gardens: Contemporary Japanese Miniature Designs (2007) by Michael Freeman
Universe
Hardcover, 224 pages

The term “pocket garden” brings to mind pocket park, those roughly lot-size public spaces scattered about Manhattan that are small in stature yet have a wider impact that makes them successful urban design elements. Perhaps the most well-known is Paley Park in Midtown Manhattan. [...]

Pentagram Papers 37 presents Forgotten Architects, a look at 43 Jewish architects working in Germany before 1933. Exhaustively researched by “Haifa-born architect Myra Warhaftig—who died on March 4 at the age of seventy-eight—[she] spent twenty years piecing together the stories of these architects, publishing her findings in They Laid the Foundation: Lives and Works of [...]

Corrugated Iron: Building on the Frontier (2007) by Adam Mornement and Simon Halloway
W. W. Norton
Hardcover, 224 pages

When one hears the term corrugated iron (or the more contemporary corrugated metal or corrugated aluminum) a few conflicting images pop to mind: large industrial buildings, third-world shanty towns, Quonset huts , and the houses of Glenn Murcutt . [...]

I’m not sure how accurate this ebook is, but it seems pretty straight forward. So I got it for you guys. Maybe someone will find it useful.
Here’s the write-up on it:
“Are You Ready To Start Your Career In The Interior Design Industry?”
I bet you love to rearrange the [...]

Goodness, I am absolutely adoring these images by the ever-wonderful Fifi Lapin from the Winter issue of Small Magazine. They are too sweet for words.

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Vintage cowboy nursery dictionary art print RODEO

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Elle Magazine partnered with eco-friendly company SIGG to create one-of-a-kind limited edition bottles by some of fashions top designers. The bottles are to be auctioned off and benefits will go to Laurie David’s organization, Stop Global Warming. Unfortunately these bottle designs leave something to be desired…um maybe these designers should [...]

I came across this cool typographic chapter opener for a new do-it-yourself book called Craftivity. The book was designed by Holly Gressley for Design firm Flat.
Design Muse Blog
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Typography 29-Emily Oberman-New Book

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APARTMENT THERAPY COVER
VANESSA DE VARGAS/FLOOR PLAN pg.238
JORDAN CAPPELLA MENTIONED ABOVE pg.240
JORDAN CAPPELLA LUCITE BASE OTTOMAN/BLACK FAUX OSTRICH COVER & RED LUCITE TRAY pg.241
ABOVE JORDAN CAPPELLA BLACK LUCITE TRAY pg. 239
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Be sure to check out the new APARTMENT THERAPY hardback coffee table book real homes, real people hundreds of real solutions. It has so many great [...]