my favorite chair Diamond chair by Harry Bertoia, it is evident
in Bertoia's own words, "If you look at these chairs, they are mainly made of air, like sculpture. Space passes right through them."
Harry Bertoia (b. March 10, 1915 in San Lorenzo, Pordenone, Italy. d. November 6, 1978 in Barto, Pennsylvania, United States, Obituary piece was an Italian-born artist and modern furniture designer.
Link: Harry Bertoia
This is an unbuilt project by Diller Scofidio, I like the cross-programming and spatial interweaving of this project.
The hybrid nature of the Museum of Art and Technology, both museum and production/education facility, provokes an architecture of cross-programming and spatial interweaving. The architectural concept begins with a pliable ribbon that partitions the programming; production spaces to one side (blue) and presentation spaces to the other (gray). The ribbon undulates from side to side as it climbs from the street, floor folding into wall, folding into floor, slipping back gradually to fit the diminishing zoning envelope. With each change of direction the ribbon alternately enfolds a production or presentation space, thus combing together the major program divisions and populations of the building (residents and visitors) as well as their diverse activities and speeds. While residents use the east core and visitors use the west, each must pass through the spaces of the other when circulating between successive levels. The ribbon is sometimes sheared and slipped into alignment with a level above or below, thus, conjoining a production and presentation space. The building is designed as a system of controlled contamination. Between the blue and gray plies is the building’s nervous system, which can be stripped out every several years. The project was selected in a two- part international competition.
Link: Diller Scofidio
Restaurant, Seagram Building, New York City - 2000
The Brasserie, the restaurant designed by the artist Dillers + Scofidio is one of my favorite spot.
especially the carves of the walls, the video display looks so ultra modern.
The design emphasizes the social aspects of dining. Entrance from the street is transformed into the ritual of "making an entrance." Initially, a sensor in the revolving entry door triggers a video snapshot that is added to a continuously changing display over the bar, announcing every new patron. Along the "video beam" composed of 15 side by side LCD monitors, the most recent portrait takes the first position and racks the previous 15 to the right, dropping away the oldest. Beyond, in a recall of the original Brasserie, the descent into the main dining room (several feet below street level), is theatricized: a stair in glass of unusually gradual proportions prolongs the descent of each new patron and puts him or her on display as they enter the space.
Link: Dillers + Scofidio
She is famous for paintings uses polka dots and nets as motifs and installations that often incorporates mirrors in which she creates her infinite space.
She created fantastic paintings in watercolors, pastels and oils.
I like her psychederic infinite theme and her installation has a feel of galaxy..
Link: Yayoi Kusama
I would love to go see this design exhibition at MOMA. I love that this is a projected 3D. very innovative interior /exterior design.
“New City,” a projected three-dimensional display of a virtual world by Peter Frankfurt, Greg Lynn and Alex McDowell, is a model of an idealized society where buildings, cities and entire geographic regions all flow seamlessly together. It suggests how the Internet could be used as a testing ground for an emerging utopia.
Link: NY Times
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