We are going on ahead. There are many wonderful new titles, new things, it is not the time to lay back. It is a new time, and the parts, the pieces, are slowly coming in. And they are the best.
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It is the best of portents to have such a lovely book arrive, to chronicle the work of Kirk, a wonderful legend of an architect, one of the great heroes of Northwest design. These are projects built and designed in the 1950-1970 years, beautifully and newly photographed by Andrew van Leeuwen, and they sparkle.
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The book chronicles all of Kirk's career, the Magnolia Library, the Unitarian Church, the Faculty Center - but it is in the houses, in particular in the Bloedel Guest House, that your heart is struck. It is the perfect composition - of timber and line, of glass and light, of clear and subtle, of force and intuition. If the arrow is sharp.
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As Rick Sundberg has said, "Kirk changed us all."
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A three year study from the Swiss, Norwegian and Dutch Institutes on the subject of wood structures and joints across Europe. The aim was to study and develop new approaches to making wooden structures. To focus on the properties, the details and strengths and potentials of wood, not simply its appearance.
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"Tectonics - the study of joining individual parts together to make up a whole"
It is a modernist call for timber, and the details, both those of the past and those emerging from ahead, are coming from multiple directions. A new age of timber, a natural source, a holder of health. Lovely drawings, examples and spirit.
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Lewerentz Fragments, 2021
Authors Foote, Goritz, Hall, Matteson, Caruso, Celsing others.
Aarhus, 272pp, cloth, $55
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About Lewerentz - “ one could say he was an iconoclast, subversive even, marching to his own drum, not caring or emulating too much of his era’s diverse trends.” He was called a “ silent architect”, his spoken word mirrored in brevity by his indifference to leaving behind any written word. The famous silence of Lewerentz, so revered, is here the prompt for many to write intimately of him, of his work. This is a diverse book of honor, to honor.
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18 pieces, many color photos, letters, essays, each as personal and intimate as the close corner image of the brick detail - some, “Notes from my meeting with Sigurd”, some with the caution “ I have been to a very small number of buildings that are almost perfect”. Some from the foreman, one from the builder, one from the priest. Photos from the very first day of St. Mark’s, before any people.
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A gently, emotionally, passionately and intentionally created moment, to celebrate Lewerentz well, to celebrate his work, his intent and his silence.
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We are catching up on history. This is a very specific, very tight focus on the days of Marcel Breuer in New England, the 50s and 60s, principally in Massachusetts and Connecticut. Days of left-wing intellectuals, of artists and patrons, a madmen melange of clients and influence and some extraordinary residential design. The book coincides with a documentary film to be released, re enacting the Breuer circle.
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In context, it is Sea Ranch East Coast, with the larger scale of the extraordinary landscapes of New Canaan, Litchfield, Cape Cod, Wellfleet. It is the full passion of mid-century modernism, in the very particularly fashioned New England. With its own dancers and artists, its own culture and patronage.
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There are vintage and new photographs, interviews, letters, and archives. Much of it is elegant and buoyant, some is a flinch, some a frown, it is the designs that hold the court.
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The Boss, this one, the three foot by four foot size, alternately black and white pages, perforated. Once this one takes a wall space, it will need itself each new year. Then you KNOW the date.
We reuse the sheet of each month as wrapping paper. Massimo Vignelli designed the Standig to be THE design wall calendar and now, 55 years later, that is precisely what it is.
We ship this brilliant piece all over the world. Let us know. It is design and time.
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Each week is fully open, with vertical columns and note place/time sheets at the bottom. It is for work, this diary, and also for collection. What was the name of that café we found, two years ago, on the tour? What was their district, their number, their name?
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Available at the shop or to ship.
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We often have a soup for lunch. It is always a bean soup but always different. Reheating the soup, that is the intricacy. You need only a small part of a pasta from the night before, or the lentils from serving the fish, or a few of the new mushrooms and then it is a new production. and that old bean soup becomes a standard.
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Heat the leftover first, in a sauté pan, with a little olive oil and perhaps a dab of butter, and when they foam, add the pasta or lentils. Stir to coat, add 1/4 cup of warm water when the pasta starts to stick, stir to mix, a little salt and add the soup. Fold it all together, let heat until the soup slightly bubbles and it is ready.
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Add fresh parmesan cheese and cracked pepper, just as you serve it. The more the details, the further it is from the unnoticed bean soup.
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If I make a lovely dinner,
it will be a lovely lunch as well.
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