San Francisco based photographer, Leslie Williamson, didn’t quite set out to make a book.
She just wanted to see inside the homes of designers and artists she admires.
Lucky for us, we’ll get to peek inside their homes too–as her inevitable book,
“Handcrafted Modern: At Home with Mid-century Designers,” will be published by Rizzoli in October.
Until then, I’ll be savoring images like these in her daily posts here.
Can you guess whose homes these are?
by Maria Moyer
Bow Ties Make Me Smile
Shauna Alterio and Stephen Loidolt (of Something’s Hiding in Here) have created a neckwear collection called, “Forage”, based on the sartorial habits of their favorite designers like Charles Eames and Louis Kahn.
Bay Area People:
Forage is available at Curiosity Shoppe on Valencia, starting Friday July 27th.
Please go. I dare you not to smile.
by Maria Moyer
things change
photos by Alejandra Laviada, from her series “Hotel Bamer.”
Once in a while, I find something that’s so beautiful it hurts a little.
Today, it’s this work by Caroline Slotte.
Something created, from something broken.
posted by Maria Moyer (via Erik Scollon)
Boundaries Blur Between Designer and Consumer
by Maria Moyer
Heads Up! There’s a movement building toward hackable, make-it-your-own design. A kind of collaboration with our favorite designers, taking their inspirations and making them work for us.
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Brooklyn-based lighting designer, Lindsey Adelman (love her!) distributes step-by-step DIY instructions for creating a “You Make It” chandelier. Find instructions, materials list and resources here. See what other people are making using Adelman’s instructions at le beouf. (Photo shown above, via TheBrickHouse.)
Yves Behar’s curatorial debut of “Technocraft” at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in SF, tells the story of designers using technology to create a new economy based on craft, individualization and customer participation. The photo above (courtesy of fuseproject), is an iconic Eames dining chair DCM hacked and personalized for a little person’s dining pleasure.
Fashion designer Natalie Chanin’s line, Alabama Chanin, is grown-to-sewn in the US and is entirely handmade by artisans in Alabama. One-of-a-kind pieces are available exclusively at luxury retailers, like Barneys New York. To make her line accessible and affordable while promoting sustainability and the preservation of depression-era stitching techniques, Alabama Chanin’s kits and books help turn fashion followers in to maker-advocates.
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What other examples of hackable designs do you see? We’d like to hear from you.
