Ladakh

Spring in the City

How these don't get stolen right off the stoop amazes me.

A Day in the Shop

working, working, working....

A Walk in Tribeca

Something nice for the backyard.

Fiyel Levent at @RT: Art at Ridgewood Times

Hmmm.....where shall we go today?

New Installation Pieces

Color....

...from another continent.

I'd rather be traveling on a day like this.

The Ladakh Region, in India

New Little Things

OBJET, a design book

Featured!

Greetings From Finland!

Clockwise from Top Left: 1. Marimekko Bag 2. Ruisleipä - the REAL rye bread 3. The best business cards ever from PINO 4. Fazer Chocolate - egg shaped yummies 5. My new hand knit hat from Oulu 6. Oltermanni - THE Finnish Cheese

Sun!

Istanbul - Kapalıçarşı

New Project Palate

We're midway through an interiors project at a Gordon Bunshaft building in The City. Though I never really took notice of modern apartment buildings in New York, and indeed tended to shun them, I've fallen in love with this particular one with all it's split level entrances and sub-grade gardens. The aim of the interior was to tie back to the era: Knoll, Breuer, Corbusier, Rodrigues, etc. Above you'll see the palate we put together; textiles, surfaces, fabrics, colors.

Design Thinking Group Show

Design Thinking is Design Doing Group Show

The Opening is on Saturday, March 20th

RITES OF PASSAGE EXHIBITION

Opening Reception: Thursday, January 21, 2010, 6-9 pm

Exhibition on view: January 21 - February 11, 2010

Rites of Passage is a group exhibition, organized by guest curator Thomas Micchelli, that considers the multiple paths taken by new forms of expression at the turn of the 21st Century, specifically those found in the work of alumni of The Cooper Union who graduated between the years 1995 and 2009 from The School of Art, The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, and The Albert Nerken School of Engineering. Their explorations range from the intangibility of light and sound to the poetry of infrastructure, autobiographical reflection to political outrage, naked terror to absurdist humor. Rites of Passage takes its title from a poem by Audre Lorde that speaks of the transition between generations, of young people as agents of change as well as witnesses to the passing of obsolete ideas.

The works in this exhibition, most of which were made especially for the show, denote some kind of journey that signaled a turning point in the participants' lives or worldviews.. Whether the passages are interior or external, they are accomplished through an openness and honesty of expression, a blurring of the lines between disciplines, and a willingness to try anything that might break apart an old paradigm and engender something new.

In connection with the exhibition there will be a panel discussion entitled Rock the Boat: Art as Intervention on Friday, February 5, 2010, from 6 to 9 pm in the Frederick P. Rose Auditorium, 41 Cooper Square, New York City.

Participants:

Courtney J Angermeier	Charles H. Krekelberg
Dorit Aviv and Dionisio Cortes	Georgia Küng
Rush Baker + Sam Vernon	Laura Lee-Georgescu
Salman Bakht	Fiyel Levent
Vivek Gopal Baliga	Edmundo Majchrzyk
Sofia Berinstein	Gaurav Namit
Mitsuko Brooks	Laura Napier
Adrien Casey	Ryan and Trevor Oakes
Krystal Chang	Miroslav Ovcharik & Maximiliano Ferro
Jaeho Chong	Kate Parnell
Nicky Enright	Anik Pearson
Adriana Farmiga	Noëlle Raffaele
Grigori Fateyev	Jenevieve Reid
Josephine Halvorson	David A. Ross
Sue Havens	Taylor Shields
Kim Holleman	Natalie Shook in collaboration with Mike Circosta
Jane V. Hsu	Veronica Tyson-Strait
Kenny Komer & Boris Rasin	Spring Ulmer
	Peonia Vázquez-D'Amico

NEW WORK