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The Frank Lloyd Wright Dog House

Frank Lloyd Wright Dog House
The story about a boy who asked a famous architect for a favor.

He had a paper route, he said, and hoped that the architect might design for Eddie, his black Lab, a house “which would be easy to build and would go with our house.” His father had commissioned Wright to design a house in 1952, and would spend 20 years building it in San Anselmo, Calif.

Wright wrote back. A dog house for Eddie would be “an opportunity,” he responded. “Someday I may design one, but just now I’m too busy to concentrate on it. You write me next November to Phoenix, Arizona and I may have something then.”

Berger complied, and sure enough received a full set of working drawings for a triangular-shaped dog house of four square feet, to be built of the mahogany and cedar scraps left over from the main house.

Frank Lloyd Wright Dog House
Via Architects + Artisans

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Lego Balcony

Lego Balcony
I’ve seen Legos used as design elements and details, but I’ve never seen it look so classy!

… [T]he renovation also brought him something straight out of a toy-store fantasy: a wall and staircase made completely of Legos. Working with Suzan Wines, co-founder of I-Beam Design, Marks dreamed up the concept based on both Archie’s love for the bricks and her own affection for geometric, abstract design and Lego-like colors, which carries through the rest of the apartment. To install the wall, they enlisted Sean Kenney, one of only five people in the country licensed by the Lego company to undertake projects as ambitious as, say, a four-foot, 13,000-piece replica of the Empire State Building. In the end, the building process took Kenney and his two assistants two weeks of fourteen-hour days to complete. The staircase, however, is still something of a work-in-progress, as Archie and his playdates are always adding their own structures to it.

Also, this is my new dream work/art space… all those drawers for prints and paper and supplies!!!

Art space

Via New York Magazine – Home Design

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Garden & House


Bringing the indoors outdoors, and the outdoors indoors; I think I found Jack’s new dream home!

The Japanese architect Ryue Nishizawa designed this “Garden & House” in Tokyo on a very small lot of just 8 x 4 m. It doesn’t really have a facade or walls: vases, planters, concrete benches, plexiglass railings, full-height windows and curtains form the boundary between inside and outside.

Via Today and Tomorrow

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Garden Facade

Garden Facade
2012 Architecten gives us a great example of how to creatively use an area, that others might see as worthless, and give the community a beautiful, lively space!

The architects were asked to design a public artwork that would span the expanse of the building facade while repairs were made and a secondary building we constructed nearby. They responded with a “vertical garden” comprised of stacked potted plants nested within window frames.

Aside from the garden, the architects also installed two basketball courts and street furniture to flesh out the new public square.

Via Architizer & Inspire Me Now

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Gold Glam Chair

Gold Glam Chair
I would sit in this chair like such a BOSS!

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ixxi

ixxi
Oh, all the wonderful possibilities with ixxi tiled wall art! Pixelated or enlargement. Fine art or photography. Collage or patterned.

I’d love to put together a collaged set, featuring our road trip… or my fav NY pictures… or maybe our prints… or Orignaux… I can’t choose!
ixxi
ixxi

Via Design Milk

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Score & Solder

Score & Solder planters
Score & Solder has some really bad-ass planters; I’m especially drawn to these hanging planters!
Score & Solder planters

Via Shiny Squirrel

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Field Candy

Field Candy Tents
These tents from Field Candy are fashionable enough to camp inside your own home (which, to be honest, is really the only place I want to be camping)!

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Leather Belt Flooring by Ting

Leather Belt Flooring by Ting
Unique, upcycled, stylish, and dramatic leather belt flooring by Ting. I desperately want a reading room / study covered with this!

Via Core77

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Film Biz Recycling

Film Biz Recycling
What a great idea!

Fostering relationships with NYC decision-makers in film, tv, theater, commercial, and other media production occupations to ensure excess materials are donated to Film Biz Recycling who will re-purpose or place for an extended life.

Via Swiss Miss

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