Scout

Discovering New York City gems through the eyes of movie location scout Nick Carr.

 

The 'Abandoned' McKittrick Hotel on West 27th Street.

I want to be a Coppola too #3

Located in the tiny southern Italian town of Bernalda is Francis Ford Coppola's new boutique hotel (his fifth) the stunning Belle Époque styled Palazzo Margherita that also acts as family home when the notion strikes. 

Coppola's production designer Dean Tavoularis and daughter Sofia were the motivation behind the recruitment of Parisian Jacques Grange who designed the interiors, but Sofia and her brothers helped, each designing their own bedrooms.  Sofia's design below harks back to her glorious Marie Antoinette -

Working with beautiful bones, the original structure was built in 1870 so essentially a restoration project, it spanned five years in the making.

And the scent of all this gorgousness? Citrus fresh Acqua di Parma.

Take me there now please.

Read more here.

Unhooked Generation

Awaking first thing with Freda Payne in your brain is a 

grand way to start the day.

 I kicked the habit...

 

Now to focus on the future.

 

friendships

 career

 home

 and actually being there to enjoy it

attention to detail

 because the little things are important too

 

enjoying the fruits of that labour

 

and finally - upholding the Bohemian ideals

truth, beauty, freedom

thanks Pleasing Aesthetics

Sunday Ummm

The beautiful design of the new Serpentine


Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2012 designed by Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei from Serpentine Gallery on Vimeo.


The 2012 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in London created by Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei.  A cork-clad structure that allows visitors to move beneath the Serpentine's lawn and explore a hidden history of previous incarnations.

"Our path to an alternative solution involves digging down some five feet into the soil of the park until we reach the groundwater," say Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei. "There we dig a waterhole, a kind of well, to collect all of the London rain that falls in the area of the Pavilion. In that way we incorporate an otherwise invisible aspect of reality in the park – the water under the ground – into our Pavilion. As we dig down into the earth we encounter a diversity of constructed realities such as telephone cables and former foundations."

A lovely video of people interacting with the space can be found here on Domus.

These ideas of making visible a ghostly structure of secret space resonates with the work of Studio Velocity and their House in Chiharada.  Roughly translating as “a bottom floor with a view of the sky and a top floor that’s like a town” the plays on form and scale reflect a landscape inside the home.

 

 Located in Aichi prefecture, the home derives it’s name from the way stairwells rise up in the living room to resemble buildings in a town. 

architectural model

night shot 

Planting lilacs & buttercups

How many acres, how much light
Tucked in the woods and out of sight

Old dirt road
Knee deep snow
Watching the fire as we grow old
Old dirt road
Rambling rose
Watching the fire as we grow - well I'm sold

Inspiration from Whorange, Finn Juhl's pad is so very sweet.

Need these now.

As far back as I can remember

~ As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster.
To me, being a gangster was better than being President of the United States ~

- Henry Hill




Decanterlights by UK designer Lee Broom via thedesignfiles