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

The Peach Pit

Write-a-Bike

Koolhaas

After mentioning the formidable architect duo Herzog & de Meuron in the Tokyo post, I thought it prudent to touch on their vunderful VitraHaus.

Nestled in the Vitra Campus amongst other formidables: Frank Gehry (Vitra Design Museum, 1989), Zaha Hadid, Tadao Ando (Conference Pavilion, 1993) and all round hero Buckminster Fuller - this crazy series of stacked pitched-roof boxes was designed to display the Home Collection (design classics & re-editions/products by contemporary designers).


The concept of the VitraHaus connects two themes - the archetypal house and stacked volumes. Employing a domestic scale to display domestic goods this cantilevered five-storey building of structural extrusions and glazed gable ends, affords a cheerfully chaotic multifaceted assemblage.


More here.