Glass House_by Philip Johnson

The glass house designed by Philip Johnson has been called one of the world’s most beautiful and yet least functional homes. Johnson’s career began when he turned himself into the Man in the Glass House. Johnson was also a singular taste-maker, influencing architecture, art, and design during the second-half of the twentieth century. He referred to the Glass House site as his ‘fifty-year diary.’ In 1986, Philip Johnson donated the Glass House to the National Trust for Historic Preservation, retaining a life estate…he died in 2005. The Philip Johnson Glass House, a National Trust Historic Site, celebrated its public opening on June 23, 2007, allowing guests an unprecedented opportunity to experience the visionary 47-acre site. The Glass House mission is twofold: for the 47-acre campus to become not only a center-point and catalyst for the preservation of modern architecture, landscape and art but also to foster new ideas and cultivate talent honoring the legacy of Philip Johnson (1906-2005) and David Whitney (1939-2005.)

House N_by Sou Fujimoto Architects

 A home for two plus a dog. The house itself is comprised of three shells of progressive size nested inside one another. The outermost shell covers the entire premises, creating a covered, semi-indoor garden. Second shell encloses a limited space inside the covered outdoor space. Third shell creates a smaller interior space. Residents build their life inside this gradation of domain.
Have always had doubts about streets and houses being separated by a single wall, and wondered that a gradation of rich domain accompanied by various senses of distance between streets and houses might be a possibility, such as: a place inside the house that is fairly near the street; a place that is a bit far from the street, and a place far off the street, in secure privacy.
That is why life in this house resembles to living among the clouds. A distinct boundary is nowhere to be found, except for a gradual change in the domain. One might say that an ideal architecture is an outdoor space that feels like the indoors and an indoor space that feels like the outdoors. In a nested structure, the inside is invariably the outside, and vice versa. My intention was to make an architecture that is not about space nor about form, but simply about expressing the riches of what are `between` houses and streets.
Three nested shells eventually mean infinite nesting because the whole world is made up of infinite nesting. And here are only three of them that are given barely visible shape. I imagined that the city and the house are no different from one another in the essence, but are just different approaches to a continuum of a single subject, or different expressions of the same thing- an undulation of a primordial space where humans dwell. This is a presentation of an ultimate house in which everything from the origins of the world to a specific house is conceived together under a single method.

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L'amitié… Arrive dans formes trés Différentes

Even Cowgirls get the Blues_WILDFOX S/S 2012

PHOTOS BY EMIR ERALP
STARRING
OLGA MALIOUK
ALI STEPHENS
CHRISHELL STUBBS
CHANTAL STAFFORD ABBOTT

MAKE UP BY CARLENE K
HAIR BY ANNA LEE FIORINO

STYLING TEAM
CASSANDRA KELLOGG
EMILY FAULSTICH
KIMBERLEY GORDON
MEREDITH LEYERZAPH

EDITED BY KIMBERLEY GORDON
POLAROIDS BY EMILY FAULSTICH

CONCEPT BY EMILY FAULSTICH & KIMBERLEY GORDON
MADE POSSIBLE BY JIMMY SOMMERS

Wildfox Couture’s Spring 2012 collection is a nod to the western film genre, encapsulating its movie stars like Faye Dunaway and Clint Eastwood on set in costume with big hair, cowboy boots, prop guns strapped to their hips, and the romanticism behind spaghetti westerns of the 1960’s. Designers Emily Faulstich and Kimberley Gordon say, “We drew a large part of inspiration from the eloquent, romantic book by Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues – which is littered with incredible euphemisms and powerful insights into the lonely but astonishing lives of outcast cowgirls. Robbins reveals the power, pain, and humor behind the life of a solitary cowgirl with words that are moving, touching and hilarious. We hope to have captured the same feelings with our new collection.”

Spring graphics are inspired by vintage style western t-shirts and western gothic romance with crosses and guns, cow skulls and birds, and old sayings in western fonts. The color palette is an array of soft pastels focused on lavender, baby blue and baby pink, with splashes of Desert Sun neon yellow and Cactus Cooler tangerine.