Eighteen Wheeler
Here we are at this week’s newsletter. To all my new subscribers, welcome to the party. And to all my existing readers, thanks for being here with me again. I promise I made this week’s list of links worth your time. There are some good ones down there. Thanks to everyone who sent in links: Neva, Ruby, Johan, Max, Charlotte, Eldrich, Christoph, Angeline and Milly. Let’s get started.
The second installment of Palm Spring Modernism Week is now underway
Mies van der Rohe’s masterpiece Farnsworth House was originally a complete catastrophe and involved a law suit
Geometry rules this architect’s dramatic modernist coastal retreat
A striking house built into a rocky outcrop in British Columbia
Three micro cabins are connected by web of outdoor decks on an island off the coast of Maine
Interconnected gabled volumes form this Long Island home
A contemporary, wedge-shaped home nestled in a dramatic landscape in New Zealand
A surprise garden brings this 'pop-up' home to life
Concrete volumes and hidden patios in a Portuguese villa
Concrete, steel and glass define the exterior of this holiday home in California
This clever and compact Bondi home
Architecture in film from the 1960s to the 2020s: modernism, futurism and beyond
The Hearst Estate which was featured in The Godfather is on the market for $89.75M
Ai Weiwei's Tsai residence sells for almost $5M
Public Chinese bath turned into new studio and exhibition space
A concrete box residence in Mexico City
'Being an archibiotect is like being an haute couture designer'
Why is the modern world so ugly?
A conversation on the weird world of traditional architecture revivalism
Next Tuesday join a conversation with Rotor Deconstruction, a cooperative that organizes the reuse of construction materials through the dismantling, processing and trading of salvaged building components
A 1950s row house in Kyoto is restored to its original state using traditional techniques and materials
A Japanese hotel from the 70s has its internal floors removed and gains a grassy hill in a recent renovation
A beautiful fusion of Japanese schematics, mid-century design integrity, Scandinavian simplicity and native Australian sentiment in South Wales
The House of Finn Juhl is a hotel in Nagano that combines Danish interior design with natural Japanese surroundings
Brutalist sensibility and Scandinavian influence for the home of architect Mao Shen Chiang
A home in Barcelona belonging to an interior designer and a ceramist
Another Stockholm home filled with mid-century design icons
This 300-square-foot duplex apartment in Stockholm is perfectly comfortable
A cozy and comfortable Hong Kong apartment with a strong sense of style
Working at the intersection of long exposure photography and exploration of the built environment, Tom Blachford’s photographs transform environments into surreal and dreamlike worlds
The precarious state of the mom-and-pop store
In Brooklyn, two friends sell furniture with a fresh approach
A couch inspired by the elegant silhouette of 1960s Italian cars
Germans Ermičs creates refined and ethereal glass furniture
Street lanterns that open up towards passersby
Two new companies making similar tiled furniture out of Los Angeles - MANNI Design and Willow
A hand-poured boombox candle
One of the best secondhand stores in New York is run by a Staten Island commune
Herman Miller’s new office line is the anti-cubicle
How architects and designers can improve office culture
You can be a different person after the pandemic
René Magritte’s portal to a better life
A photographer’s visual poem about solidarity and protest
New York-based graphic designer launches digital time-capsule of social distancing stickers
Why KAWS is the world’s most popular artist
Man admits stealing Andy Warhol paintings and attempting to sell fake versions on eBay
Every dealer’s nightmare: the inevitability of fakes
Dutch police have arrested a man suspected of brazenly stealing paintings by Van Gogh and Hals from locked-down museums
New Gardner Museum art heist documentary offers a fresh take
Watch another new true crime documentary about a maverick art dealer who executed an audacious swindle and made off with $50M
A painting was about to hit the auction block for $1,780 until experts discovered it might be worth millions
Ground / Breaking is the first sculpture exhibition to be sold online through Phillips X
The virtual world is taking over the real world
LACMA & Snapchat bring artist-designed augmented reality monuments to Los Angeles (and your home)
After astronomic market boom, NFT prices plummet
Sea of dead satellites and debris is forming an impenetrable capsule around the Earth
Aerial view of a trash-filled landscape looks like art
A $39,000 Louis Vuitton airplane bag
An anti-racist group is holding a confederate monument for ransom and has pledged to turn it into a toilet unless their demands are met
I think we’ll end with that. Hope you read this far and enjoyed most of the links. If you want to send me something, shoot an email over to capa@bloodandchampagne.com. See you next week.
Thomas