Fourteen Points
Compiling the links in this newsletter is never an easy task. Sometimes it’s difficult to come up with a theme and even more challenging connecting each link to the previous one. I never really know which direction it’s heading until I get started. I do know all is quiet in the stolen art world so unfortunately there’s no new heist news to report. Instead, I’ll be celebrating women and sharing some female photographers in honor of Women’s History Month in addition to the usual architecture & interior links
Since I’m currently sitting at home, I’ll start off with this incredible gut renovation of a four-story Brooklyn brownstone right in my own neighborhood
Scroll down towards the bottom of this page to see the before photos
Here’s another renovation in Brooklyn, this time in a loft that was once a bakery
A few weeks ago I wrote about a six-foot wide apartment for sale in London and more photos have just surfaced
An amazing riverside live/work space is also for sale in west London
Here’s a classy modern concrete apartment in Ukraine
A minimalist industrial loft in Lithuania
There’s a brutalist-inspired loft apartment for sale in Sydney
A director’s beautiful brutalist Los Angeles home hits the market
A David Lynch-inspired dental clinic in Valencia
Alvar Aalto's concrete silo is turning into a research center
Tadao Ando’s curved concrete Ito House asks $7M in Tokyo
A house in Osaka with a trapezoid front
Cement, wood and glass for a home in Ecuador
An architect’s compact and clever Fitzroy family home
A remarkable barn in NY’s Hudson Valley
This a-frame cabin in the woods of Minneapolis is available to rent
These modern a-frame cabin kits are for sale
These complementary wooden cabins are in the middle of a Polish forest
Snøhetta designs outdoor care retreats in Oslo
They are also adding a sky-facing auditorium to Oslo’s Kon-Tiki Museum
Watch the 1950 documentary about the Kon-Tiki expedition
Achieving an equal future for women in architecture
Female-led interior design studios that should be on your radar
Charlotte Perriand’s trailblazing interiors are being recreated for a new exhibition
Ten women artists with major museum shows in 2021
A selection of interviews with great female creatives
Photographer Margaret Morton spent over thirty years documenting New York City’s homeless residents and their ad hoc dwellings
There’s a new Vivian Maier exhibition in Helsinki
Watch the fascinating documentary Finding Vivian Maier
Berenice Abbott gained success as a portrait photographer but it was her documentation of New York which would become her life-long passion
Lucia Moholy’s photos documenting the architecture and products of the Bauhaus are finally being remembered and no longer misappropriated
Hilla Becher spent over thirty years documenting industrial beauty in the form of anonymous sculptures
The photography of Hélène Binet captures the atmospheric qualities of architecture and emphasizes the interaction between structure and natural light
Mildred Thompson’s confounding abstractions
Joan E Biren’s long-lost lesbian family album
French architects Caroline and Cyril Desroche document the everyday architecture and urban planning which visually defines the unique cityscape of Los Angeles
Los Angeles hopes to cut housing red tape with preapproved ADU designs
Imagine your flexible office work future
I wish this tugboat could be my work-from-home office
'I get better sleep' say the people who quit social media
An annoying interview with fake heiress Anna Delvey who was just released from prison
That’s all I got this week. Thank you reading. And to the new subscribers, I welcome you. I can be reached by sending an email to capa@bloodandchampagne.com. See you next week.
Thomas