Poster from c1960 advertising a Hans Wegner chair manufactured by Carl Hansen & Son. Photography by Paul Salomonsen.
Cris and Marcelo Rosenbaum at Home in São Paulo - My favorite Selby piece yet.
This image and its counterpart from an inventory magazine post have been haunting my evernote for months. The image comes from the portfolio of Fumihiko Okabe and was used in an issue of Go Out Magazine. It is the most conservative from the series, but I like the subtly of it.
If you cannot tell already, this is Japanese.
Sometimes when I read the same massive comment threads on ACL about price and authenticity over and over again I get bummed out. Then I remember everyone over-thinking and over-hating on heritage, workwear and just about everything posted on sites like that is missing the point. In the end this style thing is all about costume, fantasy, role-playing, imagination and story telling. Not words you hear rolling off the tongue of most American males.
“Too gay.” (whole other topic)
Folks need to lighten up about it. For me one trip to the Jean Paul Gaultier exhibit at the De Young in SF was all it took to be reminded of that. Click through to Fumihko Okabe’s portfolio to see clever, funny, and fantastical interpretations of contemporary mens style. How you introduce various elements into your day to day is the fun part and something Japanese culture is obviously way ahead of the curve on.
We all need to get weirder.
These seemingly overpriced products we fetishize are artifacts for storytelling, creativity and shaping our own world, not the necessity driven tools of craft or purpose they represent. These blogs and sites traffic in post-necessity artifacts, social objects that we swarm around and spread until they echo. It is ridiculous that we buy these things, but it is nearly impossible to simply buy something once infected. There is a pressure that says “everything must be professionally consumed.” From a toaster to a teakettle to a tape measure to socks, it all must be considered. The behavioral equivalent to a “geek” with a high fidelity Boba Fet costume… He/she is just playing a different game than everyone else. Fumihiko’s work perfectly highlights what is really going on.
Charles Eames ESU 251-C Storage Unit 1952 courtesy of bay area american mid-century shop Just In Modern (http://svp.ly/1fvi1)
“”Nature is not evil, it´s ugly. That’s why we have gardens. It´s like ok, but we can do it a little bit better by arranging everything. We are obsessed by Tetris, order and man-made systems.
Before nature was scary, then romantic. But now we feel sorry for it. But does it matter? It create shapes and we create shapes or are we it? Surely, we don´t want to. I create shapes and so should you.
Source: blog.modernica.net via Justin on Pinterest
Found on Svpply - http://svp.ly/u6c4
Currently listing to this new Andy Stott album, We Stay Together, for the first time. While its definitely techno/house, its subdued, spacey, and fuzzed out. Not in a “chillwave” sense… more Burial / Holy Other too it. My kind of stuff for periods of focus. You can listen to the album on sound cloud.
