BrooklynModern

Quilt Stack Chair from brooklyn artist chris rucker on Vimeo.

Amsterdam Modern, located in the west coast hipster neighborhood of Silverlake, has some really nice and affordable vintage pieces. Here are some samples of their recent offerings.

FRISO KRAMER REFORM TABLE WITH 6 RESULT PLYWOOD CHAIRS Friso Kramer / Ahrend de Cirkel / Netherlands. Table alone is $1150, Chairs are $325ea (Style SJ001gr) 63 x 31.5 x 29.25

STACKING RETRO INDUSTRIAL DINING CHAIRS Stacking School Industrial Chairs in Natural Birch Plywood and Dark Stained Birch and Steel Frame. 16.25 x 18 x 32 $75.00 S347 (48 available)

DANISH TEAK DESK CHAIR Black Skai Upholstery, Studding Detail and Nice Mid-Century Lines 23.5 x 21 x 34 $195.00 SJ069 (1 available)

A very interesting story and slide show about a recently constructed modernist-inspired home in Austin, TX via the New York Times Home & Garden section.

Check out The Tough Guys story about Dutch Designers at watch the slide show

East Village Studio; New York City
jordan parnass digital architecture

The American Institute of Architects is once again proving that diminutive architecture can still deliver with its selections for the sixth annual Small Project Awards.

Established to recognize small-project practitioners and to promote excellence in the field, the awards program is divided into three categories: Architecture in the Public Interest, Small Project Objects for entries with construction budgets of $50,000 or less, and Small Project Structures for entries with construction budgets of up to $500,000. Visit Full Article.

kk.org selects and reviews everything from Dwellings to Backpacking.
The tool tote above was found in General Purpose Tools.

I had a nice look through Joseph Sandy’s site. Some of his work is made from reclaimed wood and he’s got a downloadable layout of a Usonian house. Plus a cool link to: http://whatwedoissecret.org/

Above interior featured on Lonny, an online magazine created by
Michele Adams and Patrick Cline of Domino.

By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER
NEW YORK — Die-hard do-it-yourself interior designers spend hours flipping through glossy magazines, carefully tearing out pages showing a pillow or paint color they like and filing them away for future inspiration. What do they do if their favorite print magazine folds?

Michelle Adams, 27, a former market assistant at Domino, and Patrick Cline, 34, a photographer and photo retoucher, were talking about that in May 2009 after Condé Nast closed Domino, its sprightly home magazine. Over dinner at Chili’s, they mourned the loss of the magazine and other design magazines, like Blueprint and House & Garden, and joked that they should start their own.
Read Full Article and visit Lonny

A Console by Wheeler’s Studio is one of the many modern pieces available on Etsy

$1,550.00 USD

Cameron writes:
As a design editor, I see an ongoing parade of mass-produced furniture, so it’s sometimes easy to forget Modernism’s long craft history. Sure, Charles and Ray Eames performed furniture miracles with bent plywood and fiberglass, and those kinds of material experiments live on in contemporary feats like Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec’s Slow Chair. To me, minimalism is uniquely lovely when it bears the fingerprint of the human hand — think of Hans Wegner and George Nakashima, whose poetic ways with wood helped mainstream the movement. Another of my favorite Modern traditions is the clever repurposing of materials: no one did it better than Achille Castiglioni, who made an art of using off-the-shelf industrial parts to fashion his unforgettable product designs. Happily, there are plenty of examples of the handcrafted and the reinvented on Etsy — my digging even turned up a few pieces by the masters themselves!  Click here to visit article.