As you all know, moving can be quite exhausting, and so when this glove came floating down in front of me while taking some things over to my Hall street Brooklyn studio, I felt it was telling my to take a deep breath or an Inflatable Five!
I hope everyone had a great weekend!
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From the Nov 4, 2012 edition of NY Times Style Magazine, inside the home of Cologne, Germany based artist and art director Mike Meiré.
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Scholar’s Rock vase 08 – 2012 by Brooklyn based American artist and sculptor Julia Kunin.
$1,500 at Moss NYC.
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Made at a 2011 workshop in Hungary, Julia Kunin glazed this collection in the historic Zsolany Eosin glaze developed in 1893, exclusively for Zsolany the Hungarian manufacturer of porcelain, tile and stoneware. You may remember them and their popular iridescent colored glazes from here. It is one of my favorite finishes.
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In less then two weeks I am moving to Marble Hill, the very northernmost tip of what is technically, although once debated, Manhattan.
Settled by the Dutch in 1646, Marble Hill sits on deposits of dolomite marble once used to build the federal buildings of downtown Manhattan. After the construction of the Harlem River Ship Canal in 1895, and until the Spuyten Duyvel Creek (pictured above) which ran north of the neighborhood was filled in 1914, Marble Hill was an Island. Although now only connected to Manhattan by the Broadway Bridge, Marble Hill still remains part of Manhattan.
Marble Hill mentioned in this weeks Sunday Times.
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Like my new Marble Hill apartment, ironically my current Williamsburg, Brooklyn apartment is under the bridge, near the water and one block from a main two way street also named Broadway.
Although I will miss all the creative excitement of Williamsburg, I will still be spending time at my Hall Street, Brooklyn studio but am particularly excited to experience the adventure of what will hopefully become a cool new neighborhood.
I hope my new neighbors are as excited to meet me as I am them.
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If you live in or near Marble Hill (Inwood, Riverdale, etc.) and are interested in creating a creative group of sorts, please email me. Think food or art and design related.
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This weeks window display at Emilio Pucci on Madison Avenue in NYC.
How flirtatious and fun are these window displays?
Have a great pre-holiday weekend everyone.
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These beautiful interior renderings are by my friend and fellow NYSID alumni Michael Harold. A NYC based designer, Michael works with interior designers, architects, graphic artists, or anyone looking for presentation quality, hand drawn and rendered interior perspectives.
Personally I think one of these would make a great gift for someone you know moving into a new home, or as illustrations for wedding invites and personal thank you notes etc.
For prices and services please visit michaelharoldnewyork.com or email him at: michael(at)michaelharoldnewyork.com.
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American abstract expressionist artist and painter Ad Reinhardt photographed in his NYC studio by John Loengard, circa 1966.
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Although the post Hurricane Sandy gloom could partially be responsible for my recently rediscovered interest in Reinhardt’s black paintings, it in fact is his mostly flat painting technique that has me so excited to rediscover his work and ideas.
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Designed to celebrate 80 years of Alvar Aalto’s, Artek “Stool 60“; New York based designer Nao Tamura creates this fun and refreshing adaptation of the classic stool with a cross section print of a perfectly cut tree, whose rings chronological pattern also celebrate eighty years of the chairs design history.
Like my recently posted Sharon Sides chair, and the Bryan Nash art prints, natural tree profile patters are obviously becoming quite trendy, and in my opinion, they are often more fun and exciting then the otherwise growingly scarce, real thing.
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Sadly Hurricane Sandy has left many without homes, without business, without electricity, without food, without work, and for many, possibly without feelings of hope.
My love and prayers to all those who lost anything in this unexpected storm. I hope you are able to find some positivity in all this and continue to imagine that some greater opportunities are yet to come.
with love,
Naftali
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Showing is an image I took of a 150+ year old tree that had fallen because of the storm. In my mind trees symbolize growth, shelter, nourishment, warmth, and history (its age). After many years of offering its shade and beauty, even this otherwise fallen tree can now offer lumber and kindling for someone to build and warm a new home.
I hope you can find that somewhat inspiring.
Remember these?
After being stuck upstate for the past few days, the effects of Sandy (Hurricane Sandy if you are reading this in a few years) have hardly been cleared and yet I thankfully managed to make my way back into the city today. While parking I found these fun, Halloween inspired ghosted windows at Bembe’s, near my apartment in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Happy trick and treating…
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The last few weeks I have been spending allot of time traveling, often by car, and often driving through mountains gloriously colored by blankets of fall colored leaves and trees. Besides the meditative trance these beautiful colors put me in, I find the often gloomy fall weather to be quite exciting, knowing that the hints of dying color are soon to be covered in layers and layers of fresh snowy goodness.
I took these photos at the Westmoreland sanctuary in the fall of 2009.
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Acid etched, metal “stump chairs”, designed by Israeli industrial design student Sharon Sides for her 2012 thesis at the Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem.
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I think these wood grained chairs are super chic, elegant, unique, inventive, and esthetically forward thinking. The cleverly adapted natural patterns remind me of these Bryan Nash woodblock prints in a rather cozy way.
See more pics here.
Behind the scenes video here.
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By now you may already know that I am picnic enthusiast, and although you may not know that I spend allot of time traveling, I do, and therefore have some favorite places where I like to pull over to have my lunch, hopefully with a few extra moments for some quick watercolor sketching.
Often those are my favorite moments of the day, the ones that I always look forward to.
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Image above: Fall at my favorite spot at the Westmoreland sanctuary in Westchester, NY.
Model Wang Xiao photographed wearing futuristic fashion inspired by the film “Tron” by Beijing based fashion photographer Charles Guo for Harper’s Bazaar China 2012.
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Although I have never watched the film and typically dislike sci-fi type movies and literature, I do favor futurism as a esthetic in both design and architecture, and must admit that I find these photos to be very future-chic and in many ways, quite inspiring…
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Beginning this month at the NYC Jason Jacques Gallery, see some of these and other amazing modern sculptural stoneware works by Danish ceramicist and artist Morten Løbner Espersen.
Show runs from Oct 31-Nov 30 2012.
More info here.
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Typography in general has become quite an important component of the visual arts. No longer is it only used as a descriptive narrative, but is now more often the subject of the painting, or art itself.
Images above:
1. At the 2012, Dumbo Art Festival; snapshot from the projection art light show under the Manhattan bridge. Curated by Leo Kuelbs and John Ensor Parker.
2. Part of the Werkplaats Typografie exhibit at the MoMA PS1 2012 art book fair; a typography installation by designer Ilke Gers.
One thing that stood out most to me while in Milan this summer was the popularity of neon, and how elegant, rather then punky they make the iridescent colors feel. Women’s fashion, men’s fashion, furniture, graphics, you name it, Milan simply was full of so much fun and cleverly designed neon.
First image is of William Sawaya’s neon Meteo chairs, at his Milan based furniture and design showroom, Sawaya & Moroni.
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On auction at Phillips de Pury later this month; ‘A macchie’, a 1950’s Murano glass vase designed by Italian artist and designer Fulvio Bianconi for Venini.
Auction details here.
Photo via phillipsdepury.com.
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Can you honestly think of another vase that better reminds you of New York Fashion Week? I cant!
#NYFW
My Brooklyn view of the 9/11 Tribute in Light memorial lighting up this beautiful NYC evening.
In the spirit of New York Fashion Week, here is a little fashionable DIY necklace that anyone can easily make. I had no idea that table tennis could be this much fun!
Get plingin!
For tools & materials see above.
Table Tennis balls on amazon.com or I got mine for $3.99 here.
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Instructions:
1. Carefully drill or punch holes on opposite ends of the ping pong balls.
2. Tape the cotton jewelry cord to the end of the floral-wire and trim excess tape.
3. Using any pattern you like, string your necklace using the floral-wire to easily pull the cord through.
4. Tie a double knot at the ends of your design to keep it from moving around.
5. Tie a loop at the ends of the cord and you are done.
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Ajek Deng photographed in NYC, by fashion photographer Julia Noni for Obsession Magazine, wearing Chanel, Balmain, Prada and Balenciaga with techno chic accessories. Styled by Barbra Loison.
Loving the techno chic look. Don’t you?
Picnic dinners are the best, especially when it includes yummy gourmet treats from Zabar’s, sitting on a bench in Central Park, with hints of a gentle breeze and in the company of truly good friends and lovers.
Tonight’s picnic included; rustic whole wheat bread, fresh goat cheese, fresh mozzarella, cured olives, poached salmon, spinach knishes, cheese blintzes, and a very tasty (and highly recommended) seaweed salad.
Are you picnic dinner hungry yet?
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Wearing – Zara white jeans, Mezlan brown shoes (seen here), Cole Haan Merced Duffel bag (seen here and here), and Etro pinstripe shirt.
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