Archive for May, 2009
Deux the [Diamond] Dog
Mixing It Up with Muuto
Kristian Byrge and Peter Bonnén got a lot of muutos. They've realized a candelabra skinned in rubber, a "cordless" bone china lamp lit by oil, and a storage system compiled of a group of fiber tubes that can be endlessly reconfigured.
Go Underground with “The Reptile” Puppetry
If you're in L.A. and can still score a ticket to one of the handful of day and evening performances left through Sunday night of "The Reptile Under the Flowers," do.
ICFF and the NYC Designathon
Great Scott! Getting a “Handel” on High Style-Low Cost Entertaining
Be Right Back!
Sale Away: Decadestwo Does NYC
The big score this weekend is all in the numbers: 3,000 miles from home, 1,500 designers pieces and three days and counting.
Billed as a taste of “D2 in the City,” Decadestwo owner Christos Garkinos and his team have journeyed from L.A.
Tonight: LA on the Runway. A New Era?
Drew Barrymore Whips it Out
Street Ahead
Tauromania: Blanca and Rafael
HAPPY BIRTHDAY wishes go out today to two members of the A+R family:
BLANCA APODACA — Painter, children's book illustrator and writer, singer, songwriter, musician, snappy dancer, goof ball and sister extraordinaire!
Food+Wine Gets Juicy
As part of her "Cocktail Chic" roundup in the newest Food+Wine Magazine, columnist Megan Krigbaum featured the Juicy drinking glasses Lotta Odelius designed for fellow Swedes Sagaform.
Big thank you goes to our pal Elizabeth Anderson-Kempe who brought the Juicy collection to our radar, and east coast customer Stella who gave us the heads up on this surprise feature.
Daily Candy is Sweet on Us
Ahh, the power of the media…the power of Daily Candy. Today's EVERYWHERE edition of DC's The Weekend Guide leads off with none other than an A+R exclusive: Building Brick Candle.
Noche de Gary Baseman
The pretext was, in Gary Baseman's words, "to celebrate the beauty of the bittersweetness of life." But La Noche de la Fusión, Saturday night's over-the-top opening of the pop surrealist's largest solo exhibition, celebrated the beauty of life, full stop.
Citizen Revealed: Philip Wood Logs On
San Francisco-based curator-creator Philip Wood is a man about design, and a man about the world. His long-running lab Citizen Citizen has realized many an ingenious concept by the likes of Tobias Wong and FredriksonStallard (and which we've been only too thrilled to offer at A+R).
Tonight: Gary Baseman Unleashed!
Globetrotting Gary Baseman marks his return to L.A. with his grandest exhibition yet. Opening tonight at Corey Helford Gallery in Culver City, La Noche de la Fusión showcases more than 50 works, including a four-foot sculpture of his entirely new character, the Enlightened Chou, as well as a carnival-like atmosphere replete with costumes created just for the evening by five-time Emmy nominated designer Wendy Daku.
The End is Near: Get Your Planet-Saving Frocks!
The Trasteverine cowl neck sheath and Michael Angel taffeta gown are going for a song. So all of you chic ecowarriors, it's time to raise those voices and auction bids as the 11th hour nears–that would be exactly 6 p.m.