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Fall 2010 Art & Exhibit Roundup
It will be hard to remember amidst all the upcoming holiday activities but here is the latest roundup of exhibitions to keep your eye on and hopefully attend this fall. These are just three that I’ve parceled out from an ongoing list previously mentioned (still time to catch a couple through Jan 2). 1) Palladio and His Legacy: A Transatlantic Journey — National Building Museum until January 9 Featuring many of Palladio’s drawings and pairing them with American examples that used the style of his architecture, like The White House, for instance. In fact there so much of his Classical ideas pervade the great buildings of American Architecture that it’s…
Mansion at O
I am finding all sorts of weirdly familiar and reminiscent things in my local newspaper this week. How strange it is to have these offshoot connections. There was an article about The Mansion on O in The Post, O, So Weird and Wonderful, but Zofia Smardz in the travel section. I could travel 20 minutes across town to be there. The odd thing for me is I have been wanting to go here for quite some time — ever since a client of mine was planning her wedding reception at this location back in the 90’s. I had never heard about this strange high-priced ($350 a night) hotel, off Dupont…
Atelier Oi’s Art Forms
After all of my interior design oriented posts last week, I thought I’d feature this picture on the cover of Interior Design Magazine. They describe it as “art forms,” which I agree but it also looks to me like a three-dimensional, hanging-from-the-ceiling mural that is fully integrated and actually “makes” the entire fantasy space. I find this enchanting. There’s more to the story here. This looks like such a happy place that I’m fully expecting fairies to go filtering across. I love the play with proportion. Here are more designs by the Switzerland firm Atelier Oi and their new headquarters in La Neuveville. Look how different this building can look…
