Music
Christmas Week
With just two days before Christmas, I thought I’d continue with a mix of Christmas oriented murals, wintry scenes and music. I usually don’t like modern murals with biblical or religious oriented murals, but these are very well done by Keith Goodson for Champions Church in Winter Haven, Florida. He seems to have found the right balance between realism and stylistic portrayal that appears alive and dynamic. Another Christmas-like mention for this week would have to be the cover of The Washington Post‘s Book World, which makes a comeback at this time annually, whereas it used to be a regular Sunday section feature but was dropped in 2009. I thought…
- Decor, Design, Functional Art, Kick-Start the Weekend, Music, Slipcovers for Your Walls (casart blog)
A Little Floor Fun
Keeping with the floor design concept of the last post, here are some other ideas to really mix up your decor while thinking of the floor as a decorative element. This is a great, out of the box idea playing up on concentric circles from DeWorld. I just saw this one over the weekend at the Washington DC Design Center in their Design House, which is closing this week. This floor is by Kelley Proxmire. It’s based on a David Hicks design. It’s painted, eco-friendly bamboo flooring, which has some cushion to it. I absolutely love it. Click here to read more on casartblog regarding a post about the Interior…
- Architecture, Creative Process, Culture, Design, Education, Everyday, Kick-Start the Weekend, Music, New Orleans, Performance, Uncategorized
Guédelon
I became completely curious when I first learned of this fascinating endeavor to build a new Medieval Guédelon Castle in the town of Treigny, in Burgundy, France. The work was to simulate original Medieval construction methods. Even the workers must wear Medieval clothes to closely mimic how the labor was affected by all the details. The work was conceived in 1996 and began in 1998, when a French landowner, Michel Guyot , who happens to own a real St. Fargeau castle, wondered what if a new Medieval castle could be build from scratch the way castles were originally constructed. The project holds academic weight to give insight into Medieval Times.…
