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Ton <\/p> A ROYAL FLUSH

\u2018It\u2019s almost a clich\u00e9 that rock and roll musicians go for the fantasy, the gothic\u2019 says Tom, a musician and artist who moved to the Royal Victoria Patriotic Building in the late 1980s. The former asylum was in the process of... <\/p><\/span> <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Ton <\/p> A PIECE OF BRIGHT PINK IS A GIFT FROM GOD

'Apart from the obvious things that look like a gorilla or a clown\u2019s head, most of the figures are taken from antiquity and pre-history', says Rory McCormack, a fisherman who has been working off of Brighton beach for over 20 years. We are standing in the enclosure... <\/p><\/span> <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Tank <\/p> SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY

In the final episode of season three of Selling Sunset, realtor and \u201cgothic Barbie\u201d Christine Quinn shows Karamo Brown from Queer Eye around a Richard Neutra house in Los Angeles. Selling Sunset is a reality television show that follows lives of the agents... <\/p><\/span> <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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PIN\u2014UP <\/p> CHASING THE VANISHING POINT

\u201cI find the term \u2018glass artist\u2019 frustrating,\u201d says sculptor Miranda Keyes. \u201cI think the binary nature of describing my work as \u2018glass art\u2019 ties in with a real ambivalence about the material. Glass isn\u2019t taken seriously, maybe because it's so seductive.\u201d <\/p><\/span> <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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PIN\u2014UP <\/p> EXHIBITIONS AS THEATRE, MATERIAL AS CHARACTER

\u201cThis moment of calm is incredible,\u201d says Joseph Grima, co-founder of Alcova Milano, sitting in the living room of Villa Bagatti Valsecchi, where a storm has temporarily lifted the crowds from the bustling exhibition. Since Grima co-founded... <\/p><\/span> <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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PIN\u2014UP <\/p> WET N WILD: FOUNTAINEERING WITH SOFT BAROQUE

Domaine de Boisbuchet, the international research center for design and architecture, sits at the end of a long, winding country lane in southwest France. To get there, you pass a sign directing you towards \u201cTrauma\u201d, a riverside hamlet... <\/p><\/span> <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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World of Interiors <\/p> Zeyrek \u00c7inili Hamam

In 2010, real estate company the Marmara Group bought the Zeyrek \u00c7inili Hamam site planning to restore and open the hamam within three years, but \u201cit became like an excavation as we discovered layers, and all these stories... <\/p><\/span> <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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World of Interiors <\/p> PARAVENTI \u2014 FONDAZIONE PRADA

\u2018Paraventi\u2019, plural for \u2018paravento\u2019, describes an object that protects, and provides shelter from the wind. A folding screen that acts as a barrier, a room divider, a facade that invites intimacy while performing to those outside of its embrace... <\/p><\/span> <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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World of Interiors <\/p> THE GHYCZY HOUSE

On an autumn evening in 1971, furniture and product designer Peter Ghyczy sat in the overgrown garden of an abandoned 16th century castle in the Netherlands. It had belonged to his wife, Barbara Ghyczy\u2019s family for three centuries, but it was run down, with water leaking in, and sheep roaming through the garden... <\/p><\/span> <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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PIN\u2014UP <\/p> THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME

\u201cParis is at the heart of a lot of artistic and intellectual thought; it has been for centuries. The history of museums, of making and showing artisanal crafts, is so potent here. To do something in the middle of the city, in the Jardin des Tuileries... <\/p><\/span> <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Aperture<\/p>ALICE RAWSTHORN

Design writer and critic Alice Rawsthorn has always counted L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Moholy-Nagy as one of her heroes. Her book Design as an Attitude draws its title from Moholy-Nagy\u2019s Vision in Motion, where he argued for the connections between art and life, and how design and the profession of the designer \u201chas to be transformed from...\"<\/p><\/span> <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Source Type <\/p> A LIVING IMAGE

Cecil B. DeMille\u2019s 1923 film The Ten Commandments opens with the hazy image of a sphinx\u2019s head. One of the Pharaoh's workers stands in front of it, possibly on the sphinx\u2019s feet, whipping the people tasked with pulling the statue across the shot, from one side of the Pharaoh\u2019s temple to the other. <\/p><\/span> <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Wallpaper <\/p> THE SPIRITS OF PAIMIO

Aino and Alvar Aalto\u2019s \u201ccathedral to health\u201d, completed in 1933, was designed to provide the breathing space, support, and holistic care required to rehabilitate tuberculosis patients before the development of a medical treatment and cure... <\/p><\/span> <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Port <\/p> THE NORTH AMERICAN PAVILION

\u201cAs in most exhibitions, it was a sequence of unplanned events that led to the show happening\u201d, Alex Tieghi-Walker tells me from his apartment in New York, as he smokes a \u201ccalming\u201d cigarette after a rude awakening from his building\u2019s superintendent... <\/p><\/span> <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Port <\/p> COOKING SECTIONS: LEAVE ROOM FOR PUDDING

Muhallebici \u2014\u00a0pudding shops named after an Ottoman speciality of shredded chicken thickened with rice water, sprinkled in sugar and rose water \u2014\u00a0serve profiteroles, baklava, s\u00fctla\u00e7 (rice pudding, with a burnt top), and kaymak (a rolled, sour, clotted cream) throughout Istanbul. They are traditionally made with buffalo milk... <\/p><\/span> <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Maharam Stories<\/p>NIKI DE SAINT PHALLE'S TAROT GARDEN

In Italy, near the coast where Tuscany meets Lazio, a gathering of sparkling mosaics protrudes through the treetops on the hills surrounding the village of Capalbio. A pink and blue sphinx with long hair, a crown, and kaleidoscopic breasts; a striped figure holding a pair of scales; and a silver-headed being with a second face...<\/p><\/span> <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Maharam Stories<\/p>Cinzia Ruggeri

Straddling fashion, architecture, interior and furniture design, performance, sculpture, and print, Italian designer Cinzia Ruggeri imbued her surrealist works with a playful, experimental, provocative energy infused with elegance and glamor. Whether presenting a mirror with arms that reach out in an embrace or a dress shaped like a flight of stairs...<\/p><\/span> <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Maharam Stories<\/p>CHARLOTTE PERRIAND'S LES ARCS

Les Arcs, a ski resort in the Savoie region of France, mostly disappears into its surroundings. Hotels and apartments lean into and cantilever out from the mountainside. Building levels are staggered and clusters of chalets follow the contours of the slopes.<\/p><\/span> <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Maharam Stories<\/p>A HOUSE BUILT OUT OF CARPETS

In The Principle of Cladding, one of many polemics by Adolf Loos, the Austrian architect defined the profession\u2019s task as \u201cproviding a warm and liveable space\u201d. One evolving from the tradition of the coverings of early built structures \u2014 made from animal skins or textiles. \u201cCarpets are warm and liveable\u201d... <\/p><\/span> <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Maharam Stories<\/p>BETTY WOODMAN

Betty Woodman\u2019s first foray into ceramics was a high school pottery class, which set off a career-long relationship with clay, moving from the potential of functional pottery \u2014 \u201cthe cup you drink from\u2026 can change your life!\u201d \u2014\u00a0to the abstracted vessels of her later work.<\/p><\/span> <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Maharam Stories<\/p>MARC CAMILLE CHAIMOWICZ'S MISE-EN-SC\u00c8NE

In 2018, after almost 40 years of living and working there, Marc Camille Chaimowicz moved out of his south London flat. Set on the top floor of Hayes Court, it was decorated in his own wallpapers, with lamps, room dividers, and curtains made or adapted in the same way that Chaimowicz builds up environments...<\/p><\/span> <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Elephant<\/p>IMITATION AND AMBIGUITY

Shanzhai Lyric had intended on \u201ctracing the pathway of a shanzhai T-shirt\u201d, with visits to informal markets in South China, and the Museum of Counterfeiting in Paris, but as was the theme of 2020, \u201call our plans were cancelled\u201d. Founded by Ming Lin and Alexandra Tarkovsky in 2015, their research practice started...<\/p><\/span> <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Emergent<\/p>\"ARE THEY ALL EQUALLY REPULSIVE?\"

'While New York was cool, Chicago was hot', is the short answer Suellen Rocca regularly gave to the question of the difference between New York\u2019s Pop and Chicago\u2019s Imagism. While Pop Art was deadpan, the work of the Chicago Imagists...<\/p><\/span> <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Emergent<\/p>FOLLOWING A FUNCTIONAL IDEA IS FINE

In 2019, at a New York museum building due renovation, Gaetano Pesce performed a chair. Pesce and a group of collaborators worked among an installation of his Brooklyn studio, transplanted for the first exhibition at Salon 94\u2019s new space, after moving from its long-time set-up<\/p><\/span> <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Emergent<\/p>MARIE ANTOINETTE IN A HIGH-RISE APARTMENT

\u201cOrnament, function, unlikely colour palettes, impulsive design choices, and juxtapositions of elements from contrasting eras and cultures all come together to create a kind of folk architecture. It\u2019s fresh...<\/p><\/span> <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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This is Badland <\/p> MAKING SOMETHING OUT OF NOTHING

On Istanbul\u2019s Golden Horn, bal\u0131k ekmek or \u2018fish bread\u2019 has been sold since the 1800s. A piece of grilled whitefish (typically mackerel) is served in white bread, with white onion, parsley, pul biber, salt and lemon juice, which, more recently, has often stood in squeezy bottles on low, plastic tables, beside grand, decorated boats... <\/p><\/span> <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Chateau International: R\u00e9cit <\/p> Eau!

The \u2018dancing\u2019 fountain was first described by Hero of Alexandria, a mathematician and engineer from Roman Egypt: \u201cA bird made to whistle by flowing water. A trumpet sounded by flowing water. Birds made to sing and be silent alternately by flowing water.\u201d <\/p><\/span> <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The Plant <\/p> OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB

In 2012, at San Diego\u2019s annual Fourth of July \u2018Big Bay Boom\u2019, all the fireworks went off at once. What was meant to be an 18 minute display, was over in 15 seconds; the rockets, fountains, brocade crowns, strobes and comets launching... <\/p><\/span> <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Schloss Hollenegg for Design <\/p> The Will to Bloom

\u201cI went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately\u201d, wrote Henry David Thoreau in his 1854 book, Walden. His life at the cabin by Walden Pond is often romanticised and celebrated as a thoughtful, honourable choice. He abandoned the stresses of productivity, social pressures and the shallow obsession with the accumulation of stuff <\/p><\/span> <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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PIN\u2014UP <\/p> Thriving, Puckering, Adoring, Warping, Glowing, Scorching: Soft Baroque\u2019s Sun City

Tanning salons \u2014 Eternal Summer, Brazil Bronze, Healthy Glow, Sun City \u2014 and their offerings \u2014 sprays and sun-bed sessions in shades of \u2018Exotic Dancer\u2019, \u2018WASP Housewife\u2019, \u2018Skinny Tan\u2019, or \u2018Chocolate Brown\u2019 (\u201cgreat for body builders and ballroom dancers!\u201d) \u2014\u00a0rose in popularity through the 1970s and 80s <\/p><\/span> <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Chateau International <\/p> Dope and Diamonds: A Lana Del Rey Reader

Lana is variously lethargic and confrontational, vulgar yet deeply sensitive. Her contradictions are rehearsed and precise. She also represents a nuanced, vulnerable and flawed femininity rarely explored in contemporary pop, exposing the emptiness and hypocrisy of sloganistic corporate feminism... <\/p><\/span> <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Occasional Table: Distributed <\/p> Life is Good and Good For You in New York

It\u2019s dry with a dash of satire \u2013 knowing and sarcastic, without losing the magic of the unreal. Gossip Girl embraced the truth of our never really leaving high school, and festooned it with the perks of adulthood... <\/p><\/span> <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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This is Badland <\/p> In an elegant beach-front setting

BODRUM - An archaeology of street media; signage, translation and interpretation; architectural simulation; design vernaculars and improvisations. <\/p><\/span> <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Port <\/p> The flexible radicality of the Camaleonda

Camaleonda is a portmanteau of camaleonte, meaning chameleon, and onda, meaning wave; two bodies that shift and change according to the conditions of their environment. The Camaleonda sofa... <\/p><\/span> <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Port <\/p> Formal Poetry: Commemorating Carlo Scarpa\u2019s Brion Cemetery

Giuseppe Brion, the founder of Brionvega \u2013 the electronics company famous for the Cubo television \u2013 died in 1968. His wife Onorina, wanting to memorialise her husband, extended the family plot at the local cemetery... <\/p><\/span> <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Maharam Stories <\/p> A State of National Recline

Eero Saarinen had been experimenting with the idea of conversation pits for a few years when he received a commission from industrialist J. Irwin Miller to design a family home in Columbus, Indiana, in 1953... <\/p><\/span> <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Port <\/p> Anti-Morality Tales: Famous Artists from Chicago at Milan\u2019s Fondazione Prada

Artist and curator Don Baum had been teaching at Chicago\u2019s Hyde Park Art Center for close to a decade when he started exhibiting the work of under-represented Chicago artists. It was the early 1960s and... <\/p><\/span> <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billiemuraben.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billiemuraben.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billiemuraben.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billiemuraben.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billiemuraben.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.billiemuraben.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20,"href":"http:\/\/www.billiemuraben.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions\/20"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billiemuraben.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}