I am sure I was aware of the Brothers Hildebrandt before I BECAME aware of the Brothers Hildebrandt. I can recall the moment when I became aware. I was in undergraduate school and a lounge area had been turned into an art gallery. There was a Brothers Hildebrandt landscape hanging in the gallery. Those that [...]
Actually, this one, on the left, is a cake set design model. Pastry Chef Anne Heap of Pink Cake Box in Denville NJ made this cake for the birthday celebration of a television celebrity chef. I just read about Anne on a News 12 NJ blog. They have many images, and certainly Pink Cake Box [...]
Art installations are something of a conundrum to me. Sometimes they make sense, other times they fall into the category I call designer masturbation. The same if often true of couture and some furniture design that isn’t about comfort and style. In my opinion, the image at left of ights and umbrellas is amusing. It [...]
“I swallowed the stuff. For a moment I felt as if somebody had touched off a bomb inside the old bean, and was strolling down my throat with a lighted torch, and then everything seemed to get all right.” -PG Wodehouse. Carry on, Jeeves Today a touch of serendipity came my way as I was [...]
Your house looks like a set! exclaimed Mark Kruger as he stepped into the foyer of our home, a Mid Century Modern designed and built by Arthur Rigolo, a renowned schools architect, as his private home in 1952. When I first walked into the double height entrance gallery, I knew this would be my home, [...]
Our friend Lighting and Scenic Designer Cris Dopher sent an email with images of some terrific trompe l’oeil exterior murals created by artist John Pugh. He thought we might like the murals. I have always been a huge fan of murals and public art. Professionally executed, of course. I do hate crap and primitive. Perhaps [...]
As cars became part of the American landscape, designers turned to Streamline Moderne for inspiration on how to make drive-ins, auditoriums, supermarkets and movie theaters attractive to the newly developing car culture. No place in America exemplified this trend better than southern California. Developed cities on the east coast required more dense, vertical building and [...]
MILTON GLASER DRAWS & LECTURES from C. Coy on Vimeo. Hmmm, the video doesn’t seem to show up or be viewable here. Be sure to click through, the link works. This post is all about the video. I went with an iconic design instead. I’ve posted about drawing and the importance of drawing every day. [...]
Or both? Inhabitant reports of artist Don Lucho’s work; creating environmental illusions. Lucho works with cardboard and creates large scale sculptures that the public can encounter. The interactions must be amazing. We have occasionally had clients who think what we do can be simply made out of cardboard. In other words, if it can be [...]
I love the cover art from Pulp Fiction novels, like this one on the left by Ernest Chiriacka. While Pulp Fiction and the related art comes in many flavors; adventure, mystery, detective, I am especially fond of the dangerously erotic. At least as far as the art is concerned. I’m not sure I’ve ever read any. [...]