Date posted: April 27, 2008

Alphaville, Numbered Boxes and Printed Chairs

Last week I wrote that while I can appreciate innovative design I like to have as little "stuff" as possible. A designer friend of mine sent me a picture of these numbered toolbox drawer units by Pietro Arosio adding that he was sure I'd love them. He was right. I do. But of course they're pretty modernist.

Then this weekend I saw the Solid C2 chair by Patrick Jouin in the Financial Times House & Home. Yes, I do browse every page, you never know, there might be something of interest. It's a pretty awesome chair and of course would look best in a mostly empty modernist room. It was created using a technology called rapid manufacturing, which is some sort of 3D printing.

The Solid C2 chair led me on to another chair, the Veryround, designed by Louise Campbell and based on a similar technique. What is most interesting about this technology is that it is equally expensive to create 100 identical products as it is to create 100 completely different ones.

In The New York Times Andrea Stillman, former assistant to Ansel Adams, talks about his photos of Yosemite.

Yosemite National Park is one of the most awesome places I’ve visited and the hike to the top of Vernal Fall via the Mist Trail was amazing. I was there early May so the water flow was at full force. I was soaking wet when I reached the top, but standing there with the water falling down less than two feet away is unbeatable. I’d love to go back one day to see more of the park. Of course I want to climb to the top of Glacier Point.

Über productive artist Scott Teplin who appears to be drawing 24 hours per day has a solo show of his drawings inspired by Jean-Luc Godard's Alphaville at the Adam Baumgold Gallery in New York from May 1-June 7, 2008. He also has time to maintain a blog.

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