5.30.2011

shame on you philadelphia!!!!

I watched this last night on Netflix and was literally
yelling at the screen.
Embarrassing, disgusting and sad....
Like the world needed another reason to hate Philly.
(Sorry Andy!)
Watch it.

this changed my life....

I walked into my parents bedroom
one Saturday Night
and saw this.... 
Everything changed.
No shit.
(When "ad skip" starts flashing, hit that, or just wait
7 seconds like we used to do in 1979....)

5.29.2011

gerald and sara murphy: superfreaks

Gerald and Sara
La Groupe Beach
Antibes
1926

Gerald and Sara
Dancing on the beach
East Hampton
1915
(I bet it was Memorial Day....)

Sara Wilborg
1905
Hottie

Gerald in Venice
1923
Stud

Speaking of Studs....
Gerald and Picasso 
La Groupe Beach
Antibes
1923

Pablo Picasso
"The Pipes of Pan"
1923

Gerald Murphy
"Razor"
1924

Gerald Murphy
"Villa America"
1924

Gerald Murphy
"Watch"
1925

Gerald Murphy
"Doves"
1925

Gerald Murphy
"Bibliotheque"
1926

Sara and Gerald at Compte Étienne de Beaumont's
Automotive Ball
1924
Photo by Man Ray

Gerald letting his freak flag fly!
20s and 30s
Last 2 photos by Man Ray

Gerald Murphy
"Portrait"
1928
(lost)
:(

Ernest Hemingway with Sara and Gerald
Wyoming
1932

Photograph taken of Gerald in a hinged mirror.
Basel
1930

Gerald Murphy, Ginny Carpenter, Cole Porter
and Sara Murphy
Venice
1923

Cole Porter with Gerald's skull cap
and Sara's pearls.
1923
Par-Tay!

Family photos by Man Ray
1926

Funny letter, recalling a dream,
from Gerald to Douglas MacAgy
1960

Gerald and Sara
Swan Cove
East Hampton
1963

Here's to you kids!
I love me some Superfreaks!

Google these "weirdos"
if you want to know more,
Blogger made me remove all the links
I had for your research ease....

some tables

Carl Auböck
Vienna

Man,
I'm kinda in a funk right now.
I just discovered that tables aren't as sexy as chairs.
For some reason I had always thought they were.
But after digging through some old 
books from 
"Boot Island"
(Italy)
printed during the sexiest time ever 
for furniture design,
the 1950s,
(in my opinion)
I have decided that I was wrong all these years, 
and that chairs are 
way sexier.
Maybe the rest of y'all already knew that.
Thanks for keeping it a secret!

Ceasar Lacca
Milano
Leggy and brainy this one....

Fontana Arte
Milano
Curves for days.....

Carl Auböck
Vienna
Smart and practical....

John J. Keal
South Gate
Party time....

Gustavo Latis
Milano
69

Willy Vandermeeren
Brussels
Abstract and legless....

Ico and Luisa Parisi
Como
Smart and sexy....

Otto Kolb
Chicago
Brainiac....

Isamu Noguchi
Zeeland
Dangerous curves....

Giuseppe Pizzigoni
Bergamo
Outdoorsy type....

Carlo Molino
Turin
Total package, a keeper....

5.26.2011

some chairs

Here are some chairs,
most, 
most of you haven't seen before.
Yeah, I know all the 
bad asses 
out there have seen them all before,
had them all before,
but
just in case,
check it out....

Christiani and Fratino

Christiani and Fratino

Dennis Lennon

Dorothy Schindele

Dennis Lennon

Guen Iyokuma

T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings

Maurice Maritiné

Marcel Breuer

Brenner, Speyer and Prestini

Irving Sabo

Franco Albini, Luigi Colombini 
and Ezio Sgrelli

Ettore Sottsass Jr.

Davis J. Platt

Eva Zeisel

Paolo A. Chessa

S. H. Vakassian and Sons

Jean Prouvé
WRONG!
Odelberg-Olsen