6.30.2012

designing dreams: modern architecture in the movies

"Snow Blind"
1924
Art Director: Joseph Urban

"Il Perfido Incanto"
1916
Art Director: Enrico Prampolini

"Le Secret de Rosette Lambert"
1920
Art Director: Robert Mallet-Stevens

"L'Inhumaine"
1924
Art Directors (this set): 
Clause Autant-Lara and Alberto Cavalcanti 

"L'Inhumaine"
1924
Art Director: (this set): Robert Mallet-Stevens

"L'Inhumaine"
1924
Art Director: (this set): Robert Mallet-Stevens

"L'Inhumaine"
1924
Art Director: (this set): Fernand Léger

"Le Vertige"
(Actor Jaque Catelain pictured.)
1926
Art Directors: Robert Mallet-Stevens, 
Lucien Aguettand, André Lurcat
and Robert and Sonia Delaunay

"Le Vertige"
1926
Art Directors: Robert Mallet-Stevens, Lucien Aguettand, 
André Lurcat
and Robert and Sonia Delaunay

"L'Argent"
(Actors Pierre Alcover and Brigitte Helm pictured.)
1928
Art Directors: Lazre Meerson and Andree Barsacq

"Le P'tit Parigot"
1926
Art Directors: Robert and Sonia Delaunay

"Les Nouveaux Messiers"
1928
Art Director: Lazre Meerson

"Angst"
1928
Art Director: Franz Schroedter

"Trouble in Paradise"
1932
Supervisory Art Director: Hans Dreier

"Men Must Fight"
1933
Supervisory Art Director: Cedric Gibbons

"The Easiest Way"
1931
Supervisory Art Director: Cedric Gibbons

"Male and Female"
1919
 Art Director: Wilfred Buckland

"Gentlemen of the Press"
1929
Art Director: William Saulter

"Rackety Rax"
1932
Art Director: Gordon Wiles

"Broadway"
1929
 Art Director: Charles D. Hall

"Grand Hotel"
1932
Supervisory Art Director: Cedric Gibbons;
Unit Art Director: Alexander Toluboff

"The Tunnel"
1935
Art Director: Ernö Metzner

"Things to Come"
 1936
Art Director: Vincent Korda

"The Fountainhead"
1949
Architectural Delineator: Charles Bonestell

"The Fountainhead"
1949
Art Director: Edward Carrere

"The Fountainhead"
1949
Art Director: Edward Carrere

All images from:
"Designing Dreams: Modern Architecture in the Movies"
by Dandy Don Albrecht
1986

6.28.2012

obscure and surreal: mary reynolds

Man Ray
"Photograph of Mary Reynolds"
1930

I love when I "discover"
a missing link to the puzzles of the past.
Bookbinder and surrealist muse Mary Reynolds is one of 
those missing links for me.
I snagged this book a few years ago 
and then promptly "lost" it in the book jungle
that is my apartment.
Well, 
once lost 
and now rediscovered,
both the book 
and Mary!

Man Ray
"Photograph of Mary Reynolds and Marcel Duchamp"
n.d.

Man Ray
"Photograph of Mary Reynolds"
c. 1930s

Constantin Brancusi,
Marcel Duchamp and Mary Reynolds in
Villefranche, France.
1929

Alexander Calder
"Mary Reynolds with Her Cats"
1955

Marcel Duchamp
Bookplate designed by Marcel for the 
Mary Reynolds Collection.
c. 1950s (?)

Mary Reynolds
"The Knowledge of God or the Creation of Man"
by Jean Pierre Brisset
Bufo Toad skin cover
n.d.

Mary Reynolds
"A Harsh Winter"
by Raymond Queneau
Goatskin with broken thermometer
1939

Mary Reynolds
"The Free Hands"
Drawings by Man Ray, poems by Paul Eluard
Goatskin and kid gloves
1937

Mary Reynolds
"Ubu Cocu Restored to its Integrity 
as it was Presented 
by the Puppets 
of the Theater Des Phyances"
by Alfred Jarry
Goatskin and calf skin
1944

Mary Reynolds
"Hebdomeros"
By Giorgio de Chirico
Goatskin and leather
1929

Mary Reynolds
"The Red and the White [Lucien Leuwen]"
by Stendhal
Goatskin and vellum
1929

Mary Reynolds and Marcel Duchamp
"King Ubu: Play in Five Acts"
by Alfred Jarry
Goatskin and various leathers
1921

Mary Reynolds
"Mental Hospital"
by Jean Cocteau
Goatskin and vellum
1926

Mary Reynolds
"Saint Glinglin"
Goatskin with broken pottery cup handle
1948

All images from:
'Mary Reynolds and the Spirit of Surrealism"
The Art Institute of Chicago
Museum Studies
Volume 22, No.2
1996

6.26.2012

upstate instagramin'

Penn Station still life....

My obsession with
shows no sign of letting up!
I don't even carry my other cameras anymore!
Once again, sorry for the repeats,
for those of you who follow me
@mondoblogo

So, I headed Upstate for a much needed break
from the inferno of NYC. 
This is the mighty Hudson from 
my train car looking
very monochrome and serene....

I can never resist a good bridge shot....

Sudden cRaZy storm!
Hudson got nailed,
trees down everywhere, no power,
it apparently was a tornado or a microburst.

Calm after the storm....

Detail of a farm outbuilding at the wedding
we headed to right after I got of off the train.

Chair detail at the wedding.

Catskill chair

The joyful groom and his entourage....

The band was fantastic. This was the procession
down to the river for the ceremony.
It was about a mile walk 
and they played the whole way down.

Lush

Happy Garage

Before the ceremony Stuyvesant
got in some river tennis ball time.

Sunset after the ceremony.
Full blown "Hudson River School" moment.

M&D house detail....

FLW and Albers were my only guest house 
companions, but I wasn't complaining....

I had to break out the wool blanket!
The day before it had been 99 in the City,
now it was 50 in Hillsdale!

Barwa morning....

Old VKG lounge.

Time for some eggs!


On to Mark's shop. Great Warren McArthur
door handles.

Huge and incredible
Leza McVey hooked rug.

Mark's garage. Love it....

Back in the house now with a Bruce Goff
architectural detail.

One man's treasure....

Robo sink!

"Ballon" chandelier in blown glass.
Fantastic.

Time for Stuyvie's nap.

Time for my nap on a sea of leather....

Painting studio detail.
Love those curtains, they looked like faux plywood.

Vintage Robert Mapplethorpe photo
of Patty Smith.

Pond puppy at sunset....

Abandoned blue bird's egg.

Ceiling detail in the great room.

Next day art/not art barn find.

Visting friends.

Behind the green door handle....

Hudson architectural detail taken while antique shopping.

"Modern Art"

I love this for sooo many reasons....

Amazingly happy succulents in a plumbing store window.

Not sure why this is so funny to me....

Local folk artist's work.

Apocalyptic kitty in a street mural.

After a long afternoon of pounding the pavement
it was time for a strawberry Shandy
at a friend's killer Victorian home.

Hudson Train station, time to head back....
:(

Back to Da 'Hatt....

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