are you an artist? BOYCOTT TARGET

 I am so fed up with people 

RIPPING OFF

artists I know.
The latest and most egregious example 

is happening now to an artist that I am 

having a show with during ICFF/Design Week 

here in NYC,

Doug Johnston.

Anthropology already did it once,

surprise surprise,

but at least they had the decency to actually buy things from Doug in the past.

But this Target thing is just too much.

I know,
it happens all the time,

but rarely in the design world is it
THIS BLATANT.

The Fashion World,
forget about it, 

but that business works on a seasonal basis and is a
House of Incest anyway,

but I digress....

If you are an artist, and believe in honesty and integrity,

please

boycott Target.

If I had more time on my hands I would start a 

petition

"Artists against Target"

but I will leave that for someone else.

So stop reading my babble,

and look at 

Doug's work below and the Target rip-off,

I would go as far as to call it a 

fake,

and because of that

FUCK YOU TARGET!

Please post on

Target's Facebook 

page if you have as much of a problem 

with this as I do.

Also,

post this link:

http://hawktrainer.tumblr.com/post/44158995428/i-began-creating-baskets-bags-and-sculptural

 in the comments section

of their posts so it will stay up longer and be more visible.

I did it so many times they 

blocked me for 

'spamming'!

HA!

Oh yeah,

and 

FUCK

TARGET

!

rené herbst that bungee cord dude

You know the chair.

You know it so well I'm not even going to show it to you.

But do you know the man behind it?

Mostly likely not,

so if you do, 

you are in good luck,

because you're not gonna learn anything new here

since my god dammed book is all in French.

But the learnin' that goes on at 

MONDOBLOGO

is the picture book learnin',

not no book learnin' book learnin'.

You know what I mean?

So get ready to learn all about

Monsieur Herbst in pictures,

and pictures only.

Ok,

there will be some titles,

 but even those are in French,

so don't expect much learning there either.

I blame my hippy pubic school loving parents for my lack of 

French language skills,

that and

Mrs. Paine 

(yes, that was her name)

La Bitch!

Is that René?

Ouh, not a looker....

Ok,

definitely not a 

#bangabledudesinhistory

huh Roddy?

Ouch!

It hurts just looking at him....

Not so bad here.

I guess he got better with age, just like a fine Pétrus.

René Herbst

Salon des Artistes Décorateurs

1928

René Herbst

Salon d'Automne 

1936

I coulda sold the shit out of that to MoMA,

and as long as we are talking about MoMA,

MoMA, 

why did you have to act like every other museum

and take

FUCKING FOEVER

to NOT pay me yet?

Love you guys,

 but damn, its like a bad joke

in your Ye Olde Victorian check writing department....

René Herbst

Hôtel Particulier du Prince Aga Khan

1930

René Herbst

Salon d'Automne 

1934

Now if this is René,

from the back, 

then we can put a bag on it

and get to business....

René Herbst

Entrée de l'appartement de M. Peissi

Directeur de l'O.T.U.A.

1929

René Herbst

Stand de l' O.T.U.A.

c. 1933

René Herbst

Grand Hall du Plais de la Publicité

l'Exposition des Arts et Techniques

Paris

1937

René Herbst

Projets Gouachés des stands O.T.U.A.

de Göteborg et Osaka

1954

René Herbst

Stand O.T.U.A.

1954

René Herbst

Fauteuil de Repos, Acier Laqué et Sandows

Réédition Formes Nouvelles

1930

René Herbst

Chaise en Tube de Métal Chromé, 

Assise et Dossier en Sandow.

1930

René Herbst

Chaise Longue en Tube de Métal Chromé, 

Assise et Dossier en Sandow

Réédition Formes Nouvelles

1930

René Herbst

Tabouret en Tube d'Acier Chromé, Assise Sandows

Réédition Formes Nouvelles

1930

René Herbst

Fauteuil Sandows et Tube Chrome

1933

I am so such of writing in French....

so,

Above are a bunch of cool ass modernist chairs

by René Herbst

from 1935, 1936, 1948 and 1950.

Look at the on on the top left,

HOLY SHIT!

The rest are ok, but nothing special....

How was that?

Better than the French right?

No?

Ok,

back to French....

René Herbst

Fauteuil Sandows, Accoudoirs en Bois Verni

1930

 René Herbst

Fauteuil  en Tube Laqué, Coussin de Couir

1928

René Herbst

by

Solange Goguel

Editions Du Regard

1990

Buy it, 

big and thick and full of goodness,

just like we like them...

books that is!

houses that 70s architects lived in

Paolo Leoni

Ponza, Italy

Who says the 70s sucked?

I loved the 70s!

(What I remember of it, I was little.)

These images are from the book

"houses architects live in"

by Barabara Plumb.

(You can buy one on Amazon for 16 cents!)

Here are few of my favs:

Von Sengen

Near Saint Moritz, Switzerland

Geroloma Gola

Milano, Italy

Giancarlo Bicocchi

Follonica, Italy

Wendell Lovett

Bellevue, Washington

Winthrop Faulkner

Middleburg, Virginia

Louis Barragan

Mexico City, Mexico

William J. Conklin

New York, New York

Luigi Capriolo and Jack Popek

Milano, Italy

Claudio Dini

Milano, Italy

Alberto Seassaro

Camogli. Italy

Barton Choy

Los Angeles, California

Hanford Yang

New York, New York

Romano Juvara

Milano. Italy

Gae Aulenti

Milano, Italy

Robert Sobel

Houston, Texas

William Morgan

Atlantic Beach, Florida

Ulrich Franzen

New York, New York

Anne and Tony Woolner

New Salem, New York

Christopher H. L. Owen

Block Island, Rhode Island

 Norman Jaffe

Bridgehampton, New York

Franco Tartaglino Mazzucchelli

Milano, Italy

Peter Chermayeff

Boston, Massachusetts

James Lambeth

Fayetteville, Arkansas

WTF?