November 2008

Herb and Dorothy

By |2008-11-26T11:25:30-07:00November 26th, 2008|Stories|

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMuYV_qvyEk[/youtube] Via http://www.herbanddorothy.com Do you have to be a Medici or a Rockefeller to collect art? Not according to Herbert and Dorothy Vogel. This documentary film tells the extraordinary story of Herb, a postal clerk, and Dorothy, a librarian - an ordinary couple of modest means who managed to build one of the most important contemporary art collections in history. In the early 1960s, when very little attention was paid [...]

Sitooterie II – Light Sculpture in Essex, UK

By |2008-11-10T09:42:29-07:00November 10th, 2008|Architecture, Design|

The directors of the National Malus (crab-apple) Collection invited Heatherwick Studio to develop the design of a structure called the Sitooterie for their site in Essex. Derived from the Scottish, a 'sitooterie' is a small building in which to literally "sit oot". The structure is a cube punctured by over 5000 long thin windows that project from all its surfaces and lift it off the ground. The cube, which measures [...]

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