basement remodel: more demo

I'm sure Lottie is thinking wtf are you guys doing to my basement!?

what's new at the ranch

a) little piece of swedish pottery.
b) my new kitchen corner... yellow baking dish (thank you haus proud!), dansk pitcher, tall haeger vase (an oldie but a goodie).
c) danish blue glass vase.

basement remodel update: demo

Old moldy drywall is gone. Drop ceiling tiles are gone. Linoleum floor removed. The pool table has become Mark's work bench. Next up...treat interior concrete block foundation to control moisture and prevent mold. Excavate the patio to see where sump pump exits from house - it might need to be extended. Then frame up can begin for new walls.

danish chairs and lacy dogs

Damon Locks and Eve Fineman

Date: Friday, March 19, 2010
Time: 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: Heaven Gallery - 1550 N Milwaukee, 2nd fl, Chicago IL

The Invisible City is a joint show by architect/furniture designer Eve Fineman and artist Damon Locks, both showing individual bodies of new work. Though different in medium and expression, the work that they do ideologically crosses over in many ways.

As a designer and design educator, Eve Fineman approaches her work with a social consciousness. Her current project, a sustainable furniture system called Interstice, incorporates an innovative use of materials and processes. All of the pieces in her designs can be interchanged, reconfigured or melted down and reused, presenting a closed-loop system of manufacture.

Artist Damon Locks is a Printmaker that works with digital printing, silkscreen and relief printing. His pieces stem from a desire to explore and comment on ideas of culture and community. The work has aspects of literal political intent but it also displays a looseness and abstraction that enlivens the issues at hand.
http://damonlocks.com/art/index.php?/project/a-school-complexion/

The Invisible City speaks to unrealized potential, the underground, the marginalized, and the spaces in-between. This show presents two different approaches toward bringing the otherwise unseen and unimagined into focus. The Invisible City is about dualities: noisy and quiet, questions and answers, seen and unseen. As these opposing elements are placed in each others’ proximity, the combined works offer a new way of looking at what already exists.

There will be a musical performance by Spectronix (Dan Bitney) and A Grape Dope (John Herndon).

Wallpaper May/June 1997

With the basement remodel in full swing, I've been trying to convince myself to throw out old stuff that I just do not need to store down there. But my magazines... nope. I can't throw them out. What if I need to go back to that issue of Dwell from 2001? The May/June 1997 issue of Wallpaper is partially to blame for my Scandinavian furniture obsession. I fell in love with everything in this featured Stockholm home. I needed this furniture and pottery. I can remember thinking back then how amazing it would be if I could EVER live in a place like this. Oh Swedish flat, you still look so good to me. Even after all these years...






I ended up getting my bangs cut back in '97 after looking at all the cute models with their bangs. A highly influential issue in so many ways.

Vessel Architectural Pottery

I highly doubt that I'll ever have $1700 bucks to drop on the Vessel Peanut Planter but I can dream, right?




http://www.architecturalpottery.com/gallery1.htm