Posts tagged house

Scribe’s House Installation by Pablo Lehmann

Scheduled to debut at Art Basel Miami in December 2012 - and currently available in a variation at the NYC Rockefeller Center Anthropologie store - the studio-like apartment installation is made of browned and torn book pages. By cutting and layering, Lehmann creates texture and dimension: a collapsed bed, bookcase and picture frame all made with thousands of book pages cut into stripes are hanging from the ceiling, walls and covering the floors as well as composed in the shapes of the collapsed furniture.

Bridging Home, public art installation by Do-Ho Suh

Building off of this very safe and private concept, the artist decided to bring one specific type of home into a place where it didn’t quite belong. He shoved a replica of a Korean house into a small space between two larger homes in a Northern English City. The juxtaposition of one’s personal, safe space, located within a very foreign and impersonal environment raised questions of cultures and traditions. Mimicking old Korean architecture, the replica also served as a visual representation of the past. Home is a universal concept accepted by all cultures, but upon crossing boundaries, Suh urged his viewers to consider differences and similarities between the history of cultures.

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Observatory House, Roca Blanca, Mexico

Drawings for three rooms by Steve Lambert

Like the title says, the idea is that you’d hang this series of drawings by Steve Lambert in various rooms in your home, what a great gift!

About the work:
Whenever asked, “How long did it take you to make this?” Steve always respond, “My whole life up to that moment.” And it’s true.

I never liked the idea that someone could just buy my work. I develop ideas forever, then struggle with finding a way to execute them that makes sense, often traversing through several iterations. And then someone writes a check and that’s the end. What?

I work too hard on this stuff. Simply paying for it and hanging it on a wall is too easy. I don’t want anything I do becoming another inanimate object that decorates someone’s home. I want more. I want ramifications!

So I came up with this. This feels more like a real transaction. Yes, you get to own something I made, but you also accept some responsibility. Put this on your wall and you have to be more honest as a result. It’s more than just an image, it becomes a point of interaction with everyone who comes into your home. It’s simple ink on paper, but wherever it hangs, there’re social implications.

It’s not for everyone.

Krzywy Domek (Crooked House) shopping center in Sopot, Poland

Designed by Szotyńscy & Zaleski, the multipurpose building boasts a unique look that was inspired by the fairy tale illustrations of Jan Marcin Szancer and Per Dahlberg. Like Jantzen’s imagined works, this venue has a cartoonish appeal. It looks like an animated house, bouncing in place to a jolly tune. There’s a jovial liveliness to the place that seems very inviting.

Up by Laurent Chéhère

Sunrise House, West Indies