the year 2015

Here & There is a project by S&W exploring speculative projections of dense cities. These maps of Manhattan look uptown from 3rd and 7th, and downtown from 3rd and 35th. They're intended to be seen at those same places, putting the viewer simultaneously above the city and in it where she stands, both looking down and looking forward.

here & there: a horizonless projection in manhattan

You will not find any bubbling lava lamps, fluffy flokati rugs, or Led Zeppelin black-light posters here. Maximilian Sinsteden’s dorm room, a tiny box in Hoyt-Bowne Hall on the bucolic campus of Drew University in Madison, New Jersey, looks more like a space fit for Thurston Howell III. But it is in fact a perfectly authentic expression of the 21-year-old college senior who was voted “preppiest in the class” at Choate Rosemary Hall and has a sincere love for Stubbs & Wootton slipper shoes and melon-colored pants. “I can’t live in a minimalist world,” says Sinsteden, who is majoring in French and art history. “For me, it’s all about eclecticism.”

via: ny magazine

Fifty years after the realization of Frank Lloyd Wright’s renowned design, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum celebrates the golden anniversary of its landmark building with the exhibition Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward, co-organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. On view from May 15 through August 23, 2009, the 50th anniversary exhibition brings together sixty-four projects designed by one of the most influential architects of the 20th century, including privately commissioned residences, civic and government buildings, religious and performance spaces, as well as unrealized urban mega-structures. Presented on the spiral ramps of Wright’s museum through a range of mediums—including more than 200 original Frank Lloyd Wright drawings, many of which are on view to the public for the first time, as well as newly commissioned models and digital animations—Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward illuminates Wright’s pioneering concepts of space and reveals the architect’s continuing relevance to contemporary design.

frank lloyd wright: from within outward

guggenheim, new york

may 15 - august 23, 2009

“mmmm! goddamn, jimmie! this is some serious gourmet shit! usually, me and vince would be happy with some freeze-dried taster's choice right, but he springs this serious gourmet shit on us! what flavor is this?”

“knock it off, julie.”

“what?”

“i don't need you to tell me how fucking good my coffee is, okay? i'm the one who buys it. i know how good it is. when bonnie goes shopping she buys shit. i buy the gourmet expensive stuff because when i drink it i want to taste it. but you know what's on my mind right now? it ain’t the coffee in my kitchen…”

Philippe Petit (the high-wire artist who walked on a tightrope across the World Trade Center in 1974), Michael Bierut (a partner at the design firm Pentagram), Joan Brierton (a historic preservation specialist), John Stern (the president of the Storm King Art Center in Mountainville, N.Y.) and Bobbie Greene McCarthy (the director of Save America’s Treasures and former deputy chief of staff to First Lady Hillary Clinton) are at Phillip Johnson’s Glass House enjoying a five-course meal that alludes to five different decades, prepared by the chef Nils Norén of the French Culinary Institute in New York.

It sounds like the beginning of a particularly highbrow joke, but in fact it was just a pleasant Friday lunch in New Canaan, Conn. Christy MacLear, the executive director of the Glass House, invited the aforementioned guests, plus a few others, to discuss the concept of “Trophy” and how it pertained to Phillip Johnson’s life, his work and the Glass House itself. The event was part of a series of “conversations” that MacLear has been organizing as a way of keeping alive the spirit of intellectual exchange that Johnson encouraged throughout his life; previous discussions have tackled topics like “Simplicity,” “Legacy” and “Solution or Sacrilege.” The exchanges are recorded and may eventually be published in book form.

from covenger + kester:

Ripe for Revival? Pictured above, in all its “Bauhaus-meets-butcher-shop” glory, is Zum Zum—the Atomic Era sausage eatery once located in the main lobby of the swanky Pan Am Building at 200 Park Avenue in Manhattan.

This wasn’t the only Zum Zum location; founder Kurt Widmer, a “master Swiss-born sausagemaker,” established a dozen or so other shops around town (on Broadway across from the Wintergarden Theater; on University Place near NYU) and elsewhere across the country (including Harvard Square). But it was definitely the coolest, quickly becoming, as the author of Take Ivy has noted (in Japanese) “the restaurant where Madison Avenue boys have a glass at lunchtime.”

Given that the menu consisted of bratwurst with sauteed onions on a caraway roll, various sausages with choice of mustard (Das Hot, Das Sweet), wienerbrod, warm potato salad, heavy on the vinegar, and large steins of imported German beer drawn from wall-mounted kegs, we would’ve been right there alongside them. Sadly, Zum Zum vanished sometime in the late 1980s (or earlier).