It’s been a few weeks since opening the store and I’ve finally managed to take some pictures of the space. The inventory has been all sorts of different ways with the coming and going of new items, but here’s this moment at Arc, as long as it lasts.
Always repeating the mantra, If you believe in something hard enough it will happen… and continuing to take this notion to the furthest reaching levels of actually speaking as if it’s already happening, here’s some of the most dreamy homes and interiors that I would like to more than imagine for myself. These are the places that help you imagine, a place to rest in before you make it to the one you’re meant to live in. It’s nice to live in the photographs, even for a moment.
The image above far surpasses any vision I could have ever come up with for my future-life. Coming across the image allowed my mind to expand to some even deeper reaches of possibility.
I recently talked about my e-mail with a friend and Bilbao, Frank Gehry etc. I’ve recently moved to Los Angeles from New York and have been enjoying all the “new” architecture and experiencing nature for the first time in years. I visited Moca and got a lemonade from a stand they have nearby and walked down the block to the Disney Concert Hall. You’ll have to excuse my cliché landmark photography but I have to say that the building designed by Frank Gehry gives you this very unusual feeling. There’s a staircase leading up to a very secluded garden with amazing views of the surrounding architecture. There’s places to sit and soak up the sun reflecting off of the massive metal curvature and listen to the fountain made of crushed pieces of china. LA, 1
Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum.
I received an e-mail recently from an Austrian artist friend, Kasper Kovitz. He’s been spending some time in Spain and was sending his hellos from Bilbao, where that not-so-good collection is displayed inside the Frank Gehry Guggenheim. He was thinking of the city’s expansion since that molded metal masterpiece of architectural invention was completed. He was telling me that the urban planning of the town was right up there with cities of the Persian Gulf like Abu Dhabi and Dubai. “It’s an interesting city, between beautiful and gritty and obviously very successful at reinventing itself through signature buildings,” he explained. It’s interesting how significant architectural feats can unite and alter a city and at the same time separate it from its own cultural history and still be widely acceptable. It feels like we’re living in a time where new architecture has no connection to a culture or time period. The most extreme visions, ie. Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim in Bilbao, of the future are planted and rooted into a city richer and older than any Los Angeles intersection could ever imagine. Somehow the building is allowed to grow and while it may never blend aesthetically, it does find a way to become accepted by the people who live and work around it, even if they hate it at first. I can only imagine what people will think about our culture hundreds of years from now. Were we the culture that simply experimented and tinkered with history, turning cities upside-down, essentially making anything and everything acceptable?
Homes of the collectors.
Takashi Murakami
Thomas Struth
There’s something quite refreshing and almost humanistic about beautiful interiors left as they were when its inhabitant woke up.
