Bedroom Dreams: DSGN BM

DSGN BM

Recent trip to Kyoto,

Fall 2017

A recent 2 week trip to Morocco.

First stop in Fez, Morocco

"DAR SEFFARINE, a very old house in the ancient medina of FEZ, has been lovingly restored to all its former splendour and is now open as a guesthouse. Experience traditional moroccan living at its best in the oldest part of the medina. And feel the special magic of Fez, an important spiritual and cultural centre of the Islamic world..."

more photos to come soon...

DISC Interiors included in a new book,

"Hollywood Interiors" by Anthony Iannacci

"The homes showcased here in over 200 full-color images are in the hills and on the flats—they evoke Old Europe with antique or hand-crafted finishes, keep guests riveted to the moment with intensely rich details, or defer, with restrained palettes, to stunning views of the Pacific Ocean."

I finally received a copy of the new book by Anthony Iannacci, "Hollywood Interiors" and the book is nothing short of stunning. We are so thrilled to be a part of this collection, and to be included in a book along with some of our favorite LA designers, Commune, Jamie Bush, Paul Fortune, Rose Tarwlow, Chu Gooding, Trip Haenisch, to name a few. Buy a copy of this book here...

"Hollywood individualism pervades every aspect of life in Los Angeles including interior design, where it manifests as highly original spaces from Malibu to Silver Lake in a dizzying assortment of styles—from 1920s and 1930s Spanish Revival houses in the Hollywood hills, to highly adorned Storybook houses, and airy and transparent midcentury modern forms.

Status in Los Angeles, like success in the ever-fascinating movie industry that sets it apart, is based on the creation of truly unique moments. A relentless celebration of personality fuels the city, creating a cult of the individual and driving the city’s collective exaltation of talents and quirks. This collection of nineteen homes designed by Los Angeles-based architects and designers illustrates this exuberance and diversity. The homes showcased here in over 200 full-color images are in the hills and on the flats—they evoke Old Europe with antique or hand-crafted finishes, keep guests riveted to the moment with intensely rich details, or defer, with restrained palettes, to stunning views of the Pacific Ocean. They are of new construction by iconic figures such as Richard Meier & Partners, as well as classic homes such as a Spanish Revival by George H. Freuhling, a fanciful Storybook streamlined for contemporary life, and immaculately restored midcentury homes by Harwell Hamilton Harris and John Lautner.

Work by individuals who are relatively new to the design world and who are quickly making names for themselves—Courtney Applebaum, Andrew Benson, Chu Gooding, Trip Haenisch, Nickey Kehoe, and Olivia Williams—is featured alongside the city’s established, award-winning designers including Commune, Paul Fortune, Melinda Ritz, Rose Tarlow, and Kelly Wearstler. The California Dream relies first and foremost on a willingness to be seduced by the place itself, and these architects and designers actively participate in a love affair with the place that makes their work possible, and which is tangible in this stunning presentation of residential spaces."

Who Knows If The Moon’s

who knows if the moon’s a balloon,

coming out of a keen city in the sky—

filled with pretty people?

Who Knows If The Moon’s

who knows if the moon’s a balloon,

coming out of a keen city in the sky—

filled with pretty people?

(and if you and i should get into it,

if they should take me

and take you into their balloon,

why then we’d go up higher with all the pretty people

than houses and steeples and clouds: go sailing away

and away sailing into a keen city which

nobody’s ever visited,where always

it’s

Spring)

and everyone’s in love and flowers pick themselves

e.e. cummings + moon jars.

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A recent trip to Upstate New York

(drawings lines between Spring and Winter)

Ellsworth Kelly Photographs

at Matthew Marks Gallery

Ellsworth Kelly is credited with inventing a new kind of painting, one inspired by nature and chance compositions encountered in the world. This artistic breakthrough took place in the late 1940s, while he was living in France: “Everywhere I looked, everything I saw became something to be made, and it had to be made exactly as it was, with nothing added. It was a new freedom; there was no longer the need to compose.”

Matthew Marks is pleased to announce Ellsworth Kelly Photographs, the next exhibition in his gallery at 523 West 24th Street. Featuring over thirty gelatin silver prints of photos taken between 1950 and 1982, this exhibition is the first ever devoted to Kelly’s photography. Kelly finished preparing the prints and planning the exhibition shortly before his death, on December 27, at the age of ninety-two.

Ellsworth Kelly is credited with inventing a new kind of painting, one inspired by nature and chance compositions encountered in the world. This artistic breakthrough took place in the late 1940s, while he was living in France: “Everywhere I looked, everything I saw became something to be made, and it had to be made exactly as it was, with nothing added. It was a new freedom; there was no longer the need to compose.”

Kelly’s fascination with already-made compositions is clear in his photographs. He started taking pictures in 1950, using a borrowed Leica to “make notations of things I had seen and subjects I had been drawing.” Unlike his sketches and collages, his photographs were never part of the process of making a painting or sculpture; they were simply a record of his vision. As such, they convey his enthusiasm for the visible world around him — the compositional possibilities to be found in an asparagus plant, for example, or a stack of bricks.

Kelly bought his own camera in the 1960s and used it to photograph barns on Long Island, their interlocking forms evoking the planes of his own paintings and sculptures. Architectural details were the focus of several subsequent photographs, which he shot primarily in France and upstate New York, where he lived from 1970 until the end of his life. Central to many of these images are windows, roofs, and the shadows they cast. In a 1963 interview he explained that his works up to that point had primarily been “paintings of things I’d seen, like a window, or a fragment of a piece of architecture, or someone’s legs; or sometimes the space between things, or just how the shadow of an object would look. […] I’m not interested in the texture of the rock, or that it is a rock, but in the mass of it, and its shadow.”

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new work

by DISC Interiors

DISC Interiors recently designed a room for Architectural Digest and Volvo Lounge for the West Edge Design Fair in Los Angeles. Our concept for the Volvo lounge was to evoke a Swedish Summer House, a nod to classic Scandinavia design, while evoking a sense of modernity. We imagined the windows of the Swedish home being open, wind blowing through the kitchen, and sunlight casting shadows through the wooden arms of the furniture. The room was layered with textured and colorful rugs from Marc Phillips. We collaborated with Carl Hansen and Son for the furniture, Marc Phillips on the rugs, Mirena Kim a local ceramicist for the table works, and we designed large oak walls with blackened steel brackets to install photography. - David John

The Modern House Book

"The Modern House" book

To mark the tenth anniversary of The Modern House, our directors Matt Gibberd and Albert Hill have curated a selection of the most iconic houses we’ve marketed over the last decade. The book includes histories of each project, alongside an extended essay by Jonathan Bell, former architecture editor for Wallpaper*. It is split into four sections: town houses, conversions, country houses and apartments, and includes the Isokon Building, Slip House and the Winter House amongst others."

By tomorrow we'll be lost amongst the leaves,

In a wind that chills the skeletons of trees,

And when the moon, it shines, I will leave two lines.

Find my love, then find me. (daughter)

"In the early 1930's, Norwegian immigrant Helmuth Deetjen discovered the secluded beauty of Big Sur. In Carmel he met his future wife, Helen Haight - a woman with a nose for business and a sense of adventure. Together they bought several acres of land in Castro Canyon, their favorite camping spot in Big Sur. The pastoral canyon offered them the tranquility they sought. With the completion of Highway One in 1937, Deetjens Inn became a destination for travelers, artists and seekers of all kinds. Helmuth and Helen became famous for their hospitality, bringing a dash of European glamour to the local bohemian lifestyle. Deetjens Inn exists today because in 1972 Helmuth “Grandpa” Deetjens bequeathed his Big Sur home to be forever enjoyed by guests wanting to enjoy the peace, friendship, and beauty of this place. In 1990, the US Department of the Interior placed Deetjens Big Sur Inn on the National Register of Historic Places. The rustic, hand-crafted quality of the Inn and its old-world ambience recalls visitors' experience in Big Sur's early days.

"To disappear into deep water or to disappear toward a far horizon,

to become part of depth of infinity,

such is the destiny of man that finds its image in the destiny of water."

Gaston Bachelard,

Water and Dreams, 1942

Images:

1. A visit to Blum and Poe, a selection curated by Murakami.

"For this exhibition, Takashi Murakami brings together a new generation of Japanese ceramicists whose unique pottery methods merge a respect for lineage with improvisation, experimentation, and refinement. The work of all three artists — Hamana, Ueda, and Otani — is informed by lifestyle, the love of nature, working in remote surroundings, and sometimes farming their own land. Although these artists are young in age, they are accomplished craftsmen and have been forming, firing, and exhibiting their earthenware in Japan for several years. Many of the works in the exhibition have never been seen before in the United States, as this display of ceramics is an illumination of age-old traditions being expanded into the 21st century.

2. Lamp by Gio Ponti. 1931.

the (color) makings

of Fall (forms)

collapse into winter.

"Some things are best if kept in darkness

Only true before the dawn

Ghost ships, silent, deathly sting

Before the canon storm

Am I in too deep?

Am I in too deep too soon?" - Alela Diane

David Noonan

107 rue St-Georges | St-Jorisstraat

Xavier Hufkens

‘I’m trying to touch on a certain atmosphere or tone… when you’re listening to music, particular songs or artists will have a particular atmosphere to their work. That’s what I’m trying to achieve with pictures, to give the piece an ambience that you can’t exactly pin down, but that sets a certain tone. I like to think of them as these little hermetic things that have a certain energy or atmosphere that can wash over you, affecting your mood. I don’t want to spell something out; my pieces are more about evoking something in a viewer.’ - David Noonan