Cool Hunting
| 12 July 2005view entries from: this week | this month | view previous day | view next day |
Bruce Reads
by Carol T Chung
In Spanish, the word 'lee' is the third person conjugated form of the verb 'to read'. This witty pop culture double meaning is from Frank Lourenço, an extravagant t-shirt designer based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The other shirts displayed on the site are just as quirky, funny, and some out right bizarre. A combination that rightly reflects his rather fantastically questionable life. Unfortunately, these shirts are currently only available in Buenos Aires.
UPDATE: If you really just have to have it, shoot the people over at Frank Lourenço an email and they'll give you a set of instructions to have it sent to you in the U.S. I must warn you though, it's a bit of snail mail acrobatics. But hey, you'll get your shirt though. $25 for one shirt. $45 for two. And $70 for three.
Bread & Butter Berlin
by Ami Kealoha
More than your average ADD-inducing tradeshow, Bread & Butter, is an event bringing together denim makers, sports and street wear, intersections of art and fashion, and other cutting-edge fashion designers for three days in Berlin. On the heels of the successful Barcelona installment, the show runs July 22nd-24th and promises a full agenda of exhibits, music, artists, magazines, stores, and websites under the roof of a former Siemens cable factory on the island of Gartenfeld. Launched in 2001 as an "offshow" of selected brands and labels, it's now the premiere European tradeshow and seems to be hitting its peak.
Centro
by Ami Kealoha
Since the global success of such breakout hits as Amores Perros and Y Tu Mamá También, Mexican art and design has been getting more attention from its neighbors to the North. Centro, a recently opened school that teaches design, cinema, television, new media, and visual communication, and features syllabi designed by Pasadena's renowned ArtCenter College of Design, is institutional proof positive of the trend. Their current exhibition features work from the continuing education program and looks worth a peek if you're in Mexico City.
Thanks to Mexican correspondent Ana Mallet for the tip!
James Turrell: Baker's Pool and new show
by Evan Orensten
James Turrell has been challenging our perceptions of light and space for nearly 40 years.
Baker's Pool—a technical marvel and artistic tour de force—lives in the basement of a new barn designed by architect Walt Smith of Skidmore Owings and Merrill on Lisa and Richard Baker's Greenwich, CT estate. While the main floor of the barn is an open space for the family's children and their friends, the lower level is the ultimate adult playroom, featuring a pool, gym and bathroom. The marriage of art, technology and architecture makes Baker's Pool a perfect 10 on the Cool Hunting scale. (O.K., we just made that up, but if we had a scale, it would be a perfect 10).
The areas surrounding the pool, the sink in the bathroom, and even the three cupolas are all fitted with fiber optic cable from Martin Architectural. The artist has programmed various scenes that range from party to workout, ensuring that every mood can be adequately expressed through colorful light.
Not lucky enough to be invited to the Baker's? Check out the artist's new show James Turrell: Light Projections 1967-68 and Holograms 2005 from July 14 through September 10, 2005 at PaceWildenstein Gallery in New York.
For some great photos of the barn and the pool pick up the August 2005 issue of W Magazine.
James Turrell's books are available at Amazon; some of his older books are very collectible.
Check out his works available on Eyestorm.com.
More photos after the jump. All photos are from Martin Architectural.
