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We recently got our hands on a copy of Tiffany Threadgould‘s new book, ReMake It!, which is filled with recycled DIY goodness including this clever picture frame made from a pair of eyeglasses. The book is chock full of ways to transform what you might consider junk into useful, inspiring and fun-to-make items. Tiffany was kind enough to share her instructions for the eyeg... weiterlesen...
Photo credit: Tiffany Threadgould/Sterling Press
This guest post was written by Tiffany Threadgould, author of the book ReMake It!, available now, from Sterling Publishing.
Have you ever used an empty glass jar as a drinking glass or turned an old tin can into a pencil holder? If the answer is yes, then you've already had fun ReMaking It!
Upcycling proves that one person's tr... weiterlesen...
by Tiffany ChuI recently made a Peter Zumthor pilgrimage to Switzerland, where many of his seminal works sit within a 40 mile radius from each other in the northeastern part of the country. An architectural journey surely not for the faint of heart, it took a day's harrowing drive through the northern Alps with steep cliffs and crazy European drivers, but in the end, it was all w... weiterlesen...
by Tiffany ChuAlthough the Venice Architecture Biennale invades all nooks and crannies of the four-square-mile island, most of the festival's big-hitters reside under the roof of only one building, the Italian pavilion at Giardini. As we round out our 2010 Biennale overview, we highlight the exhibits that not only left us pondering, but also left us hopeful for the future of arch... weiterlesen...
by Tiffany ChuDear Dwell Reader: Many thanks to all of you—we've hit a couple milestones recently, and we wanted to share them with you. Last week, we unveiled our ten-year anniversary issue (on the tenth month of 2010, no less), reached over 100,000 followers on Twitter, and now we're looking forward to having a ground-shaking second decade -- both in print and online.
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by Tiffany ChuOut of all of the exhibits at the Venice Biennale this year, I spent the most time sitting and playing inside the pavilion of the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Along with being interactive, dynamic, and quite beautiful, it was a celebration of a well-known Dwell obsession: the countless possibilities of the wooden slat.
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by Tiffany ChuOne of the most interesting things to see at an architecture festival is not necessarily the final aha! moment after a pavilion is finished, but the collaborative process of building. At this year's Venice Biennale, art collective Raumlabor berlin debuted 'The Generator,' an onsite participatory workshop where you can make your own 'Sedia Veneziana,' or Venetian cha... weiterlesen...
by Tiffany ChuAs promised, here is the second part of our grand tour through the national pavilions at the 2010 Venice Biennale. Sejima forecasted well - the strongest crowd-pleasers were not the ones that displayed a rote show-and-tell gallery of their country's own pride-and-joy architects, but of single, strong concepts manifested in forms that interacted with the visitor. For... weiterlesen...
by Tiffany ChuThe concept of each country showing their best colors at the Venice Biennale began from 1895, in the same spirit of nationalism (or chauvinism) of the World's Fair. This year, proceeding straight ahead from the Giardini entrance, we take you on part one of a tour through the best of the national pavilions.
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by Tiffany ChuThe Paris metro was born with the same furor as the Eiffel Tower, right on time for the World Expo at the turn of the 20th century. Over the past few months, I've spent nearly an hour everyday intimately getting to know the system that gave the world the word 'Métro'—and after a bit of design history digging, I found that there was so much more, as alwa... weiterlesen...
by Tiffany ChuTen years ago, there was a petite house in the Bastille area of Paris that sat a little ways behind the boulevard, surrounded on all four sides by a deserted factory. Today, that little house still stands—not as a misplaced residential relic, but as the heart of a Parisian locus of contemporary art.
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by Tiffany ChuStepping into the freshly decorated apartment by Jean-Paul Gaultier at Trocadero in Paris, I felt as if I had been transported into a quixotic dream, complete with a choppy journey through a triage of disparate scenes. In a grey area where expression and aesthetic surely override function and utility, it is nevertheless intriguing to experience the continuously blu... weiterlesen...
by Tiffany ChuStepping into the freshly decorated apartment by Jean-Paul Gaultier at Trocadero in Paris, I felt as if I had been transported into a quixotic dream, complete with a choppy journey through a triage of disparate scenes. In a grey area where expression and aesthetic surely override function and utility, it is nevertheless intriguing to experience the continuously blur... weiterlesen...
Bright Young Things Style Challenger Tiffany of Six SIx Sick. Photo: Ayasha Guerin
When Bright Young Things (BYT), the sustainable fashion label that launched with one little black dress last month, asked if I would don their LBD for a Style Challenge I had to muster every ounce of will po...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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by Tiffany ChuI received an unexpected postcard from the petite Polish town of Dąbrówno last week, sent by my friend Tim who was backpacking through Europe. He mentioned that he was shacking up in a converted water tower, and my ears perked up. Although not necessarily an ode to modernism, this abandoned water tower transformation seemed like a notable tribute to summer h... weiterlesen...
by Tiffany ChuAlong the left bank of the Seine, the world's most famous museum of impressionistic art had a former life as an old, crumbling train station and hotel. Now, linking the chronological gap between the Louvre and the Centre Pompidou, the Musee d'Orsay in Paris is always a treat to see and experience as a radiant success in adaptive reuse.
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by Tiffany ChuNestled in a leafy alleyway in Paris's famous 16th arrondissement, Villa La Roche is a prime reflection of modernist architecture in France. Built between 1923 and 1925 by Le Corbusier, it stands as an experiment in linking two distinct programs, intertwining both art gallery and home.
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by Tiffany ChuTo my joie de vivre, my first Sunday in Paris coincided with musée gratuit dimanche, the first Sunday of every month when museums across the city open their doors to the masses for no charge. As I ambled through the Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimonie at Trocadero, I was tickled to stumble upon the very recent relics of the tallest cake in th... weiterlesen...
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