Tree Huts: Madison Square Garden

From:

Mad. Sq. Art presents Tadashi Kawamata: Tree Huts

"Tree huts in particular are an emerging focus of Kawamata’s work; a crystallization of Kawamata’s interest in the architecture of shelter and of the insertion of private objects into public spaces as a method of renegotiating the meaning of both."

See:

Madison Square Park 

madsqhuts blog

Shedworking

Inhabitat

Thanks to the ever-inspiring Shedworking 

for the heads-up...

it's been fun to watch this become a reality. 

Tree houses of dreams, yes? 

Gorgeous Ghosts Fini: Let There Be Light

Gorgeous Ghosts II

Gorgeous Ghosts I

weimar, 2007

photos copyright victoria thorne

Hortensie

hortensie|hydrangea

nuremberg.07

the swift and the proud

the elegance, the boy, the tie, the hair:

the umbrellas

nuremberg.07

"...a Stunning Thanksgiving Table"

Kim Boatman, Rick Martin, and I teamed up several times to present holiday tables (and other bits of decoration, for other bits of holidays) for the Mercury News. It was a wonderful undertaking, and involved a bit of hard work and preparation...

All fun, because it was a most excellent team. I believe we enjoyed working together and came up with some pretty good stuff. The Merc liked us. We were asked to cover a number of holidays after another.

I was the designer/stylist/prop master, Rick the photographer, Kim the writer. They are both magnificent. It was a great lark; and, now, when October rolls around, I grow somewhat nostalgic for the tables. As luck would have it, a few still seem to exist on the web.

Herewith, the Seattle Times version of one of the Thanksgiving Tables. Enjoy! Just Click.

The Insomniacs Kitchen, a New Delight from Artist Emily Lister

I absolutely love a wonderful new blog called "The Insomniacs Kitchen." 

It's charming and spritely and cheerful and it makes me want to learn Yiddish and cook things in my dutch oven (it's about time...that dutch oven was getting lonely in the cupboard) and try to make Raisin Bran Muffin Cake and only eat whole grains. Why? Because Emily says so, and because she makes it all sound so deliciously fun.

Come to find out, Emily doesn't just write wonderful bits about blackstrap molasses gingerbread and Laurie Colwin and the Old Sturbridge Village Cookbook. (I still have a little straw broom from Sturbridge Village, acquired at the ripe old age of seven. It is, for me, a great prize...it brings me a bit of handmade bliss...) 

Well, back to wondrous Emily...she is also the incredibly talented illustrator of over a dozen books, and an extraordinarily gifted painter. Please do drop by and visit her new digs!

Above: a snapshot from the 

Friedrich Schiller Haus, 

Weimar. 

Wouldn't it be fun (and just a little swanky)

 to have a bit of tea and gingerbread at this table, 

after cooking up yummy goodies from 

Emily Lisker's 

glorious new blog? 

I think so.