house dream

billionaire boys club

(who else? of course, Pharrel)

mobility and fairy tales

Shedworking makes me happy.

It just seems to always make me happy.

thought for the day:

don't ever discount the luxury of a smaller

place and a light suitcase. mobility: nice.

(granted, the fairy tale above is somewhat of

a fixer-upper. but it is crazy sweet, nonetheless.)

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? 

"Garden office rooms are all the rage," says Emilia D’Erlanger

Great article on working from home, via Shedworking.

(If I read Shedworking enough,

will a lovely little shed appear in my backyard?

With a comb and a brush and a bowl full of mush?

And an old lady--would that be me, now?--whispering hush?

Once upon a time,

I certainly read "Goodnight Moon" enough...

when the T.K. were all so very little.

And it seems it has appeared, somewhat...

now, where is that rocking chair?)

I digress.

Anyhow, lovely quote from the article:

"Garden office rooms are all the rage," says Emilia D’Erlanger,

interior designer. "The smartest of addresses now all

want a media room and a garden office

as a sanctuary away from distractions."

Roald Dahl and Dylan Thomas worked at home;

one would be in good company.

Working at home. The new old frontier?

Now, if my smart garden shed

would manifest in my backyard. Bitte.

(above, a sweet little brickhouse @the Presidio)

Be Still My Heart: Siberian Wooden Houses

I love Shedworking, a wonderful blog from the U.K.

Siberian Wooden Houses is the newest post. Too wonderful.

More in Shedworking: see the office garden view of our best red-headed architect-president...I have been a great fan, since college in good ol' Virginny, of the way T.J. used windows--especially when they doubled as floor-to-ceiling triple-sash doors. Brilliance. 

And I've mentioned this one before, but it is an all-time favorite. Beach Hut Tuesday. I'm packing my bags right now; surely, there is a beach hut waiting for me in Barcelona...

Above, a mysterious set of doors from the Albrecht Durer house in Nuremberg. They might've been right at home in one of those groovy Siberian Huts, eh?