What's New? Jan 7 Newsletter

A 100-Year-Old Church in Spain Transformed into a Skate Park Covered in Murals

Originally designed by Asturian architect Manuel del Busto in 1912, the church of Santa Barbara in Llanera, Asturias, was abandoned for years and crumbling from neglect. Luckily, a group of enterprising individuals lead by a collective called the ‘Church Brigade,’ with help from online fundraising and Red Bull, the church was salvaged and turned into a public skate park dubbed Kaos Temple.

Stepping Away From The Workdesk - Roderick Vos Design, The Netherlands

"I don't want to be constantly entertained, or to entertain others. I want to make you happy with beautifully useful pieces. Objects that exude aesthetic pleasure. Strong shapes that feel beautiful, good and true. Such sensations are nothing to be ashamed of."

Beaded Hightops - Teri Greeves

Raised on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming among the Shoshone and Northern Arapaho, Teri Greeves was taught to bead by friends and relatives who came to her mother’s trading post. Her first project was a pair of beaded baby moccasins. She discovered a lifelong love of shoes.

 

The White Road: Journey into an Obsession (BOOK)

In The White Road, bestselling author and artist Edmund de Waal gives us an intimate narrative history of his lifelong obsession with porcelain, or "white gold." A potter who has been working with porcelain for more than forty years, de Waal describes how he set out on five journeys to places where porcelain was dreamed about, refined, collected and coveted-and that would help him understand the clay's mysterious allure.

The Jewelry of Downton Abbey

When Caroline McCall, costume designer for the show, wanted jewelry for seasons three and four, she turned to Andrew Prince, a designer with an encyclopedic knowledge of jewelry history and impeccable credentials.

2015 - Big Changes: Review of the Year

Posted by The Justified Sinner

I would never have imagined in January of this year that I would end up in such a different situation from the one I was in...

Mesmerizing Dance Performance Incorporating Interactive Digital Projection

Pixel is a dance show for 11 dancers in a virtual and living visual environment. A work on illusion combining energy and poetry, fiction and technical achievement, hip hop and circus. A show at the crossroads of arts and at the crossroads of Adrien M / Claire B’s and Mourad Merzouki’s universes.

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