上個月看PPaper剛好在介紹德國設計師椅子,Konstantin Grcic。
看到他的Chair one覺得將當眼熟,
沒錯,就是暑假在舊金山的New DeYoung Museum有看到,
博物館的Cafe在戶外擺的椅子原來都是這張Chair One,相當時尚的設計(我喜歡)
記得那時候只是經過要去戶外拍照,特地繞過去拍椅子,因為他很可愛。



果然是美術館呀,連cafe的椅子也要設計師款
Citroën showroom, Paris
Architecture
Car showrooms were once the wonders of the modern world, grand temples to the mystery of mechanical progress. Citroën, always one of the most forward-looking of firms, were amongst the first to embrace modern architecture’s potential for making spaces to showcase their wares.
Click here to see images and sketches of the showroom
As well as the iconic Marbeuf building, designed by Bazin and Laprade in 1929, there were other examples of striking modernist structures built around Europe, including a glass-façaded showroom on the Champs Elysées, designed by Maurice-Jacques Ravazé and opened in 1932. Overhauled in 1984 as the ‘Hippo-Citroën’, a combination of car showroom, café and restaurant, the site has now been given a thoroughly modern reconstruction.
The new building, known as C42, was designed by architect Manuelle Gautrand after an international competition. C42 marks a return to the large glass façade, only this time with a distinctively brand-centric spin; the famous double chevron logo is woven into the 30m high faceted front.
The architect describes the frontage as ‘an allegory of automotive design,’ in the way the 86-tonne latticework of glass and steel encloses the display space within, yet is also freestanding and self-supporting, just as a car’s bodywork is a structural element in its own right. Inside, a central mast rises up the full height of the space, containing suspended rotating platforms to display cars and concepts.
We're running out of memory.
I don't mean computer memory. That stuff's half-price at Costco these days. No, I'm talking about human memory, stored by the gray matter inside our heads. According to recent research, we're remembering fewer and fewer basic facts these days.
This summer, neuroscientist Ian Robertson polled 3,000 people and found that the younger ones were less able than their elders to recall standard personal info. When Robertson asked his subjects to tell them a relative's birth date, 87 percent of respondents over age 50 could recite it, while less than 40 percent of those under 30 could do so. And when he asked them their own phone number, fully one-third of the youngsters drew a blank. They had to whip out their handsets to look it up.
很奇妙,可能因為現在資訊取得和儲存的方式不同,
Arts est homo additus naturae大畫家梵谷,曾在一封私人信件寫到:
藝術是人與自然相乘
對藝術,我不知道還有沒有比下面更好的定義:當然他還有提到東方傳統文論的論述,
藝術,是人加入自然,並解放自然
矩陣型組織對企業來說,可以達到平行溝通和垂直整合。
Yale Returns Peruvian Antiquities
Morning Edition, September 18, 2007 · Yale University agrees to return to Peru hundreds of artifacts from the Incan site of Machu Picchu. The objects have been at the center of a debate that has lasted almost a century, and culminated last year when the government of Peru threatened to sue Yale to get the artifacts back.