“My goal is to be the Creative Director of a fashion magazine. Basically, I want to be Grace Cunningham’s Mini-Me.”
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Is Upstairs’ demo night went off without a hitch. Great performances all around - and an excellent job by / huge thanks to the venue’s production manager, Eric Sheppard, for going along with all this. We have dates confirmed for 2013 - stay tuned!
For my part, I started off the night with I am…
Gorgeous vintage illustration of the structure of solar rays, from an 1854 chemistry textbook by Popular Sciencefounder Edward L. Youmans.
#Taliesin Tuesday!
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West (1937), Scottsdale, Arizona
(Source: life-lens)
![Pitt-Pollaro Design Furniture designed by Brad Pitt, Built by Frank Pollaro
Very high end and high price art deco furniture. “For his latest role, Brad Pitt joins a familiar ensemble cast. No, it’s not George Clooney and the rest of the Ocean’s Eleven gang reuniting for another film. This time Pitt’s costars are Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann, Pierre Chareau, and Paul Dupré-Lafon. In his debut as a furniture designer, the actor is presenting about a dozen pieces—tables, chairs, and one rather fantastic bed—alongside 45 or so works by his collaborator, Frank Pollaro, whose New Jersey firm is noted for its impeccable reproductions of Art Deco furnishings.
The unveiling, which will take place November 13 through 15 in New York (register at pollaro.com for details), has been years in the making. “I’ve been doodling ideas for buildings and furniture since the early 1990s, when I first discovered [Charles Rennie] Mackintosh and Frank Lloyd Wright,” says Pitt. “Actually, I found Wright in college, when looking for a lazy two-point credit to get out of French. It forever changed my life.” ” via AD](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mddxadfV3b1r3kvwso1_500.jpg)
Pitt-Pollaro Design Furniture designed by Brad Pitt, Built by Frank Pollaro
Very high end and high price art deco furniture. “For his latest role, Brad Pitt joins a familiar ensemble cast. No, it’s not George Clooney and the rest of the Ocean’s Eleven gang reuniting for another film. This time Pitt’s costars are Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann, Pierre Chareau, and Paul Dupré-Lafon. In his debut as a furniture designer, the actor is presenting about a dozen pieces—tables, chairs, and one rather fantastic bed—alongside 45 or so works by his collaborator, Frank Pollaro, whose New Jersey firm is noted for its impeccable reproductions of Art Deco furnishings.
The unveiling, which will take place November 13 through 15 in New York (register at pollaro.com for details), has been years in the making. “I’ve been doodling ideas for buildings and furniture since the early 1990s, when I first discovered [Charles Rennie] Mackintosh and Frank Lloyd Wright,” says Pitt. “Actually, I found Wright in college, when looking for a lazy two-point credit to get out of French. It forever changed my life.” ” via AD
