If you want to understand our point of view, it’s as simple as knowing how thrilling we still find the Bauhaus (for applied arts) and Black Mountain (for fine arts) models of integration, overlap, intersection, equal weight, mutual influence and inspiration of the various arts, their practitioners and processes. (That felt like a manifesto.)
So, a furniture designer who is also a fine artist who is showing encaustic paintings inspired by architectural rendering techniques…presumably analog…showing at the art gallery of an architecture office (OPSIS) is Right Up Our Alley.
Dave Laubenthal (check out his killer furniture at DJL Studio) has a a show of painting and sculpture opening tonight September 13, 5:30-8:30 PM at “OPSIS “:http://www.opsisarch.com/architecture’s 920 Gallery (920 NW 17th).
POSTED: September 13th, 2008 | AUTHOR: lisa | FILED UNDER: art | TAGS: architecture, art, furniture design, visual art | No Comments »
One of just a couple dozen elite boutiques around the world invited to participate in the Adidas Consortium group, Katsu Tanaka’s Compound (107 NW 5th) is set to introduce the first product from this collaboration, the limited edition Tokyo Rose. Each Consortium partner has customized an Adidas ZX running shoe and Compound chose the ZX500 as part of the AZX project.
Portland is all over this shoe, inside and out, from the Compound logo on the laces to the map of Old Town with an arrow pointing to Compound at 5th and Couch on the insole. There’s a lasered pattern of roses for the “City of.” Dark denim is deployed AND the honeycomb ripstop is not unlike the Compound logo. It’s very good. Very thorough.
The launch party on September 19 from 6-9 PM at Holocene (1001 SE Morrison) introduces not only the Tokyo Rose Adidas ZX, but also the mysterioso A.N. Other Project (ANO) a new apparel company that we’ll surely hear more about anon.
POSTED: September 13th, 2008 | AUTHOR: lisa | FILED UNDER: design | TAGS: a.n. other project, compound, design, holocene | 1 Comment »