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Beautifying the Home Grounds: Your Source for 1920s Outdoor Project Inspiration

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Design, Garden Design, Gardening
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I have a simple design process here at the Root Simple compound. I ask the house what it wants. The house, being a fuddy-duddy, vaguely colonial bungalow build in 1920, invariably tells me that it want something fuddy-duddy and vaguely colonial. It doesn’t want innovation or Starchitects or Pottery Barn or Ikea. The house doesn’t care what I want. My most successful outdoor and indoor projects have been ones that nobody notices, that look like th...

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Flipped Out: The End of the American Bungalow

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Design
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...s such; nor does it seek to produce or manage one. As we have seen, casino design follows what one leading firm calls the “immersion paradigm,” holding players in a desubjectified state of uninterrupted motion so as to galvanize, channel, and profit from what the academic consultants quoted earlier called the “experiential affect.” With no walls or doors with which to escape the gaze of our fellow housemates and bright lights and white walls every...

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The Art and Architecture of C.F.A. Voysey

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Design, Thoughtstylings
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...led on the work of C.F.A. Voysey, an English Arts and Crafts architect and designer. He took an obsessive gesamtkunstwerk (total art work) approach to his architectural commissions, insisting on designing not just the building but the furniture and everything down to the pen trays. Very conservative politically, he was an exception to the more progressive bent of the movement. It’s also obvious that he spent every spare moment of his life obsessiv...

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Saturday Tweets: A Big Excuse to Post Cats with Mustaches

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Saturday Linkages
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...2018 Sharing Stuff without Apps – https://t.co/BqjMgOz84H — Eric Rochow (@GardenForkTV) July 22, 2018 How jeans are distressed at the sweatshop https://t.co/svVoG5rTSm — Root Simple (@rootsimple) July 27, 2018 Coffee lids: new book on the elegant design of a modern scourge https://t.co/VPvtWrFYwj — Root Simple (@rootsimple) July 25, 2018 There has been a 90% decline in the Monarch #butterfly population in the last 20 years, but you can help save...

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Nanotecture: Tiny Built Things

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Animals, Cats, Design
...ve got a library copy), but I’ve spent a many evenings leafing through the pages. On a side note, many of the objects in this book are temporary outdoor art installations, something you see a lot of in Northern Europe in the summer. I don’t know why we don’t see more of these types of art and design shows in the U.S. They’re popular and a nice use of public space. The book has inspired me this morning to cut the blogging short and head to my works...

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