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Kenneth Cobonpue: Is He Empty or Voluminous?

Kenneth Cobonpue’s Croissant table. This post covers the second lecture in the Rice Design Alliance’s three part series, “FURNISH.” If this or our earlier post on Mike & Maaike captivate you, be sure to attend the final and not-to-be-missed lecture by Jurgen Bey. Locally sourced. Organic. Sustainable. Hand-made. These buzzwords are now ubiquitous in every [...]

01.31.12 Environment
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DSFNCTN: Getting over practicality with Mike & Maaike

Divis table designed by Mike & Maaike This post covers the first lecture in the Rice Design Alliance’s three part series, “FURNISH.” If this captivates you be sure to attend the next two. In the earnest tone with which he delivered his entire talk, Mike Simonian suggested on Wednesday evening that, in a given body [...]

01.20.12 Reviews

Fixed Gear Urbanism

Outside the Houston Fixed Gear party a young man hangs a bicycle, with gears, on a tree. All photos Raj Mankad. When a young man hung his bicycle from a tree branch near the intersection of Fairview and Dunlavy, the crowd cheered. Upwards of 200 youths had come Friday January 28—on foot, on two wheels, [...]

02.01.11 Place

On Canal Street, Organic Forms Take Shape

Michael Garman’s “TBL,” all photographs courtesy Michael Garman Well over a year has passed since designer Michael Garman’s “BNCH” was recognized as the “Best Prototype” at Toronto’s 2009 International Design Fair, as chronicled in Cite 80, and although he steadfastly continues to work in his Woodlands studio and his chosen medium of plywood, his design [...]

04.30.10 Design

Furniture buyers unite! You have nothing to lose but your La-Z-Boy.

All photographs courtesy wacdesignstudio. “I came home with a high fever; my ears still hurt. Just from the noise — a ringing in my ears. It is very toxic. But it’s Houston.” Jenny Lynn Weitz-Amaré Cartwright is describing the after effects of Sunday’s Furniture Sale on North Freeway (announced last week on OffCite), a daylong [...]

03.11.10 Art & Culture
Design

Guerrilla Furniture Sale

Scott Cartwright and Jenny Lynn Weitz-Amare Cartwright showcase their first furniture line. [Photo courtesy wacdesignstudio] In January, the New York Times reported that employment at US architecture firms had dropped from its July 2009 peak at 224,500 to 184,600 by November. Commercial development has ground to a halt, the big car manufacturers have pulled the [...]

03.05.10 Art & Culture
Design