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Imagine building a family home on a 220-square-foot lot, or splitting your bathroom into three sections so there is no need for a second privy. The Modern Japanese Home by Naomi Pollock explores the very subject, looking at how to build in a compact city with unique zoning laws, exorbitant costs, size restrictions and a changing social dynamic. Taking us from the “Multigeneration House” to the “Vacation House,” Pollock illustrates, through text and fantastic images, how Japanese architects such as Shuhei Endo, Jun Aoki and Hiroshi Nakao have built some of the most efficient, innovative and multifunctional contemporary homes in the world—despite the limitations. Featuring everything from sliding partitions to doggy cafés, this book opens one’s eyes to compact, luxurious living unlike any the Western world has experienced. (via Elements of Living)

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The Lamps of Louis Comfort Tiffany

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By Martin Eidelberg, Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, Nancy A. McClelland, Lars Rachen. Vendome Press, $75

Covering not just lighting but also dead flowers and zoological photographs, glassmaking tools and original documents, <i>The Lamps of Louis Comfort Tiffany</i> is the first book in several years dedicated exclusively to Tiffany. Four scholars elucidate the luminary’s personal studies in lighting, explain the significance of nature in his eyes, and provide a detailed account of what went on in his workshop (perhaps the first book to examine the techniques behind the lamps).
In addition to the well researched text, the book includes a beautiful four-color catalog of rare and newly photographed lamps divided into five categories: Trees and Shrubs, Vines, Flowers, Wetlands and Fauna. Each entry explores the cultural and stylistic influences, techniques, colorways and intended uses for the shade and lamp. This superb book is not only nutrition for the Tiffany flock but also a conversion text for even the most devout modernist. (via Elements of Living)

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Design Smith Gallery

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Skyline chili, Watch out. You have a contender for “Best of Cincinnati” title. That would be David G. Smith’s designsmithgallery.com, the digital doppelganger of the store that bears the same name. Besides the usual-suspect classics, Smith’s inventory cottons to the esoteric, including the double-headed floor lamp Greta Grossman designed for Ralph O. Smith, and a Maitland Smith–designed commode that features soldierly lines of green-marble cabochons. There are also accessories, books and contemporary artwork to round out the mix. We appreciate Smith’s honesty: He supplies multiple views of the items for sale, almost proudly supplying detail photos of minor nicks and scratches. The prices are a fraction of what you’d find at a hip vintage store on either coast, too.
Smith launched his virtual showroom in 1997, so despite the unnecessarily complex graphic design of the site (all those color blocks), its fairly straightforward architecture (few clickthroughs, simple drop-down lists) is proven to work.
Another reason to thank Smith for his website? Designsmithgallery is located in Cincinnati’s run-down Over-the-Rhine neighborhood, so even native Ohioans may rather punch in keystrokes than make a visit in person. (via Elements of Living)

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Secessions

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Enter www.secessions.com in your web browser and up pops a select few works of the Weiner Werkstätte for sale—Josef Hoffmann’s Piggy-Bank for the Palais Stoclet, a circular ebonized oak table ringed in brass designed by Adolf Loos. The simplicity of the site is deceiving. But download a PDF file of the latest Secessions catalog and the mind dizzies with the complexity of the period works, culled from rare sources by dealer Yves Macaux.
The catalog is really a textbook, and comparable to the best auction-house publications. Furniture, lighting and tableware by greats like Loos, as well as lesser-known talents such as Gustave Serrurier-Bovy and Carl Otto Czeschka, represent a range of designs that were consistent with or influenced the Werkstätte spirit. Macaux carefully describes each work, its provenance and its art-historical context. Alongside archival photography whenever possible, he deploys a humble textual voice that belies his uncompromising good taste and underscores an academic commitment to accuracy. (via Elements of Living)

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Palmer Hargrave

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The 60-year-old company Palmer Hargrave may be a bit old, but they’re not outdated. They are classic. The 69 designs in the Palmer Hargrave inventory are slightly Gothic, vaguely mid-century, perhaps nautical, and just a touch minimalist. By paring styles down to their essence, these light fixtures will resist the ebb and flow of fads, and their well-made design will stand the test of time. In 2000, the company was acquired by DessinFournir Companies, which produces everything from furniture to wallpaper--you can now create an entire interior ensemble from one great company. (via Elements of Living)

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Boyd Lighting

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It's been 85 years since lampmaker William Boyd opened his studio in San Francisco, producing crisp Stickley-cum-Deco. Three and a half decades into his entrepreneurship, he turned the business over to daughter Dorothy, and her son Jay, who standardized the line. (via Elements of Living)

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Architects and Heroes

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On a routine treasure hunt a dozen years ago, Mark Elson, owner of the Architects and Heroes antique shop in Austin, TX, found a certain Craftsman-style pulley-lamp. It not only inspired him to make an adaptation, but also a whole line of lights and hardware. Four years ago, Elson sold the lighting business to former employees Palmer Early and John Wetherford, who now sell 18 styles. Their favorite: The pulley-sconce, with its metal or ceramic egg counterweight, can adjust its distance from the wall and will stay in any position you leave it. (via Elements of Living)

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Luc Gensollen

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The French designer Luc Gensollen, colleague of Andrée Putman and Philippe Starck, makes limited-edition, conversation-generating table lamps in which vintage computer motherboards are recycled into box shades. In a related series, epoxy shades are engraved with circuitry patterns; another set of lamps are topped with perforated metal shades that hurl dramatic shadows. Gensollen’s latest introduction is Quanone, a multidirectional and height-adjustable floor lamp with cornucopia-shape shades in white or yellow epoxy glass. All frames are nickel-polished steel. (via Elements of Living)

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Tuell + Reynolds

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Randy Tuell and Victoria Reynolds graduated UC Berkley a few years apart, he with a degree in architecture, she in environmental design. Tuell, co-founder of Reification--a loose assembly of area sculptors crafting furniture and accessories for high-end interiors-- and Reynolds the project manager joined forces in 2000 to launch T + R. Commissioned work, which was the sole aspect of Reification remains the foundation of the business; however, they recently introduced a small product line that includes handsomely finished lamps rooted in the Arts & Crafts style. (via Elements of Living)

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Urban Archaeology

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In 1978, as New Yorkers won a case to prevent Grand Central from going the way of Pennsylvania Station, preservationists of another stripe opened a salvage shop in Soho. Urban Archaeology since has assembled a trove of 19th- and 20th-century architectural fittings, and the craftsmanship of those rarities is widely accessible via the company’s own lighting collection. It features re-creations and new designs inspired by fixtures rescued from long-ago hotels, schoolrooms, wharves, warehouses, sidewalks and train stations. (via Elements of Living)

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