Cool furniture, design objects and desiderata

[Guccinski L.V.]

I am often disappointed when white people copy Japanese, but this house is awesome. Who is the architect?

 

[d4nimal]

I am often disappointed when white people copy Japanese, but this house is awesome. Who is the architect?

I'm not sure, but I really like it. He seems to really vibe with the place as well.

 

[venessian]

I am often disappointed when white people copy Japanese, but this house is awesome. Who is the architect?

Except that firm is not comprised of "white people" at all and Architectural Digest is certainly not about architecture.

 

[gdl203]

I am often disappointed when white people copy Japanese, but this house is awesome. Who is the architect?

He mentions

5Solidos

Cargo

www.cincosolidos.com

 

[Bromley]

Really like that house, thanks for sharing. Didn't know anything about J Balvin, but just read his Wikipedia and he sounds like a very cool dude.

 

[Bromley]

And speaking of disappointing white people copying Japanese things, this is a wall cabinet I just finished. I've seen a few arts/crafts auctions on social media to benefit BLM related causes. I'd like to donate this cabinet to one of those, but I have no idea how that works. Does anyone here have any experience with that kind of thing?

 

[imatlas]

I am often disappointed when white people copy Japanese, but this house is awesome. Who is the architect?

INORITE?

 

[Joffrey]

And speaking of disappointing white people copying Japanese things, this is a wall cabinet I just finished. I've seen a few arts/crafts auctions on social media to benefit BLM related causes. I'd like to donate this cabinet to one of those, but I have no idea how that works. Does anyone here have any experience with that kind of thing?

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why don't you contact an organization you'd like to support directly and ask how you can donate proceeds of sales to them?

 

[GeneralEmployer]

why don't you contact an organization you'd like to support directly and ask how you can donate proceeds of sales to them?

Chillax. Donating to BLM is complicated. It's a multi-facetted and loosely structured organization with many different chapters. Sometimes these chapters even have competing points of view. To settle on who to donate to takes a lot of research, It's totally reasonable to ask if somebody like @gdl203 perchance, who did a BLM drive for NMWA, may know of a good place to direct the funds.

But my advice? Cut out the middleman and give it to a black person.

 

[FlyingMonkey]

INORITE?

Interesting choice, which I am not sure proves or disproves your point. In many ways, Van Gogh missed the spirit of Hiroshige's woodcut completely. Van Gogh's painted copy is busy, textured and layered and ends up feeling crowded and all on one level, whereas the original is simple and elegant with flat colours and yet ends up feeling deep and incredibly spatious.

It's more important as an étude than a product and certainly influenced how Van Gogh painted afterwards and how Japanese art was received in Europe, but it's not that great as a version of the original.

 

[FlyingMonkey]

Except that firm is not comprised of "white people" .

That is entirely relative. I've done quite a bit of research in South America and these ideas refer to quite the same thing there. It reminds me of a this discussion once with an American who described Gabriel Garcia Marquez as an "author of colour", which is something you could only say as a North American. In the context of South America, Marquez was about as colonially white as you get, and although I am not saying for certain, but the architects in this firm look predominantly to be from the educated, white upper classes - there are certainly no black or indigenous principals. Sure, they would be treated as 'latino/a' in the USA, but that's not a global category.

 

[venessian]

INORITE?

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Odd example, Frank Lloyd Wrightly.

He was far more sophisticated at playing the "white person copy[ing] Japanese....". Especially when it came to architecture.

 

[GeneralEmployer]

Odd example, Frank Lloyd Wrightly.

He was far more sophisticated at playing the "white person copy[ing] Japanese....". Especially when it came to architecture.

Examples?

 

[NorCal]

Really like that house, thanks for sharing. Didn't know anything about J Balvin, but just read his Wikipedia and he sounds like a very cool dude.

now ya know:

 

[NorCal]

And speaking of disappointing white people copying Japanese things, this is a wall cabinet I just finished. I've seen a few arts/crafts auctions on social media to benefit BLM related causes. I'd like to donate this cabinet to one of those, but I have no idea how that works. Does anyone here have any experience with that kind of thing?

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Have you considered mentorship and or a big brother type of roll? Maybe hire a young POC if you are in a position to. Teach a man to fish v. give a man a fish and all that.