Necessary Distraction

(Pure Melodrama)

[ofhouses]

560. Smiljan Radic /// The Room (La Habitación) /// San Miguel, Chiloé Archipelago, Chile /// 1992-97

OfHouses guest curated by Diego Grass. (Photos: © Gonzalo Puga.)

[poboh]

Portrait of Jane Morris, 1873, Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 - 1882) - Pen and Brown ink -

[sioxh]

[ppuuddles]

Erwin Wurm, Fat House, 2003

[pwlanier]

Japan,

late Meiji Period 1868-1912

HAKO KAIDAN OR KAIDAN-DANSU (ARCHITECTURAL STAIRCASE CABINET)

hinoki (cedar), one side fitted with two cupboards; one with an ivory inlaid knob handle, and nine drawers

Cedar wood

202 by 185.5 by 75cm., 79½ by 73 by 29½in.

Made in circa 1900.

Sotheby's

[trovadorando]

details art. abraham janssens

[cabinporn]

🤯 Julio Lafuente was a Spanish architect who worked mainly in Italy. This is a summer cabin he built with structural engineer Gaetano Rebecchini on Capocotta beach near Rome in 1965. We have never seen anything like it. What a playful to stack bunkers! Thanks to @rural_office for tipping us off.

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Kim Keever

“Miniature topographies inside 200-gallon fish tanks, based on traditional landscape paintings. Keever fills the tanks with water once he’s sculpted and placed the miniatures, and colored lights and pigments create dense, atmospheric environments. He views his works as an evolution of the landscape tradition and deliberately acknowledges the conceptual artifice.” 

[deathnskulls]

W H O A

[wildparsnip]

dream worms graphite and pen on paper Sophie Margolin, 2017

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

Walkabout (Nicolas Roeg, 1971)

[barcarole]

Chantal Akerman at home.

[poetsandwriters]

—Ursula K. Le Guin, from a 1988 interview, collected in Ursula K. Le Guin: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (Melville House, 2019)

[itscolossal]

A Hummingbird-Sized Dinosaur Skull Found Preserved in 99-Million-Year-Old Amber

[pleoros]

Tanya Preminger - Round Balance, 2008

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

F for Fake (Orson Welles, 1973)

[alongtimealone2]

Howard Hodgkin (British, 1932-2017), Chinoiserie, 1994-97. Oil on wood, in artist’s frame, 41.3 x 45.7 cm.

[humanoidhistory]

Valentina Tereshkova, first woman in space, was born on this day in 1927.

Art by Amir Mazitov.