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Reimagining The Shingled House
Shingle House/IKBA Sagaponack The New Shingled House by Ike Kligerman Barkley features projects located throughout the fabled seaside resorts of New England – Martha’s Vineyard, Watch Hill, Block Island – and the Hamptons, as well as in California and the Carolinas. The fourteen houses presented here evoke the rich heritage of American architecture and achieve the architects’ stated goal: when their clients enter their new home for the first time, they feel as though they have always lived there.
Gracious and elegant: An all white, serene and welcoming interior in Block Island by Ike Kligerman Barkley, Architects 
Mid century modern meets the 21st Century: The New Shingled House: Ike Kligerman Barkley “The American romance with the shingle style has lasted nearly 150 years because it presents, in an understated way, the best of everything. For our firm, it is a spur to creativity, to unorthodox speculation, to finding new answers to old questions, and to opening one’s mind and imagination as well as one’s eyes.”
A modern and elegant flow of space: Interiors of a project by architectural firm Ike Kligerman Barkley 
Pollack Residence, Ct.; Mark Hampton Inc. Interiors/ Ike Kligerman Barkley FUN FACTS: Shingle-style houses often use a single, large roof, such as a gambrel or hip roof. The houses thus emanate a more pronounced mass and a greater emphasis on horizontality. The New Shingled House by Ike, Kligerman, Barkley is published by The Monacelli Press.
A great read: The New Shingled House by Ike, Kligerman, & Barkley Picture credit: William Waldron. All rights reserved
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What Happens When Fashion and Architecture Meets in Tokyo?
OF NOTE: Cool and Chic retailer Need Supply Co., a Richmond, Virginia based clothing and lifestyle retailer opened their first Tokyo store over the weekend (October 10th) in Shibuya (Shoto), with a second to follow on November 28th, 2015 in Kumamoto. These locations will expand on the traditional boutique model by offering hard to find Scandinavian and Japanese brands for the fashion-conscious consumer. Both stores will carry a variety of clothing and accessories brands that are exceptional in nature and rare in the Japanese market.
“We have always been fascinated by the culture of Japan. The overall attention to detail, especially in the retail space, provides shopping experiences that are conceptual and unique in their own way. We feel the DNA of Need Supply Co. brand will translate well to the Japanese market.” Need Supply Co. Creative Director, Gabriel Ricioppo
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Eileen Gray: The Quintessential Designer and Architect
Throughout the end of her life, Eileen Gray faded into obscurity until 1972, when the fashion designer Yves St Laurent bought Gray’s ‘Dragon Chair‘ and the famous ‘Le Destin’ screen, which ignited renewed interest in her works. Today the Irish-born designer is known worldwide as the pioneer of the Modern Movement in architecture, and revered as one of the most celebrated designer of the 20th century, a unique person with a huge influence among architects and designers.
Eileen GRAY From October 13 through November 7, 2015, Osborne Samuel gallery will hold the first UK exhibition of paintings by the designer. Eileen Gray: The Private Painter, will feature over 60 paintings and photographs from the 1920s – 1960 that will be for sale, and will include some of the artist’s personal ephemera and letters.
Eileen GRAY The exhibition coincides with the launch of a new book titled Eileen Gray: The Private Painter, which will provide a comprehensive overview of Eileen Gray’s life. The book has been compiled and written by Andrew Lambirth, and features a personal memoir by Gray’s longstanding friend and biographer Peter Adam, and a foreword by Gordon Samuel.
Eileen GRAY, L’Art Noir 1922 
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Eileen GRAY, Untitled 1930’s Eileen Gray’s paintings in gouache or mixed media were a private pastime, to help her overcome the stress and aggravations that came with her work. The paintings date between 1920s and 1960s and include some Cubist inspired designs for her carpets.
Eileen GRAY’s Collaboration with Prunella Clough One of these works, Untitled (Red Form) from 1960, is a joint composition with her niece, the painter Prunella Clough. Cage (1940) uses the motif of the cage which became a device used by Francis Bacon and Graham Sutherland later in the century.
Eileen GRAY The exhibition will also include various photographs produced by Gray throughout her career, including striking monochrome compositions such as the Tablescape compositions (1920).
Eileen GRAY To complement these private works, the exhibition will also include Gray’s personal effects and furniture. This will include Gray’s paint- splattered architect’s work table, and the artist’s own plan chest designed and made in 1926, that she kept in her workroom in the her apartment at 21 rue Bonaparte, Saint-Germain-des-Prés.
Eileen GRAY, Black Magic 1930 
Eileen GRAY Eileen Gray: The Private Painter exhibition will include various portraits, including a locket with a photograph of her father James MacLaren Smith, a Scottish landscape painter, and two portraits of the artist taken in 1926 by the celebrated American photographer, Berenice Abbott.
Another show is a portrait of Gray c.1936 in watercolour by her Slade contemporary and friend, Wyndham Lewis titled ‘1902 Portrait of a Lady with a French Poodle’, and a watercolour given to her by another friend, Le Corbusier.
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How did Frank Lloyd Wright connect art and nature together?
When you think about the amount of Frank Lloyd Wright’s original masterpieces that have been destroyed over the years, design lovers who are looking for a “new beginning” to an old Wright design will rejoice when November comes around. How’s so? Well, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art is getting ready to open the newly reconstructed Frank Lloyd Wright’s Bachman-Wilson House on the museum grounds. Adjacent to the museum’s south entrance, the house will open to the public on November 11, 2015.
Designed in 1954 for Gloria and Abraham Wilson, the house was originally built along the Millstone River in New Jersey. However, in 1988, it was subsequently purchased by architect/designer team Lawrence and Sharon Tarantino. Threatened by repeated flooding from the river, the Tarantinos determined that relocating the house was the best option for its preservation. After a multi-year search for a suitable place, Crystal Bridges acquired the house in 2013.
“I’d like to have a free architecture. I’d like to have architecture that belonged where you see it standing, and was a grace to the landscape instead of a disgrace.” – Frank Lloyd Wright
The Frank Lloyd Wright house was disassembled piece by piece and transported 1,200 miles, arriving to the museum in the spring of 2014 where site work was already underway. Reconstruction began in the fall of 2014, led by Scott Eccleston, Crystal Bridges’ Director of Operations, Ron Shelby, architect with Hight Jackson Associates, and Bill Faber with Bill Faber Construction.
Front exterior Bachman-Wilson House designed by Frank Lloyd Wright Courtesy Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas; Photos by Nancy Nolan Photography 
Back exterior Bachman-Wilson House designed by Frank Lloyd Wright Courtesy Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas; Photos by Nancy Nolan Photography 
Living space Bachman-Wilson House designed by Frank Lloyd Wright Courtesy Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas; Photos by Nancy Nolan Photography 
Living space to foyer Bachman-Wilson House designed by Frank Lloyd Wright Courtesy Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas; Photos by Nancy Nolan Photography 
Dining Bachman-Wilson House designed by Frank Lloyd Wright Courtesy Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas; Photos by Nancy Nolan Photography 
Master Bedroom Bachman-Wilson House designed by Frank Lloyd Wright Courtesy Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas; Photos by Nancy Nolan Photography 
Upstairs Bedroom Bachman-Wilson House designed by Frank Lloyd Wright Courtesy Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas; Photos by Nancy Nolan Photography 
Guest Bedroom/Study Bachman-Wilson House designed by Frank Lloyd Wright Courtesy Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas; Photos by Nancy Nolan Photography “The goal for reconstruction was to create an authentic experience by integrating the house into the natural landscape so it feels like it has always been here. For visitors, whether they are Frank Lloyd Wright experts or architectural novices, we want them to be transported by the architecture,” said Crystal Bridges Chief Engagement Officer Niki Stewart. “We put great effort into upholding Frank Lloyd Wright’s design principles — he believed in connecting physically and spiritually to the natural world through the use of horizontal lines that ground the structure into the landscape and dissolve the barrier between the interior and exterior.”
Frank Lloyd Wright House Hours:
Monday: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Wednesday, Thursday, & Friday: 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.Saturday & Sunday: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Tuesday: ClosedReservations are required and tickets will be available on November 2, at no cost. Preview tickets are now available to Crystal Bridges’ members.
