Dieter Rams's Ten Commandments

Functionalist Braun and Vitsoe designer, Dieter Rams. A streamlined design ethos. Less, but better. Dieter's 10 design principles.
*Exhibition at Design Museum until 7 March 2010.

Intricate gold leaf

Richard Wright, Turner prize winner.
Temporarily ornate. Wright paints over his works. But this is not destruction: “I’m interested in the fragility of the moment”.
Go see at Tate Britain before 3rd January before it becomes a magnolia wall.

An Aside no.3

Who invites friends over for lunch and hands over ingredients of avocados and couscous at the door?
Thank you all. (2010 is my Cordon Bleu year).
Enjoy the Floridian key lime pie T + D.

Event: Words on Monday at Kings Place

Kings Place hosts Monday evening talks on 'all of the above': arts, culture, politics, science. Andrew Marr is speaking to a sold out audience on Monday. Next year's line up includes Seamus Heaney..
n.b talks take place in a beautiful concert hall with Arup tested accoustics.

An aside no. 2: Undecided

on the Eames Rocker, originally designed in 1948. Currently none of the chairs in Flat 14 lull you into a daydream on stormy weather wintry evenings.

Your thoughts? Perhaps an investment too far..
*(feedback: 'curl up','armchair','plastic'. Search continues)

An aside

My mum always travels with a copy of Vanity Fair on planes. Without fail. It's on the list and under the big banner heading of things that just have to happen. In celebration (and preparation) for her trip to New York, Carly Simon's Proust Questionnaire answers. What would Proust have thought about her classic answer involving a whale and a credit card?

Happy nearly weekend.
(my absence has been a blogging blip..Many things to tell you including Nicola's inspired concept, the Brixton Arcade project and London through the lens of Mr Ferry)

The Olympic Park

A tour of the Olympic Park. Construction on an epic scale. The velodrome currently resembles a scalextric set and Zaha's Aquatic Centre is all but a steel frame without its creamy white curves.
(Many)statistics of sustainability from the Olympic Delivery guide.
One for a Friday afternoon. Over 50% of all construction materials are being brought to the site via the canal or by train.

(image 3: Zaha Hadid's Aquatic Centre's proposal)