Winifred Wikkeling

Via The New York Times

We ruminated on this for sometime.  Why did we like it so?  Was it that he said “What was appealing was showing off Los Angeles to people who think they know what Los Angeles is all about?” He referred to it as ‘the wizard of oz.’  We agree, there is a hidden magic.  But then we understood what interested us so.  It was that we had experienced something hidden elsewhere…In Zaandam and the traditional houses that still line its winding dorp-like streets.  We loved those houses, and the feel of old Holland still so rich yet mysterious like fragrant air.  We enjoyed the tribute made to them by WAM.

Inntel Hotels Zaandam

Via the Guardian

Maybe one day we too will celebrate Zaandam and have the opportunity to take you with us…

The possibilities, never ending. Its creations haunting, exquisite, unfathomable. We, longing, short of breath, craving to touch, dreaming of its beautiful forms.

Job is like a coach to us, one who sometimes drives us to distress, but always pushes us to take a step further and improve the quality of our work.

We find it pretty, the way it is tall, elegant, definitively imposing.

The Cube by Orange Architects

Via Dutch DFA

The way that there are many things achieved even with a cool exterior reflecting maybe just one.  The way that it has presence drawing us in to look deeper, curious to uncover its secrets; how is it then, those magnificent rotations?  Ah, it is the strength of the core that frees each level from any constraints to volume, design, vision, creativity.  Throughout the core flow a riches of elements.  Some then become alchemists….

Inspired by the movement of a flock birds, FlyLight a light installation, reacts to you when surrounded, and by the configurations of those surrounding it.

We had neglected to share with you one of our more recent delights…

We had a desire and then we sighed, releasing it, trusting it would come to us when the time was right.

The time was right shortly thereafter.  As unassuming as a falling leaf, it floated into our hands.  There – big, heavy, magical, spell binding – it sat before us, as beautiful and beckoning as we had thought it might be.  The details, the embossing, the leatheresque binding, the gold overlay, throughout its pages unfolding romance.

We have been smiling ever since.  We will share with you, as we are indulging…

One morning, we woke up

and it was 2011

so we decided to

make

a

wish

Make a Wish, by Bettina Nissen

Via Designboom

And when we looked up we saw

Interminati

Spazi

…definitely

Before you there was only darkness,

a perpetual night with only occasional glimmers of light.

We will always remember that first week, those days before it really sunk in. Those first days when we were transported to our new reality.

We do wish for our chaos

to crystallize -

for it to crystallize with precision for us