sábado, 25 de abril de 2015

25 ABRIL

Cartaz 25 de Abril, A Poesia está na rua - Maria Helena Vieira da Silva

Atmospheres inspired by the Portuguese Revolution, popular called

" A Revolução dos Cravos"

The Carnation Revolution"
25 ABRIL 1974


red carnations

Oscar de la Renta Spring Summer 2011
Bette Davis´s carnation skirt for spring 1938 by Silverbluestar

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terça-feira, 21 de abril de 2015

BRODY HOUSE THEN & NOW


The Atmoshere in 50´s at Sidney and Frances Brody by architect A. Quincy Jones and interior designer Billy Haines with "La Gerbe" by Henri Matisse.


BRODY HOUSE 
Then

" in 1949, the couple commissioned a modernist house in Holmby Hills by architect A. Quincy Jones and interior designerWilliam Haines.The house combined two fashionable contemporary styles: California mid-century Modernist architecture and sophisticated Hollywood Moderne décor. The house became a gathering spot for a cross-section of the city's elite, from old Los Angeles families such as the Chandlers to Hollywood icons Gary Cooper and Joan Crawford and also served as a showcase for a stunning art collection....Read more in...


BRODY HOUSE 
Then


BRODY HOUSE 
Then

Shortly after the house was completed, the Brodys commissioned Henri Matisse in 1952 to execute a massive ceramic-tile wall mural, one of few the artist ever made, for their courtyard. In 1953 they traveled to France to review his preliminary maquette. The story of Frances’s polite resistance to Matisse’s first cut-out design and how she persuaded the artist to provide alternatives is now legend. Matisse eventually created a 12-by-11-foot ceramic-tile wall mural for the courtyard. It was later donated to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

"La Gerbe" by Henri Matisse, commissioned by the Brodys in the early fifties and displayed in their atrium, has been donated to LACMA...Read more in...


BRODY HOUSE 
Now


BRODY HOUSE 
Then

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BRODY HOUSE 
Now

segunda-feira, 20 de abril de 2015

PANCHO GUEDES


Portuguese architect, sculptor and painter
"Amancio d'Alpoim Miranda Guedes is an architect, a sculptor, a painter, and many other things. He is known familiarly to many people as Pancho Guedes..." read more in


Pancho Guedes at home in Eugaria, Portugal
Pancho Guedes' Maputo studio

 Santo António da Polana, Maputo, Mozambique, interior chapel






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Pancho and his wife Doria