Interiors in Film
What is your favorite cinematic interior? We can’t help but think of the obvious: Woody Allen’s “Interiors.” Apartment Therapy wrote a great post on the same. 
  

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I know we’ve featured blocks before, but these inspired a reprise:
 
Legno! [via Swiss Miss] 

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Joel Grey’s bungalow in the New York Times, today:

It’s his second home, and 650 square feet.  

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One show we are looking forward to this summer is MOMA’s Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling (July 20-October 20). 
From MOMA’s web-site: This exhibition will offer the most thorough examination of both the historical and contemporary significance of factory-produced architectures to date. With increasing concern about issues such as sustainability and the swelling global population, prefabrication has again […]

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We love wood blocks and were pleased to learn that we’re in good company. Last Sunday, Designer Tucker Viemeister came out with his affection for wood blocks, in the New York Times. Viemeister is partial to Friedrich Froebel’s blocks (which Frank Lloyd Wright cut his teeth on, as well).
[ photo credit: Patrick Andrade]  
Writer Lawrence Weschler swears that wood […]

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If I had to guess your 2008 resolutions, I’d bet they include, among others: Do Something Good for the World.Here are a few design-related inspirations, while you’re figuring out just how, specifically, you want to do that. If you’re reading this blog, then you understand what design can do–physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Below: a few […]

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