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Thanks Oscar…
The great Brazilian architect, Oscar Niemeyer, Passed away Yesterday. Walking in or around his work felt like being in a live ‘Jetsons’ set. Concrete looks as malleable and weightless as paper. Just...
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Positive and Negative
Together at last… The positive pattern is up the stairwell from the negative one. Here’s the pattern with the negative shape. The patterns were stored outside prior to me getting them, this caused the...
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The kitchen
I love Ikea kitchens. Love the engineering. Love the price. Love having a store in Cincinnati. As for the last point, here’s why: generally I’ll need 3-4 trips to get it right, it’d be very frustrating...
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The Subway Tiles.
I’ll find elements in the demolition and reconstruction process I like and want to keep. I keep them in the back of the mind until a solution pops up; sometimes by playing around with ideas, the...
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15kcincinnati.com?
Very tempting… I’m gearing up to find another project so my ears perked up when I heard about a cheap property in one of my favorite Cincinnati neighborhoods – Northside. It still blows me away that...
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That’s right… salad bowls.
soon enough you’ll find why I titled this post as I did. But first… There’s work to do! Houses from this period and style typically had fancy metal work on top; it’s called the ‘cornice’. About four...
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The Artists.
It was an honor to have some of my favorite artists here in Cincinnati show in the 5K house. Thanks to those who made it to the big opening January 19th and the ‘open house/gallery’ viewings the...
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Field trip!
I visited Tim McMichael, one of the artists in the 5k house show, at his studio in the David Shoe building which – at least for me – had quite the reputation as an artists hubbub. Most of the activity...
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Heavy Metal meets Art.
When the house was built-in 1895, in this neighborhood the plumbing was just starting to come indoors. Though there wasn’t any plumbing for the kitchen nor the bathroom, the original builder/owner did...
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Glidwall & Glenn : Restoring Plaster Cincinnati-Style
Last week I completed a plaster restoration on a turn of the century house in Northside. The product of choice was Glidwall– a tried a true Cincinnati solution to compromised wall and ceiling surfaces....
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