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Design Calendar: Feb. 17-March 9, 2012
Take in the Venice Modern Home Tour, a terrarium exhibit, an interior photography workshop and more
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Soak in style and sun as you lace up your sneakers for this year's Venice Modern Home Tour in Los Angeles. Admire the architectural beauty and interiors of nine Westside homes. Learn how to get that perfect interior design shot from photographer David Livingston. And if winter weather has you down, check out the terrarium exhibit at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden or half a million flowers in bloom at the Dallas Arboretum. Read on for 5 picks of what to do and see now.
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| WORKSHOP — Feb. 29, 2012, 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Photography Workshop: Interior Vignettes on La Cienega 716 North La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles Calling all interior photography shutterbugs! Internationally recognized interiors photographer David Duncan Livingston will lead a hands-on all-day workshop showing how to shoot and compose better interior photographs. You'll learn how to block out a photo composition, how to look for the right light and how to work with natural light. Through a mix of short discussions and live demos you will take away simple, practical tips about object placement, photo cropping, when to use which lens, and how camera height and angles can improve your shot. Photoshop, Lightroom, meta tagging, rights and usage issues will also be covered. This workshop is geared to photographers of all levels — from iPhone to DSLR shooters. The workshop will begin at the Therien showroom, then move on to Hollywood at Home. Cost: $175, including lunch |
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HOME TOUR — Feb. 18, 2012, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Venice Modern Home Tour, Venice and Mar Vista, California
Go on a self-guided tour of nine architecturally progressive homes on Los Angeles' Westside. Featuring the work of Tighe Architecture, Ortiz Mexia Projects, Carson Architects, Glen Irani and others, the tour lets you peek inside these amazing homes and come away inspired. The houses were selected by Ingrid Spencer, contributing editor for Architectural Record.
Cost: $30 advance online purchase, $40 day of; free to children 12 and younger
Venice Modern Home Tour, Venice and Mar Vista, California
Go on a self-guided tour of nine architecturally progressive homes on Los Angeles' Westside. Featuring the work of Tighe Architecture, Ortiz Mexia Projects, Carson Architects, Glen Irani and others, the tour lets you peek inside these amazing homes and come away inspired. The houses were selected by Ingrid Spencer, contributing editor for Architectural Record.
Cost: $30 advance online purchase, $40 day of; free to children 12 and younger
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| EXHIBIT — Through Feb. 26 Terrarium Brooklyn Botanical Garden 900 Washington Ave., Brooklyn, New York The winter gloom can often inspire indoor gardens to bloom. On display at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden's Steinhardt Conservatory is a creative exhibit pairing delicate terrariums with art installations by Brooklyn artist Jae Hi Ahn. Ahn uses simple artificial materials such as plastic tubes and wires to pay tribute to the organic forms of the natural world. Long rows of terrariums housed in various vessels showcase unique miniature plant worlds on tables, while some of Ahn’s innovative sculptures hang from skylights. The garden is open until 4:30 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday until March 11 and until 6 p.m. from March 13 to November 4; weekday admission is free. |
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TULIP SHOW — March 3-April 8, 2012
Dallas Blooms, Dallas Arboretum, 8525 Garland Rd., Dallas
For an instant mood lifter, head to the Dallas Arboretum to admire an impressive display of more than 500,000 colorful flower varieties, including tulips, daffodils, Dutch iris and hyacinths, pansies, violas, poppies and thousands of other spring-blooming annuals and perennials. During this flower festival, cherry blossom trees will also bloom for a 10-day period.
While soaking in the blooming extravaganza, check out the exhibit Small Houses of Great Artists, built and designed by Bob Hoebeke of Hoebeke Builders and other Dallas architects. It will open to the public during Dallas Blooms and will run through Dec. 31, 2012. A fine art show and sale called ArtScape will also take place in the garden March 16-18, featuring the works of 100 artists from around the country.
Dallas Blooms, Dallas Arboretum, 8525 Garland Rd., Dallas
For an instant mood lifter, head to the Dallas Arboretum to admire an impressive display of more than 500,000 colorful flower varieties, including tulips, daffodils, Dutch iris and hyacinths, pansies, violas, poppies and thousands of other spring-blooming annuals and perennials. During this flower festival, cherry blossom trees will also bloom for a 10-day period.
While soaking in the blooming extravaganza, check out the exhibit Small Houses of Great Artists, built and designed by Bob Hoebeke of Hoebeke Builders and other Dallas architects. It will open to the public during Dallas Blooms and will run through Dec. 31, 2012. A fine art show and sale called ArtScape will also take place in the garden March 16-18, featuring the works of 100 artists from around the country.
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| LECTURE — March 6, 2012, 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. The Butler-VanderLinden Lecture on Architecture featuring Craig Dykers of Snøhetta Art Institute of Chicago, Rubloff Auditorium 111 South Michigan Ave., Chicago Join Craig Dykers, cofounder and principal of Snøhetta, for an engaging lecture highlighting his recent projects. Dykers runs an integrated architecture, landscape, and interior design practice in Oslo and New York. In recent years, the firm has won international competitions for important American projects, including an expansion of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the redesign of Times Square, and the National September 11 Memorial Museum Pavilion at the site of the World Trade Center (photo). Dykers is a fellow of the Institute for Urban Design in New York. Cost: $5 students, $10 A&D members, $15 public. Register online here. More 2012 design events: Feb. 4-24, Feb. 6-Mar. 2, 2012 What's on your calendar? Let us know in the Comments! |
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Jan Yatsko Another EVENT is the Philadelphia (PA) Flower Show, which I believe is held the first or second week of March.
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Janet Paik Hi Jan, thanks for the tip!
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Hoebeke Builders, Inc. Just wanted to Thank You for picking up the "Small Houses of Great Artists" article in conjunction with Dallas Blooms at the Dallas Arboretum! You can see more pictures of the "Houses" on my blog at www.dallasbuilder.blogspot.com
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