Artists: 2009 Telephone Factory Art Show Atlanta

I'm participating in Metamorphosis Monday at Between Naps on the Porch. Thanks to Susan! This used to be a telephone factory and it was built to last. Now it's an art, design, and coolness factory. Once a year we get a look inside. Design fans, you'll want to see the a few pictures of a French style collection in the postscript.

Fun art...


In this beautiful industrial building:


In lofts like this:


I did the Telephone Factory Art Show on Sunday. (I did the Fulton Cotton and Bag Mill tour on Saturday). Mark your calendar for next year: First weekend in December, great loft buildings, great lofts, great art, great people, great time.

Demone Phelps


Bradley Wade




By Matthew Mayes: end of hall Zen View


Matthew Mayes:


Artist / photographer Susan Poindexter showed photographs printed on a variety of fabrics. Recognize Rhodes Hall?


by Susan Poindexter:


By Mary Klein, a founder of the Telephone Factory Art Show


Alex Leopold


by Alex Leopold


Clay artist Gwen Fryar


by Gwen Fryar


Clay artist Lori Buff


Sir Fred Gear and his polar bear band


Jennifer Henley


by Jennifer Henley


Thanks so much.
Terry

P.S. A few design pix from Caryn Grossman - cg creative interiors to compliment Claire Watkins Interior Design's High Gloss Blue post. You need to click the pictures and make them bigger so you can see the details.











Thanks to Metamorphosis Monday at Between Naps on the Porch.

Bill Lowe Gallery, artist Tom Swanston, & the Peachtree Pointe Lobbies

It's what you should do; it's what architecture tourists want: put art galleries in great lobbies so the view changes from time to time. Building managers should do it rent free for vignettes like these featuring artist Lita Cabellut.






So it is with Bill Lowe Gallery in Two Peachtree Pointe. Peachtree Pointe by Smallwood, Reynolds, Stewart, Stewart & Associates, Inc. is a prominent terminal vista for Peachtree at Pershing Point - two curvy buildings that look like one. They are between WSB and The Temple in the Peachtree Street jumble.


Did you know that there is gallery in there, a spectacular space for spectacular art?


Bill Peace of Peace Design knows. Here's Bill (left) with one of his favorite artists, Tom Swanston.


Bill likes the birds which is no surprise once you see Tom Swanston's flocks of shiny silver and gold birds.




The birds seemed to fly from room to room.




Self portrait with the flock.


Mr. Lowe told me he'd designed the gallery for exploration. Up one balcony I found polar bears.


In an office this spectacular work by Hyunmee Lee.


I'd have a tough time sticking to business in this conference room.


So, you should go when you have a chance, when you are at the Peachtree Playhouse. or La Pietra Cucina.

See a little video?




All my pictures and videos from Bill Lowe Gallery that night.




One Peachtree Pointe has a lobby too, home of the SCAD Dewberry Gallery, a two-fer.

Family Room for Thanksgiving.

I'm participating in Metamorphosis Monday at Between Naps on the Porch. Thanks to Susan!

I'm eating a breakfast of champions: deviled eggs and pecan pie and I'm feeling very sentimental about family and home at Thanksgiving. Grandpa Joe arrives with pies (they brought 2 pumpkin, 2 pecan, and 2 dozen deviled eggs - 48 halves):


But this is about architecture and design, so I'm thinking about and thanking Bill Harrison and Gordon Stringer who gave our little house a big, flexible, comfortable, practical space for enjoying family.

We bunched our seating and brought in a expandable table from the laundry and were good to go. (20 years ago Gordon picked this table for our laundry and said we could expand it for eating.)




This week The Skirted Roundtable interviewed Alessandra Branca and Velvet and Lenin interviewed Windsor Smith. Both Ms. Branca and Ms. Smith emphasized rooms that get used, where people want to be.

That's what Bill and Gordon gave us: Space f0r families to cook, serve, entertain, converse, and collapse: Den, breakfast room, kitchen:


Here is the Russian Tea assembly line the night before:


Cheese puff extraction and testing (boy were they good this year). Wait a minute, maybe this was the sausage muffins.


Larry and his humans Deb and Dave came all the way from Florida. Our big room had enough space for his bed.


Grandson offers cheese puffs to Joe and Zella. You can't even tell that we bunched the furniture.


Young Nathan had plenty of space and was running out of the picture:


Emily took Nathan out for a cool-down:


There were little conversations everywhere




Michelle and JoAnn apply love to the dressing


JoAnn and Zella seem pretty pleased.


Some impromptu boyfriend/girlfriend dancing


Cooking space became a 2-sided buffet. David does the final inspection:




Chairs came from every corner (we did turn the TV off). Katherine is taking an early test bite while Nick rolls up his sleeves:


We ate until it hurt and ate some more...


Nathan finally had to take his mom and dad home; they needed a little nap:


The survivors finished with Scrabble, football, and G.I. Joe on the tube:


I tried to take this when they weren't looking:


Then they posed (your host in the red shirt). Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family.


Thanks so much.
Terry

P.S. Did you know that Rachel did a 1/2 marathon on Thanksgiving? And still made the cheese puffs?



P.P.S. The menu and Cheese Puff recipe (click to make them bigger)



The Cheese Puff recipe is odd. We didn't cook them long enough and had to put them back in the oven. We nearly had fights at the serving bowl trying to eat them. If you want to try these, call for insider advice. Click here to make the recipe BIG.



Thanks to Metamorphosis Monday at Between Naps on the Porch.