Angela Adams, a Maine Event

Irwin Weiner ASID - When I received the Angela Adams postcard in the mail last week, I paused and saw tapestries and rugs that were a bit brighter and a lot more daring and colorful than the norm. I thought of clients loving them for home decorating in "bright light" cities like Miami and Los Angeles . . . or my hometown of Cape Town, South Africa. Angela and her husband - who handles the furniture making side of the Angela Adams business - are happily ensconced in beautiful Portland, Maine, and you'll hear Angela in the following video

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It's Only Art; We Can Make More

Matt Newton for The Australian

Irwin Weiner ASID - Frank Stella famously said, "Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real." Australian math-and-gambling tycoon David Walsh put together MONA, the Museum of Old and New Art, and it's filled with Walsh's personality, to spectacular effect. 

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Do You Like the New Contemporary Architecture in Town?

Habitables

Irwin Weiner ASID - Contemporary architecture is often used by a city or town as a drawing card for tourists and a lightning rod for other urban design projects, e.g. a corridor of art galleries and museums. Bilbao is probably the most famous example, with Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum Bilbao kickstarting that municipality's reputation, all of a sudden plunking down a modern, spaceship-like building in the midst of traditional architecture.

I like the way Nottingham Contemporary, the art museum in the England (see photo above), shot a promotional video and used

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Axel Vervoordt - Interiors that Respect the Old

Architectural Digest

Irwin Weiner ASID - The contributions of Belgium designer, collector, furniture maker, architect, and renaissance visionary Axel Vervoordt are exemplary. He combines all the elements I've ever admired in a designer: a love of raw space, a respect for multiple periods and levels of architecture, admiration of objects for their intrinsic interest and beauty, and a love of the eclectic. Everyone has copied the furniture that he made famous years ago - beautiful

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