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 We live in a Golden Age of interior design, style, books, art, and fashion. Hyper-informed style nomads fly on a wing and a prayer from one provocative design celebration to the next. Chartreuse silk taffeta, recycled-redwood timber, Benin bronzes, Afro-Cuban music, Bulgari rings, Fendi bags, Rembrandt, stock charts, paintings at the Frick and the Villa Borghese, Prada shoes, Aveda elixirs, Fellini movies, and Blossfeldt's sexy nature icons are advanced nutrition for hungry imaginations. Energetic architects and clear-minded interior designers around the world draw on and distill the best of three thousand years of building, fine art, music, decorating, poetry, weaving, philosophy, science, geography, and kitsch to create rooms and dwelling places of character and style. Borrowing from Borromini and Bernini, quoting Le Corbusier, and whispering Shakespearean sonnets, architects and visionaries trip the light fantastic over the landscape. Trends swoop in and inevitably stay, to become permanent letters in the lexicon of design. Culture, high and low, is gobbled up by voracious time-travelers, Harley-driving designers, on-line auction addicts, and worldly writers. New mass-market products, this-minute hotel decor, cooler-than-thou fashion accessories, jerky electronic images, Renaissance paintings, contemporary photography, movie and video sets, Fifties cartoons, all nurture our restless hearts. Fashion has become a frenzied free-for-all. In design, the past, the future, and the present collide. Hippie love beads become today's power beads. Join us for the ride. |
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There is no avant-garde. There are only people who are a little late. -- EDGAR VARESE In Japan, we have the expression, Shoshin, which means "Beginner's mind". The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner's mind. Our "original mind" includes everything within itself. This does not mean the closed mind, but actually an empty mind and a ready mind. If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything. In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few. --SHUNRYU SUZUKI |
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