Currents: 7.26.07

Currents

Len Brackett's Japanese-style Summer House — a $19,000 kit to assemble your own.

Going Green: 20 Eco-Friendly Designs for a Healthier Life at the Shelburne Museum in Vermont.
Italian collective Archizoom's namesake chair at M2L.
Jean-Louis Domecq's 1950 design for the Jieldé lamp, reissued in new colors.
Frederick Wessler's digital prints of household objects.

(Pics: Max Whittaker, Frederick Wessler)

Comments (6)

$19,000 for that (Summer House)???? I went on the link to see what it looked like finished, only to find out, it is finished. You could build that (a reasonable facsimile) with nails instead of jointery for 1,500 and a few weekends.

posted by greeps on July 27th 2007 at 5:16am
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joinery, not jointery. sorry, bad typist

posted by greeps on July 27th 2007 at 5:17am
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He's selling the romance of traditional Japanese design.

posted by wende in the twin cities on July 27th 2007 at 5:45am
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It's more like he's selling a "bill of goods".

posted by gordon on July 27th 2007 at 6:21am
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I agree--waaaay overpriced for this shelter, it doesn't look all that special, design-wise, though I do see the pegs--In Pittsburgh, where I live, you can actually buy a fixer-upper house for $19,000!

posted by polkadot on July 27th 2007 at 8:52am
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Looks like a bus stop to me.

posted by petro on July 27th 2007 at 6:39pm
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