Notting Hill Tube Station Posters

Last spring, when an upgrade to London’s Notting Hill Gate Underground station uncovered an abandoned passageway filled with vintage posters from the late 1950s, the dingy, worn posters seemed an apt metaphor for the century-old medium itself.

 

courtesy London Underground

Made in Internet

Joe McKay, my colleague here at Purchase College, gives new meaning to the ubiquitous progress bar.  His contribution to Made In Internet, a showcase of short video forms created by web artists, gives new meaning to Purchase’s large, blank architectural spaces. 

 

Dansk House

Slipping under the radar is this landmark house, owned by Theodore D. Nierenberg, founder and president of Dansk, whose cookware, flatware and dinnerware embodied Scandinavian Modernism for many Americans. Listed at seven and a half million dollars, the house is here in Westchester County, in a neighborhood better known for the headquarters of IBM headquarters and massive McMansions.  Utterly unique, Nierenberg’s house was the only building planned by Dansk’s chief designer, Jens Quistgaard.