• Art Home Design

    Downtown loft reflects owner’s passion for art and design | Home & Garden

    By Amy Burger Special to the Post-Dispatch The spacious downtown loft of stylist/salon owner Steve Lacy is a perfect reflection of his personal style and the things he loves. He moved in less than a year ago and has spent a great deal of time since making the space feel like home. Located in the Bankers Lofts building, its open layout and significant square footage, particularly for a one-bedroom, instantly drew him in. Lacy had been living in another, smaller loft downtown and considering a move to Houston before finding the apartment. When he decided to stay in St. Louis, he started looking for a new permanent home online, but…

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  • Landscape Design

    OPEN Architecture’s design for Shanfeng Academy reflects Suzhou’s garden heritage

    Imagined as a new cultural hub within an upcoming district in the city of Suzhou, China, the recently revealed design of the Shanfeng Academy by Beijing and New York-based firm OPEN Architecture has been conceived as an intervention in educational architecture that builds a bridge between the region’s heritage as well as its aims for the future. The project’s role in this regard is to serve as the focal point of a campus for a new K-12 international school, catering to a cohort of nearly 2,000 students. In tandem with this fundamental purpose, the development is also expected to function as an interface between the institution and the larger urban…

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  • Natural Landscape

    Sonoma County’s Knights Bridge Winery production facility reflects sustainability commitment

    Design of a new manufacturing constructing on the grounds of the Knights Bridge Winery positioned at 17134 Spencer Lane near Calistoga began in January 2020 is the latest in a collection of enlargement jobs that in the beginning bundled a hospitality middle, wine caves and a barn. The 14,000-sq.-foot Sonoma County facility opened Nov. 5, ready to make an approximated collective full of 10,000 situations of cabernet sauvignon, sauvignon blanc and chardonnay per 12 months. Found on the west facet of the Knights Valley appellation, the vintner’s assets has a practically 100-acre winery nestled near the base of Mt. St. Helena, at an elevation from 300 to 900 ft. This…

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  • Beautiful Art

    New Pin-Up Art and Home Decor Brand Reflects the Beauty of Black Women

    Pinup artwork, born in the period of madmen, has very long had a range challenge that has possibly misrepresented or completely disregarded Black gals. For this motive, premiere pinup artist, Thee JP Smith, has launched Betty D’Minx, a Black-owned line of pinup artwork solutions that superbly mirror Black girls. Betty D’Minx models are created and curated for partitions, tables, and bodies via eye-catching wall art and dialogue-starting up dinnerware with more products releases slated for early 2022. The layouts signify the unrepresented as people look for reflections of by themselves in the points they really like. Persons can beautify their areas and sites in a fashion they appreciate with gorgeous…

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    In a lecture at the Nasher, photographer Renee Cox reflects on her trailblazing career

    “Why are you waiting around for the environment to validate you?” In her Oct. 28 lecture hosted by the Nasher Museum, artist Renee Cox reflected on the power this quotation experienced on her. Stuck in a depressive, mid-lifetime slump, she realized that her total lifetime experienced been invested wanting to you should others and waiting around to be praised. This revelation not only taught her how to regulate her negative feelings, but served as the inspiration for her assortment “The Discreet Allure of the Bougie.”  “The Housewife Missy at Dwelling,” which is now on display screen at the Nasher Museum, serves as the introduction into the daring, assumed-provoking collection. In…

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