Jamie Gray of Matter
In New York it is often hard to catch up with people who are even just a couple blocks away. For this week’s interview, we decided to keep it local, and talk with Jamie Gray, the man behind Matter, the high-end furniture and design store right around the corner from Base’s New York office. More than just the proprietor of Matter, Jamie is also involved in the design of the store’s own furniture line, Matter Made. With an eye peeled for a bigger Manhattan space, Jamie took time out of his increasingly busy schedule to answer a few of our questions about how he got where he is today, and how he’s going to get where he wants to be tomorrow.
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Joanca contento entre letras
El pasado 10 de febrero me hicieron una entrevista en la radio sobre el extraño mundo del diseñador de tipos y otros temas colaterales al dibujo de las letras. Fue en el programa Extraradi de COM Ràdio.
Tras los nervios iniciales por el miedo a decir algo que no gustara a mi madre, demostré mi capacidad de hablar sobre tipografía sin freno. Al final los veinticinco minutos de entrevista se me hicieron incluso cortos.
Si quereis escucharlo podeis hacerlo aquí (la entrevista fue en catalán)
Anteriormente emitieron una entrevista a nuestra colega Laura Meseguer, en la cual hablaba sobre la exposición Helvetica, una nueva tipografía que puede verse hasta mediados de marzo en el DHub de Barcelona.
La intervención de Laura podeis escucharla aquí.
Architect Pierre Lhoas. None of us has ever seen him in a tie; we suspect this to be good photoshop work.
Pierre Lhoas is to Base what John Cage was to Merce Cunningham: a friend and like-minded collaborator who helps to push projects to greater heights. He has designed three of the six Base offices, two of the five Base partners’ houses … more
Ryan McGinness, an artist who works across the street from us at Base in New York, is friends with Tom of BaseWords. Over the last three years, they’ve volleyed back and forth an interview that has now been released as “The Q&A 500″ in Ryan McGinness Works (Rizzoli, 2009). A few select entries follow. … more
Okwui Enwezor
We met contemporary art curator Okwui Enwezor in 2005, when Base began designing the identity of San Francisco Art Institute, where he is Dean of Academic Affairs. He’s since curated the Second International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville (2006–07) and the 2008 Gwnangju Biennale, among many other exhibitions, and brought us on to design the identities of both. In that time, we’ve gotten to know Okwui as having an insatiable intellectual curiosity and, as a curator, a remarkable ability to assimilate and re-contextualize cross-cultural elements and orchestrate consistently surprising results. … more
India Mahdavi (photo by E Morin)
After a relaxing holiday hiatus, we dive into our 2009 interview series with our long-time friend, architect and interior designer India Mahdavi. We first met India in Paris almost a decade ago and have since collaborated on projects for Jonathan Morr and more recently, NetJets. As recent articles in the New York Times “T” and Departures will attest, India is very much a part of a highly accomplished “next generation” who are already leaving their mark on the world of design. … more
India Mahdavi
After a relaxing holiday hiatus, we dive into our 2009 interview series with our long-time friend, architect and interior designer India Mahdavi. We first met India in Paris … more
Marcio Kogan with his team
[Para ler a versão em português clique aqui]
A few years back I had the opportunity to visit the freshly built house of my good friend Helena Montanarini, widely recognized as an arbiter of style … more
Marcio Kogan
[Para a versão em português clique aqui]
A few years back I had the opportunity to visit the freshly built house of my good friend Helena Montanarini, widely recognized as an arbiter of style … more
Photographer Martien Mulder
To sit down with Martien Mulder’s work is to forget the troubles of the world. Like a spa without the new age music. … more
