Serpentine Pavillions

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2010

Designed by Jean Nouvel© Ateliers Jean Nouvel

Photographs: John Offenbach

All images sourced via serpentinegallery.org

Inflorescence: obesa nursery

Images from the Obesa nursery located in Graaff-Reinet, South Africa. Despite the dizzying 36+ degree heat I had a very happy day wandering about this amazing cacti garden. Founded by C.J. Bouwer the collection is over 35 years old and houses some 7000 species of plants. Particularly captivating was this Encaphalartos altensteinii apparently, a young female plant about 13 or-so years old grown from seeds, with its enormous bright orange cone or 'inflorescence':

'You may feed the wolf as you will; he has always a hankering for the woods.'

- Ivan TURGENEV, Notes of a Hunter (1852)



Silver Mine is part of a larger video installation by Eva Wollenberg 
Originally discovered via Minimal Exposition

'Bold Constructions' Another Magazine by Viviane Sussen

'Bold Constructions' Another Magazine fall/winter 2009
photographer: Viviane Sassen
stylist: Mattias Karlsson
hair: Taco Stuiver @ house of orange
makeup: Mascha Meier @ house of orange
models: Kinee Douf, Awood










Source: TFS (click for high resolution versions)

Russian Typography

Stills from the title sequence of part 3 '1812' of Sergei Bondarchuk's Voyna i mir (1967)