//from Mondrian to Jil Sander
//This last year you saw it with Jil Sander, Prada, and Calvin Klein. Decades ago you saw it first with Piet Mondrian. Color blocking is not at all a new concept. Its a totally fun approach to the concept of minimalism. Segment a select few colors into a composition and you have a super fantastic energy just bursting with personality. Its totally approachable and thoroughly interesting! Just do it…
-jAKE
//perfectly androgynous
//I love love something fresh, something totally new and interesting. I also love androgyny. Brad Ford is absolutely fresh in his design approach. They are totally delicate but still hold a fantastic masculine quality. His design is like a perfectly androgynous 20-something siting in a chic cocktail joint in the West Village. I have talked about this before. A space with a perfect masculine/feminine balance. Its sublime.
-jAKE
//Form as Function
// Functionless form is a total waste of mass. If sculpture is to exist let it be beautiful but for reason. Even if its only reason for existence is to be beautiful….then my god please let it be beautiful. I agree that this particular house is not the best example of beauty or harmony in architecture. As it fails in beauty it totaly succeeds in its most obvious feature. There is such a fabulous function to the homes side partition. A home in such close proximity to other homes doesn’t allow for much privacy. This did not keep this home owner from creating a contemporary space with such generous windows. Ahhh tumblr, I am back
-jAKE
//can we talk about stairs?
//stairs. without thinking about how many, how dangerous, or how you wish there was an elevator, you have to agree that a splendid set of stairs is really an experience. The idea that it will take you somewhere entirely different then where you are is really quite interesting. I love these ones!
-jAKE
//taking color in doses
//after my last project my teacher, in humor but in some seriousness, tells me how she worries my portfolio will end up with no color. Its true! Furthermore, that same day our class was blessed with an amazing designer critic that works for the colorful and charismatic Jamie Drake. So it is after Darrins wonderful suggestions that I bring you color! Lots of it! …and all from Jamie Drake Associates. So, I will tell you this. I have taken my first step forward…I have just added a neutral to my next project. Expect to see black, white, and mahogany this time around…I must take color in doses, you understand.
-jAKE
//S&M
//another project. The first of the semester actualy. With a long story behind it I will keep the discription brief. Its S&M inspired. Yes yes it is. It is ment to be an artistic and creative take on the subject. Do enjoy it… ;)
-jAKE
Maximalist then?
//bare with me in this fasinastion I seem to have with minimalism. Its quite new really and its something a designer needs to go through. Ive shared my thoughts… my many thoughts on minimalism. So, for this particular post I will let you think for yourself.
I will say this. I am not a minimalist. My peronalities, attitudes, styles, and ideas are not minimal in any way. Maximalist then? I think not. Perhaps I’m just the perfect balance.
-jAKE
//the born again blogger
//Lets pay attention and I will tell you an “oh so” familiar story. There was once a blogger (any blogger, most bloggers…me). This blogger began his blogging with great excitement and anticipation. The Internet!!! …he exclaims. The Internet is the future! You are nothing if you do not exist within the Internet! So this blogger blogged with this same enthusiasm and excitement. I was on particular one day (he moved to the big city)when this particular blog, once loved and cherished, was throne amongst all the other “unattended” blogs. Like a toy it was pushed away and set between the rejected dolls…*gasp*!
~the end~
Story time is done. The blogger ends up rekindling his deep feelings for his blog and jacobdesigns is thus reborn. So ya, I will be paying a lot more attention to jacobdesigns. Expect a good two posts a week. jacobdesigns…still bipolar but a little less manic depressive. Hope you enjoy and continue to read :)
Just a quick comment on these few pictures. Lighting is rapidly evolving. With incandescent slowly disappearing and with some amazing new innovations in LED lighting, we are seeing some really cool things happening. More and more you are seeing lighting used for aesthetic reasons and not just functional. This space is a great example. The architectural features of the room are emphasized with a new energy. LED lights wash the walls in all sorts of fantastic colors. This is modern in real time people!!! Expect to see it the midwest by lets say…….2040.
-jAKE
//the pied-à-terre ofMr and Mr Delancey
//I have used tumblr now for perhaps a little over one year (I’m a bipolar tumbler user shall we say?). Its been so good for me to share with you all my inspirations. An inspiration is truly such a personal thing. An inspiration can be a force strong enough and powerful enough to govern countries, to build the worlds most impressive buildings, and even to design a timeless interior. It could be that these few inspirations that I share with you could lead you to your own inspirations. If anything it can help direct you some good taste haha.
This post is a result of my many inspirations. I havnt yet posted my own work. Well here it is. This was my most recent project. It is literally figurative. It doesn’t really exist! Even the clients, Mr and Mr delancey do not exist. But oh my, I wish they did! Hope you like. Happy Saturday :)
-jAKE
//sentimental about design
//Here are a few pictures I have stored away for one reason or another. I get all sentimental about the simplest aspects of design. It could be a simple molding or some ridiculous table accessory. This time it happens to be a staircase. How fabulous is the one pictured above. In this space it screams for attention. I love that. If I saw it surrounded by modern design I do not think I would take huge notice. This staircase stands against a humble background giving it a wonderful opportunity to express its vanity. Loves it! Hope you do too.
-jAKE
//some amazing talent, fantastic company and really good friends
//Its always hard to identify what the most current in modern aesthetic is. What is modern design today? It seems to me that these characteristics of design are more evident after time as helped to established them. Perhaps thats because these characteristics begin as trends. Its perhaps after a trend has stood the test of time that it can be establishedd as a style.
These pictures, from the Mondrian in South Beach, are some fabulous examples of what some real avant gard design looks like. This is modern today in real time. This is 2011. This minimalism perfected. This is design at its best. This is just so uber sexy.
The Interior Design Club just got back from our annual trip. This year it was Miami Florida. Long dinners and a hand full to many cocktails kinda become the priority. But ultimately, this time was spent with some amazing talent, fantastic company and really good friends.
-jAKE
//my lusts…
//You cannot imagine the amount of potential inspiration you can get while living in New York City. I just wish posting and sharing each of these inspirations with you was possible. It kills me!! This week it was a new found cafe in Greenwich Village, an east village barber shop by day and fantastic lounge by night, a Yann Tersion concert, and some amazing history about Battery Park. With that said, finding time to post has been very difficult, but I will continue to share with you what I can!
Enjoy the pictures. These are some of my lusts. I hope they give you the same pleasure ;)
The city keeps handing me so many terrific things! Just after returning from my holidays back home, I found myself a barista job at a great new Cafe in Chelsea. Better yet, it’s a block from school. I tell people, I’m an interior designer, but my bohemian career will always be as a barista. I’m a bohemian with expensive taste guess.
I just finished project number two of semester number two. Perhaps a little hard to swallow…sorry again mom. It was fetish inspired. A project nowhere near crude but still with some sexual undertones. It got quit the response and a near perfect grade.
Last note…would you die to have that corner library/bar? (Forth picture down) I would.
-jAKE
//menswear to start crying over
Jill Sander fall 2011
Antonio Azzuolo fall 2011
Richard Chai fall 2011
//At the Fashion Institute, regardless of your major or interests, you somehow become absorbed by fashion week and its many suspense’s. I sit back from a distance. I watch and I listen. I will then pick my favorites. I pick them mostly for the architecture, for the colors, and the fabrics and finishes. I have thought, listed, and watched…here are my favorites so far!!! … now I just wait for Calvin Klein.
-jAKE
//white
//white
-jAKE
//the well groomed space
the standard hotel lobby
prada store, soho
united nude store, soho
//I’m a design snob, but I’m a humble one. I know what I like and and what I do not. Whats more, is I tell everyone!!! With that said I would like to share with you a few of my top picks of best New York City designs. I love a well groomed commercial space and each of these happens to be just that.
-jAKE
