When SURFACE Magazine’s CONCEPT House in Bolinas, California was sold, this sculptural table designed by JOHNHOUSHMAND was deemed a tad too dicey for the new owners with their young children. As the adage goes, “Children change everything (especially white sofas)”.
Now, this amazing piece is back on the market, and on display at our LA showroom in the Pacific Design Center (PDC). It is truly a one-of-a-kind piece, pedigreed, signed, and numbered.
Thank you SURFACE!
When the summer season hits New York, throngs of city dwellers head east to the Hamptons. The towns of this region are known for their privet and shingled homes that the upper crust developed into havens of relaxation. Each year one home is used to showcase top-notch designers and what they can do with space as well as to raise money for a local charity. For the 2009 installment, the home is located at 179 David’s Lane in Water Mill and money is being donated to benefit Southampton Hospital. Doors are open to visitors from July 26 – September 6 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and when they enter they will be swept away.
One designer chosen for this year’s home is Janna Bullock. Her designs are organic, modern, artistic and make you yearn to be able to usher her sensibilities into your home to create an oasis of beauty and function. John Houshmand’s designs have been chosen for her private clients previously and we are honored that for the showhouse she has opted to incorporate our No. 0098.1 starfire glass side table with intersecting Black Walnut as well as our No. 0149 bent acrylic chair with Black Walnut legs.
So, if you find yourself able to get away to the Hamptons between now and Labor Day, pay a visit to this incredible home and tell our No. 0098 and No. 0149 that we hope their shore time is treating them well and we are more than a tad jealous of their opportunity to get away for an extended vacation.
For more information on the Hamptons Designer Showhouse you can visit: http://www.hamptondesignershowhouse.com and to see Janna Bullock’s portfolio you can visit: http://jannabullock.com/. Our work with Janna can be seen on both websites and in particular on her own under project 14297. Moreover, our No. 0098 and No. 0149 as well as the panoply of our designs are on view at www.johnhoushmand.com , which we revamped for easier navigation and now includes architectural projects we have done.
The Root Table, 68 x 68 x 22.25 inches, inquire for pricing
Whatever happened to the good ol’ days when you saw something you liked and went into a store to learn more about it or called to inquire? It seems the transition to an online culture is inevitable for a business, and so we have decided to strike out into the mix of social networking to spread the word about the wild work we do. If you are on Facebook, you can become a fan of John Houshmand Design on our fan page. If you are on Twitter, you can follow the latest observations and news from our team. Or if you are Linked In, please come link to us. Spread the word and encourage your friends and colleagues to delve into any or all of our interfaces because each pulses in a different manner. Or…if you like to do it the old fashioned way, please call us at 212.965.1238 or email us at info@johnhoushmand.com. We look forward to meeting you on line!
It will not surprise anyone to learn that John Houshmand studied sculpture with Irwin Hauer at Yale in his undergraduate days. His furniture design reflects qualities he learned with this tutelage, and John continues to pursue making sculpture inspired by his roots. His sculptures are created to evoke a resonance within the viewer’s mind and body. Each piece’s essence is a primordial form with a specific psycho-emotional power. These forms are then executed within a material selection that is at the same time sensual, natural, and insistent. A specific signature is added to each that might be the cast hand of the artist’s own, or the addition of a tiny tree as an origination device.
The intention is to create an experience of creation and bind it to the unique personal act of self-remembering. What is given is essential form or template, manifestation into the world, and then personalization. The forms are actually geometries of the spirit, melodies of the invisible, vectors of the primordial. Real forms that have real force and power. The arch, the spiral-helix, the ladder, the tree, and the bow are all archetypical forms, each with an eternal and insistent imperative.
The seed becomes the tree becomes the seed becomes the tree. As above, so below; as within, so without.
The work is currently on view at hous projects gallery until June 18 so run, do not walk, over and discover a new dimension of John Houshmand.
