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One of the best interior designers right now IMO. Eclectic, cozy and colorful yet simple and chic.
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Dec 9, 2024
She’s been my favorite since her work caught my eye on Tumblr, circa 2016. She photographs buildings, primarily in Southern California, where I live. You can find her on Instagram as casualtimetravel.
Southern California is naturally beautiful, but most of what’s been built here is based around cars - wide streets, strip malls, big parking lots - and there isn’t much beauty to be found in it.
Lots of photographers take photos of banal American architecture, but typically they seem to try to show it as ugly and soulless. Which, fair enough. SV looks at that architecture and shows us something else.
Her compositions are clever and precise, bringing elements together in brightly lit, complex compositions. The light is key for me. She embraces midday sun and its clear colors and sharp shadows. It’s what it feels like to live here where the beaming sun is an almost-daily presence.
But what really shines in her work, what I fall for every time, is the sense of humor that comes through her photos. I can imagine her smiling as she composes them, happy to see how she can bring the elements together for the viewer. Yes, the dull architecture is there, but it’s been cropped and composed into something almost whimsical.
It’s always there, in the supermarket parking lot, the back of a strip mall, the stucco facade of an office building, it just takes an artist to show it to us.
Feb 12, 2025
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A great place to start if you want to learn about design. Each week she focuses on a new subject (a designer, movement, object—mostly furniture/architecture/interiors but touches on all kinds) and does one post a day about the subject. 7 posts in total. There is so much design content on ig and so little of it gives any credit to the designer much less any background. A sweet way to incorporate some learning into your day.
@ james_zemaitis is another informative design account. The director of R and Co., a heavy hitting design gallery in NYC, his content is mostly about current exhibitions (all over the country/world not just nyc) and gives context and background to the pieces as well as some interesting lil facts. The type of info that is surprisingly hard to find if you’re just googling.
Jan 30, 2024
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