Jaguar XK-E by Emma Syniuk
elegant contours
graceful catlike performance
supple speed
Design
All posts tagged Design
“Stonehenge” by Tom Tiedeman
mortise and tenon
sacrosanct joinery
mystic of power
conveyed by a secret
artisanal oath upon
female and male
conjugation that
beautiful passion
of natural biology
lending its form
to the function of
structure who wants
of a durable union
a coupling contrived
for the useable ages
fine fitted precision of
desert-set pyramids
sarsen stone henges
Homeric sleek galleys
the chair and the desk
where this gray-bearded
stiff-fingered poet
declaims all and sundry
his odd bits of trivial
knowledge that seem
best recorded if only
in doggerel verses
before they’re forgotten
Photo from Official Fallingwater Website
bold
stone
dwelling
integrates
function and form in
organic outgrowth of landscape
employing remarkable cantilevered design
wright had an uncanny sense of genius loci
parts in harmony with the whole
entailed with nature
continuous
presence
that
lives
Emblem of the
Bauhaus Art Movement
From arteest.org
modernity given expression
artistic design reimagined
a philosophy of function
schooled architects painters
and sculptors in industry
rendered a new generation
of socialized landscapes
cosmopolitan cradles bore
creatures of brash western
civilization whose stark
unambiguous features grew
into a twentieth century
blunt iconography marking
the civilized west until
finally running its gray austere
course it gave rise to return
of postmodern aesthetics
“Beneath the Shining Sea”
Feng Shui Painting by Sofan Chan
From painters-online.co.uk
harmony of things
language of geomancers
living with the world
in auspicious arrangement
spaces speaking energy
Poesy plus Polemics 