Claire Lui

Claire Lui
Garden Design
Spontaneous City Bird Houses
By Claire Lui
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The artist collective London Fieldworks has been creating fantastic bird houses since 2008, sculptures that draw from sources as diverse as 1960s public housing, dictator's palaces, and more. Read More »
Related Topics:art| birdhouses| Design| London| Ideas
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Crazy Plant Trend of the Day: Books as Planters
By Claire Lui
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Gartenkultur of Italy transforms books into witty and whimsical planters, using hardback and paperback volumes to create an array of unusual planters. Read More »
Related Topics:Brown| Container gardening| crazy plant trend of the day| Green| plants| Container gardening
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Robert Irwin's Gardens at Dia:Beacon
By Claire Lui
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Artist Robert Irwin designed the gardens at Dia:Beacon and the result is a beautiful echo of both the building—a former factory—and the art inside, including works by Richard Serra and Donald Judd. Read More »
Related Topics:art| Dia| Green| Hudson Valley| landscape design| museums| New York| Robert Irwin| Travel| Ideas
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Garden Utensil Set
By Claire Lui
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Should you encourage your children to play with their food? Young gardeners might enjoy this set of utensils disguised as gardening tools. Read More »
Related Topics:crazy gardening product of the day| Entertaining| gifts| Green| kids| Pink| Products
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James Beard, Week 6
By Claire Lui
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Our slide show of snapshots from the James Beard garden renovation, fully complete! Read More »
Related Topics:Green| James Beard garden| New York| Paul Keyes| Red| renovation| small garden| White| Places
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The Gardens of Philadelphia's Rodin Museum
By Claire Lui
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Philadelphia's Rodin Museum sits on the city's Benjamin Franklin Parkway and just unveiled a massive renovation of its gardens by the landscape firm Olin. We take a tour of the newly renovated gardens. Read More »
Related Topics:Benjamin Franklin Parkway| garden photos| Green| landscape architecture| museums| Olin| Pennsylvania| Public gardens| Rodin museum| White| French
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Fashion Wednesdays: Lotus Flower Fabric
By Claire Lui
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In a small town in Southeast Asia, women use lotus flower fiber to weave a very rare and very expensive fabric. Originally meant for monks, the fabric is now being used by Italian fashion house Loro Piana, but the fabric remains banned in the United States. We take a look at how this sacred plant was transformed into a $5,600 jacket. Read More »
Related Topics:Beige| fabric| Fashion Wednesdays| Pink| plant fabrics| textiles| Products
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Links We Love, 7/27/2011
By Claire Lui
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An interivew with the new head gardener at Giverny (left), hunting for ferns with Oliver Sacks, and a new gardening magazine in today's Links We Love! Read More »
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Fashion Wednesdays: Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty
By Claire Lui
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Lines are out the door for the last few days of the Metropolitan Museum's Alexander McQueen show, "Savage Beauty." The natural world was a big inspiration for McQueen's work and we take a look at a few designs from the late, great designer that were directly influenced by flora and fauna. Read More »
Related Topics:art| Black| fashion| Fashion Wednesdays| Gray| museums| Pink| Purple| Ideas
Barbie Dream House
Links We Love, 8/8/2011
By Claire Lui
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Turning an old grill into a planter; Barbie's dream house, now with green roofs (right); Tom Colicchio's secret rooftop farm; a new giant fungus; how to can; thieves at community gardens; and more! All in today's Links We Love. Read More »
Related Topics:Green| links| links we love| Pink| Ideas
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