Hemingway's Villa in Cuba
54 photos
2010
Quito
41 photos
Peru
11 photos
Ollantaytambo
8 photos
Cuenca, Ecuador
70 photos
Cuenca's historic colonial centre is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The city is also a key cultural city in Ecuador
Ecuador
167 photos
Uzhupud, Ecuador
56 photos
In a beautiful valley just a bit less than an hour outside of Cuenca
Museo de Oro
40 photos
The gold museum in Bogotá that anthropologist Michael Taussig called "My Cocaine Museum" in his book of that name. The pre-contact history of Colombia told through its gold artifacts.
Colombia
199 photos
April 2014, Medellín (including UN Habitat World Urban Forum) and Bogotá
Medellín Colombia
35 photos
The botanical gardens, the Pueblita Paisa and Museum, etc.
Medellín, Comuna 13 escalators
9 photos
UN HABITAT - WORLD URBAN FORUM 7
19 photos
Medellín, Colombia, April 5-12, 2014
Japan 2008
153 photos, 1 video
Tokyo - Asakusa
Kappabashi kitchen shop district, Asakusa
Matsumoto City, Matsumoto-ji castle
Snow monkeys (macaques at the hot springs north of Nagano)
Nagano
Tokyo
Serenity/Firefly
23 photos
Clayoquot Sound
106 photos
Vancouver Island
100 photos
Northern BC/Muskwa Kechika
208 photos
Trip to Northern BC and pack horse trip through the Muskwa-Kechika area in the N. Rockies, June/July 2012
A Globe and Mail journalist, Bruce Kirkby, was on our leg of the journey. This is his story...
British Columbia
442 photos, 1 video
Most of these photographs were taken on Vancouver Island.
Vancouver
454 photos, 2 videos
Vancouver's downtown eastside and beyond:
Strathcona - home/studio
Chinatown
The port
Hastings Street:
The Ovaltine Cafe, the Astoria
Main Street
Commercial Drive
Downtown
Yaletown
West...
Habitat Forum - public
1 photo
Public photos from my research on a book about Vancouver's Habitat Forum of 1976 (UN Habitat Conference on Human Settlements).
habitat76.ca
Antarctica
82 photos
All photos by my mother, Alix.
March 2012
Photos are mostly of Deception Island and the area of Antarctica closest to Argentina. Photo descriptions and more photos coming soon.
India 2012
650 photos
Delhi Jan 12 - 19, 2012
Jaipur Jan 19 - 25 (Jaipur Literature Festival)
Delhi Jan 25 - Jan31 (India Art Fair)
Goa & environs Feb 1 - Feb 10
Bangalore/Mysore/Karnataka Feb 10 - 14
Mumbai Feb 14 -...
Jaipur Literature Festival 2012
61 photos
jaipurliteraturefestival.org/program-2011/speakers-2012/
More on the Rushdie episode at the festival here:
blog.ounodesign.com/2012/01/29/salman-rushdie-jaipur-lite...
Taliesin West 2011
29 photos
Most photos are disallowed at Taliesin West so I had to sneak a few at awkward angles.
Blog post here: ounodesign.com/2012/01/08/taliesin-west-frank-lloyd-wright/
I'm not a fan of Taliesin West...
Arcosanti
42 photos
Arizona
190 photos
Dec/Jan 2011
Architecture:
Taliesin West
Arcosanti
Chapel of the Holy Cross, Sedona
Places:
Phoenix
Scottsdale
Carefree
Sedona
Grand Canyon
Petulia, 1968
30 photos
The Monkees
68 photos
The Monkees ran from 1966-1968, cancelled after only three seasons. They were hired to play a Beatles-like band, but the interesting thing is that they kept their actual names, and did in many ways...
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
22 photos
Screenshots from the film, Altman's third film and the first Hollywood film to be shot in Vancouver. It was shot in chronological sequence, a rarity but necessary as it shows the building of a town...
Occupy Vancouver
125 photos
October 15, 2011 - ?
I am listing these photos as Creative Commons, but please attribute to Lindsay Brown if you repost or publish. Thanks.
Vancouver Art Gallery, in the centre of the financial...
Gallina loca
8 photos
1. Gallina loca, ancient ceramic from Teotihuacan, Mexico.
2. Papier mache drag chicken, made after school by myself when I was 10. From recipe we got at school. Chicken wire base, papier mache on...
Jericho Wharf demolition
58 photos
August 2- , 2011
habitat76.ca/2011/08/habitat-forum-jericho-beach-marginal...
Demolition of the historic Jericho Beach wharf and apron from the historic Jericho Beach Flying Boat Station (WWI and...
Bumpity Camel by Jim Willer
13 photos
Psychedelic rocking camel by B.C. artist/novelist Jim Willer, handmade in the late 60s/early 70s. It was one of a series (our cousins had one too). When we were kids it used to have a blue wooden...
Cuba
305 photos
Cuba, December 2010 - January 2011
Havana, Holguin, Cienfuegos, Trinidad, Santa Clara
Bobby Deerfield
10 photos
Bobby Deerfield, 1977 film starring Al Pacino and Marthe Keller
Excellent interiors
Design books
140 photos
101 Nights by Bill Richardson
11 photos
101 Nights
Add a ladle every night
To every ladle, add a light
This is an installation by Vancouver writer and broadcaster Bill Richardson, inside the old shopfront windows of his Edwardian house...
The Practical Encyclopedia of Good Decorating and...
50 photos
The Practical Encyclopedia of Good Decorating and Home Improvement, 1970
This many-volumed encyclopedia is an amazing compendium of mod decor and apocalyptic design disasters all mixed together....
Film & TV stills
195 photos
Logan's Run, Aeon Flux, Blade Runner, Mon Oncle, The Trojan War, Serenity, Malcolm, It Might Get Loud
Game of Thrones
3 photos
Design Book - More Furniture in 24 Hours
28 photos
Furniture and furniture plans with a Gerrit Rietveld influence, from the book More Furniture in 24 Hours, by Spiros Zakas, 1970, St. Martin's Press.
Make your own furniture - some of these designs...
Nest Quarterly: Magazine of Interiors
31 photos
RIP Nest: Quarterly of Interiors, 1997 - 2004
Many design magazines died in 2008 and 2009, but I miss Nest far more.
Mathematical Models
21 photos
My dad, Alan Brown, and I built four stellated polyhedra (star-shaped, many-sided platonic solids) when I was about 12. Dad, a mathematician and math teacher, used the book shown here as a resource...
Little church becomes a house/studio
97 photos
This little building was once the Good Shepherd Mission, the first Anglican mission to the Chinese population in Canada. It's in Strathcona, Vancouver's oldest neighbourhood, a few blocks east of...
Converted church house, Vancouver
94 photos, 1 video
This little church building is located in Strathcona, Vancouver's oldest neighbourhood. It's walking distance from Vancouver's present-day downtown. The church was originally known as the Good...
Bamboo
25 photos
Very old bamboo grove sending up obscenely large shoots. Vancouver, BC. I'm guessing it's Phyllostachys vivax.
Master Bathroom
28 photos
All the woodwork in this bathroom was made by my brilliant cabinetmaker/woodworker friend Vladimir Moukhanov - steps, shelves, wardrobe, white cabinet, furnace cabinet. It's hard to photograph. You...
Garden
21 photos
Mexico City
130 photos
2010
Washington DC
34 photos
California
46 photos, 1 video
Solar Decathlon Houses - DC
26 photos
Solar house competition sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy. Washington DC, October, 2009. In the pouring rain.
Alvaro Siza church
12 photos
This is the Parish Church Complex of Marco de Canevezes, Portugal. It was designed by Portuguese architect Alvaro Siza with Rolando Torgo and completed in 1990.
Blogged here...
Japan
185 photos, 1 video
Greece
18 photos
Scanned postcards, original photos
New York
187 photos, 1 video
New York
Graphic design & art
34 photos
Montreal '76 Olympics graphics
Vancouver mega-casino
27 photos
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Textiles
66 photos
Ouno Design studio
80 photos
Our studio is an old wooden converted mission church near Vancouver's Chinatown. If you would like higher res versions of these photos for press purposes, please contact us.
For more info go to...
Press - Ouno Design
37 photos
Newest is at the top.
This is a sampling of some of the best of our magazine press:
Oprah at Home Magazine
Canadian House & Home
Altered Couture
Lucky Magazine
Craft Magazine
Vancouver...
Pillows from Vintage Textiles by Ouno Design
88 photos
For more info go to www.ounodesign.com/ or our blog at blog.ounodesign.com or our Etsy shop at www.ouno.etsy.com
We like pillows because each one is like an abstract painting. By moving pillows...
Throws, quilts & bedding by Ouno Design
27 photos
For more info go to www.ounodesign.com/ or our blog at blog.ounodesign.com or our Etsy shop at www.ouno.etsy.com
Ouno Design is a studio of handmade home decor and fashion accessories. We're in the...
Screens, dividers, rugs and other accessories
15 photos
Ouno Design will be featuring a new line of hanging room dividers in Ouno Design. For news please see our links below.
Screens are seen here in our studio is an old wooden converted mission church...
Bags from vintage and salvaged materials by Ouno...
32 photos
Ouno Design turns salvaged and vintage leather, upholstery textiles, and many other materials into good-looking but sturdy and practical bags. Many are messenger-sized and will fit a laptop. The...
Ouno Design - blog photos
536 photos
To see these photos in context, go to the blog at blog.ounodesign.com
These photos are materials for my design blog. Apologies if some of the vintage images are reproduced here against the will of...
Blog oddities
98 photos