The main room is somewhat disguised in this photo with a photoshop whitewash - I did this to see what the wooden ceiling would have looked like had I painted it white as I originally intended. Painting it white would have been much, much easier than sanding and bleaching it, but in the end it was an inferior option. The trusses would have looked thin and dinky, and the effect would have been colder or blander, less substantial and solid. The wood gave the place warmth and solidity, and the fact that the floor and ceiling are parallel expanses of tongue-and-groove boards seemed important.
The room is also used as our Ouno Design showroom. The building is the old Good Shepherd Mission, once a well-known little wooden church in Vancouver's Chinatown. See the set description for more information. The actual textile studio is in the back, but we use the floor in the main room on cutting/assembling days.
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See this Flickr set's description for more information on converting a small church to a house, 2002-2010, or read my blog post about it at:
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Stellated polyhedra in our studio with vintage chairs, ceramics and a hand-appliqued pillow (vintage print appliqued onto Knoll upholstery fabric). The polyhedra were made by my father, Alan Brown and I, when I was 11 or 12.
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If you focus on just one colour at a time, you can see that each colour is a triangular pyramid, for a total of 5 intersecting pyramids.
This is a stellated polyhedron that my mathematician father and I made from scratch when I was about 12. We used only a geometry set, my father's complicated calculations, mayfair cover stock, glue and some tempera paints. And some dental floss to hang it from the kitchen ceiling, where it and 2 others hung for over a decade. "Stellated polyhedron" just translates as "many-sided shape with star-like protrusions" (rather than the geometric solids that are faceted rather than spiky). My friend Doug calls them platonic solids rather than polyhedra, and that is the sort of nerdy conversation that goes on around here.
To make all these models, my father consulted the excellent vintage text "Mathematical Models, 2nd Edn" by H. M. Cundy and A.P. Rollett, Oxford University Press, 1951. You can usually find used copies of it on Abebooks.
For more information, read the description for the whole set.
Short article on our models is here: blog.ounodesign.com/2009/04/29/stellated-polyhedra-mathem...
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Decor accessories for modern interiors. Pillows made from salvaged textiles and vintage coats.
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