Slim's Pick'ins

Noted photographer, Slim Aarons spent his career posing himself as a fly on the fence panels of Hollywood's cognoscenti. His work is documented in a small but stunning collection of books. From a design slant, Poolside With Slim Aarons is the most satiating. Each image is a parable that illustrates the interplay between social harmony and tricked out landscape architecture. It's pictorial eavesdropping through the Baroque lens of Big Brother.

Louvre

The Louvre uncloaks it's Islamic collection from under an undulating sleeve of distressed metal.  At once engaging, it's fluid gesture against the rigid facade of the courtyard dares the occupier of the space to inch closer.  Cleverly, scale is maintained by the sine curve which grounds the structure comfortably within it's surroundings and maintains human proportionn.

Robert Frost

"The only way around is through"