TedWells living : simple

April 2008

Ted Wells living : simple LLC

949. 495. 6009

ted (at) tedwells.com

1996-2008 (c) TWLS, LLC.

We are busy updating the website, so at this time, you will not be able to link to larger images. Sorry.

Urban and community planning, landscape urbanism, and new paradigms in neighborhood space, have been the focus of my work for the past year. Soon, many of these urban spaces will be under construction and will have images and links on these pages. It’s an exciting time to be creating new, humane, spaces.

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It’s all about LIGHT and FURNITURE.

New lighting designs in copper, bronze, steel, and mica. New furniture designs in sustainable hardwoods.

Sconces, table lamps, floor lamps, hanging lamps for house and garden. Benches, tables, stools, and sofas: casual, practical, and comfortable. The designs are being built now and as soon as the pieces are finished, I’ll post the photos here. These light fixtures are made of solid copper and bronze blocks, bars and rods. To soften the light, I’m using mica, the flakes of translucent natural mineral, in a beautiful shade of olive green, a color I have not seen used in mica lighting fixtures.

If you would like to receive a PDF catalogue of the newest lighting fixtures and furnishings, please email me, ted (at) tedwells.com.

Podcast

Architecture and design can make your life better, or worse. In these free podcasts, I explore what we can learn from celebrated architects and designers, and the houses, buildings, gardens, and objects they create.

Click here to visit the podcast page and download or subscribe to the podcasts. You don’t need an iPod to listen.

This week’s podcast:

Hangover House: Obscure Modern Masterpiece

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Writing

My new book, about the mid-century modernist architect, Harwell Hamilton Harris, will be published by Gibbs Smith Publisher in 2009. This year, besides finishing the text, photographer John Ellis and I are finishing the photography of twenty-two of Harris’ houses.

Speaking

May 9, 2008

“Greene & Greene: Individual Lives, Collective Dreams”

2008 Distinguished Guest Lecture Series, sponsored by Saddleback College’s Emeritus Institute, Mission Viejo, California.

May 9, 2008

“Architects of Vision”

Orange County Society for Humanistic Judaism

October 17, 2008

“Greene & Greene: Individual Lives, Collective Dreams”

2008 David Gebhard Memorial Lecture, sponsored by Pasadena Heritage, Craftsman Weekend.

November 6 & 13, 2008

“Modernism Interrupted: The Architecture and Art of Cuba”

University of California, Irvine, Osher Institute of Lifelong Learning. Two-week course.