Nat Russell, Arkitip & Dwell
Posted on 29. Jun, 2010 by niki in Adrian Johnson, Artists, Mark Giglio, Nat Russell, News, Projects
To celebrate their 10th anniversary, Dwell collaborated with art magazine Arkitip and asked 10 artists to produce illustrations of 10 houses featured in the magazine.
A super cool print by our friend Nat Russell:
For surfer-sympathizer Nat Russell, a beach house in East Hampton, New York, seemed to align perfectly with his freewheeling characters found in surf shop-slash-design store Mollusk. “As far as I can tell, it’s sort of a modern super-functional, low maintenance weekend shack—I’m using that term really really loosely—for surfer and beach bros,” he says. To capture the dreamy, dune-situated house, Russell used pen and ink on very old paper so the lines bled into watery waves. The stars are scanned in from a vintage star map. In illustrating the beach house, Russell says his goal was as much about representing the house as it was about representing its unique location. “That’s one thing I’m into about architecture: Where it is and how it fits in,” he says. “As you can see in the print, I made it about the place the house is in, the big picture.”
The Dwell/Arkitip Artist Series prints will be sold at the Dwell on Design/A+R store at Dwell on Design, June 25-27 in Los Angeles, and on dwell.com in mid-September. Register now, and be first in line to grab one—they are definitely going to sell out!
Also available are prints by 2K artists Adrian Johnson and Mark Giglio.
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