You may have seen the Fallingwater Lego Set already, but architecture geeks, get ready, my favorite house is now available in a LEGO version. It’s The Farnsworth House! Hooray!

Check out the details here.

By the way, if you are a big fan of The Farnsworth House, you can learn more about how to donate to its upkeep and how to visit here. It is pretty well recovered from a devastating flood, but I’m sure that really gave their budget an unexpected wallop.

Speaking of houses I’ve always wanted to gain access to, I could swear I just read somewhere about how to get into Eero Saarinen’s Miller House. Let me check…oh, so you can learn more here, compliments of The Indianapolis Museum of Art. Tours start May 10, and you need to make reservations. While I love the Farnsworth House and how it sits in the rather untouched flood plain (well, untouched by man, not by floods…), I’m dying to see the Dan Kiley landscape at The Miller House even more than I want to get into the house.

It’s never too early to start planning your midwestern architectural tour. Why not fly into Chicago, check out all of the architecture there, and take a road trip to Columbus Indiana?

I’m still trying to figure out what the relationship between Traditional Home and Lonny is; all I know is that it resulted in a love child. Said child is a digital magazine called Trad Home. I’m in the midst of perusing it, and it’s pretty nice. If you’ve checked it out, let me know what you think they are going for  – is it supposed to be like Traditional Home light? Do you think they would EVER feature Brad’s redecoration of Jill Zarin’s apartment that was on the cover of Traditional Home last year? Would you call it “less traditional homes”? Can you feel me biting my tongue trying not to make a comment about a certain furniture polisher with the initials E.R.? Other thoughts?.

Click here to check out the premiere issue of Trad Home.

Also, do you have a favorite online magazine? I feel like I’m still getting to know all of them, and it seems like new ones pop up daily. Right now I’m still really enjoying Lonny (which seems like the grandmother of them all – the cool grandmother) and Rue and one from Australia I found the other day  – the name escapes me at the moment. Please let us know what you’re digitally flipping through in the comments section!

Cover image by Patrick Cline. Design by Lauren Gold and Sasha Adler of Nate Berkus Design.

So I was reading GOOP today (which I have wound up really liking, after initially rolling my eyes a bit at the whole “nourish the inner aspect” thing) and she led me over to Jay-Z’s new site, Life + Times. I think it’s perhaps a bit slow today because everyone is checking it out, but it’s quite fresh and fab and worth the wait, and full of all aspects of culture, from music to sports to architecture like this…

That reminds me, I’ve been meaning to order Jay-Z’s book, because Oprah told me to, and I do at least half of the things that Oprah tells me to do. Basically everything that does not involve the word “spirit.” Also because Jay-Z is awesome.

Picture from Studio Alhadeff Architects

Here’s a great way to HELP someone else and get a little something for yourself! Fatboy is once again introducing a fabulous new addition to the Fatboy Family — Fatboy jeans. To coincide with the launch, Fatboy is also launching its Fatboy “Let Go and Get” Campaign.

Here’s the deal

Most people own multiple pairs of jeans, which add up to a HUGE waste. So, in an effort to reduce and reuse, Design Public have teamed up with Fatboy to help them put your old jeans to a good cause. Just pack up those jeans and send them to the address below. Your old jeans will be donated to someone in need and in return for your efforts you’ll  receive 25% off your purchase of their newest addition to the Fatboy Family, Fatboy jeans. Sweet!

This promotion is based on the honor system: Just send your jeans to the address below and use coupon code LETGOANDGET at checkout for 25% off!

Fatboy USA
875 West Sandy Lake Road, Suite 100
Coppell, Texas 75019

About the Fatboy® jeans

Fatboy jeans is the brother of Fatboy® the original, but with a new look!  His new found, “blue gene” isn’t just some chemical make-up. No sir. This popular new addition is made of 98.7% organic denim. It is spectacularly modest, practical, relaxed and nonchalant. Take a look!

Take advantage of letting go and getting the newest member of the Fatboy® family now through May 6th.

I think I have a new favorite Thomas Wold Project. The exuberant light and color this assemblage is emitting adds a whole new level of fun to his work.

I love seeing the pieces before Thomas puts them together and have this mental image of how his mental images work, with pieces of tables and cabinets and door and legs swirling around, landing in different compositions, then moving again. Check out this post on his blog and you’ll recognize an element or two.

Thanks to Thomas for posting this in our Fresh New Spaces Group!

More pieces by Thomas Wold

Image by markham johnson photography