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Silk & Sadden: 15 Closed & Abandoned Lingerie Shops

01 May

[ By Steve in Abandoned Places & Architecture. ]

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The thrill is gone and so are the thongs! These 15 closed & abandoned lingerie shops have nobody else to blame for their sagging level of support.

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Cue “Thunderstruck”… but whether you’re AC or DC, Thunder Lingerie and More is, er, no more. Located at 100 Greenwich Street in NYC’s Financial District, this boldly named ex-lingerie store was open as late as early April of 2011 as can be seen by the last of three images above. Kudos to Flickr users H Y (Haruko16), Scott Lynch (Scoboco), and Andy (ho_hokus) for capturing the late and lamented lingerie (and more) retailer in all of its Old Glory.

Secret Garden of Delights

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Lingerie AND flowers? Shoot, a fella’ could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff. But enough about strange love, The Secret Garden in Hamilton Square, NJ closed shop some time before Flickr user Brian McGann came across it on January 1st of 2009. “ASK ABOUT R HOT RESS”… nope, in this case ignorance really is bliss.

We Had Everything

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It would seem that even having everything (including “Bras Of All Sizes”) wasn’t enough to stave off retail oblivion for We Have Everything, a quaint and charming now-abandoned lingerie shop on Chicago’s gritty north side. Flickr user John W. Iwanski (Chicago Man) snapped the sad state of the screened & shuttered store on January 25th of 2011.

The Writing’s on the Wall

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Netherlands-based lingerie retailer Lindessa is still going strong but the outlet above, according to Flickr user oerendhard1, is closed tighter than the clasps of an outgrown brassiere. The photographer snapped the shop’s graffiti-encrusted exterior on a gloomy, overcast day in December of 2008.

Lead Us Into Temptation

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Jesus, what lovely knickers! You knew the Germans always make good stuff but were you aware their shop signs often fill viewers with shock and awe? Take CHRIST, for example, a lingerie shop whose mission it was to make perfect angels look their devilish best. One might’ve called it the best lingerie shop in Berlin, bar nun. Flickr user Squiggly Diggums captured the semi-sacrilegious storefront in Berlin’s central Mitte district on December 8th of 2005.

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Living Architecture: Evolving Pavilion Made by Silk Worms

06 Jun

[ By Steph in Art & Sculpture & Craft. ]

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Growing and transforming like a living organism, the Silk Pavilion created by the MIT Media Lab is a collaboration between digital and biological fabrication. The basis of the pavilion is a network of silk threads made by a CNC machine, which has become a cloud-like structure with the addition of natural netting from the dozens of silk worms that squirm all over its surfaces.

Silk Worm Pavilion 2

Twenty-six polygonal panels with silk thread stretched between them form a sort of scaffolding that enables the silk worms to work their magic of naturally produced architecture. The geometry of the base structure was created using an algorithm that routes a single continuous thread across the open sections to provide varying degrees of density.

Silk Worm Pavilion 3

The silkworms were deployed as a biological ‘printer’ to create the secondary structure. If the sculpture, which is installed at MIT, were allowed to remain in place indefinitely, the moths could produce 1.5 million eggs with the potential of constructing up to 250 additional pavilions.

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“Affected by spatial and environmental conditions including geometrical density as well as variation in natural light and heat, the silkworms were found to migrate to darker and denser areas. Desired light effects informed variations in material organization across the surface area of the structure. A season-specific sun path diagram mapping solar trajectories in space dictated the location, size and density of apertures within the structure in order to lock-in rays of natural light entering the pavilion from South and East elevations.”

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“The central oculus is located against the East elevation and may be used as a sun-clock. Parallel basic research explored the use of silkworms as entities that can “compute” material organization based on external performance criteria. Specifically, we explored the formation of non-woven fiber structures generated by the silkworms as a computational schema for determining shape and material optimization of fiber-based surface structures.”

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Silk Mill Press Conference – Stephen Antonakos shows a model of his light sculpture to be installed at the Simon Silk Mill.

10 Apr

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Silk Mill Press Conference – Stephen Antonakos shows a model of his light sculpture to be installed at the Simon Silk Mill.
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The Redevelopment Authority of Easton and the Bushkill Creek Corridor Council for the Arts held a press conference to announce developments of Silk: A Creative Community. The event was held at the former Simon Silk Mill on North 13th street in Easton.. Artist Stephen Antonakos will be the first person to exhibit there.

SIlk Mill Press Conference – Stephen Antonakos and Mayor Sal Panto with the model for the light sculpture to be installed at the Simon Silk Mill.
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The Redevelopment Authority of Easton and the Bushkill Creek Corridor Council for the Arts held a press conference to announce developments of Silk: A Creative Community. The event was held at the former Simon Silk Mill on North 13th street in Easton. Artist Stephen Antonakos will be the first person to exhibit there.

 
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Silk Mill Press Conference – Ed Kerns

19 Feb

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The Redevelopment Authority of Easton and the Bushkill Creek Corridor Council for the Arts held a press conference to announce developments of Silk: A Creative Community. The event was held at the former Simon Silk Mill on North 13th street in Easton. Lafayette Art Department member Ed Kerns addressed the gathering along with Mayor Sal Panto. Artist Stephen Antonakos will be the first person to exhibit there.

 
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