Brutalism
Coffee Snob
Art Herstory
AI/ML (but make it Olde English)
Whose Chair Is It Anyway?
200
This iconic Corbusier home is located in Poissy, France and was named a UNESCO world heritage site in 2016.
Villa Savoye
200
It goes a lil' something like this:
Grind, bloom, steep, plunge
French Press
200
Red Hills, Lake George, 1927
Georgia O'Keeffe
200
Little I am, yet lasting in form,
the least that endures, the edge of enough.
Empty of excess, I echo restraint—
the craft of calm, the beauty of bare.
Minimal
200
Desgner of the Feltri Chair
Gaeteno Pesce
400
Rejection of this eight letter word, described as decoration seen as dishonet or bourgeois, is a key tenant of Brutalism.
ornament
400
This brand, founded by Giuseppe and Bruno Bambi, started with the mission of building beautiful, reliable espresso machines that could handle the demands of Italy’s post-war cafés.
La Marzocco
400
Rhythm Zero, 1974
Marina Abramovic
400
Beneath thought’s threshold I tread,
whisper-word in the wound of will.
Silent as sleep yet shaping desire,
I rule unseen in the realm of mind.
Subliminal
400
Designer of the Roly Poly Chair
Faye Toogood
600
Concrete meets culture in this massive 1982 complex by Chamberlin, Powell and Bon. It's also home to the London Symphony Orchestra.
Barbican Centre
600
This coffee variety is giving complexity, jasmine, and florals, having made it's way from Ethiopia to Panama in the 1960's.
Gesha (or Geisha)
600
Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama, 2018
Amy Sherald
600
Layer upon layer I lie,
bound by hand and hammer’s heat.
Grain meets grain in grip unbroken,
wood-wives wedded by will of man.
Laminate
600
Designer of the Conoid Chair
George Nakashima
800
This mastermind behind the civic buildings of Brasilia once said, “I am not attracted to straight angles or the straight line — I am attracted to free-flowing, sensual curves.”
Oscar Niemeyer
800
Their Hair Bender Blend is a crowd favorite — complex, chocolatey, and citrus-forward.
Stumptown
800
Woman Bathing, 1890-91
Mary Cassatt
800
Wind-borne word, I wander swift
o’er sea-skin and sun-road, bearing speech afar.
Ink’s burden borne by sky’s breath,
message of man to kindred unseen.
Airmail
800
Designer of the womb chair
Eero Saarinen
1000
A master of spatial layering, this American architect’s Sarasota School roots evolved into the sculptural concrete Brutalism of his 1963 Yale building.
Paul Rudolph
1000
This roasting process refers to when mucilage is left on the beans during drying; it falls between washed and natural.
Honey (Honey Wash)
1000
Bust of Dr. William Pickens Senior, 1932-33
Augusta Savage
1000
I take of the other and make it mine;
in union I conquer, in blending I endure.
From stranger to kin, from foreign to form,
I weave the many into one whole cloth.
Assimilate
1000
Designer of the Wishbone Chair
Hans J. Wegner