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Art Maps The Walls March 29, 2012

Filed under: Art "Seen" — tracee ribar @ 4:46 pm

How about a giant, obscure and wonderfully bizare map filling your wall with all of its intricate wonder. A-“mazing”!Love it! Bedrock Images is selling these long-forgotten cartographic gems to those who can afford the tidy sum. Nothing like a massive map to get a sense of the mass of humanity that is unseen. The following is taken from Dwell Magazine on-line.  Read on…

Bedrock Images’s Forgotten Maps

For the architecturally inclined—especially those with a mess of wall  space—little enlivens the living room like a gigantic map. Though hip apartments  the nation over are festooned with graphic prints of Brooklyn neighborhoods,  diagrams of the London Underground, and the like, to get a real dose of  architectural bravado in your residence, consider one of the massive archival  maps from Bedrock Images. Printed on  cloth, fine paper, or glossy photographic paper, these images from Rome, New  York, Paris, Washington D.C., or Beijing range in size from merely impressive to  room-transformingly massive. Read more: http://www.dwell.com/articles/Bedrock-Imagess-Forgotten-Maps.html#ixzz1qXk9LgCN

To get a sense of just how massive these maps can be, Bedrock staged this photo (below) outdoors in Paris. You’ll clearly need a capacious living room for this map of  New York City from 1879 to make sense. The map comes with mounting hardware and  a $3,000 pricetag.
Read more: http://www.dwell.com/slideshows/bedrock-imagess-forgotten-maps.html?slide=4&c=y&paused=true#ixzz1qXnAzo8F

bedrock the palazzo print 1879 new york 1

 

Home sale prices strengthen in central Ohio March 22, 2012

Filed under: Uncategorized — tracee ribar @ 9:25 am

Inventory down and buyers are looking!

Sale prices for homes sold in central Ohio last month (Feb 2012) showed a healthy increase over the previous year. The average sale price of $151,072 was 7.3 percent higher than in February of 2011, and 5.7 percent higher than the previous month according to the Columbus Board of REALTORS®.

“Buyer activity has been up while seller activity has dipped slightly,” said Jim Coridan, President of the Columbus Board of REALTORS®. “Given the market conditions over the past couple years, sellers have been a bit reluctant to engage. But that could soon change as we head into the stronger spring selling season and the shifting landscape begins to register with well-informed homeowners looking to move.”

Central Ohio housing sales were up in February for the second month in a row. The 1,215 sales showed an 8.0 percent increase over the previous month and a 5.0 percent increase over February of 2011.

In addition, contracts for residential homes and condos jumped 21.7 percent over the previous month and were 57.4 percent higher than the same time last year.

 

reprinted from CBR