Brigadoon Weekend
Your weekly dose of the emerging issues + independent thinkers shaping commerce + culture
September 25, 2021
Get to Know:
Kelly Wearstler
Kelly Wearstler is an American designer.
She is the founder and principal of Kelly Wearstler, focusing on creating multi-faceted, experiential residential, hospitality, commercial, and retail environments and expansive collections of lifestyle product designs.
Through exploring materiality, color, forms, and an intuitive juxtaposition of contemporary and vintage, architectural and organic, graphic and instinctual, she curates a wealth of experiences into every space. She believes that honoring history, location, and architecture is imperative to pushing the boundaries and challenging the rules.
A native of South Carolina, she received her academic training in interior, architectural, and graphic design at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and is the author of five design books, including Rhapsody.
Accolades include Elle Décor’s A-List, Architectural Digest’s AD100, AD France AD100, AD Spain Top International Designer, Wallpaper Magazine Top 20 Designers, and Time Magazine The Design 100. She is the first interior designer to teach a MasterClass and is a board member for Desert X.
Three reasons why Kelly Wearstler inspires and motivates the Brigadoon network:
+ Founder and principal of Kelly Wearstler, an American designer creating multi-faceted, experiential residential, hospitality, commercial and retail environments
+ Internationally recognized with distinctive design awards and numerous publications and a board member for Desert X
+ Notable projects are San Francisco Proper Hotel, Four Seasons Anguilla, BG Restaurant at Bergdorf Goodman, the Viceroy Hotels and Residences, and Tides Miami
Five Weekend Reads:
The scientist and the AI-assisted, remote-control killing machine: Israeli agents had wanted to kill Iran’s top nuclear scientist for years. Then they came up with a way to do it with no operatives present.
NYT
Lessons from the rise and fall of the pedestrian mall: Car-free shopping streets swept many US cities in the 1960s and ’70s, but few examples survived. Those that did could be models for today’s “open streets.”
Bloomberg
With one line, William Goldman taught Hollywood everything it needed to know: By writing scripts he believed in, rather than the flavor of the day, the late, great William Goldman left a legacy that will endure for decades to come. Goldman, the Oscar-winning writer of screenplays for “All the President’s Men” and “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” coined the best line in the history of Hollywood, and it wasn’t even for one of his movies. “Nobody knows anything.”
Variety
Norm Macdonald was Tolstoy in sweatpants. Even when he texted you in the middle of the night.
WP
Inspiration4: Why SpaceX’s first all-private mission is a big deal: Is it finally time to be cautiously optimistic about the future of crewed space travel?
MIT Technology Review
Quote of the Week:
"If you want to launch a world revolution, then don’t try to control the damn thing." -- Kalle Lasn founder of Adbusters
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Brigadoon October Call:
Do one thing well
David Hieatt | Co-Founder of Hiut Denim Co + The Do Lectures
2:00 pm ET | Wednesday, October 20, 2021
$45 | Brigadoon Members attend free
David Hieatt is the Co-Founder of Hiut Denim Co and The Do Lectures.
He is active in building them into influential global brands.
The quest for Hiut is to get 400 people their jobs back in a small town that used to have Britain's biggest jeans factory. To have the biggest impact on its community while seeking to have the lowest impact on the planet.
The Do Lectures is a network that exists to encourage people and their businesses to do amazing things. The talks are given to the world for free. That is paid for by attendees at the global Do Lectures event and workshops around the globe.
The talks have been viewed over 150 million times. Plus, the Do Book Co publishes a series of books from speakers at The Do Lectures. They are available throughout the world.
These are two of my favorite Do Books: Do Open and Stay Curious.
David is a highly sought after public speaker. He has spoken at Apple, Red Bull, Facebook, Google, John Lewis, and Waitrose.
It is fantastic he said yes to speak with Brigadoon.
More about David @ Hiut Denim Co + The Do Lectures + @davidhieatt.
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Have a great weekend. See you next week.
-Marc
Marc A. Ross | Founder + Chief Curator @ Brigadoon
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