building change

Well this is a hard post to write but as some of you know we moved from the beloved 305 Greensboro, to the back of the Little Building building and closed the cafe and moved our studio to the cafe space. All sad moves but actually the result has been very interesting. Madeline, Caleb and I are now living in a small space much like our Brooklyn life and oddly it feels "right". I thought I would document the result this fall for a number of reasons. One is it doesn't look half bad, two I feel better about our carbon foot print in relation to our family-also since we renovated the building the utilities are LOW.......and finally you see many small space articles and they all seem to involve young couples sharing space and we are not young AND we have a giant teenager in out mist-so its a challenge. So stay tuned and let's see how it goes-

Community Building

Ghislaine Vinas did a lovely piece about Little Building Cafe on the Interior Design Blog. Its so nice when people get it.
I want to announce that Ted and I will be holding a benefit for Re-building Haiti on February 21st. We want to have a "works on paper" sale to highlight the mega creative capital that is in our orbit. Please contact me if you would like to contribute a drawing, photograph, print,etc. It does not need to be framed we show work inside Little Building on a series of clothes lines so we will work in that format for this show. All proceeds will go to Architecture for Humanity

thank you

It looks like Little Building Cafe will be on the road alot in early spring. It has be chosen for presentations at the ACSA conference in New Orleans in March as well as the IDEC Conference in Atlanta. And perhaps some chairs will show up at a show at SCAD. We will keep you posted.

Little Building Cafe Blog

Okay, I have been working long and hard to get the Little Building Cafe blog up and running. It's not exactly how we want it yet but we will all work through the tiny adjustments, I hope. This new blog will serve as a almost daily update of what Ted is preparing at LBC, what we are getting from farmers and what we hope to get from farmers...Also it will serve as a way to talk about the community and our interests and work in the community. I hope to also feature role models from the culinary world as well as cool work being done to promote sustainablity and yes some design thoughts as well. Please let me know what you think as we get this off the ground.


photo by rinne allen

Apartment

We cleaned the apartment up at LBC today to prepare for a tenant. I thought I would share some images. Its a nice feeling to complete a project.

Building Community

This is a really nice interview done by Tim Pratt at the Columbus Commercial Dispatch. Little Building Cafe is getting a lot of play. Thanks so much.

Building the Brand

Little Building Cafe got a very nice shout out from WCBI TV out of Columbus Ms. Correspondent Paulo Salazar really "got it". Its Ted and my first video foray so be kind.......

Building ........

Little Building Cafe is finally open. In reality it took under a year from getting the building to opening the doors but in a small town, people have been ready for it for awhile. Sorry about slacking on the building updates but I am not self-reflective and construction is a tough subject to stay happy about.... Next week I will start a Little Building blog that will give a daily update of what Ted is cooking and what we are getting from farmers. I will also talk about books we are reading on sustainability and food, the Local Food movement as well as pay homage to some culinary heroes......Stay tuned.

Sneak Peak- Little Building Cafe

We are so close; in fact hope to open on Saturday! Here are the amazing tables that we designed and made for Lubna Chowdhary's tiles. All the quadrants are parts of the map of Starkville, Mississippi! So great. It's all coming together!

Little Building

The Little Building project has now entered the Chinese Water Torture column of life......It is hard to get people to work for someone they do not really know AND during the hottest time of the building season. So next week the windows are getting trimmed out, the solar hot water heater gets installed as does the tile and maybe the sign gets started. We still have along way to go. But it will be beautiful and my brother Ted makes a good biscuit.
www.littlebuildingcafe.com.