Artists and entertainers: Where do they work?
Here’s something a little different. Cine 21 has an eleven-part profile of the workspaces of various entertainers, artists, and creative-arts professionals, which caught my eye because I am obsessed with workspaces.
Well, maybe not obsessed, but very, very, very interested. I constantly fiddle with mine, think of ways to rearrange it, and dream of theoretical future workspaces in theoretical spacious homes with large areas dedicated solely to shelving units and wide tabletops and books and storage solutions. Lots of glorious storage solutions.
Show me someone’s designer wardrobe or tricked-out fancy crib, and I’m like, “Eh.” Show me someone’s well-designed workspace, and I am filled with a combination of admiration and horrible, gripping envy: OMG WANT. (It’s for that reason that I have to restrict my time on Apartment Therapy, for instance.)
SONG OF THE DAY
Jang Kiha and the Faces – “달이 차오른다, 가자” (The Moon is Waxing, Let’s Go). Folk-indie singer-songwriter Jang Kiha is one of the artists featured below, and this is one of his hits, which he performs with his hilariously oddball backup dancers, the Mimi Sisters. [ Download ]
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Jung Woo Yeol’s room is just my type, oh my god
amazing
i am too obsessed with workspaces but more what people pin on their walls
great article thanks
dramabeans, have you seen yoo jae suk and the infinity challenge crew’s parody of Jang Kiha and the faces?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2uLIzu-P8k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eochvevW4WE
It is hilarious!
Thank you for introducing me to Jang Kiha in one of your previous posts!
I love work spaces too! Have you seen the writers’ rooms series over on the Guardian?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/series/writersrooms
They have pictures of the writing rooms of Roald Dahl & Virginia Woolf, and newer authors like Sebastian Barry & Kate Mosse. I wouldn’t want it for myself, but Beryl Bainbridge’s work space is really fun & over-the-top:
http://books.guardian.co.uk/graphic/0,,1989206,00.html
Thank you so much for translating this!^^
Fascinating read.
Very cool! I would take the shelves from Im Kwon-taek’s room and Jung Jung-hoon’s computer. That would make my ideal workplace – shelving for hundreds of books and one super-fast computer with a huge monitor.
Can one have room envy? Love Im Kwon-taek’s room – the bookshelves! Across a w-h-o-l-e wall. There is something ‘old-world’ about the room – sort of like the room is full of wisdom and calm. Feels like that room could teach me stuff just by sitting there.
Like the light and brightness of designer Choi-Beom-soek’s home. But not the decor – esp the pelt of a dead animal on the floor. Yuk!
Love the shot of Jung Jung-hoon. The shades of light. What a shot of a director of photography. Would like to ask him how he can manage to be so clutter free. What’s the secret?
Jung Hoon-yi’s apartment, to me, is sort of like a less warm modern take of Im Kwon-taek’s room.
oommmggoshh.
I love Jung Jung Hoon’s room. Just my style of workspace…..
I love seeing how people organize their workspace too! I feel close to Jung Hoon-yi and Jung Jung-hoon in that I get very concerned with light sources.
If we’re gonna talk chairs Jang Jins looks pretty comfy.
Love that Apartment Therapy site. Thanks for the link! =)
Love this article! It’s interesting seeing how different artists’ works paces are and how they’re reflections of the artists themselves.
And, Renee, thanks for that link! (:
This was really interesting, thanks for posting =)
Thanks for this post JB, any more spaces ???
Really nice to know that others are also fascinated by workspace and storage….
Would love the wall to wall bookshelves of Im Kwon-taek or Jung Woo-yeol’s with shorter spans and the lower LONG top surface.
Dreams of shelves that will take the weight /depth of all the books/files/magazines, WITHOUT middle sag…..one day.
Really suprised by the wallpaper in Jang Jin’s office compared to the more neutral walls of the others.
I’d love a blend of Jung Woo-yeol’s and Im Kwon-taek’s with maybe a dash of Jang Jin’s. Thanks for sharing! Now I have a sudden and urgent desire to rearrange my room…
I really love this post. Thanks Javabeans!
This is really cool. I love Director Kwon Taek’s bookshelves match with Choi Deom Seok classy/comfortable living room partner with Director Jang Jins abstract wall paper. It would really be amazing if I had that kind of room.
love this post…workstations are quite interesting.
i wish i have a workstation too so i can go and indulge in all my kdrama, kpop and music obsession! pun not intended.
*goes off and dreams…
wow! finally, Jang Kiha shows us where all his magic happen. haha =)) I Love love love this guy!
btw, dramabeans, can you re-upload the song Cheap Coffee? I can’t seem to find it anywhere else 
thanks!
None of their workspace and bookselves fit my taste.
I like white, simple, minimalist design and a bright study room.
Well-enclosed bookselves, so visitors will never know what kind of books I read (that can cater for more than 500.000 books), it is kind of fun to move from one place to another, and surprisingly, all those books are still intact, but those furniture have broken in pieces
So never buy IKEA!!!
As for work space, I like a well-supported rolling chair, U shape long benches, a beanbag and an exercise ball. hehe….I like rolling here and there while reading, thinking and working…
I guess when one gets older, a threadmill is far more practical than all those musical equipment. Of course, music of all sorts make a difference whether it is in the gym room or study room. So, a Bose portable speakers is my next “wants”.
Guess what? We all have too many wants, but our “needs” are very easy to fulfil. So, curtail the wants, and keep the “needs” to simple, but practical stuff, life will be far more simple, peaceful and happier!!
Hey guys, you all better start clearing out the clutters. All their workspace look so clutter. It is bad fengshui!! ^___________^
Can I have Choi Beom-seok’s apartment please?
Designer Choi Beom Seok’s home looks so generic and boring. So Ikea.
Like Director’s Im’s space….is very him from what I have seen of his films. Also like the story of the table.
I personally like singer Jang Kiha’s music studio. It’s very artsy and basic at the same time.
I really like how each person was photographed. All the photos are streamlined together, yet they still tell the individual story of each person.
…I would really love to have a korean magazine available in the u.s. to be able to pick up. Does anyone have any suggestions on where I could either get a subscription or pick them up say around St. Louis or Chicago???
i have this thing for gong hyo jin… i just love her man… her “workplace” was unexpected, because I pictured a fournished rooftop with a bunch of books & cigarattes to be the type of places she would hang out …but the park, I was glad to see that she and I share the same type of “workplace”, a place to zone out… i go to the park often and walk for hours by the river…it just my favorite part of the day.
i have this thing for gong hyo jin… i just love her man… her “workplace” was unexpected, because I pictured a fournished rooftop with a bunch of books & cigarattes to be the type of places she would hang out …but the park, I was glad to see that she and I share the same type of “workplace”, a place to zone out… i go to the park often and walk for hours by the river…it just my favorite part of the day.
P.S. – Sorry, forgot to tell you great post!
so interesting, this article!
and the workplaces are “ahhh, i wantttt!” material, totally.
thanks for this
very interesting post. now we know the place where those success are made
#8 thats one sexxah monitor <33
Wow…you’re amazing! Great post! I like Designer Choi Beom-seok’s home BEST!
so, how do you limit yourself in AT?
Dear javabeans
about Apartment therapy (love it, my oasis!)
I discovered it in 2007!!! and therefore i addicted to this site, simply like this!
when I love an article, I save it’s address.
here are 2 articles about designing tips and office designing:
http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/chicago/inspiration/recipe-for-style-shipley-halmos-office-054624
http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/la/homedesign-shows/3-easy-organizing-tips-060690
http://www.unplggd.com (a link of Apartment therapy site) is interesting too, and sometimes have arthicle about office design.
Thank you.