A New View of War in the Middle East

A New View of War in the Middle East

22. May, 2013 0 Comments

Anyone who wants to see the real war in Iraq would do well to buy a copy of Michael Kamber’s new book, Photojournalists on War. It’s a vivid contradiction to many of the images widely broadcast and published during the past decade. That’s because Kamber, a veteran of...

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Design Hunting with Wendy Goodman

Design Hunting with Wendy Goodman

21. May, 2013 0 Comments

It’s a whirlwind of a life for design editor Wendy Goodman. She’s been leading New York’s design coverage since 1997, and now edits the twice-annual, stand-alone Design Hunting too. The new summer issue is on the stands now, jam-packed with a full spectrum of...

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Diana Balmori: Adding Delight to Life

Diana Balmori: Adding Delight to Life

20. May, 2013 0 Comments

Diana Balmori was born in Spain, lived in England and Argentina and graduated with a PhD from UCLA. Now she practices landscape architecture in Bilbao, South Korea and Memphis, Tenn. A former professor of landscape history at Yale University’s School of Architecture, and a...

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Discovering Norwegian Design at ICFF

Discovering Norwegian Design at ICFF

17. May, 2013 0 Comments

There’s no question that Paul Makovsky, editorial director at Metropolis magazine, has a good eye. And at ICFF this year, he’s sharing what he recently discerned on a January tour of Norway. He’s curated an exhibit featuring the work of 21 emerging young Norwegian...

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Cecil Ross Pinsent’s Infinity of Graces

Cecil Ross Pinsent’s Infinity of Graces

16. May, 2013 0 Comments

Ethne Clarke is a writer, an editor and a publisher who’s on a mission. Besides serving as editor-in-chief of Organic Gardening, she’s just written a book on Cecil Ross Pinsent. If the name doesn’t ring a bell – well, that’s exactly why she wrote it. Pinsent was an...

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Making Connections at WantedDesign

Making Connections at WantedDesign

15. May, 2013 1 Comment

It started in 2011 as a design forum, an exhibition and a workshop, timed to coincide with ICFF and NYCxDESIGN. That year there were 35 participants.  This year, there will be 80.  Six thousand people attended last year; this year, about 9,000 are expected to attend, between...

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Flavor Paper: Turning Ten at ICFF

Flavor Paper: Turning Ten at ICFF

14. May, 2013 0 Comments

It’s not enough to have your  wallpaper showcased in a trio of windows at Bergdorf Goodman. Or to collaborate with Mike D of The Beastie Boys. Or to see your work installed on the walls of the Wythe Hotel in Brooklyn. No.  If you’re Jon Sherman, creative director at Flavor...

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Outside In, Inside Out at Miami Beach

Outside In, Inside Out at Miami Beach

13. May, 2013 0 Comments

When it comes to design inspired by materials, Venezuelan architect Alejandro Barrios-Carrero cuts no corners. There’s proof enough of that at Juvia, the Miami Beach restaurant he placed atop the ninth floor of a Herzog & de Meuron-designed building at 1111 Lincoln Road,...

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Jacques Jarrige Meets the 20th Century

Jacques Jarrige Meets the 20th Century

10. May, 2013 0 Comments

It’s an idea that only a couple of creative gallerists and curators might come up with: Pair up the work of contemporary French furniture designer Jacques Jarrige with signature pieces by the late 20th century masters who inspire him. That means bringing together tables,...

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Minimalist Cases for Snohetta’s Library

Minimalist Cases for Snohetta’s Library

09. May, 2013 1 Comment

Sometimes, complexity is masked by simplicity. That’s the case for a series of four technology cabinets, designed by architects at Snohetta and executed by Eidolon Designs, for the James B. Hunt Library at N.C. State University in Raleigh. Eidolon’s Mike Parker brought...

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Curating a Philadelphia Brownstone

Curating a Philadelphia Brownstone

08. May, 2013 0 Comments

Eileen Tognini moved with her husband from Philadelphia’s Old City to an area called Fishtown in 1987, when she was working for IBM. “We actually stumbled into it,” she says of the once-declining working class neighborhood that’s now up and coming.  “We liked the city...

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Light Sensitive in the Nasher at Duke

Light Sensitive in the Nasher at Duke

07. May, 2013 0 Comments

A search through photography collections in the Research Triangle of North Carolina has led to a major exhibition of work at Duke’s Nasher Museum in Durham. “We wanted to get to know the collectors in our area, and we were shocked at what we found,” says Sarah Schroth,...

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Thomas Woltz Looks to Hudson Yards

Thomas Woltz Looks to Hudson Yards

06. May, 2013 0 Comments

Fresh out of undergraduate school at the University of Virginia in the late 1980s – and facing a recession – Thomas Woltz leapt at the chance to teach architecture at the school’s summer program in Vicenza. By summer’s end, he’d secured a job with Giorgio Bellavitis...

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