Outdoor Furniture from Royal Botania

Outdoor Furniture from Royal Botania

16. May, 2012 0 Comments

Antwerp-based Royal Botania has earned an reputation for creating some of the most refined, diverse outdoor collections in the world, with a wide selection of different materials, and a blend of precision and functionality. The company will be at ICFF this week, and A+A recently...

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An Online Boutique for Trends in Tiles

An Online Boutique for Trends in Tiles

16. May, 2012 1 Comment

Deborah Osburn has her finger on the pulse of tile design. Through her blog, Tile Envy, she’s learned what’s hot and what’s not – and she’s assembled an online design boutique dedicated only to the tile designs she knows are in demand. It’s called Clé – and...

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In Fort Worth, an Urban Success Story

In Fort Worth, an Urban Success Story

15. May, 2012 1 Comment

The city that’s given us cutting-edge museums by Phillip Johnson, Tadao Ando and Louis Kahn is now 25 years into a major revitalization of its downtown urban core. Armed with a generous budget and a visionary master plan financed by the local, civic-minded Bass family, David...

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Reinventing Czechoslovakian Glass

Reinventing Czechoslovakian Glass

14. May, 2012 0 Comments

Leon Jakimac is intent on creating Bohemian perfection. It’s what he calls the brand essence of Lasvit, the company he founded after graduating from Loyola in 1999 and earning his MBA from Northwestern’s Kellog School of Management in Hong Kong.  His  firm designs...

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In New York, Awards for Going Green

In New York, Awards for Going Green

11. May, 2012 0 Comments

Manhattan-based Urban Green Council, the NY chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council, takes sustainability for existing buildings seriously. With more than a million structures in New York, 26,000 of them at 50,000 square feet or more, the group has initiated an Oscar-like...

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The Richard Meier Collection, Reborn

The Richard Meier Collection, Reborn

10. May, 2012 1 Comment

It’s back, and perhaps it’s better than ever. Richard Meier & Partners Architects and Stradaproject have announced the re-launching of the Richard Meier furniture collection, first introduced by Knoll International in the 1980s. “It’s an extension of the Knoll...

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The Practicing Architect’s Book of Law

The Practicing Architect’s Book of Law

09. May, 2012 0 Comments

Back in the early 1980s, attorney Robert Herrmann, fresh out of Columbia Law School and Yale’s Department of History, began to represent Robert A. M. Stern in construction law. The encounter not only changed his career path, but engendered a lifelong appreciation for good...

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In Louisville, Influenced by Mondrian

In Louisville, Influenced by Mondrian

08. May, 2012 0 Comments

Rebecca Norton and Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe work in symmetry as a team known as Awkward x 2, painting together to produce images that belong to neither. They paint at exactly the same time, sometimes for as long as 10 hours at a stretch, like two musicians side by side. They use an...

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Marc Kushner: Architecture as Branding

Marc Kushner: Architecture as Branding

07. May, 2012 0 Comments

A well-designed building, believes Architzer co-founder and HWKN partner Marc Kushner, is an incredibly effective communications tool, uniquely equipped to bring value to a brand. “It’s a big billboard in the marketplace,” the 2004 graduate of the Harvard Design School...

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Integrating Green into Design as Usual

Integrating Green into Design as Usual

02. May, 2012 0 Comments

David Bergman looks at green architecture through the dual lenses of architecture and economics. He majored in both at Yale, then tackled Princeton’s A-school.   He’s been tracking the price of oil and the use of sustainable design ever since. “When I graduated in 1981,...

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The Surreal Photography of Bruno Cals

The Surreal Photography of Bruno Cals

01. May, 2012 0 Comments

On a visit to the Great Pyramid at Gaza back in the early 1970s, author Ken Kesey noted that if one steps right up to it and look upward to the plane, the edifice will fill the entire field of vision. Brazilian photographer Bruno Cals has achieved something similar with his...

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LEA Ceramiche: Trends in Tile

LEA Ceramiche: Trends in Tile

30. Apr, 2012 0 Comments

If Enrico Guazzi at LEA Cermaiche’s U.S. offices is correct, we’ll be seeing more and more porcelain tile that looks like wood, slate and travertine in residential applications in the coming year. His commercial clients are asking for geometric, linear and clean patterns for...

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Kittelsen: Modern Art in Enamel Design

Kittelsen: Modern Art in Enamel Design

27. Apr, 2012 0 Comments

For 50 years, modernist Grete Prytz Kittelsen plied her craft as an artist alongside names like Mies, Wright and Eames, but her work these days is only recognized by connoisseurs. Karianne Bjellas Giljie is out to change all that. Her new book on Kittelsen’s work, based on...

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