Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe architecture critic Robert Campbell will be making the keynote talk on April 28 at the Milwaukee Art Museum, when the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, in partnership with Taliesin Preservation, Inc., will co-host a reception as part of the centennial celebration of Taliesin....
Exactly a century ago this year, Frank Lloyd Wright built Taliesin, his architectural experiment and work-in-progress slipped into the rolling hills of Spring Green, Wis. Its name was taken from his ancestors’ Welsh for “shining brow.” “Taliesin was to be an abstract combination of stone...
Miami photographer Carl Pascuzzi and his partner, interior designer Phoebe Brandt, spent a full year together back in 2009 working through designs for a new line of wall coverings. They started with brainstorming, trying to find the right look and feel for inspiration. Next they’d gather the appropriate...
Like a lot of the built environment in and around Atlanta, Georgia Gwinnett College’s campus centers on the work of architect John Portman. This isn’t Peachtree Street, however. It’s the leading edge of the suburbs, in one of the nation’s fastest-growing counties. And it’s...
San Diego architect Heather Johnston says she builds for a sophisticated audience that’s looking for clean and modern, rather than warm and fuzzy. “I want them to be surprised, to have something they didn’t even know they wanted until they’ve seen it,” she said. “I want to marry the everyday...
Other areas of the nation may claim it, but few have truly earned the sobriquet of “God’s Country” in the manner of Irvington, Va. Home to Robert “King” Carter’s Christ Church (c. 1735) and the uber-prep Tides Inn, it’s a community on the Rappahannock with fine bloodlines and fantastic...
Anyone who’s ever wanted to try out a piece of furniture in a room before stepping into a store, or even decorate an entire house prior to making a purchase, is now in luck. Design Within Reach (DWR) and mydeco.com are now collaborating to allow customers and studios to see how the store’s products...
Egyptian-born artist Ludvic, a Canadian citizen who’s made his home in the U.S. for the past 25 years, is a sculptor whose art embraces what he finds in the environment. His work makes use of the detritus of civilization, the leftover flotsam and jetsam from modern society’s movement forward, as its raw material....
Born of the apocalyptic snowstorms of the past winter in New York, fLume is a found object and a truncated symbol of holidays past. “When the snow melted, one of our partners discovered dozens and dozens of discarded Christmas trees revealed on the sidewalks,” said Manu Garza of et al. Collaborative. ...
On Saturday, June 18, 2011 Architects + Artisans will host a behind-the-scenes tour of Thomas Jefferson’s architectural masterpiece and Palladian retreat, Poplar Forest. Travis McDonald, director of architectural restoration at the estate, will offer a guided, room-by-room commentary of the octagonal-shaped...
