New York has always been a photographer’s city, and it always will be, says Hamburg Kennedy Gallery owner Marla Hamburg Kennedy. So she’s organized a book of more than 300 photographs, taken since 9/11, by emerging artists. Among the 100 photographers represented are Jenny Holzer, Peter Funch,...
Once they’ve been scratched, smashed, dented and abused, what’s to be done with skateboards too damaged to carry their owners anymore? Rich Moorhead, of Art of Board in Pennsylvania, looks hard at their seven-ply laminated maple, their graffiti-inspired graphics and their turned up tails. Where...
Yale-educated George Nelson (1908-86) was a thinker and a doer, an architect and a designer, and a writer and a teacher. He designed the Holiday House for Holiday magazine, and co-authored Tomorrow’s House in 1945. When D. J. DePree, president of furniture manufacturer Herman Miller, read it, he hired...
Daniel Lyman is a thoughtful undergrad at the University of Utah’s school of architecture who’s found an innovative, inexpensive way to engage the public and celebrate a a vacant lot in downtown Salt Lake City. AIA Utah challenged its Young Architects Forum to get involved in a competition called...
I went to see Oak Alley plantation in St James Parish, Louisiana, because of its shadows. An architect friend told me that the pattern of light and shade cast by its double row of 300-year-old live oak trees was unforgettable. The Mississippi River flows past one end of the alley of trees, which is about...
Lesley Pennington is a Canadian who’s been living in Sweden for the past 15 years. Because the Swedes have the enviable habit of taking the entire month of July off for vacation, she joined them and bought a summer house, furnishing it (naturally) with IKEA products. The only drawback was that she didn’t...
The new hotel at Hollywood and Vine takes its name from a play on words inspired by the musical spirit of late 1960s Haight Ashbury. “That was the golden age of music,” said Xavier Moulin, general manager at the Redbury Hotel. “Hollywood is the epicenter of the entertainment industry, but Hollywood...
Frank Castellucio is a self-taught sculptor whose work in clay and bronze explores the cycles of life. “I’m a classical figure sculptor,” he said. “I try to portray the human figure as artistically as I can. I want to grab the viewer’s interest so that they can look outside their own environment...
Herman Miller, long known for its collaborations with modernists Charles and Ray Eames as well as Eero Saarinen, has launched a series of architectural videos in conjunction with its digital agency of record, Hello Design. “Herman Miller is a design leader and a thought leader with strong connections...
Only eight seats remain for the June 18 tour of Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest. Architects + Artisans is hosting the behind-the-scenes tour of Jefferson’s architectural masterpiece and Palladian retreat, near Lynchburg, Va. Travis McDonald, director of architectural restoration at the estate,...
