Architects and Artisans

For two summers during his graduate school years in the 1980s at the University of Wisconsin, art history student Brady Roberts took on an unusual task: He sanded creosote off of the board-and-batten siding of Frank Lloyd Wright’s first Usonian home. Wright had designed and built it in Madison in 1936 for a Madison newspaperman [...]

Jack Spencer is a Nashville-based photographer, influenced by both the literature of the South and the great modernist painters of the 20th century. “He’s inspired by Edward Hopper and even Mark Rothko – there’s a sense of otherness from Rothko that he captures in his work,” says Mark Scala, who’s curating Spencer’s first solo exhibition at the Frist [...]

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 25-years in wartime photojournalism, hunkered down with [...]

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 aspirational types of living in New York – mostly in recycled spaces like apartments, [...]

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 partner in Cesar Pelli’s firm, she established Balmori Associates in 1990. [...]

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 designers, age 18 to 40.  Some are still in school, and some are just [...]

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 English architect who worked in and around [...]

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 May 18-20. WantedDesign has established its reputation as [...]

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 Paper, you’ll want to create [...]

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, right in the heart of things. Under a retractable roof, a communal table – [...]