Architects and Artisans

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 – [...]

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, chairs, chandeliers and screens by Gio Ponti, Charlotte Perriand, Jean Royers. [...]

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 together three different trades to engineer the parts and pieces for a trapezoidal-shaped [...]

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 limits, the proximity to Center City and the easy access [...]

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, interim director at the museum and co-curator [...]

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 Architects in Venice.  There, the absence of traditional landscape – of trees, [...]