Timothy Richards of Bath, England has turned a passion for communicating with architecture into a sophisticated cottage industry that serves the international design community. Working with hard and strong crystacal plaster, he creates exquisite scale architectural models in the manner of Jean- Pierre...
The work of Andreas Palladio offers a detailed roadmap into another time and place, said Dr. Irene Murray, co-curator of “Palladio and His Legacy – A Transatlantic Journey” now on exhibit at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York. “It’s a way of finding your way into another culture,”...
(Today’s post is the first of a number planned to explore a new exhibit of Andreas Palladio’s drawings at The Morgan Library and Museum in New York. A peerless display of the Italian master’s work, it features drawings never seen before in the United States.) The drawings by Andreas Palladio at The Morgan...
Micah Condon manages a gallery of 162 painters from across the nation via a website in Denver. An artist himself, he started Dailypainters in 2006, inviting in a few others who were painting every day and selling their work online. Within a month, 400 artists had signed up at no charge. He made the transition...
She holds a master’s degree in city planning from the University of Pennsylvania, is former associate curator of the department of architecture at The Art Institute of Chicago, and is currently associate dean of external relations for the IE University School of Architecture in Madrid, Spain. But Martha...
Kristina de Corpo and Nicole Chiala share an art school background, a vision for sustainability and a relatively new and successful design business. The two mid-‘90s graduates of the Art Academy of San Francisco decided in 2004 that they wanted to join forces and create products for the home. “We...
It’s more than a litle ironic that Ellen Blakeley’s highly expressive works in glass would be fueled by bursts of vandalism in 1994 San Francisco. “There were teenage boys there shooting out the bus shelters, just because they liked watching them blow up,” she said. “So there’d be these...
Edgar Blazona is a self-described minimalist whose designs are known for simple lines and clean profiles. He gets his inspiration from American modernists like Donald Judd, Ray and Charles Eames and Heywood-Wakefield. He calls his work approachable design at a reasonable price. “My items are within...
Deborah Carnes Christie describes herself as a lawyer, a dilettante and a designer. The 60-year-old Chapel Hill resident just added author to her list of titles. Her first book, “Green House, The Story of a Healthy, Energy-Efficient Home,” was published this week to give readers a sense of the step-by-step...
Architect Amy Gardner believes that tear-downs are not the only solution to our slowly deteriorating inventory of mid-century split-levels on prime suburban lots. There are, she said, smarter ways to go. “To toss them is irresponsible,” she said. “I love working with that vintage, but they need...
