When he closes his eyes, North Carolina artist Steve Staresina says he sees images. So he began to paint with acrylics on canvas, back in the early ‘90s. Later, he branched out into working on walls. That led to jobs as an artisan plasterer for architects and interior designers. He took a trip to France,...
If he were a patient man, Mike Hughes might have turned to architecture for a career. Instead, he helped fast-track a small Southern ad agency into a top-tier, nationally-known communications firm. He’s president of The Martin Agency, named 2010 “Agency of the Year” by ADWEEK. That magazine...
Architect Campion Platt found inspiration for his Mariner Collection of rugs, woven in silk and wool by master rug maker Roubini, from his travel and work in the Turks and Caicos Islands. While designing and developing a community at Ambergris Cay, a 1,100-acre private island there, he began to draw....
Every year at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York, Skram Furniture out of Hillsborough, N.C. unveils its new, modern, approachable products to the market. This year is no different, said Skram founder Jacob Marks (that’s Skram spelled backwards) – except for the debut of heavyweight...
Ambitious? Yes. Rigorous? Check. Visionary? Absolutely. But then, wouldn’t anything bearing the Buckminster Fuller name have to be all three? The Buckminster Fuller Challenge is a three-year-old competition designed to shed light on system-based approaches to solving the major crises facing humanity....
Louis Sullivan was a conflicted genius – and we’re all better off for it. “This is an American Vincent Van Gogh story,” says Mark Richard Smith, whose independent film, “Louis Sullivan: The Struggle for American Architecture” has just been named best documentary film at the Kansas City Film...
Now that he’s saved Marcel Breuer’s last building from the wrecking ball, Max Eternity has returned his attention to the things that really matter, like painting and publishing. In 2008, when he learned that a county board of commissioners planned to demolish the Bauhaus master’s downtown Atlanta...
No one can say that the new North Carolina Botanical Garden in Chapel Hill hasn’t been carefully thought through and sensitively designed. It’s been in the planning stages for twelve years. Frank Harmon Architect PA of Raleigh has been actively engaged with it for the past decade. In that time, at least...
“Alabama Studio Style” is Natalie Chanin’s second book. Her first, “Alabama Stitch Book” won high praise from respected sources. Vogue magazine called it “haute homespun out of the Deep South.” She’s 48 years old, a 1987 graduate of North Carolina State University’s School of Design...
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...
