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With 36 SIPs, the elegant little 600-square-foot home absorbs the winter sun while providing plenty of shade during summer.

October 7, 2010 by Mike Welton

At Taliesin West, an Elegant, Efficient 600 Square Feet

Now, 30 years later, the Winston-Salem native lives in the foothills of North Carolina, working solely as a sculptor dedicated to making wry and poignant commentaries on corporate America.

October 6, 2010 by Mike Welton

In North Carolina, Norman Rockwell Meets Karl Marx

No, the architect and interior designer who strives to take the edge off modernism with his trademark soft palette sought out an old friend, Jay McInerney.

September 30, 2010 by Mike Welton

‘Made to Order,’ a Monograph by Designer Campion Platt

She started with a tiny torso that a jeweler might use to display precious gems. She added carved Styrofoam, then fiberglass mesh and a skim coat of Thinset.

September 23, 2010 by Mike Welton

Julie Richey Designs a Mosaic in Three Dimensions

“It was a test for us: how to apply LEED criteria to prime farmland,” says Roberto De Leon, principle in the firm.

September 21, 2010 by Mike Welton

Kentucky Barns of Bamboo & Steel by De Leon & Primmer

In 2005, Henry Ng, executive vice president of the World Monuments Fund (WMF), and Nancy Berliner, curator of Chinese art and culture at the Peabody Essex Museum, stood in the garden of The Qian Long emperor in the Forbidden City in Beijing.

September 17, 2010 by Mike Welton

At the Peabody Essex, Treasures from the Forbidden City

And George Washington Vanderbilt’s library at Biltmore Estate in Asheville was state-of-the-art for 1895.

September 16, 2010 by Mike Welton

A Home for Napoleon’s Chess Set at Biltmore Estate

They have sanctified that revolutionary city built from scratch in the International style.

September 13, 2010 by Mike Welton

At the 1500 Gallery in West Chelsea, the Past as Future

“Because the majority of my work is commissioned, it’s inspired by where it’s being installed, who’s going to be experiencing it, where they’re coming from and how the building is being used,” she says.

September 10, 2010 by Mike Welton

Nancy Gong: Works in Glass for Architectural Spaces

The tapestry hall is memorable for its near-palpable feeling of having been truly lived in and enjoyed, almost a century after George Vanderbilt stopped spending his leisure time here.

September 9, 2010 by Mike Welton

At Biltmore Estate, Books, Prints, Tapestries and Mountains