A few months back, the editor of Big Sky Journal in Bozeman, Mont. asked me if I’d be interested in penning a feature on sculptor Ott Jones. While I wasn’t familiar with his works in bronze, a quick Google search yielded a treasure trove of wildlife sculptures in bronze. So I accepted the assignment,...
For all the mosaic artist wannabees out there, your ship just sailed in. To the Eastern Shore of Virginia, that is, where New Ravenna is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. A big part of its scheduled festivities is a mosaic design competition that’s open to anyone. There are two categories:...
Tom Kligerman’s self-described “New American” architecture is being chronicled in a new book from The Monacelli Press. “Shingle and Stone: Tom Kligerman Houses” covers nine of his homes designed since 1992. They’re as small as a tiny guest house – and as big as any client from the Lone...
Educated by his early-American-furniture-loving parents, Stuart Grannen bought his first piece of stained glass at age seven. “As a kid, they dragged me to places like the Metropolitan Museum and the South Street Seaport Museum,” the 65-year-old owner of Chicago’s Architectural Artifacts says....
If the fine furnishings created by Studio Seitz look like they’ve been made with Swiss precision, that’s because they are. Co-founders Kevin Seitz and Rob van Wyen are inspired by a family heritage of craftsmanship from Switzerland dating back to 1795. “Kevin’s family members have been makers...
Catherine Scotto is the author of a new book from Prestel and Rizzoli called “Morocco: Destination of Style, Elegance and Design. She’s the former editor-in-chief at Elle Décoration, and is now freelancing for the press and publishing. A+A recently interviewed her via email about the book, which...
A competitive advantage of centralizing design, sales, and production into one facility is the ability to spot trends – and react – quickly. That’s one lesson learned from the pandemic at New Ravenna, the Exmore, Va.-based mosaics maker. “We looked at what people were requesting and where they...
“Banish the already seen from the mind and seek the unseen” is one famous motto from the revolutionary painter René Magritte. He’s often considered to be one of the fathers of Surrealism – the artistic and literary movement that began in the 1920s. The Magritte collection from Barovier&Toso...
For more than 700 years, Murano-based Barovier&Toso has focused its artistic efforts on safeguarding the art of glass. The company recently collaborated with Luca Nichetto of Nichetto Studio on two new collections of lamps and pendants with a contemporary accent. A+A interviewed Daniela Sarracco,...
Joseph Giovannini is a practicing architect who’s written about architecture and design for more than 30 years as a critic for major newspapers and magazines, coast-to-coast. He has a new book out from Rizzoli called ‘Architecture Unbound: A Century of the Disruptive Avant-Garde,’ ...
