Fresh out of Harvard’s GSD in the late 1980s, Naomi Pollock suddenly found herself face-to-face with a new academic advisor at Tokyo University’s graduate school of architecture. She was there because her husband had been offered an opportunity in Japan – which gave her the opportunity to survey...
“AUTENTICO. Design made in Puglia,” a new exhibition showcasing design and innovation from Italy’s trending “it” destination – Puglia – opened on Friday at 82 Gansevoort Street New York’s Meatpacking District, across from The Whitney. It runs through Nov. 17, and features...
He’s done Jimmy Choo in Newport Beach. Helmut Lang in Atlanta. And Victoria’s Secret in Savannah. Now architect Alexander Zilberman, founder of AZA, has designed a showroom for one of Great Britain’s most iconic brands: Aston Martin. It’s in Manhattan at Park Avenue and 57th, near a stretch some...
After practicing for 20 years, the interior design firm of foley & cox has published its first monograph. It’s called “language of home,” and it’s 248 pages of sumptuous – if stripped-down – residential interiors across the globe. The 10-person firm is based in New York, and its clients...
Two USC School of Architecture students, separated by a continent after graduation, eventually got back together in L.A. – then started their own firm. Seventeen years ago, Brett Woods headed to Durham, N.C. and Little Architecture, eventually returning to California and another firm after two years....
It may be part retail outlet, part café, part theater and part meeting spot, but The Shop by Porter, designed by Graham Baba Architects in Seattle, is all original. It was conceived as a place where the design community could gather. But it turned into a place for anyone interested in the trends of the […]
A pair of high-end, custom-oriented makers of decorative arts for the home have joined together in the ultimate collaboration. Richmond, Va.-based McKinnon and Harris has been creating yacht-worthy aluminum outdoor furnishings for more than three decades. Exmore, Va.-based New Ravenna Mosaics has been...
John Ike’s new book is at once a chronicle of a gifted architect’s work in a number of styles – and a salute to the firm where he worked for 33 years. Nine Houses/Nine Stories looks at recent architecture, coast to coast, by Ike Kligerman Barkley. The firm split up, amicably, into three entities...
Early on in his sketchbook, for a residential project in Miami Beach, architect Rene Gonzalez wrote down two words: “Sexy Monastery.” Contradictory? Sure – but that’s the direction he chose to follow. “Those were two contrasting things that don’t go together, I knew,” he says. “But...
A pair of high-end, custom-oriented makers of decorative arts for the home have joined together in the ultimate collaboration. Richmond, Va.-based McKinnon and Harris has been creating yacht-worthy aluminum outdoor furnishings for more than three decades. Exmore, Va.-based New Ravenna Mosaics has been...
