Danny Soos’s epiphany arrived in one of London’s high-end kitchen showrooms. The products offered simply did not match his vision. “I did my first flat in London with the old mindset of going to a showroom, picking up a brochure, and making decisions,” the co-founder of FORM Kitchens says. “It...
A new film from First Run Features celebrates the life and work of one of America’s first self-made men of the early 20th century. “Gustav Stickley: American Craftsman” opens virtually on March 5. It’s a 68-minute-long documentary about the man who reinterpreted Englishman William Morris’s...
Sometimes, serendipity spurs events that clearly were meant to happen. For example: A 2017 encounter between two artists in residence at Ragdale Foundation in Lake Forest, Il. has led to a book that explores the relationship between artists and their environments. Writer Melissa Wyse and illustrator...
A Kickstarter campaign for the reissue of Richard Saul Wurman’s “The Notebooks and Drawings of Louis I. Kahn” will launch tomorrow, Wednesday, February 17, at 8:00 AM Eastern. Updated background materials can be found here; at 8:00 AM tomorrow, that site will automatically lead to the Kickstarter...
After publishing three books on masterworks by his great-grandfather, Samuel G. White is zeroing in on the finer points of his work. “Stanford White in Detail” focuses on ornament and interiors that the partner in McKim, Mead & White dispatched with unmatched elegance in the late 19th and early...
It took five years but it felt like 25, says architect, planner, and author Victoria Ballard Bell. That’s because her new book – “Triangle Modern Architecture” – is about as thorough a tome on the topic as possible. She takes us back to the beginning – to the Bauhaus and Josef Albers and Black...
Photographer Wayne Thom arrived in Southern California too late for the midcentury modernists. He was too early for the history-bending postmodernists. But he was just in time for the late modernists. And he went after them with a vengeance. “He would ride on window washers’ scaffolding, hang out of helicopters,...
A native of Great Britain, Tim Street-Porter studied architecture there before arriving in Los Angeles four decades ago – along with his wife, writer and designer Annie Kelly. He immediately fell in with an unknown group of makers and designers in Venice Beach. Among them: Artist Ed Ruscha, and an unknown...
In a virtual era dominated by Zoom, Twitter, and TikTok, a design firm called Roto is breathing real-world fun into public spaces. Since 2004, they’ve been creating unique experiences for museums, zoos, aquariums, attractions and brand destinations for clients worldwide. Kids’ museums are a specialty...
What the world needs during a time of pandemic is instant gratification – and maybe a touch of Morocco to boot. That’s the way Cean Irminger, creative director at New Ravenna, sees things, anyway. That’s why she’s introduced a colorful and patterned new Studio Line of mosaics named after the cities...
