Marilyn Henrion may be entering her ninth decade as a New Yorker, but she’s as prolific as ever. The 1952 graduate of Cooper Union was born in Brooklyn and has been living and working as an artist in Greenwich Village for the past seven decades. She’s a student of the urban landscape of New York...
In 2018, a couple of Seattle-based architects – one formerly with Olson Kundig and the other once with Heliotrope – bailed on the Pacific Northwest and headed east for Idaho. Eschewing the life of practicing architects, they embarked on a new kind of service-based business. It’s called Notion Workshop...
Harry Mark and Cody Clark, co-founders of RSM Design, operate at the intersection of graphic design and architecture. They work with firms like Rem Koolhaas/OMA in L.A., Diller Scofidio + Renfro in Las Vegas, and Snohetta in El Paso, developing brand narratives within the context of culture or history...
Before she founded Pillow Pops, Shani Moran was designing wholesale fabrics for fashion houses – and soaking up all she could about the industry. Then she spent two years designing fabrics and color palettes for a new line she calls Pillow Pops. It consists of 24 collections of pillows designed not just...
They’re all here – Le Corbusier, Mies, Aalto, Kahn, Frampton and Adjaye – along with others less well-known. They’re chronicled in John Hill’s new comprehensive guide to illustrated architecture books of the last century. It’s called “Buildings in Print: 100 Influential and Inspiring Illustrated...
It’s back – live and in person. Last year, the pandemic shifted the Western Design Conference to an online sourcebook with shop-able pages for artists where buyers could inquire or purchase from artists directly. “It was a nice segue – clients could commission something if they wanted,” says...
Heather Asker is a merchandising and marketing manager with a background in neither. Instead, she’s more of an analyst, drawing on her interests in sociology and business software. That’s how she landed her first position at Bella Notte Linens. “Nine years ago I applied for a job in back office...
Taller KEN’s winning entry in the Ceramics of Italy 2021 Tile Competition is playful and serious at once. Located in Escazu, San Jose Province, Costa Rica, it’s a residential project for a couple and their three young boys. “They also were the builders, because he has a construction company,”...
Colin Chee lives in a 38-square-meter apartment in inner city Melbourne and is constantly looking for inspiration and ideas on how to improve his small home. In 2017 he started making videos profiling the best interior architects in the small-format residential design space. These videos became a YouTube...
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,...
