Cecelia Feld is a Dallas-based painter, printmaker and photographer. She’s also owns the gift of timing. Back in May 2011, she accompanied a videographer from the Trinity Trust shooting the construction of Santiago Calatrava’s new span over the Trinity River in Dallas. The Margaret Hunt Hill...
Deborah Osburn’s Tilevera has been producing works in stone for a quarter-century now, but today her newest efforts are bringing to market a collection of designs that might turn even the head of Charles Foster Kane. She’s been licensed to reproduce glass, wood and stone designed by Julia Morgan,...
It’s a dream team lineup for at least one gifted designer. Dwell magazine, Design Within Reach (DWR) and WantedDesign 2012 are joining forces for a contest to find the next “classic of tomorrow.” They call it the Live/Work Design Contest, and it’s open now. “We’re looking for a product...
It’s time for architects and landscape architects to call a truce, says Raleigh’s Frank Harmon, and begin to enjoy the fruits of what can be a very generous and rewarding collaboration. “Where to place a building on a site is the single-most important decision in any design work,” the architect...
Architectural historian Ellen Weiss is on a mission. The retired professor from Tulane’s school of architecture is out to resuscitate the reputation of Robert R. Taylor. He was not only the first academically trained African American architect, but also the first of his race to graduate from M.I.T....
Between 1912 and 1913 the Roycrofters, a group of artisans led by Elbert Hubbard in East Aurora, N.Y., produced hand-hewn Arts & Crafts furnishings for the Grove Park Inn in Asheville, N.C. Copper lighting fixtures for the Inn’s Great Hall, massive oak breakfronts and corner cabinets for its dining...
The latest victim of the Great Recession’s gut-wrenching freefall is now on the block. Ernest Hemingway’s boyhood home in Oak Park, Ill. – the place where he lived, rebelled and wrote from age seven to 17 – has been listed for sale at a ridiculously low $525,000. That’s a modest $5,000 more...
When 17-year-old George Vanderbilt, youngest son of William Henry Vanderbilt, traveled to England in 1880 with his mother and father, one stop that was de rigueur was at Holland House in Kensington, just outside London. There, American financier and railroad tycoon James McHenry would give the lad at tour...
These days we usually turn to the Cato Institute, the Brookings Institution or the Pew Research Center when trying to validate a particular point of view. But back in 1880, before radio, television or (gulp!) the Internet, there really was only one such matrix for modern ideas. It was based outside...
The inspiration for BIG/Bjarke Ingels Group’s design for the new Kimball Art Center in Park City, Utah arose from urban context, historic precedent and a tradition of stacked timber construction. “It was a balancing act between making it contextual and iconic,” says project leader Leon Rost. ...
