So what’s an artist to do with a ten-foot-long, inflatable Beluga whale, anyway? For Ya Ya Chou, the answer is simple enough: Suspend it from a huge tree in Beverly Hills, create an artificial ocean below, and fill it with smaller baby Belugas swimming through the air. And make a statement. “The...
She takes her cues for terracotta tile designs from ancient paintings of Japanese kimono makers. “It’s based on the way the Japanese draped their kimono fabric, almost like on a quilt stand,” says Seattle-based Justyn Livingston. “They’d mix stripes and dots, birds and flowers, checks, zigzags...
Some call it the most coveted boutique hotel in Puerto Vallarta. The views alone might earn Hacienda San Angel that status. It’s perched above terracotta rooftops and cobblestone streets, with views of Banderas Bay to the west and the the Sierra Madre mountain range to the east. Casa Bur-Sus, the core...
By JoAnn Locktov Italian artist Paola Orsoni creates lyrical fusions of terracotta, glass, and metal. She has harnessed the disruptive process of hot and cold to cajole the marriage of unlike materials into vibrant splashes of radiant color and dynamic texture. Created entirely by hand in her Milan...
Fashion, says painter Kimberly Brooks, is a visual language with an impact all its own. “Look at the influence of Coco Chanel and Elsa Schiaparelli on Matisse,” says the artist, whose work has been showcased in juried exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, California...
By JoAnn Locktov At first glance, the artistic milieu of Mark Bulwinkle appears to be a happy one. Animals cavort, flowers bloom, the sun shines, and a boy’s eyes take the form of hearts. The cartoon-like images seem to be laughing at the viewer, as though a private joke has been incised into each....
Why wait for waist-high water from a storm surge in Battery Park a century from now, when you can think your way out of it today? That’s the way Adam Yarinsky and his associates at Architecture Research Office (ARO) are looking at the prospect of a late-21st century hurricane hitting lower Manhattan....
It was mostly a matter of editing. When he set out to compile a book of America’s railroad stations, David Naylor culled through hundreds of thousands of digitized images in the Library of Congress collection. He made the cut to a few thousand, then took that down by half. Finally, he trimmed his collection...
By Frank Harmon, FAIA Sometimes we can appreciate a work of art for what’s left unsaid, for the missing piece that we get to imagine. Ernest Hemingway doesn’t mention abortion in his short story “Hills Like White Elephants.” Yet the couple waiting for a train beside the Ebro River is consumed...
The difference between an architect-designed home and one found in a typical subdivision is like the difference between a suit that’s custom-made over one that’s off-the-rack. So says Katie Truncellito, a designer with BBH Architecture and co-chair of the AIA Triangle residential architecture...
