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...
Last Saturday, I had took a virtual tour of Venice during its time of the Bubonic Plague in the 14th and 17th centuries. It was guided by Luisella Romeo. who’s a native of Venice, has been a registered guide in the city since 2000, and is fluent in Italian, English, and German. Since the pandemic,...
Alas, Amtrak Joe’s arrival yesterday at the nation’s capital was not by his favored mode of travel: a train slipping into Daniel Burnham’s exquisite Union Station. Instead, he flew into Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, via private jet – yet another victim of the Late Unpleasantness fomented by the outgoing...
Photographer Paul Clemence’s sense of timing is pretty much impeccable. In Washington, D.C. recently, he spent hours shooting one of Mies van der Rohe’s final projects. The Martin Luther King Jr. Library at 901 G Street NW was completed in 1972 and designed mostly as a book-lending library, with...
Two new projects for Lamplighter School in Dallas by Marlon Blackwell Architects illuminate why the firm won the 2020 AIA Gold Medal. Lamplighter is a progressive, pre-K-through-fourth-grade school, founded in the late 1960s by Texas Instruments executives. It’s about applied learning. “There’s...
Religious architecture, often the most inspiring on the planet – think of the Pantheon and the Hagia Sofia – is sometimes the most budget-challenged too. But a New York firm is working mightily to help congregations across the nation re-think how their synagogues can be reimagined for the 21st century...
A drainage swale, tumbling down a one-acre site overlooking Windy Hill in Northern California’s Portola County, drove the placement of the Westridge Residence. It was sited and designed by architect Richard Beard, when he was a principal at BAR Architects. “It had a house on it that was not in good...
An assignment to redesign lighting aboard Alaska Airlines’ fleet of 737s turned into something bigger for Seattle’s Graham Baba Architects: Like the airline’s new flagship lounge at SeaTac International Airport. “They wanted to do something different from the legacy airlines – to be much...
Most people looking to build in Edgewater on the north side of Chicago would pass on a standard lot measuring 25 by 125 feet, an alley aligned to its longest side. But not architects Alison von Glinow and Lap Chi Kwong, principals in the Chicago firm that bears their names, Kwong Von Glinow. They looked...
Muted colors from Northern California and Morocco have inspired two new collections from Bella Notte Linens. The new designs are the work of Leeta Steenwyk, design director at the San Francisco-based firm for the past seven years. Her first experience with Bella Notte’s artisanal offerings turned her into...
