Now that owners Michael McCarthy and Marcia Myers have meticulously restored their Douglas House on Lake Michigan, they’re seeking to preserve it for posterity. The home is considered a masterpiece of late-20th-century architecture. During the summer of 1972, with project architect Tod Williams...
Exactly 10 years ago today, Architects + Artisans launched its first post, about a modern shed for a potter’s kiln in Boone, N.C. Since then, A+A has offered its readers all manner of ideas about architecture, art and design. It’s a sweet gig for this writer, enabling interviews with some...
One intangible the holidays present us with is the gift of time to reflect on what’s most important in our world today. For this writer, rhythmic prose and good design are near the top of that list. So I’ve selected a few books addressing those subjects – believing that any architect, artisan...
Catherine Synave is a journalist and art historian who’s published “A Home in Paris” (Flammarion, 2015) and contributed to a number of design magazines. Now she’s published a book called “The Parisians: Tastemakers at Home,” with interiors by 25 world-class designers. Its photographs...
Think of Zero Irving as a 22-story, 240,000-square foot escalator for tech-savvy startups. “There’s interaction between floors and users of the building, to promote collaboration between startups on lower floors and more developed tenants on the upper floors,” says Chris Grabe, partner at Davis...
It’s time to set the record straight on this Shou Sugi Ban business. The correct term is Yakisugi. Yaki means burned. Sugi means cypress. Some say that years ago, a Cal Berkeley student misinterpreted a combination of Chinese and Japanese characters – and left us with the misnomer. “Yaki was written...
Two prized possessions at my house are a pair of ink and watercolor sketches by North Carolina architect Frank Harmon. They depict two of Thomas Jefferson’s most sophisticated projects. One is The Lawn and Rotunda at the University of Virginia. That’s on one side of a six-inch by eight-inch sheet...
Founded by two friends – Harold Graham and Henry Brown – Graham & Brown has been family-run from its headquarters in Blackburn, Lancashire since 1946. The company recently introduced a number of new wallpaper lines, which prompted us to reach out for an interview via email: What’s the background...
A visit to an exhibition of photographer Paul Clemence’s work in the Swiss consulate in New York led to a dialog-inspired show in Geneva, Switzerland. Curator Luciana Solano sent a proposal and a review of the show to gallery Espace L, owned by Leticia Maciel, in Geneva. “The gallery said: ‘Oh,...
Imagine a community with a 60-acre park at its heart – one that half the 30,000 population doesn’t know exists. Oddly enough, that’s the case at Post Falls, Idaho, 22 miles east of Spokane, Wash. “One of every two people we talked to didn’t know it was there, because of the way the land was […]
