In 1996, fashion designer Kathleen McCoy turned her home’s garage into a design studio, and started experimenting with leftover bolts of fabric. Before long, she’d come up with an idea whose time had come: Machine-washable couture fabrics for everyday living. Now her daughter’s joined Bella Notte...
Hollyhock House, Frank Lloyd Wright’s first in Southern California, is an aspirational and inspirational masterpiece. Now Wright’s drawings for the house and other projects are available in digital format for most of the world to see. “We’re trying to get on this bandwagon that’s available...
We spent the 2018 holidays in New Orleans, staying at the Hotel Monteleone, with brunch at Brennan’s, oysters at the Desire, and dinners at Antoine’s, Galatoire’s and Commander’s Palace. But we found the most vivid memories in a gallery on Jackson Square, where Louis Sahuc’s...
Cristiana Mascarenhas isn’t worried about any federally mandated “Make America Beautiful Again” program. The Rio de Janeiro native has worked on both contemporary and classical interiors since opening her Manhattan interior design firm in 1992. “At first I had classical clients, but then in the past...
One of our favorite firms practicing on Nantucket is New York-based Workshop APD. They’ve got the vernacular, the scale and the proportion of residential work down pat, and they know their way around the codes and regulations. Here’s a 2018 post on one of their newer homes on the island:...
SITE Santa Fe is upping its game when it comes to the tragic and deadly flow of refugees worldwide. “We want to call attention to this crisis, and I think that artists have a particular power to focus our attention, and to create greater understanding and empathy,” says chief curator Irene Hoffman.”There’s...
Sasha Bikoff was born on the Upper East Side, attended GWU in D.C., then transferred to the American University of Paris to study fine arts while she painted and worked in ceramics. Later, in Chelsea, she was a gallerist. “I spent four years there, and got business experience,” she says. “Then...
A built-to-scale replica of Paul Rudolph’s Walker Guest House is now up for auction during Modernism Week in Palm Springs, Calif. “The Walker Guest House is a stunning example of Paul Rudolph’s architecture, but it’s on Sanibel Island and the owners didn’t t want visitors,” says Anne Essner,...
Blair Kamin’s newest book, “Amherst College: The Campus Guide,” paints a telling picture of his alma mater – with the buildings that populate it. Since 1821, the college has evolved from South Hall, built by local townspeople, to Italianate and Gothic structures, to a classical Palladian...
Chicago Tribune columnist Blair Kamin credits an art history course at Amherst College for turning his head toward architecture criticism. The 1979 graduate took a course in Gothic Architecture from a charismatic lecturer named Joel Upton. His passionate talks on French Gothic cathedrals changed Kamin’s...
