Interior designer Ashley Hicks has a new book out from Rizzoli, called “Rooms with a History: Interiors and their Inspirations.” Inspirational and visually on trend, it’s said to be a pattern book for the 21st century. In it, Hicks discusses his own quirky and colorful historicist interiors, with...
Sure, San Francisco – like Paris in our post earlier this week – is undergoing a lockdown. But that doesn’t stop Daniel Gregory from talking by phone about his new book from Princeton Architectural Press. It’s called “The New Farm” – and it looks at architecture and the reinvention of the American...
In Paris, the lockdown has begun. A spread of the coronavirus there means that restaurants and cafes are now closed, and no one’s allowed on the street after noon. “It’s for two weeks, and we’ll see after that,” says photographer Richard Nahem, a New York expat. “You can’t go to the gym,...
Julia Watson believes she’s found a better way to build – without benefit of high technology. After 20 years of studying indigenous people and their solutions to environmental challenges, the architect/planner-turned-landscape architect offers another solution: She calls it Lo-TEK – and offers...
Detroit native Andrew Fisher is fearless. When he graduated from college in 1980, there were no jobs. So he made a beeline for Cranbrook Academy of Art, to teach high school furniture design – and in the process, earned his graduate degree. “I made my presence known there,” he says. “It was too valuable...
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...
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,...
