Leave it to a graduate of London’s Architecture Association to design a collection of elegant cabinetry pulls. The school that turned out Hubert Muschamp, Rem Koolhaas, Zaha Hadid, and Frank Harmon now brings us architectural hardware from Avanti Karnani. She’s a designer with Ashley Norton, the U.K....
The Western Design Conference, a Jackson Hole legacy for nearly three decades now, is changing things up for an era of pandemic. It’s going virtual – and offering every artist who’s participated over the past 28 years the opportunity to showcase his or her work in a digital sourcebook. It opens...
Sideyard is aptly named. “Its site is long and narrow, with a significant slope – 15 feet from one end to another,” says Jill Asselineau, project director at Skylab Architecture. A 23,000 square-foot, five-story infill structure, it’s tucked tightly into 9,000 square feet in an up-and...
Forrest Lesch-Middelton gets points for doing his due diligence. The owner of FLM Ceramics in Petaluma, Calif., a potter and ceramicist since age 14, reached back 250 years for inspiration in his new line of tiles. He looked to German physicist and musician Ernest Chladni, who lived and worked between...
Jerry Caldari, partner at Bromley Caldari Architects in New York, watched the crowds on Florida’s beaches over spring break – and was appalled at the lack of social distancing. “I saw that debacle and I was concerned about this Coronavirus situation,” he says. “We are not out of the woods,...
As production workers and staff begin to trickle back into New Ravenna on Virginia’s Eastern Shore, the fine arts mosaic maker is reaching out to help feed the nation. Its “One of a Kind” online auction of nine original mosaics – created by New Ravenna artisans while working from home – is all about...
After 18 years in New York City – 15 of them focused on design without boundaries – Dror Benshetrit moved to Litchfield, Conn. And launched Dror 2.0. One of his first orders of business was to publish a book that captures the exploratory nature of his studio’s work in art, design, planning and architecture....
Robert Schneider finds his passion in three areas: coffee, design and architecture. So he combined them all into a book proposal for Images Publishing, took a deep breath and sent it off. “I had the idea of a book that would showcase different coffee shops, espresso machines, coffee-making apparatus...
To say that design gurus Bob and Cortney Novogratz get around is like saying Anthony Fauci is merely a doctor. And this couple has a new book from Rizzoli to prove it. “We’ve done so many projects – we redid an old castle in L.A., but also a trailer in Montauk, an Airbnb home, and […]
Some luxury brands burn or trash seconds and samples, but Bella Notte’s found new use for theirs. It’s a collection called Renewal – a commitment to sustainability, designed to keep slightly flawed materials from the landfill. “When we’re working with the fabric, there may be a small pile or something...
