Fiona Barratt-Campbell studied interior design at Chelsea College of Art in London and Parsons School of Design in New York, and founded Studio Fiona Barratt Interiors14 years ago. The studio works on both high-end residential and hospitality projects in the U.K. and around the world. She has a new book...
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...
Lyn Peterson is a decorator, a general contractor – and an expert in steam-punk design. She’s even got a catalog dedicated to the concept, strictly for designers and architects. And she knows how to trace its history. “It’s industrial style – an anachronistic technology,” she says. “It...
Paul McClean is an Irish architect practicing in Southern California. He grew up in Dublin, sure from the age of four or five that he wanted to be an architect. “Even at 10 or 11 I was walking around Dublin looking for modern buildings,” he says. “There was a local public library back then, but […]
“Creative Paris,” by editorial director Anne-Sophie Leroux, is the newest offering from My Little Paris, a media and e-commerce group founded by five women. With more than 130 employees, it addresses a community of five million women. Its signatures are the power of zero (no investment or fundraising),...
“Drawing Architecture” by Helen Thomas is a book of visually paired images that draw connections and contrasts between architecture from different times, styles and places. Published by Phaidon, the 320-page book features drawings from Michelangelo to Frank Gehry, Louise Bourgeois to Tadao Ando,...
Post-World War II Paris was similar to the modern era in the United States, contends author Maureen Footer. “It was a very unsettling time, with a dated and mistrustful social specter,” she says. “When the city had been occupied by the Germans, it was a matter of who you could trust, and then there...
Today, A+A is hosting a guest post from David C. Phillips, who has a new book of photography out called “Reflections of Venice” that captures the essence of that Italian city. Here’s what he has to say about it: A New View of Venice? Impossible! Venice, La Serenissima, that ancient and venerable...
