Rob and Laura Petrie never had it so good. The suburban couple from “The Dick Van Dyke” television show of the early sixties lived a life of relative ease in their single-family home in New Rochelle, 30 miles north of New York City. But now there’s a new option for living there, aimed specifically...
Since Architects + Artisans was established 10 years ago, we’ve published scads of posts about architecture, artisanship, landscape, and design. Over the next few weeks, we’ll reach back into our archives and select a single post from each year of the past decade – and publish it again....
Think of them as original works of art, rather than ornaments. Because they are. Made by hand, one at a time, these miniature sculptures from Artful Home are created by artists and submitted to a jury headed by Michael Monroe, former director of the Renwick Gallery. “We asked for submissions and received...
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...
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...
