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,...
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...
One of our favorite 21st-century architects is Brian MacKay Lyons, founding partner of MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple in Halifax, Nova Scotia. After studying at the Technical University in Nova Scotia and UCLA, he went to work for Charles Moore, Barton Myers, and Giancarlo De Carlo, before starting his firm...
One of our all-time favorite artisans is mosaic guru Sara Baldwin, who has a studio and operation on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. New Ravenna is, in fact, the largest employer in the town of Exmore. Sara and her team there make exquisite mosaics out of exotic materials imported from the four corners...
In January 2015, A+A published a post about an author, Robert Wheeler, who’d picked up his first book by Ernest Hemingway in 1986. It was the posthumously published “The Garden of Eden” and on its first page Hemingway vividly described a young couple madly in love. He used color, movement...
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...
