The portraits alone are worth taking a look at. There’s Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, Andy Warhol, plus Lennon and McCartney, among many others. They’re part of Magnum Photos’ “Obsessions,” the June 2019 Square Print Sale, with photographic work by Robert Capa, Cornell Capa, David Seymour...
It is a truth universally acknowledged that lentils are good for you. They’re a source of cholesterol-lowering fiber. They prevent blood sugar levels from rising rapidly after a meal. And a full cup of the cooked legumes contains just 230 calories. But who knew you could stuff a sofa with them, along...
Resilience is the operative word for architect Illya Azaroff’s design for Diane Hellriegel’s home in Breezy Point, N.Y. She’d been left with an uninhabitable house – one her father and grandfather built by hand – after Hurricane Sandy swept through in 2012. Now she’s got a new home...
What better way to understand a structure than to look at it through isometric drawings? That’s the thinking behind Architecture Inside-Out by John Zukowsky and Robby Polley, from Rizzoli. The pair teamed up for Polley’s drawings and Zukowsky’s writing to examine 50 of the great buildings on this...
A new, high-end, modular system for bath vanities has hit the U.S. market. It’s called the Class Collection. “We wanted to create a modular system where the users are allowed to make their own pieces,” says Bob Gifford, director of business development at Hastings Tile & Bath. “That’s...
Annie Kelly and Tim Street-Porter have a new book out from Rizzoli called “Splash: The Art of the Swimming Pool” – one that celebrates the style, design and beauty that these watery oases bring to life. The book take readers on a tour of backyards and patios of celebrities and luminaries like...
I met interior designer Amy Meier during a tour of Italian artisans early in 2018. With 10 designers, we started in Lecce in Puglia, then worked out way north to Polignano A Mare, and west to Perugia, Spoleto and eventually to Rome. She struck me as sophisticated and stylish, but no-nonsense too. She’s...
Buoyed by the success of their first designs for a deck of cards in 2016, a group of architects in Seville is about to launch a crowd-sourcing campaign to produce a second. The only unanswered question is: When will we see a completed building from these imaginative designers? A+A recently interviewed...
Cean Irminger of New Ravenna Mosaics is channeling her inner Art Deco. Now she’s reinterpreting the work of Erté, the Russian-born artist who took Paris by storm in the early 20th century. “He was known as the king of Art Deco when he started in the teens,” she says. “He was working in a lot […]
Julia Tonconogy Pfeiffer studied art in Buenos Aires and at Parsons in New York. Then three years ago, she started her own line of carpets at Jt. Pfeiffer. They’re not just for floors. Some of her pieces are designed to hang on walls as well – in homes, hotels and corporate offices. They’re...
