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...
Let’s say you’re an architect or designer in need of a fireplace 32 feet long. Where do you go? If you’re smart, you’ll look up Ortal Heat, a 25-year-old Israeli company with an office in Los Angeles and a warehouse in New Jersey. That’s what Scottsdale-based Kona Grill...
Wallpaper’s never really gone away. Sure, maybe it’s gotten a little muted lately. But it’s back in a big way these days, especially with surprising applications in the restaurant and hospitality sector. That’s true from Wilmington, N.C. at the ARRIVE Hotel, to the Viceroy and Duck Duck Goat...
Interior designer Ashley Hicks has a new book out from Rizzoli, called “Rooms with a History: Interiors and their Inspirations.” Inspirational and visually on trend, it’s said to be a pattern book for the 21st century. In it, Hicks discusses his own quirky and colorful historicist interiors, with...
Mosaic designer Paul Schatz is no stranger to New Ravenna. Or for that matter, to Architects + Artisans. We’ve been writing about both for years. And now, the symbiotic relationship between Schatz and New Ravenna’s new creative director, Cean Irminger, has yielded 20 new mosaic designs for the Miraflores...
If, as Bob Dylan famously wrote, the streets of Rome are filled with rubble, the arcades of Bologna are paved with terrazzo. At the CERSAIE tile show there last week, artisans clearly took cues from that art form so prevalent across the city. But that was just one new trend from the world’s largest...
