Wow. The bulk of this week's section is devoted to the lead story and photographs: The Moderns. Would you pay a premium to live in the Rockefeller Apartments with a view of MoMA's sculture garden? (or were you lucky to buy in a slump?) Be sure to check out the story's extensive slideshow! It features photos of multiple apartments in the building (some are strikingly bare). We especially liked the comparison photos of three of the building's kitchens and the close-ups of original hardware.
- The Moderns.
- Wooden culture giving way to concrete: Old-Growth Finds the New World. Reclaiming teak from around the world. An interesting argument — the practice is promoting reuse, but at the costs of conservation?
- News to us: The Dark Side of a Good Friend to the Soil. Worms!
- Room to Improve: How high should my sofa be, relative to the other seating in the room? Intense analysis of seat-heights.
- Personal Shopper: A collection of contemporary designs from older companies. Above is Khashayar Naimanan's Hidden Wealth dinnerware from Nymphenburg.
(Photographs by Fred R. Conrad, Gordon M. Grant, and Peter Margonelli)
that Hidden Wealth dinnerware and table set is completely absurd
Oh, come on, ya gotta love how, for $52,000, the pattern you're reflecting looks like the early 1990s Corelle that everyone bought at Mervyn's.
I read the story on the reclaimed teak. One buyer claims she pays US$50,000 for an entire house for its teak. I seriously doubt the validity of this statement. Or it must be a huge teak palace. Or she's paying way above the market price, which can range from a little more than $1000 to $5000. The house in the picture wouldn't fetch more than $5000.
It makes sense though, if you're going to sell something for a really high price, to say that you pay through the nose for it.
in the pic of the couple at the Moderns, does anyone know what kind of bookshelves those are off in the corner? they're exactly what i want!
looks like a topographical food bank to me.
i sea london i sea france i see Mausoleums glass underpants.
reclaiming teak? surely you're joking? this borders on criminal. having lived in cambodia, laos and indonesia i'm sure this is just another fine example of the west exploiting the less fortunate. The assertion that, “many teak-wood homes and buildings like that factory are being torn down and replaced with Western-style brick or concrete ones” has more to do with politics, greed and exploitation than so-called “modernization”.
Go ahead, buy up your $50,000 home. Rest assured someone, somewhere is going without a roof over their head as a result.