Four top designers have been invited to design an original piece of artwork to celebrate the London Design Museum's 20th anniversary. Tord Boontje, Margaret Calvert, Konstantin Grcic and David Chipp...
We're fascinated by the surreal photos of "Telling Tales: Fantasy and Fear in Contemporary Design" — an exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. The exhibition presents recent ...
Name: Alvar Aalto & family Location: Munkkiniemi neighborhood of Helsinki, Finland Size: approximately 2,200 square feet Years lived in: 40 years Alvar Aalto's first building built in Helsinki was ...
While visiting the American Period Rooms at the Met yesterday I stumbled upon an odd contraption called a monteith that kept popping up in all the 18th century rooms....
The Museum of Modern Art just opened a retrospective of the design work of Israeli-born Ron Arad. To display the work for the show, Arad himself created a huge stainless steel structure, named the Ca...
We obviously have a thing for obscure postings from The New York Times — did you see this morning's link to the panoramic image of William F. Buckley Jr.'s Formal Dining Room? Another oddity ...
The work of Danish designer Finn Juhl has popped up occasionally in our Scavenger and Auction posts. His home, located in a northern suburb of Copenhagen, is now part of the Ordrupgaard museum. Buil...
We've talked a lot about moving the past few weeks — but few of us will ever have the experience of physically moving an entire house. On Saturday, Alexander Hamilton’s country home, the Grange ...
Have you been to the new New Museum yet? Though it is in easy walking distance from my apartment, I have not. I have long-admired the architecture of this unique building on the Bowery. And apparent...
Biographical Museum. There's a brief piece in the latest T Magazine from The New York Times that highlights the design studio of Achille Castiglioni. Untouched since the designer died in 2002, the s...
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