Modern Design at Wright

Events

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  Design USA: Contemporary Innovation

  This exhibition features outstanding contemporary achievements in American architecture, landscape design, interior design, product design, communication design, corporate design, interaction…

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  Transform 2011: Design Innovation in Healthcare

  This premier multidisciplinary event focuses on innovations and designing solutions to transform the experience and delivery of health care. Approximately 1,000 attendees from around the world are…

Articles

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  Undivided Intentions

  The late architect David Boone was always one to take his work home with him—he just kept it in the home’s office. The new residents of his 1972 house embrace a more fluid approach to…

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  Graphic Design: Project Projects

  Manhattan-based Project Projects may be a graphic design studio, but it works in all dimensions, on the page and off. Founded by Prem Krishnamurthy and Adam Michaels in 2004, the firm designs…

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  Mid-Century Textile Design

  Among the vintage interior design trends, the mid-century modern designs of the 1950s are holding fast. TV shows like “Mad Men” seem to have struck a chord with many yearning for the…

Dwell Collections

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  Auction Preview from Wright

  Over the last decade Chicago's Wright auction house, one of the premier venues for modern design, has helped establish and define the collectable market. Since 2000 the auction house has sold over…

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  Mid-Century Finds

  Los Angeles–based furniture dealer and mid-century scholar Sam Kaufman shares the design lore behind some of his most recent acquisitions.

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  Mid-Century Finds from Sam Kaufman

  Los Angeles–based mid-century modern specialist Sam Kaufman shares a few favorite items from his current inventory of "unusual modernist objects from the last century".

Products

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  Animal Blueprints

  As previously mentioned, I came across a couple of gift ideas for my gift guide that weren’t exactly gadgets, or gadget related. This is a company I discovered last year and one that I think…

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  Uno Mod

  Uno's been around since the early 1970s, and the simple card game never seems to lose its appeal. The classic design just got a graphic update with the recently released Uno Mod, which comes in a…

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  Handcrafted Modern: At Home with Mid-century Designers

  An intimate and revealing collection of photographs of astonishingly beautiful, iconic, and undiscovered mid-century interiors. Among significant mid-century interiors, none are more celebrated…