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De La Espada Sale
Modernists and craftsmen are often seen as the guys who wear all black and the guys who wear flannels, respectively. However contemporary meets craft in just about everything De La Espada puts out.
written by: Jamie Waugh10.24.08 -
Review: The Idler's Glossary
The Idler's Glossary by Joshua Glenn and Mark Kingwell, designed and illustrated by Seth, came out this month from Biblioasis. With a trim size perfect for fitting into your pocket to read during a...
written by: Geoff Manaugh10.23.08 -
Modernist Architecture Feeling the Pinch?
Falling prices for classic Lautners and Neutras might be a telltale sign that even modern masterpieces are feeling the pinch.
written by: Laure Joliet10.23.08 -
Michael Beirut at the Cooper-Hewitt
This week at the Cooper-Hewitt is National Design Week, designated by the museum as a week of focus on the ways design enriches everyday life.
written by: Jamie Waugh10.23.08 -
Get Paid to Green Your Home
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs suggests that we only think about fancy needs like self-actualization once we've managed the basics such as food, water, shelter and safety. With a sluggish economy and...
written by: Jamie Waugh10.22.08 -
Revolving Hotel Room
Some hotel designers have an exhibitionist streak that leads them to embed opportunities for surreptitious glances into ordinarily anonymous guest rooms and hallways.
written by: Sarah Rich10.22.08 -
Modernism for the Masses
Fifty years ago William Krisel helped shape the look of modern design that has become synonymous with Southern California. By building 2,500 tract homes and nearly doubling the size of Palm Springs...
written by: Laure Joliet10.22.08 -
Grete Jalk Plywood Chair
1963 was a big one for Grete Jalk. That year, the Danish furniture designer debuted her Lounge Chair and Nesting Tables, won the Daily Mail International Furniture competition for their designs,...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake10.21.08 -
A Greener Version of Clorox Cleans Up
Clorox launched an eco-friendly line of cleansers earlier this year and has seen its Green Works line leap to the head of the green cleansers class. A recent story in the San Francisco...
written by: Aaron Britt10.21.08 -
Mc&Co
Gleaming from a white-washed box on North 6th Street is Corinne Gilbert's Mc&Co, a lovingly-curated shop of modern porcelain, glassware, art, home accessories and fashion accessories that break...
written by: Jamie Waugh10.21.08 -
New from Patricia Urquiola
“For me, design and life goes together—it was my furniture, my husband, and my life that influenced me,” responds designer Patricia Urquiola when asked what influenced her recent...
written by: Sonja Hall10.20.08 -
Last Day for Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling
Today is the final day to venture through this well-received survey of the phenomenon that is the prefabricated home.
written by: Jamie Waugh10.20.08 -
Tools for Living
Just in time for budgets to shrink everywhere, Design Within Reach unveils their new Tools For Living line of impeccably designed everyday objects. All pieces that are much cheaper than a Saarinen...
written by: Laure Joliet10.20.08 -
The Energy Seed
Because I have been told time and again that disposing of batteries in the garbage is a terribly destructive thing to do, I generally collect my spent batteries in an old container in my house. My...
written by: Sarah Rich10.19.08 -
REBAR at Machine Gallery
REBAR, a collective of artists, designers, and activists based in San Francisco—masterminds of PARK(ing) Day LA—will be at Machine Project this Saturday.
written by: Laure Joliet10.18.08 -
Zaha Hadid in Central Park
In time for the Cooper-Hewitt's National Design Week is London-based architect Zaha Hadid's collaboration with Chanel's Karl Lagerfeld to design a pavilion that explores just what it would feel...
written by: Jamie Waugh10.17.08 -
Big Trouble in Little Dubai
Dubai, that instant city of over-wrought architecture and slave-like laborers, is apparently on the verge of a sewage catastrophe. The BBC reports that "raw sewage is flowing into the sea...
written by: Geoff Manaugh10.17.08 -
Lavaflow Exhibit at Mollusk Surf Shop
With photos now pouring in of newly snow-covered cities across America—or perhaps exactly because of it—we have Hawaii on our minds.
written by: Miyoko Ohtake10.17.08 -
Doshi Levien: Myth and Material
The Design Duo of Doshi Levien has succeeded again: the British design team has produced a compelling collection of work melding whimsy and modernism, Indian tradition and a European approach to...
written by: Jamie Waugh10.16.08 -
Back to Basics
With high-quality, simply designed products in high demand, it was only a matter of time before technology got a natural touch.
written by: Laure Joliet10.16.08
