Some of the coolest architecture in the world is actually off-world: hovering above us in space, placed into orbit by international space programs both public and private. These satellites and space stations—some still classified, others mere ruins, long past their prime—bring modernist functionality to the heavens.
For a traveling exhibition that kicked off last year at Connecticut’s Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, curators Jessica Hough and Mónica Ramírez-Montagut sought out artistic responses to modern architecture. Utopian, dystopian, abstract, surreal: The paintings, sculptures, collages, and videos on display in the show’s catalog prove that the buildings of the classic modern period, epitomized by Philip Johnson’s Glass House, were inspiring in more contexts than just architecture schools.
There are few things worse than super-specified, superfluous kitchen utensils. (Surely we can all slice an avocado without an avocado slicer.) This combo digital scale and measuring cup, exclusive to Williams-Sonoma, offers two useful tools without adding clutter to your kitchen.
