At Home in the Modern World
Since the fall of the USSR, Tallinn has managed to look unblinkingly to the future while still retaining vital elements of its past. A hotbed of northern art and design encircling a UNESCO World Heritage site, this Baltic City is fast becoming an architect’s paradise.
Los Angeles–based architects Craig Hodgetts and Ming Fung of Hodgetts + Fung Design and Architecture created a music pavilion for the Herb Alpert School of Music at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California. In addition to accommodating the need for additional musical performance space, the pair took the opportunity to make a bold architectural statement at the same time.
We celebrated the start of London Design Festival with tea and itty bitty cupcakes at British textile and surface designer Ella Doran's shop in East London. She is hosting There's No Place Like Home, an exhibition and auction of artist-designed placements to benefit Shelter, a British charity working with homelessness. Doran has invited 23 designers and illustrators to each create a series of placemats that have been available in a silent auction in the shop since the opening on Saturday. Online bidding will also be possible as of this week.
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