When Rob and Mary Lubera started pulling threads to uncover the origins of their new home—the lone midcentury house amid rows of Tudor Revivals in suburban Detroit—not even architecture scholars could have anticipated what they would find. Theirs is the last surviving residence by Alexander Girard (1907–1993), a modernist visionary who made his name in textiles but tried his hand at virtually everything, architecture included. The shoji-like laminate screens, seen in the entryway, are characteristic of his Japanese-influenced work.
A photo of Verner Panton from 1993
Products from Rudy’s Barbershop, which started in Seattle in 1993, are available in the shower.
An aerial view of Washington, DC, circa 1993.
1993
Stefano Giovannoni designs Merdolino toilet brush for Alessi.
Orgone Stretch and Lounge, 1993. Photo by Fabrice Gousset/Courtesy of Galerie Kreo.
In 1993, the students designed a temple consisting of an eight-by-eight- foot cube perched on a floating platform beneath a canopy.
The Camareiro bench was designed by Etel Carmona in 1993. Carmona is the head of Etel Marcenaria in Brazil.
Photo courtesy Espasso.
After it was completed in 1993, the Experimental House received several awards, including recognition from the Los Angeles Chapter of the American Institute of Architecture.
Designed in 1993 by architects Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal, the two-level home comprises a wooden volume placed inside a metal structure inspired by an agricultural shed.
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Eliasson’s 1993 work Beauty sprays mist into the air to produce a rainbow that intensifies and disappears as viewers move around it.
Ziesel’s coffee table, made in 1993, puts her swirling, whimsical themes in a different medium, available at Design Within Reach.
When Tatiana and Diego bought the second-hand 1993 Chevy Van, it was completely unfurnished. The first intervention—done by the clients—was to add a pop top to create a more spacious dwelling.
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Proprietor Chris Houston holds court in a Sonna Rosen chair from 1948 in front of a Kyran Aviani oil painting. Next to him is a 1993 Lawrence Laske Saguaro Cactus table.
Latapie House in Floirac, France, was constructed in 1993 as a budget home for a young family. The simple volume is set on a rectangular base with two open platforms. The street side is covered with opaque fiber-cement sheeting, and the garden side features transparent polycarbonate sheeting that forms a kind of conservatory.