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.
An aerial view of Washington, DC, circa 1993.
Products from Rudy’s Barbershop, which started in Seattle in 1993, are available in the shower.
A custom designed sofa or ‘baithak’ by OTLA runs along the periphery of the living room. The upholstery is fashioned out of 'Kala' cotton, hand woven in Kutch, Gujarat and has been designed by Leel. A stone bust of Vishnu from the client’s personal collection rests on a teak wood pedestal. The lamp is an old design from Ikea.
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 earlier house on this site was built in the late 1960s, but was destroyed in the 1993 Kinneloa Fire. With approval from the county, it's concrete foundation was reused for the new house.
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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.
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.