August 20, 2012

The Next Wave For the Wristwatch

Cellphones have already muscled onto watches' turf as a time-telling tool. Now, some of the biggest technology companies are eyeing your wrist, too.Companies like Apple, Nike and Sony, along with dozens of start-ups, hope to strap a device on your wr...
August 20, 2012

Private Screening

View SlideshowWith the economy languishing, a home screening room could be considered an embarrassment of riches; not all celebrities will admit to having one, especially in Manhattan, where an extra room of any kind is a luxury. So the Inquisitiv...
August 20, 2012

Fermoie, an innovative new British textile collection, launches

Martin Ephson and Tom Helme recently debuted Fermoie, a textile company that is the culmination of an idea the two have shared since the early days of their partnership. (The pair were former co-owners of the celebrated British paint-and-wallpaper comp...
August 19, 2012

Disruptions: The Next Wave for the Wristwatch

Instead of killing the wristwatch, the smartphone is actually rejuvenating it, and many of the top technology companies have their eyes on your wrist.
August 17, 2012

Home Truths

“Buy the best and you’ll only cry once” seems to be the mantra for mother-daughter design duo Suzanne and Lauren McGrath. The pair’s latest project is Good Bones, Great Pieces: The Seven Essential Pieces That Will Carry You Through a Lifetime (...
August 17, 2012

Quiet Escape

Helsinki, though smartly turned out enough to be crowned the 2012 World Design Capital, is still at times an overwhelming city—and city folks can always use a break. Finns and visitors will now find one in Narinkka Square at the Kamppi Chapel of Sile...
August 16, 2012

Smart Grandfather Clocks Next

We could not decide whether to put this post in our Grandfather Clock Blog, or in our Clocks Blog focusing more on Wall Clocks, Mantel Clocks, […]
August 15, 2012

Water Colors

The spire of the Empire State Building. The peaked arches of the Brooklyn Bridge. The rooftop water tower. For New Yorkers, all three are synonymous with the city’s skyline. But the water tower, that humble relic from a bygone era when any building o...
August 14, 2012

Showroom Special

Christopher Guy, the Florida-based luxury home-furnishings brand, recently put its glamorous stamp on an expansive new flagship in the center of West Hollywood. Designed by founder Christopher Guy Harrison, the 10,000-square-foot bright-white space sho...
August 14, 2012

Assouline publishes a vibrant examination of French modernist Fernand Leger

A figure of boundless curiosity and creative brio, French painter, sculptor, and filmmaker Fernand Léger blithely moved between abstraction and figuration, sidestepping the debates that stirred the 20th-century avant-garde. Identified as a Cubist earl...