November 13, 2012

Harbor Mastor

Renzo Piano is perhaps most famous for designing museums—typically white and pristine—but he has also long proved that he can’t be typecast. The architect’s latest surprise is in Oslo, where his new home for the Astrup Fearnley Museet, a privat...
November 12, 2012

Amazing Angles

Designed by London-based architect Farshid Moussavi, the new home for the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Cleveland cuts a fine and enigmatic figure. Situated at an unassuming uptown intersection, the recently opened, nearly 34,000-square-foot, four-...
November 12, 2012

Tiffany & Co. created beauty in the most unlikely of places—a construction site

Tiffany & Co.’s latest New York outpost—located in a space that spans a SoHo block between Greene and Wooster Streets—boasts interiors featuring elements designed by an impressive array of artisans including Michele Oka Doner and John Opella,...
November 9, 2012

Links We Love: What we’re reading this week

1. From Oscar Niemeyer’s modernist palace in Brazil to the neoclassical White House in Washington D.C., Flavorwire tours the most beautiful presidential homes around the world.2. Architect Zaha Hadid is named one of Glamour’s Women of the Year....
November 9, 2012

Inner Strength

Long, low, and perfectly proportioned, Audi’s five-door A7 Sportback is arguably the most beautiful car in the marque’s stable. And with the new 2013 S7 sport edition, the two-plus-two seater gets a performance upgrade to match its styling. The S7 ...
November 8, 2012

Leo Villareal’s Buckyball lights up Madison Square Park in New York City

Blending technological wizardry with cosmic vision, New York artist Leo Villareal uses custom software to conceive arresting works in light. His latest creation, titled Buckyball, was recently unveiled at New York City’s Madison Square Park. The colo...
November 8, 2012

Design with Integrity

Known for her beautiful hand-knotted rugs crafted by artisans in Nepal, Stephanie Odegard has also long been recognized for her leadership in bringing social responsibility to contemporary design. She has been a standard-bearer for Good Weave, an organ...
November 7, 2012

Architectural Digest donates to God’s Love We Deliver’s hurricane relief efforts

In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, Architectural Digest has made a contribution to God's Love We Deliver, the tri-state area's leading provider of meals to people who are too sick to shop or cook for themselves, a charity we support on an ongoing basis. S...
November 7, 2012

World’s Fair

Collectors and designers alike won’t want to miss the Salon: Art + Design, a new fair premiering this week in Manhattan. Sanford Smith, the antiques and art show producer responsible for the annual Outsider Art Fair and the New York Antiquarian Book ...
November 5, 2012

Palace Coup

This winter Four Seasons’ first property in Russia—the 177-room Hotel Lion Palace St. Petersburg—will open inside a onetime royal residence. After an artful overhaul by ReardonSmith Architects, the 19th-century building now juxtaposes neoclassica...