November 16, 2012

Mixing It Up

Equal parts fine artist and furniture designer, Christophe Côme is known for fusing gutsy metal with refined glass to make sculptural tables, screens, light fixtures, and other creations. For his latest body of work, on view at the Cristina Grajales G...
November 15, 2012

Luxury furniture maker Dorya opens an elegant new showroom in Istanbul

With its striking new showroom, the luxury home-furnishings and interiors brand Dorya is bringing some modern panache to one of Istanbul’s most historic neighborhoods.Located on the street Akaretler Yoku?u...
November 15, 2012

Two new exhibits illustrate how paintings can capture the beauty of interiors

View SlideshowBefore photography became the dominant medium to record the world around us, homeowners of a monied milieu—kings, nobles, landed gentry—relied on meticulously detailed paintings, particularly watercolors, to portray their rooms . T...
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...