September 14, 2012

Links We Love: What we’re reading this week

  1. DesignBoom goes behind the scenes of artist Hiroshi Sugimoto’s collection for Hermès.2. Artist Konstantin Kakanias’s fashionable character Mrs. Tependris returns in a whimsical short film. (AD100 designer Peter Marino even has an anima...
September 13, 2012

Le Stanze del Vetro Museum opens in Venice

Fragile though it may be, Venetian glass has had a remarkably powerful impact on the hearts and minds of architects, artists, and design aficionados the world over. And now, with the recent opening of Le Stanze del Vetro (“Rooms for Glass”), on the...
September 12, 2012

A new book explores concrete’s architectural possibilities

View SlideshowA lowly substance of near limitless function, concrete has been used since ancient times in buildings both monumental and subtle, beautiful and hideous. Haunted by its Brutalist past, the simple mixture of stone, sand, and water is wi...
September 11, 2012

Prized Collection

Thomas Pheasant’s work is classical and structured, detailed but spare, whether he is designing a home or creating a piece of furniture. The AD100 decorator, who is based in Washington, D.C., and has been in business since 1980, recently released his...
September 8, 2012

Links We Love: What we’re reading this week

  1. Architizer looks at Richard Meier’s first completed project in China, the Shenzhen Clubhouse. 2. Michael Graves muses on the lost art of drawing in architecture in The New York Times.3. CasaSugar picks 13 chic desk lamps for fall. ...
September 7, 2012

Moving on Up

Lazaro Hernandez and Jack McCollough, the Manhattan-based duo behind the über-hip fashion house Proenza Schouler, may have surprised everyone by planting their first-ever retail flag on tony Madison Avenue, but they brought with them more than just a ...
August 28, 2012

Liza Laserow’s showroom proves collectibles can still be young and stylish

To the small contingent of fashion-forward antiques dealers, add Liza Laserow, the chic daughter of the mother-daughter-owned company Laserow Antiques. Born and raised in Sweden, Liza moved to New York City six years ago, where, though she had trained ...
August 27, 2012

Breaking the Mold

Decades before design dealers started sidling up to art galleries at international fairs, American sculptor Ken Price was gleefully erasing distinctions between handcrafted ceramics and high art. A central presence in Southern California’s postwar sc...
August 24, 2012

A lush new art book details the rich and luxurious story of Rubelli

If you have seen the movie Dangerous Liaisons, visited the Hudson River Valley’s historic Vanderbilt Mansion, or coveted a vintage velvet-clad Bagonghi handbag by Roberta di Camerino, then you have experienced the glories of Rubelli. The Venice-based...
August 23, 2012

Two of a Kind

Only Donna Karan would create a fragrance that blends the femininity and archness of a lady with the strength and assuredness of a woman. The fashion designer-philanthropist has teamed up with renowned perfumer Anne Flipo and architect Zaha Hadid for a...