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From the Archive: Behind the scenes at the Vitra Campus Words by Staff writer The Swiss manufacturer’s story is a journey through the shapes and colours of 20th century design The traditional office is a thing of the past at Vitra whose ‘New Office’, designed by Sevil Peach in 2000, sets out aspirations for a better working culture of the future. Aiming to provide increased mobility at work, employees feel liberated to create their own personalised office environments, where “we live ou...

AXS Technologies Wins the Prestigious GOOD DESIGN Award for Power1 Share Article AXS Technologies is the recipient of a 2020 GOOD DESIGN® award for Power1, an all-in-one solution for charging and protecting iPhones and AirPods. Power1’s sleek, patented design keeps iPhones and AirPods charged and protected all in one place, with just one product. We are honored to be recognized with this prestigious award. NEW YORK (PRWEB) Febru...

By Samantha Pires on February 6, 2021 From left to right: Tatlin’s Tower, or Monument to the Third International; Einstein Tower, or Einsteinturm; Geisel Library of the University of California, San Diego; Weissenhof Estate; The Glass House; Rietveld Schröder Housed; Nakagin Capsule Tower; Bauhaus Building in Dessau Describing an architecture style as “modern” may inherently be a bit confusing. After ...

When I was small — meaning, in the single digits — my two older sisters and I had tremendous fun building card houses.There are two basic construction methods: Arches and flats. An arch is made by lea

Ten of the best art documentaries to watch right now With many museums temporarily shuttered, now is a great time to catch up on some of the superb films that have been made about art and artists. Spanning London, Beijing and New York, Picasso, Basquiat and Stella, here are 10 of our favourites 1 Jacqueline Weld spent the summers of 1978 and 1979 interviewing Peggy Guggenheim, gathering material for her biography of the revolutionary art patron, Peggy: The Wayward Guggenhe...

Jan. 23, 2021 When Andi Owen took over the furniture company Herman Miller, in 2018, she didn’t expect to get caught up in politics. But these days, it seems no chief executive is safe from the culture wars. Over the last year, Ms. Owen, a former executive at the Gap, has had to mollify a work force shaken by the same polarizing forces straining the nation. On her factory floor in the battleground state of Michigan, wardrobe choices — from Make America Great Again hats to Black Lives Matter...

© Ekaterina Kondratova/Shutterstock.com California has been a hotbed of architectural changes and innovation. From the wacky to the sublime, this list shows the wide range of architectural experimentation and aesthetics in the Golden State. Earlier versions of the descriptions of these buildings first appeared in 1001 Buildings You Must See Before You Die , edited by Mark Irving (2016). Writers’ names appear in parentheses. First Church of Christ Scientist Bernard Maybeck viewed the archit...

Please Donate Parkside Branch Library Architects Appleton and Wolfard designed eight modern libraries in the 1950s and 60s for the San Francisco Public Library. Parkside Library Parkside branch of the San Francisco Public Library at 1200 Taraval Street., circa 1950 - Architects Appleton and Wolfard designed eight modern libraries in the 1950s and 1960s for the San Francisco Public Library, the largest number completed by a single firm. The first, the Parkside branch at Taraval Street and 22n...

Bornstein Lyckefors Arkitekter Camouflages the Modernist Forms of a Residential Compound in Sweden December 28, 2020 By Joseph Giovannini Falu Red, a traditional flour-based paint found all over rural Scandinavia, is used on the pine-slat facades of a small residential compound in Kärna, Sweden, by Bornstein Lyckefors Arkitekter. Photography by James Silverman. Andreas Lyckefors had an unexpected change of mind midway through the drawings of a house he was designing for a single father of two...

New book chronicles how Cranbrook Academy of Art radicalized art and design in America Cranbrook Academy of Art Library. Photo: Paul-David Rearick. Courtesy of Cranbrook Academy of Art. BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MI .- Cranbrook Art Museum announced the forthcoming release of With Eyes Opened: Cranbrook Academy of Art Since 1932, a singular exploration of the storied institution as a radical experiment in the education of artists, and survey of the artists who studied and taught there. Available Februar...