Gerald Luss might not (yet) be as famous as Eero Saarinen or Charles and Ray Eames, but he might just be more influential. His commercial office spaces, desi.
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âOn paper, weâve only been together for around two and a half years,â says the painter Ivy Getty of her relationship with photographer Toby Engel. But in this pandemic-prompted, dog-year-style acceleration weâre living through, she reckons itâs been longer: âIf youâre spending lockdown with somebody, itâs like youâre together for triple the time.â Throngs of other pandemic-era loves have matched this paceâa 2020 trend dubbed the âturbo relationship.â âIt was like we pressed fast-forward,â Getty says. âBut it didnât feel rushed.â Still, when Engel proposed last summer, at a restaurant in Capri, Getty was taken aback. Only when he produced his motherâs sapphire ring did she realize what was happening. This November, the couple will marry at the San Francisco manse that once belonged to her grandmother Annâan antiquarian
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Furniture gallerists have long strived to create a home-like atmosphere within their white walls, but Abby Bangser of Object & Thing takes things a step further. Previously the artistic director of Frieze, she recently began staging exhibitions in mid-century masterpieces. Last year, she transformed the Noyes House in New Canaan, CT, with 34 artists and designers. This summer, Bangser is opening
At the Luss House in partnership with Blum & Poe and Mendes Wood DM, in which works from 18 artists will be displayed in Gerald Luss s 1955 house in Ossining, NY.
Gerald Luss’s house in Ossissing, New York, is a classic example of mid-century architecture and the host of the summer’s must-see gallery show
Architect Gerald Luss, who designed the interiors of the Time & Life Building, is granting visitors access to his 1955 residence with a curated display of contemporary art and design.
While designing the interiors of one of New York City’s most iconic midcentury skyscrapers a building thrust into popular culture via AMC’s hit series
Mad Men architect Gerald Luss was living at his family home in the village of Ossining along the Hudson River. The glass-and-steel dwelling, Luss’s first stand-alone design, hosted planning meetings for the Time & Life Building, and the two structures even share a few design elements: an indoor/outdoor connection, a material palette of glass and steel, and colored panels that, in the office, could be rearranged to create flexible partitions; in the home, hallway cabinetry recalls that moment of innovation.
Walk into your kitchen and open a cupboard. You might notice how it swings as fluidly as a Tesla door. Fling it closed and it doesn t slam shut it glides back into place. This pillowy action is thanks to the ubiquitous soft-close hinge, which creates a user experience around cupboard-opening that s as smooth and effortless as swiping open an iPhone.
Which is why Aaron Aujla and Benjamin Bloomstein of the New York design studio Green River Project despise the soft-close hinge. It lacks the tactility they seek to achieve through their furniture and interior-design projects. Aujla and Bloomstein are artistic Renaissance men: They both have backgrounds in sculpture and painting, are adept at the Old World skills of woodworking and metalsmithing, and share an appreciation for earthy materials and darkly patinated wood. In 2017 they launched GRP with a deceptively simple armchair made out of a single pine board, finding a balance between form and utility that would go on to define their p