An architectural gem of fame and glory is having a new destiny. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art has received, as a donation, a landmark, designed by John Lautner-designed in 1963, situated above Beverly Hills. Known to the public for its feature in the 1998 Coen Brothers blockbuster The Big Lebowski, this fabulous, futuristic […]
While Frank Lloyd Wright had always envisioned the home as a total work of art, constantly rethinking the American home in its integrated design and furnishings, in 1955 he designed mass-produced furniture for the first time. He was 86 years old, and this collection of furniture for Heritage-Henredon was branded as “Taliesin Ensemble,” referring to
One of the pioneers of Finnish industrial art, Tapio Wirkkala (1915-1985) designed furniture, jewelry, and objects in glass and ceramic, drawing his strength as an innovator from his unique sensitivity to the materials he used, and from his belief that the artist should contribute to every stage of the production process. His leaf dishes in
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We fall in love with the architecture of the past. While the latest talk in the NYC architectural circles is related to the small and not impossible chance that the Pennsylvania Station will return to its original glamourous Beaux-Arts masterpiece, I would like to point to another architectural gem, which had suffered a similar disaster,
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Love reading Morris Lapidus’ (1902-2011) autobiography, which the American architect, known as the “architect of the American dream,” published in 1996. Entitled “Too Much is never Enough,” summarizing his aesthetic philosophy, the controversial Lapidus provides a glimpse into the world of mid-century tourism architecture. For many years he was disregarded by those writing the history
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For those lovers of concrete architecture, Rowan Moore created a list of the ten best concrete buildings in history for The Guardian, spanning from antiquity to the present. The list includes such seminal buildings as the Pantheon in Rome; Unite d’Habitation by Le Corbusier (1952); Los Manantiales restaurant in Mexico City by Felix Candela (1958)
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In the world of French couture furniture of 1960s and 1970s, stainless steel had become that special material that suggested the spirit of the moment and the futuristic imagery of Space-Age aesthetics. The furniture created by such key designers of the period as Maria Pergay, Guy de Rougemount, and Michel Boyer was meant for the
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A curated sale, focusing on Northern Italian design will be presented by Parisian auction house Piasa next month. Through presentation of objects by iconic figures who came to shape the history of Italian modern design, this sale seeks to tell the fascinating story of this seminal chapter in the history of modern design. The sale
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While the house Frank Lloyd Wright designed for Joseph Husser on a lot overlooking Lake Michigan in Chicago had marked a significant moment in his career for its radical and open floor plan, based on spectacular polygonal volumes, it was demolished by 1924. Completed in 1899, the so-called Husser House was the last project where
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Its construction began 134 years ago, yet, only 70% of Antoni Gaudí’s Sagrada Família has been completed. In a recent press conference by the project’s directing architect Jordi Faulí, it was announced that its construction has entered its final phase with a completion of the six new towers that will raise the building to 172.5
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