New York is celebrating today. After six month of enclosure and artless life, MoMA reopened its doors this morning, and if feels as we are coming back to life. I started the day with a visit to MoMA and it was enlightening, like breathing again. I made my way to the 6th floor to see […]
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‘Designing History,’ the new publication by Michael S Smith, is about the world’s most famous house and its continuous design legacy. But it is much more than a document on decorating the White House, the mansion which continues to fascinate and inspire all Americans. It is about a relationship forged between a client and a
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He was the last living master of Brazilian Modernism, Jorge Zalszupin, who passed away today at 98. In the landscape of Brazilian design, Zalszupin stood out for creating furniture of extraordinary forms and unusual, surprising scales. But his story also captures the fate of the Jewish people, living in Nazi-invaded countries through WWII. Born in
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Born on August 19th, Gabrielle Bonheur “Coco” Chanel (1883-1971) was a fashion designer, businesswoman, and the founder of the Chanel brand. She became famous for sporty, casual chic, timeless suits and a little black dresses, and infamous for her role as a Nazi agent during the German occupation of France. Born Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel, she was
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When I received Amos Oz’s autobiography ‘A Tale of Love and Darkness‘, I was about to leave for Africa. I took the book with me, and during a long stay at the Victoria Falls Hotel in Zimbabwe, curling up on a hammock overlooking the dramatic views of the Falls, I got lost in his world.
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The ultimate design experience. Pandemic forced on us time of reflection, human connection, and new collaborations, evolution, and solutions. It has been time of shifting and reinventing our world. As education has completely changed its face, moving from the classroom to the virtual world, many new opportunities have opened up. For the first and only time,
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Exquisite art and design for a great cause. It has become the most fun and talked-about event of the summer. Known as the ‘Summer Party,’ it is the annual fundraising event and auction, taking place on the lush lawn of the 49-acre compound at the Philip Johnson Glass House, in New Canaan, Connecticut. This event supports Johnson’s
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Born on August one. Let’s remember the most heroic and powerful fashion designer in recent memory, who started his enormously prolific career as the Creative Director of Christian Dior in 1958 at 21. He founded his couture house in 1965 and immediately became a star. It was followed by his ready-to-made label, called Rive Gauche,
No other film has celebrated Italian modern design as much ‘Roman Holiday,’ the 1953 comedy, starring Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck. Chic Hepburn, a bored and sheltered princess escapes her guardians to Rome and falls in love with an American newsman, Gregory Peck. The first American film to be shot in its entirety in Italy,
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It was never fully confirmed whether architect Mies van der Rohe has a romantic relationship with his client Dr. Edit Farnsworth, for whom he designed one of the most magical masterpieces of mid-century modernism, completed in 1951 in Plano IL. However, when the exquisite house was completed, Farnsworth realized that it not only cost triple
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