Design
In addition to building supertall skyscrapers and designing sprawling, high-tech campuses, the good architects at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill also find the time to design a different kind of tower, the kind both hypochondriacs and eco-freaks can enjoy. The...
Two interesting things happened this year. First, doctors in Belgium performed the country's first face transplant. Second, Asher Levine, a young avant-garde fashion designer for the likes of Lady Gaga, produced a pair of radical sunglasses on-site during his...
Dora Maar. Kiki de Montparnasse. Edie Sedgwick. These women were muses to some of history's most brilliant minds. They're so great, in fact, they’ve been immortalized as kitsch kitchenware by Jonathan Adler. The houseware purveyor who brought us the “...
John Locke (no, not the English philosopher) is a New York-based architect laboring to make the ever-contracting amount of available space in the city function better without fundamental changes to existing infrastructure. His latest project? Bookshelves...[...
Cadbury's chocolate eggs are, indisputably, the U.K.’s greatest contribution to the Easter holiday. But London’s got a different set of eggs to offer this year. The city’s given itself over to Fabergé, the Easter egg of choice for tzarinas, celebutantes...
Last week a Paris appeals court issued a decision in favor of the heir of Charlotte Perriand, who had accused Bergerot-Galerie Patrick Seguin and the Sonnabend Gallery of wrongly denying Perriand's exclusive authorship of three designs. The pieces involved...
I picked up Architectural Digest this month because the cover with Brooke Shields really appealed to me. Greenwich Village townhouses have to be some of the most beautiful architectural buildings in the world. Brooke Shields employed Brooklyn based MADE...[...
Can an artist save the world? Olafur Eliasson is the latest star to bet "yes." The Danish-Icelandic artist is best known for absorptive environmental installations like his "Weather Project" at the Tate Modern, an immense — and immensely popular — indoor...
Crêpes. Macarons. Crème brûlée. Kwah-sonts. The French have long been the arbiters of the world’s best desserts, and now Paris-based Le Creative Sweatshop (comprised of Julien Morin and Mathieu Missiaen) has made its own improvements...
For design wonks around the world, there’s a new must-see destination opening in Italy in June: a sprawling 6,000-square-meter installation space by the Bisazza Foundation, a non-profit devoted to design and architecture, freshly launched by the Italian brand...
