This five-session program examines the history of the 20th-century interior through the filter of the major design movements that came to shape the modern home. While more than just a collection of objects, the discussion highlights key concepts of the development of the modern interior, such as taste, class, style, identity, hygiene, and modernity. By [...]

An American designer whose name has recently come into the spotlight is Paul McCobb, who at last gets his due in a special exhibition, showcasing his seminal and highly influential designs, at the NYC 20 Art and Design Fair, April 13-15 at the Tent in Lincoln Center.   Curated by Gerard O’Brien, of the Los Angeles-based [...]

It’s spring, and across the globe design fairs are blooming. The Pavilion of Art and Design (PAD), which will open later in London and New York, commences its season in its hometown of Paris, where the myriad doors to its vast exhibition spaces (we’re told that the venues for this year’s fair will be more [...]

FOR SEVEN DECADES NOW, THE DANISH-BORN DESIGNER HAS BEEN DEVISING FURNITURE THAT MELDS BEAUTY AND UTILITY Jens Risom was present at the creation of modern American furniture. His minimal yet dynamic wood and webbed Lounge chair, introduced in 1941, was the first mid-century modern icon to reach  production, and it is enjoying renewed popularity today. [...]

Sid and Becky Yarbrough have learned how to be stewards of a landscape that James Rose designed almost forty years ago.

When we first tried to track her down to find out more about the gallery of twenty-first-century design she’s installing at Atlanta’s High Museum of Art, Sarah Schleuning was at the automobile show in Detroit. Wow, we thought, was she looking for a sleek car to include in the gallery? “That would have been fun,” she says, but, no, she was doing research for an exhibition about “concept cars” that she’s planning for 2014. Concept cars are an enticing prospect, but the new gallery is more than enough…