Modern Magazine

Works on Paper

  • Winter 2012

    WORKS ON PAPER New books on colorful and vibrant Italian travel posters, and how white packs a punch in design, plus a catalogue raisonée of the work of one of France’s most admired designers, and, from the Yale University Art Gallery, a look at how modernism entered American homes.

  • Fall 2011

    New books on the gardens of the future, a unique collaboration between an architect and a photographer, the phenomenon of postmodernism, and houses built around balloons.

  • Summer 2011

    New books on Le Corbusier and his cousin’s passage to India; Soviet-era design; New England as crucible of innovative architecture; and a trove of modernist work in the home of the finest American colonial furniture: Philadelphia.

  • Winter 2010

    New books on groovy fabrics, contemporary glass, forgotten Long Island modernism, and what architects read.

  • Spring 2011

    Reviews of new books on movie sets, fashionable vintage fabrics, a design icon’s foray in South America, and insiders’ advice on collecting modern design.