History Lesson

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  When Modernism Met the Potter’s Wheel

  In Chicago, Eugene Deutch was a master potter of useful and classically modern bowls, lamps, plates, tumblers, vases, and pitchers, bucking the trend toward industrial mass production. Though he made pottery in large quantities and though there is continuous variety and experimentation in his work, his ceramics have a distinct style—rugged, tactile, and respectful of material, tradition, and function…

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  Louis Kahn’s Little Known Jewel

  Hatboro, Pennsylvania, is not a place where one would expect to find a modernist house, dominated as it is by colonial style buildings. Yet it was here that Norman Fisher, a family doctor, and his wife, Doris, chose to raise their two daughters, Nina and Claudia, in a house designed for them by the great [...]