Modern Magazine

The Market

  • It Makes a Village

    The clay-rich soils surrounding La Borne made the French village a center of decorative pottery throughout the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. But “the village of potters” fell into a period of decline by the 1920s, and with the specter of another war looming, its rich, artisanal tradition might have been forgotten altogether were it [...]

  • A Full Fall Season of Shows and Sales

    What Tanya Aguiniga and Michael Wilson have in common isn’t obvious at first. She’s a native of Tijuana. He’s a former sushi chef. She uses yarn, string, and found or decaying objects to reinterpret industrial designs. He carves wood into furnishings and lighting so refined and delicate they appear to be suspended in the act [...]

  • Preservation Pulpit: The Heart of Minneapolis

    Peavey Plaza, an icon of modern American landscape architecture, is worth saving.

  • Summer News & Notes

    In the Mix: Dealer, Decorator, Designer Evan Lobel has owned a gallery for fifteen years and sells some of the most venerable names in design. But in 2011, he became a designer in his own right when he released a collection of furniture called Night Star. His clean-lined commodes, tables, and upholstered pieces not only [...]

  • SPRING News & Notes

    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 [...]

  • WINTER News & Notes

    THE MARKET The themes for this edition are pairings, groupings, and movings. The first example comes from Philadelphia’s Wexler Gallery, a firm that deals in both modern art and modern design and is known for quirkily curated exhibitions. One that opens on December 3 is a doozy: a show that couples works on paper by [...]

  • Fall 2011 News & Notes

    A compendium of upcoming developments in the worlds of design, auctions, fairs, and more…