Modern Magazine

Spring 2012

  • Garden Angels

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

  • 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 [...]

  • Designer Spotlight | Jens Risom

    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. [...]

  • The High Road

    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. [...]