In the opening paragraph of Walter Gropius' Bauhaus Manifesto, the founder of the movement suggests "The ultimate aim of all visual arts is the complete building!", further professing "Architects, …
The New Chic: French Style from Today’s Leading Interior Designers
The title of Marie Kalt's new book from Rizzoli New York references 'The New Chic', but she could just as easily have suggested 'the radically cool' as an alternative description. Every room in this …
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VMAD’s West Elm Headquarters
By Lisa Zeiger When Mark Murashige and Kay Vorderwuelbecke of VM Architecture and Design (VMAD) began redesigning the Empire Stores on the docks of the East River in DUMBO for West Elm in 2013, a …
Alexa Hampton: On Tradition
"In design, traditional elements are loaded with the meanings they have accumulated over time. The iconography that accompanies neoclassicism, for example, has always spoken to power and those who …
Alan Wanzenberg: On Modernity
"Modernity and its manifestations in the physical world—what is considered “modern”—can be easily misunderstood. Modernity is not about minimalism or everything being white and reductive. When this …
Thomas O’Brien: On Vintage Modern
"A vintage modern piece features ideas that become layers in the DNA of a design that materializes at a later date. It’s how something of the 1920s can have echoes of eighteenth century France, which …