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Feeling Blue–It’s all about Blue, Now and Then
Although the new Pantone color of 2020 is Blue, many years back Yves Klein the artist declared a most vibrant blue. The French artist Yves Klein was renowned for his dedication to color in his work, and blue was his sign...
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New Year, New Blue
Identifying a “color of the year,” a tradition Pantone started 20 years ago, has become a revered practice that many industries rely upon. The year 2000 was designated the year of Cerulean Blue, and two decades later Pantone has once mo...Read More
Colors from Paris
Some glorious design trends were presented during Paris Design Week in January of this year, and one of the most thrilling was the focus on color. The freshest tones borrow from nature, as human beings have done for centuries, and the names...Read More
Trends in Luxury
Last year we observed a shifting of preferences within the luxury segment of real estate that is predicted to continue throughout 2020. Here are 4 of the exciting new trends, according to the North American Luxury Market Report.
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What Endures
Louis Kahn, renowned American architect, planned the construction of numerous civic structures. Among them was public housing, viaduct systems, and streets and roads in the city of Philadelphia. He did not arrive at his distinctive modernis...Read More
Uncramp Your Style
What can you do to make a small space feel practical and comfortable, and most importantly — uncrowded? The ideas in this article come from Urban Outfitters’ team of directors and designers, and they are strikingly versatile. Even if yo...Read More
An Aesthetic ‘Promised Land’
Who were some of the pioneers of interior design?
Before she became an esteemed novelist, Edith Wharton was a practicing decorator and designer — interests to which she was passionately dedicated. Rather than innovating new...Read More
What Was Is What’s New
What’s on trend for 2018? Not surprisingly, the future is beckoning from the past.
Wood has been a signature element in architecture for hundreds of years, one of the longest-standing building materials in existence. Its popularity has...Read More
Ethical Architecture
Buildings can be beautiful. They can be ballasts against the elements, safeguarding the lives inside. Their materials can be smartly sourced, and interiors shaped and styled to make the most out of the charac...Read More
Opening to the Arch
This article from Design Sponge collects images of an array of architectural arches, in homes, shops and offices, to remind...Read More
Modeling the Future
Robert Raushenberg, whose career spanned 60 years and multiple dimensions, has always been a harbinger of what’s to come, and what we should experiment with as human artists — not just creatively, but als...Read More
Spring Is Upon Us
Spring is around the corner, and I am surprised by the beauty of an early garden before flowers have begun to bloom. A long project has finally come to fruition, and I am amazed at the loveliness of the space. Outdoor environments create an...Read More
The Elegance of Grey
Neutral but balanced, the color grey encompasses a coolness and a calmness that makes it a fantastic choice for any room. Choosing grey walls, a grey couch, grey cabinets or grey bed spreads, in shades either brighter or more subdued, allow...Read More
Designs of the Times
The winners of this year’s fifth annual AZ awards competition are a collage of some of the brightest ideas from around the world. They reveal a refreshingly optimistic global vision of the not-too-distant fu...
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A Slice of San Francisco
The city of San Francisco is growing fast, and in every direction — especially up. Architects explain that the surge in housing has been met in two ways. First, historical homes and buildings are being renovated and retrofitted with moder...Read More
Pooled Resources
These magnificent private pools give us a glimpse into the evolution of the traditional outdoor swimming pool. Set into the landscape as though naturally intended, the architects responsible for these works of art have added a unique dimens...Read More
Our Gardens, Ourselves
New York-based interior designer Charlotte Moss, also an avid gardener, describes her technique in creating memorable and inspiring outdoor oases. “Atmosphere, an ephemeral quality, is the perfume of a place,” she writes. In a garden, t...Read More
The Heights of Past Wonders
Taking the theme of the blending of past and present even further, a newly proposed project to build a skyscraper in Cairo, Egypt aims to reflect the majesty of the ancient pyramids of Giza by mimicking their shape and structure in modern m...Read More
Opposites Attract
When a space can hold opposites — soft and sharp, vivid alongside muted, ornate next to natural — each item is illuminated with new life in the collection. What better way to showcase a vintage (or a modern piece) than by placing it bes...Read More
Modern History
In this fantastic architectural feat, the inherited history of a neo-classical building from the 1930s in Tel Aviv, Israel has been honored with a facelift that preserves its past. The dwelling’s original features have been beautifully au...Read More
Pride of Place
The first woman ever licensed to practice architecture in California, Julia Morgan was a pioneer on many fronts. Esteemed for her skill in utilizing materials from the natural environment to create facades and interiors that merged elegance...Read More
Art of Preservation
Residents of Vancouver’s waterfront were watching the worrying rate of the ocean’s destructive capacity on the shoreline along which they lived. Architect Paul Sangha proposed a solution that capitalizes on the sustainability inherent i...Read More
Elevated Reality
Not so long ago, the elevated cargo train tracks that span over 30 NYC blocks, from the Meatpacking District to Midtown, were in a desperately neglected state. Today, the final section of this gloriously restored historic landmark — the f...Read More
Surface of the Center
The Graduate Center of the California College of the Arts in San Francisco has enjoyed an expansion of late, growing to twice its original size through the minimalist, functionalist additions of the Jensen Architects group. Two steel struct...Read More
New Neutrals
Nothing invites peace and quiet more than a room devoted to neutral hues — grey, white and flax — and a supple mingling of texture. In this Anthropologie blog, we are introduced to a space that is at once serene and sophisticated, crisp...Read More
Form and Foliage
Wild is wonderful, but a garden that honors precision and placement speaks to us in an equally remarkable way. Gardenista looks to the symmetry and geometry of French gardens in this compilation of great ideas for outdoor spaces. T...Read More
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