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EAMES, plus filmaker Q & A!
Want to see Eames: The Architect and the Painter before it premieres on PBS? Come to the ACME screening room in Lambertville, NJ this Sunday (12/18), for a chance to see the feature length film and...
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Saving Structures, Intimate to Colossal
Paul Rudolph’s Orange County Government Center. Terry Wyllie/World Monuments Fund.Russel Wright’s studio at Manitoga.Tara Wing/World Monuments Fund.This year’s World Monument Fund’s Watch List, which...
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The Power of Eames
Charles and Ray Eames at home, c. 1970. © 2011 Eames Office LLC.They made films themselves, some of them, like The Power of 10, as iconic as their furniture designs, but now there is a film about them....
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Artists in Motion
Brad Epley, Frank Stella and Elizabeth Lunning discuss Avicenna, 1960, during the artist’s 2006 ADP interview at the Menil Collection. © 2011, Menil Foundation, Inc. All rights reserved.Since 1990, the...
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Neutra at Your Fingertips
Richard Neutra’s VDL Research Studio and Residences, where he lived and worked for 30 years, and which served as a laboratory for many of his ideas about the relationship between the built environment...
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A Desert Lautner Blooms Again
Photo by Dan Chavkin.The Desert Hot Springs Motel, an intimate resort designed by John Lautner in 1947, has reopened as the Hotel Lautner. New owners and Lautner admirers Tracy Beckmann, interior...
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Collecting the Swedish Landscape @ Scandinavia House
Visit the Scandinavia House this Thursday, Jan. 12th to checkout their latest exhibition LUMINOUS MODERNISM. Then stick around for - Collecting the Swedish Landscape Then & Now: A Conversation with...
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Modernist Bash
The Palm Springs Art Museum is offering tours of architect Albert Frey’s home, Frey House II (1963–64), during Modernism Week. Collection Palm Springs Art Museum. Photograph courtesy Gregg Felsen.The...
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Happy Hues
The Saguaro is a new resort in Palm Springs, that mecca for fans of midcentury modernist design. Built as The International in 1977, the hotel has been updated and enlivened with the bright colors...
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Modern Introductions
The Poconos don’t immediately bring modernist design to mind, but for the past five years, a small development company called Pocono Modern has been bringing sustainable, modern design to the region....
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Flaunting Your Support
On March 10, Los Angeles’ Architecture + Design Museum will celebrate its eleventh year with a fundraiser to benefit the museum, featuring an auction of wearable artworks by leading architects,...
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House and Garden Tour
Hollin Hills, the award-winning midcentury modern neighborhood in Alexandria, VA., will host a House and Garden Tour on Saturday, April 28, 2012. The self-guided walking tour will showcase stunning...
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Eva Zeisel 1906 – 2011
Photo courtesy Eva Zeisel Archive.Eva Zeisel, who broke new ground in American design with the pure, organic forms of her 1946 Museum dinnerware, a collaboration with the Museum of Modern Art and...
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The Hidden Life of Lobbies
One of the delights of living in New York City is the chance discovery of treasures tucked within seemingly ordinary buildings. One such marvel is a brightly colored, kinetic glass mosaic by...
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Brazilian Blockbuster
Oscar Niemeyer, Rio chaise, 1978–79. Photo by Andre Nazareth for Mercado Moderno.Zanini de Zanine, Passaros shelves, 2008.© Zanini de Zanine.In the middle of the last century, Brazil produced some of...
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Art, Design and the Internet: An Unexpected Love Affair
The Internet is proving a gift for lovers of art and design. First, the Google Art Project brought virtual versions of museums from around the world to computer screens — its ever-expanding roster now...
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Palm Springs Forever
In spite of the city's concentration of notable and lovingly restored midcentury architecture, not a single midcentury structure in Palm Springs was listed on the National Register of Historic Places....
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Gerhard Kallmann 1915 – 2012
Courtesy Kallmann, McKinnell & Wood.He is best known for a critically acclaimed building that has been despised for the past 50 years by the citizens he built it for. In 1962, together with Michael...
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Before the Fall
Horace Gifford, Luck Residence, Bridgehampton, 1967. Photo by Horace Gifford. Inset: Andrew Geller, Elkin House, Sagaponack, New York, 1966. Andrew Geller Architectural Archive. When much of Long...
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Mod London
Courtesy CitizenM Hotel.CitizenM Hotel, the Dutch boutique hotel developer, has opened a 192-room feast of midcentury modernist décor in London’s newly revitalized Bankside neighborhood, near the Tate...
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Up Close and Personal
Minoru Yamasaki, Wayne State University’s McGregor Memorial Conference Center. Photo by Theodore Prudon.Paul Rudolph, Modulightor House, New York.Photo by Thomas Hart Shelby.On October 6, Docomomo...
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Modernist Bliss
Each year, Palm Springs Modernism Week, the 11-day celebration of all things midcentury, ratchets up the coolness factor. This year’s extravaganza, which runs from February 14 to 24, opens with a...
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Bill Moggridge 1943 – 2012
Bill Moggridge.© Cooper-Hewitt,National DesignMuseum, SmithsonianInstitution.Bill Moggridge, director of the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum since only 2010 died in September at the...
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Shedding LIght on Wright
For all Frank Lloyd Wright’s fame, with an ever-growing number of books, doctoral theses, films and exhibitions about his life and work, his extensive archive has remained tucked out of the way since...
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Pedro E. Guerrero 1917 – 2012
Pedro E. Guerrero.Photo by Paul Marchand.Courtesy Dixie Legler. Pedro E. Guerrero, who gained fame as the photographer of Frank Lloyd Wright’s architecture, died in September at the age of 95. He had...
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