Monocle Magazine and Finnish company Artek have teamed up to produce a limited-edition version of Alvar Aalto's iconic Stool 60. Designed to celebrate the stool's 75th Anniversary, this new interpr...
The European-style homes of expatriates and colonial families in colonial-era South East Asia were often black and white. The New York Times shows us one such home in Singapore, currently inhabited ...
We've talked a lot about moving the past few weeks — but few of us will ever have the experience of physically moving an entire house. On Saturday, Alexander Hamilton’s country home, the Grange ...
To celebrate designer George Nelson's 100th birthday, Vitra is re-issuing a special edition of George Nelson's Laminated Plywood Chair — commonly known as the "Pretzel Chair." Designed in 1952, t...
One of the few modernist buildings in DC, the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library has been the source of controversy since it opened in 1972. The building was designed by legendary architect Lu...
Last year, Philip Johnson's Glass House opened to the public (with an appointment) to much fanfare. A lesser-known Philip Johnson-designed house, also in New Canaan, Connecticut, is being threatened...
The New York Times real estate special section, Great Homes & Destinations does a High/Low comparison of Frank Lloyd Wright single family homes in Minnesota that are currently on the market. It's a sh...
We're suckers for chair posters. We've posted about the Vitra Chair Poster and DesignBoom's posters that celebrate the history of Folding Chairs and Rocking Chairs. Joel Pirela of BlueAntStudio recent...
The picture at left is the home of the Dean of Syracuse University's School of Architecture, Mark Robbins. The New York Times shows us how Robbins has helped to jump-start the Syracuse community into ...
This is from our first Boston finalist, Anne. Comment away! "Modern" is about clean lines, clear colors, precise geometry, and a pared-down sensibility, right? Well, unless you're Droog, the 21st ce...
The artists Wendy Edwards and Jerry Mischak have transformed an old firehouse in Rumford, Rhode Island into a building that houses both of their studios and their home. The New York Times is sure to...
The New York Times has an interesting story about teak chairs from Chandigarh. A City That Sat on Its Treasures, but Didn’t See Them looks at the world-wide interest in Pierre Jeanneret's teak arm...
We found these Victorian bathroom illustrations and photos on the Vintage Plumbing website. They say the bathroom was very rarely photographed at the turn of the century, so these bathroom illustrat...
Tabletop designs from Michael Aram, Barbara Barry, Monique Lhuillier, Thomas O’Brien, Michael Wainwright and William Yeoward are part of a silent auction to benefit God’s Love We Deliver charity. ...
Have you dreamed of living in a turret room? How about a three-floor turret apartment across the street from Central Park? I have a good friend who lives near New York's first Cancer Hospital on the...
This month's Sketch Pad feature re-imagines a Harlem Townhouse designed by William B. Tuthill, the architect for Carnegie Hall. The architect for this hypothetical project is Geoff Lynch of 3 Hardy ...
We've seen this seven-foot wide house on television before (we believe it was the Small Space Oprah show), but this week The New York Times takes us inside Alexandria Virginia's Spite House. Built i...
Living in Menton, France along the Cote d'Azur, children's author Kate Banks and her husband Pierluigi Mezzomo found the house of their dreams. Just a ten-minute drive from the Italian border, the 2...
The February 10th issue of New York Magazine celebrates the publication's 40th Anniversary. In lieu of rubies, the staff presents a '68 version of the "Strategist" section, which includes a look at ...
We love Roman bricks and always start when we see them. They're much longer and more slender than standard bricks (about 1 5/8"H x 11 5/8”L). We rarely see them and they're almost impossible to so...
When we wrote about the Pendleton Woolen Mills' Mesa Stripe Mirror earlier today, we realilzed we didn't have a dedicated post on Pendleton Blankets. What better time than now? They go back some tim...
Calling AT readers! We recently slinked the Taking Things Seriously series at Design Observer, which is based on Joshua Glenn and Carol Hayes' book Taking Things Seriously: 75 Objects with Unexpecte...
When we were little, our father installed a new basketball hoop at the driveway. When he set the base in concrete, we all pressed our handprints into the wet cement to mark that this was our home. L...
Biographical Museum. There's a brief piece in the latest T Magazine from The New York Times that highlights the design studio of Achille Castiglioni. Untouched since the designer died in 2002, the s...
Building Up. This Sketchpad got lost in the shuffle last week. Since it is one of our favorite regular features from The New York Times we wanted to post it. In this edition, architect and interior ...
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