Designing the Avant-Garde: Paola Navone’s Impact on Modern Interiors

Designing the Avant-Garde: Paola Navone’s Impact on Modern Interiors

Trained as an architect, and drawn to the avant-garde, Paola Navone carved out a path for herself within high end modern design with a trademark style full of color, whimsy, art, craft, and cultural celebration.

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The Gravity of Art: Richard Serra’s Modern Vision in Steel

The Gravity of Art: Richard Serra’s Modern Vision in Steel

Imposing and intimate, dangerous and beautiful, abstract and expressive, Richard Serra’s otherworldly steel sculptures, bent into gracefully curving shapes and modernist planes, stand in delicate balance, tilted against one another, or simply against the air, paused in movement by the forces of gravity.

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A Room with a View > SPECTACULAR!

A Room with a View > SPECTACULAR!

Views add the inspiring beauty of nature to modern architecture, and an elemental warmth to contemporary design. It’s a pairing we love, especially in our primary bedroom suites, which whenever possible, we orient towards the views.

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The Remarkable Florence Knoll

The Remarkable Florence Knoll

Florence Knoll Bassett, one of the biggest influencers in American modern design, steered the legendary Knoll brand towards global success as partner, design director, and president.

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Caitlin Freeman - Modern Art, Baked In - Part II

Caitlin Freeman - Modern Art, Baked In - Part II

In our continuing exploration of creative design minds, we look at some of baker Caitlin Freeman’s iconic art inspired desserts.

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Caitlin Freeman - Modern Art, Baked In - Part I

Caitlin Freeman - Modern Art, Baked In - Part I

Never formally trained as a baker, but the former co-owner of the San Francisco bakery, Miette Patisserie, and the innovator of the acclaimed modern art desserts at the SFMOMA museum cafe, Caitlin Freeman created a niche for herself in the baking world with her oeuvre of edible artworks.

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Line | Shape | Color : The Enduring Art of Mondrian

Line | Shape | Color : The Enduring Art of Mondrian

Instantly recognizable with their bright squares popping in primary colors, expanses of bright white, and intersecting lines in asymmetrical grids, Mondrian’s modern art was groundbreaking in its day, and still inspires artists, architects, and designers today.

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Creating Serenity

Creating Serenity

The desert is open space and long views, but also the close-up, detailed perfection of the cactus flower. It is nature’s serene minimalism. This is the setting for our project inside the gated community of The Vintage in Indian Wells, California.

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Gardens as Art - The Designs of Piet Oudolf

Gardens as Art - The Designs of Piet Oudolf

Piet Oudolf is an award winning landscape architect and one of the most highly sought after designers of public and private gardens today.

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Critically Acclaimed in Her 90’s - Modernist Luchita Hurtado

Critically Acclaimed in Her 90’s - Modernist Luchita Hurtado

The artist Luchita Hurtado lived until nearly one hundred years old, passing away at the height of critical acclaim for her work. In our continuing series exploring the lives of modern artists, we take inspiration from Luchita’s lifelong dedication and commitment to her art, her willingness to ever evolve, and the perspectives she has contributed to modern art.

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