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.
Luis Barragán's Legacy: Transforming Modern Homes into Sanctuaries
A modernist who welcomed the emotional landscape into his architectural designs, Luis Barragán created modern homes as sanctuaries for communing with the self.
Ray Eames: The Unsung Visionary Behind Mid-Century Modern Masterpieces
Designer and artist Ray Eames was instrumental in creating some of the mid-century modern styles and products adored and coveted by a post-World War II America, but in her time received almost no credit for her contributions.
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.
The Genius of Oscar Niemeyer - Part III
Oscar Niemeyer, the modernist architect who brought curves to concrete and a sense of sculpture to public design, famously worked until the end of his life, continuing to go into the office daily, well into his hundreds.
The Genius of Oscar Niemeyer - Part II
Oscar Niemeyer, modernist architect of the curved line, fled Brazil’s right wing military dictatorship in 1965, and set out on a self-imposed exile, which lasted nearly twenty years. During this time, he opened up an office on the Champs Élysées in Paris, and began taking international commissions.
The Genius of Oscar Niemeyer - Part I
Oscar Niemeyer, one of Brazil’s most celebrated architects, and an internationally recognized titan of 20th century modern design, introduced curves to a modernist style that almost exclusively celebrated straight lines and angles.
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.
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.
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.
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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