In a 2007 blog entry, I compared the last National Design Triennial, Design Life Now, with another exhibition, Design for the Other 90%, als...
In a 2007 blog entry, I compared the last National Design Triennial, Design Life Now, with another exhibition, Design for the Other 90%, als...
At the beginning of the 1888-89 winter season, Henry Flagler opened two opulent hotels in St Augustine, Florida: the Ponce de Leon, and the ...
After a few days in Miami Beach and a brief Atlantis drive by, we continued around Biscayne Bay to Vizcaya, the former estate of James Deeri...
My image of Miami was already tainted, mostly by episodes of CSI Miami’s mythical paradise of material opulence: a world of private yachts, ...
With all my Lescaze research over the last couple of months, I've only just registered that William Lescaze's house at 32 E74th St, ...
Continuing my research on the career of William Lescaze, I thought it worth returning to Lescaze’s New York projects of the late 1920s, whic...
Of all the entries on this blog over the past three years, the one that has sparked the most interest in terms of emails and queries is this...
Following my last entry on Manitoga and the picturesque tradition, this entry analyzes links between Wright’s project and Japanese design tr...
Following last month’s introduction to Russel Wright’s Manitoga, this month’s blog entry is a brief consideration of Manitoga in the context...
Constructed during the 1950s, Russel Wright’s Manitoga, a seventy-five-acre estate in the Hudson River Valley, was the culmination of a desi...
In order to finish off my 21st Century Interior project for the year, I have put all of the posts for 2009 together in a single document, ed...
In my recent blog entries on the 21st century interior, the issue of theatricality has recurred several times. The intersection between the ...
“In every relationship there comes a time when you take that next important step. For some couples that step is meeting the parents, for me ...
My last interior design case study, Naomi Leff/Ralph Lauren’s Rhinelander Mansion, served as a model of retail design as a cinematic experie...
While my introduction set up an initial framework for analyzing contemporary interiors, this post will sketch out the broader social, politi...
The interior is a fluid and often disputed territory claimed by architects, interior designers and decorators. In his provocative essay, “Cu...
In my last blog entry, I mentioned a possible connection between architect William Lescaze’s house on East 48th Street and designer Russel W...
While reading Sidewalk Critic: Lewis Mumford’s Writings on New York recently, I came across a 1934 article by Mumford on William Lescaze’s M...