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From the Editor: Our 10th Anniversary

THIS SPRING MARKS AN EXCITING MILESTONE: MODERN’s tenth anniversary. It just so happens that in this issue we also commemorate another landmark anniversary, the...

Lords of Design: Simon James

SIMON JAMES’S CHAIRS CAN BE SO understated they’re almost self-effacing. At first, you might wonder whether you’re looking at a designed object or just...

Lords of Design: Richard Clarkson

IN 2012 RICHARD CLARKSON, WHO GREW up on a farm in Hawke’s Bay, was in New York, enrolled in the School of Visual Arts’...

New Zealand Designers Douglas and Bec

DOUGLAS SNELLING AND BEC DOWIE’S professional relationship began when they constructed a laminated plywood lamp together, but their personal relationship was established much earlier...

A New Book on Verner Panton: Pop and Practicality

The sensational yet sensible work of Verner Panton

New Zealand Designer David Trubridge

WHEN ASKED ABOUT HIS WORK, David Trubridge brings up a TEDx lecture that his son William, a world-class free diver, delivered in Christchurch in October.