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Design
A Conversation with Etel’s Lissa Carmona, Brazilian Curator and Entrepreneur
PAUL CLEMENCE | January 28, 2019Between curating high-profile exhibitions, editing books, and expanding the family business globally, Lissa Carmona is a busy woman. An...
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Exhibition
At Friedman Benda, A Dollhouse Comes to Life
ANNA K. TALLEY | January 24, 2019What makes a perfect home? For many designers, collectors, and design aficionados, creating a space we would consider “perfect”...
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Architecture
Passive House Gets Active Interest
JUDITH GURA | January 22, 2019Wayne Turett has been a pretty active guy, running a successful architectural practice for more than thirty years, but...
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Design
An Object Lesson from Glenn Adamson
ALAN G. BRAKE | January 22, 2019MANY READERS OF MODERN MAGAZINE POSSESS a high level of “material intelligence,” even if we have never heard the term before....
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Design
Curator’s Eye: Chemex Coffeemaker by Peter Schlumbohm
JOHN STUART GORDON | January 15, 2019THE CHEMEX COFFEEMAKER, INVENTED BY THE German-born chemist Peter Schlumbohm, has been in continual production since 1941, an example of innovative,...
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Exhibition
Designing Women
FRANCES BRENT | January 14, 2019“I’VE ALWAYS LOOKED AT MUSEUMS AS PUBLIC SPACES that are very important to the cultural fabric, and I think part...
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Architecture
In a New Book, Henry N. Cobb Reflects on his Seven Decades in Architecture
ANTHONY PALETTA | January 8, 2019Henry Cobb, who described himself in a 1985 Harvard lecture as “an architect who can make no claim to...