DEPARTMENTS
BEHIND THE NUMBERS
Matthew Kennedy looks at an exceptional standing lamp from Ico Parisi and sheds light on its noteworthy auction price
FORM AND FUNCTION
We visit museum and gallery exhibitions that highlight both new work and time-tested design and a new hotel in Israel designed by Karim Rashid
DESIGN DESTINATION
Enrique Ramirez tours Columbus, Indiana, a shrine of modern and contemporary architecture, as it gears up to lure in connoisseurs and aficionados for Exhibit Columbus
STUDIO TOUR
Joann Plockova takes us to the Prague studio of Tadeáš Podracký, who is making a name well beyond the Czech Republic with new work in glass and other mediums
HISTORY LESSON
The Jazz Age transformed the way we lived to make it modern, as Emily M. Orr points out in her discussion of the decorators and designs that were harbingers of our changing tastes
DESIGNER PROFILE
Thomas Hine talks with Miriam Carpenter, whose delicate design work in wood casts a spell, attracting the attention of top collectors
UP CLOSE
Bruun Rasmussen’s head of modern design, Peter Kjelgaard, talks about Finn Juhl and offers advice on collecting Scandinavian modernism
CURATOR’S EYE
We ask museum curators to tell us about an extraordinary object in their care, explaining why it is important
PARTING SHOT
Sam Lubell writes about I. M. Pei’s 1950s proposal for the 1,497-foot-tall Hyperboloid tower that is part of the new exhibition Never Built New York
FEATURES
New Light in Old London
A Belgravia apartment designed by the Brazilian architect Fernanda Marques features important contemporary design from Zaha Hadid, Mattia Bonetti, Joris Laarman, Mathias Bengtsson, and others
BETH DUNLOP
Serious Irreverence: The Campana Brothers
Humberto and Fernando Campana work together to produce design that is influential and intriguing, work that not only turns what we know upside down and inside out but also speaks to their native Brazil, showing both artistry and humanity
PAUL CLEMENCE
A Tale of Two Houses
San Francisco Bay Area artist Nancy Genn splits her time between two important homes, by Bernard Maybeck and Joseph Esherick, that trace the trajectory of Northern California’s architectural history in the twentieth century
ROBERT ATKINS
The New Plat du Jour: Leftovers
Groundbreaking designers are producing exciting new work, turning the scraps that don’t make it into rugs, textiles, household goods, and upholstery into design we should pay attention to
ARLENE HIRST
Brooklyn’s Rumpelstiltskin: The Innovative Textile Artist Scott Bodenner
The New York–based textile artist uses unusual materials including old mixtapes from his friends, and yet follows in the tradition of the great modernist weavers
GLENN ADAMSON
The New Alchemy of Design
Young designers Chen Chen and Kai Williams are exploring design’s frontiers, using new and old materials to produce work that is witty and full of character, attracting attention from collectors and galleries alike
ELIZABETH ESSNER
