Winter 2017

ON THE COVER: Coral Wave Chair designed by Michele Oka Doner, 1993, in sterling silver with bronze legs.

ON THE COVER: Coral Wave Chair designed by Michele Oka Doner, 1993, in sterling silver with bronze legs.

DEPARTMENTS

EXTRA ORDINARY
Katrine Ames contemplates the evolution of the button, and the ways its utilitarian and decorative functions can save and transform a garment

BEHIND THE NUMBERS
A tea trolley by Jorge Zalszupin garners attention at auction for its marriage of a Polish vernacular design with Brazilian modernism. Matthew Kennedy sheds light on its evolution

FORM AND FUNCTION
We look at the worlds of architecture, art, craft, and design; we visit galleries and museum exhibitions

DESIGNER PROFILE
Artist Ingrid Donat talks to Nicole Anderson about her life and work, discussing the way she melds the masculine and the feminine in her designs

UP CLOSE
Claudia Barbieri speaks with London’s Design Museum’s director Deyan Sudjic about the institution’s move to its newly renovated home in Kensington and the expanded programming opportunities that it affords

DESIGNER SPOTLIGHT
Anna Fixsen calls on furniture maker Mat Driscoll in his Brooklyn studio to talk about the painstaking craftsmanship and technique behind his furniture brand, Bellboy

HISTORY LESSON
In light of a new exhibition at the Jewish Museum, Jenny Florence revisits the life and work of the often overlooked yet influential designer Pierre Chareau

STUDIO TOUR
Marwan Naaman visits the sprawling studio and showroom of Lebanese designer Karen Chekerdjian, a perfect setting for her large sculptural design pieces

CURRENT THINKING
Claudia Barbieri looks at the design legacy of the little-known Maison de la Culture in Firminy, France, one of seventeen works by Le Corbusier recently named UNESCO World Heritage Sites

GRADING SYSTEM
Troy Seidman evaluates the artist and ceramist Ken Price’s amorphous, category-defying pieces that continue to be much coveted by collectors

CURATOR’S EYE
Museum professionals choose favorite pieces under their care and tell us why

PARTING SHOT
Architect Alexander Gorlin reflects on Oscar Niemeyer’s Church of Saint Francis of Assisi in Pampulha, Brazil, where he channeled the principles of modernism into his own expressive and personal design

FEATURES

Heaven & Earth
With the soul of a poet and the eye of the artist she is, Michele Oka Doner finds beauty in land, sea, and sky and recasts it in brass or glass or one of any number of mediums
FRANCES BRENT

The Best Lot
In a city studded with celebrity modernist homes, Peter and Shannon Loughrey discovered an unorthodox house once described as “mid-century modern meets Las Vegas glam”
NICOLE ANDERSON

Almost Lost, Then Found
The author recounts a near-detective story of the valiant discovery and rescue of a treasure trove of slides taken by Dr. Fred Block that documented an entire era of Southern California design
SUSAN MORGAN

Shedding Light on Paul Rudolph’s Umbrella House
The owner of one of Rudolph’s most important early houses talks with two Sarasota architects about the restoration of its trademark (and quite daring) three-thousand-square-foot slatted wood canopy
ELIZABETH ESSNER

Dutch Feat
A new exhibition at the Wolfsonian-FIU digs into a rich and fertile half century of Dutch design to explore the heady, quickly evolving world of early modernism in the Netherlands
BETH DUNLOP

Living with Art
Fixtures in New York’s art world, Brett Littman and Kara Vander Weg, moved to a landmarked apartment on a storied street on Manhattan’s Upper West Side and in doing so had to carefully curate their collection
ANNETTE M. ROSE-SHAPIRO

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