Wednesday, June 26, 2013

AIGA Chicago: ”Between Light and Shadow“—realizing that chairs are creatures too

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Left: Photographer: Tom Vack. Right: Design Director, Designer: Rick Valicenti. Between Light and Shadow: The Designer/Photographer Re...
Thursday, June 20, 2013

One of Doug Garofalo’s futuristic designs: the “Camouflage House” display model from 1991

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Douglas Garofalo (American, 1958–2011) David Leary (American, born 1956) Camouflage House, Burr Ridge, Illinois, Model. 1991 The width...
Monday, June 17, 2013

Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) and American neoclassical architecture after the Palladian style

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Thomas Jefferson’s residence, Monticello, near Charlottesville, Virginia was an experimental, functional, and stylistic work in process. M...
Sunday, June 9, 2013

Heinrich Campendonk: “Woman with Fish,” 1919 — masterful figure/ground relationships

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Heinrich Campendonk Dutch, born in Germany, 1889–1957 Woman with Fish, 1919 Woodcut From the collection of The Nelson-Atkins Museum o...
Saturday, June 8, 2013

Josef Hoffmann: one of the first modern designers

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Josef Hoffmann, designer, Austrian, 1870–1956 Wiener Werkstätte, manufacturer, Austria, 1903–1932 Samovar, designed ca. 1911 Brass and ...
Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Benjamin Henry Latrobe (1764–1820) architect of the Baltimore Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

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The Baltimore Basilica, built from 1806-1821, was designed by Benjamin Henry Latrobe. Latrobe is known as the first professionally trained...
Friday, May 31, 2013

“flowing curves and simple elegance” — the cantilevered MR Chair (named for its designer Mies van der Rohe)

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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, designer German, 1886–1969 Manufactured by Bamberg Metallwerkstätten, Berlin, Neukölln Armchair (MR20), d...