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Tuesday, May 21, 2013

The 25th edition of the International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) opened on Saturday, May 19, with approximately 500 exhibitors from around the world showing their wares to the design community. In addition to smaller designs studios from Brooklyn, New York to Portland, Oregon, international designers from Belgium, Spain, Italy, Norway, Japan, and Haiti were also [...]

James Turrell Uses Light to Transform the Guggenheim Museum

James Turrell Uses Light to Transform the Guggenheim Museum

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Beginning June 21, visitors of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum will get the unusual opportunity to experience Frank Lloyd Wright’s iconic rotunda like never before. American artist James Turrell is transforming the legendary space with his favorite medium: light. As visitors navigate the spiraling gallery they may feel disoriented. With each step, their perception of the illuminated [...]

One of Veilhan's "Rays" structures stretches around the pool. (Elizabeth Daniels)

Xavier Veilhan’s “Architectones” Transforms Lautner’s Sheats-Goldstein House

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Yesterday, AN reported on the incredible new entertainment complex that millionaire James Goldstein is building next to John Lautner’s Sheats Goldstein Residence in Beverly Hills. But even without an adjacent nightclub, the house often hosts splashy events, the most recent of which was the latest art/architecture installation that’s part of artist Xavier Veilhan’s Architectones series. [...]

A Nest-Like Treehouse Will Perch Among the Rainforest Canopy in…England

A Nest-Like Treehouse Will Perch Among the Rainforest Canopy in…England

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Jerry Tate Architects has revealed the design for a dynamic treehouse called the Biodiversity Nest to be built inside the Eden Project facility in Cornwall, UK. The London-based firm’s design unites architecture and nature, much like the Eden Project’s massive Grimshaw-designed overlapping geodesic domes comprising the world’s largest enclosed rainforest. The Biodiversity Nest, part of the new Rainforest Canopy [...]

Q&A> Design Week with Patrizia Moroso

Q&A> Design Week with Patrizia Moroso

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Patrizia Moroso, art director at Moroso, recently chatted with AN about her impressions of ICFF, working with Patricia Urquiola, and the design house’s plans for New York Design Week. What are your impressions of ICFF? It is something very important for the U.S. and for New York. For me, around the fair and outside the [...]