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From the Laboratory to the Living Room
Amid a clutch of young designers basing their work on scientific concepts, the questing Dutch polymath Joris Laarman is a standout
By Christine Soares
Scientists like to call evolution a blind ...
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Art News | 06.8.10 | No Comments

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Baby, Are You for Real?Los Angeles auctioneer Peter Loughrey offers a tale of aesthetic detective work Occasionally I am asked by a potential purchaser, “How do you know this is real?” Although I’m tempted to answer with a quip about ontology, ...
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Art News | 04.13.10 | No Comments

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Like many a budding architect, Shane Stock speaks of his designs in terms that are both lyrical and logical. Stock is now in the construction phase of his latest project, one in which the main structure and the surrounding grounds, are both meant to ...
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Art News | 04.1.10 | No Comments

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MAN OF VISIONA tribute to the art and architecture of Robert DamoraBy Joanna Lehan“It hit me like a ton of bricks.” That is a funny way to describe one’s response to an architectural exhibition, but that unintentional pun is how Robert Damora o...
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Art News | 04.1.10 | No Comments

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By Karla Cavarra BrittonA little-heralded house in Westchester County, New York, holds a distinguished place in the history of modern American architecture.Above: A 1976 Robert Damora photo of the facade of the Booth HousePhotography by Robert Damor...
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Art News | 03.31.10 | No Comments

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Period rooms are a staple of museum decorative arts collections: they are carefully-curated, almost theatrical, sets offering authentic snapshots of the tastes that reigned in decors of times gone by. For those who appreciate design of more recent vi...
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Art News | 01.21.10 | No Comments

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The best piece of design in evidence at the fifth installment of Design Miami may have been the fair itself. Developer/impresario Craig Robins, Ambra Medda, the event’s director, and her equally chic brigadier general Wava Carpenter, and their staf...
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Art News | 12.18.09 | No Comments