Birthdays: Toasting Josef Albers, Influential Artist and Color Theorist, On His 127th Birthday
Photo via Il Fatto Quotidiano/Flickr Happy birthday to pioneering artist and Bauhaus school professor Josef Albers! The influential German-born abstract painter and designer was fascinated by the interplay between colors, and experimented with hues in many mediums, from stained glass...
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Photo via nyspacesmag/Instagram Several times a year, the Design Industries Foundation Fight AIDS (DIFFA) hosts its marquee fundraising event "Dining by Design," inviting design-minded folks from various fields to come up with awe-inspiring dining installations. This year's New York City...
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Photos via Michael Johansson Swedish artist Michael Johansson builds Tetris-like sculptures from found furniture, cars, suitcases, TVs, and even washing machines. The everyday objects are stacked on top of each other to form the organized yet chaotic structures. The...
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Photos via Dezeen The new Contemporary Art + Design wing at the Corning Museum of Glass, which opened today, is appropriately sheathed in a reflective opaque glass facade. Architect Thomas Phifer, who designed the new 100,000-square-foot exhibition space dedicated...
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Renaissance Villas: Glorious Tuscan Villa Once Owned by the Medicis Asks $14.6M
At one point, the famous Medici banking family controlled nearly everything in Renaissance Italy, including this marvelous 17th-century villa on a Tuscan hilltop. The 21-bedroom mansion with "numerous formal gardens" belonged to the Medicis until 1651, when it became...
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There is actually a 1930s house behind all that foliage People close to President Obama (read: his pal and chair of the Barack Obama foundation, Marty Nesbitt) just closed an $8.7M deal to buy a secluded 1933 house in Honolulu,...
CurbedAdventures in Interior Design: Sultry Toronto Apartment is Basically Giving You Bedroom Eyes
Photos by Lisa Petrole via Contemporist Mannequins. Trios of hanging light fixtures. Dark, dramatic kitchens. All of the above are generally found in the edgy Toronto homes designed by Parisian architect and interior designer Stéphane Chamard, who moved to the...
CurbedHotel Boom Town: Roman & Williams Breeze into Chicago with One of Two New Hotel Projects
The long awaited hotel reboot of the old Chicago Athletic Association building on Chicago's Michigan Avenue will be officially opening this May with a swanky interior design by too-cool-to-be-ubiquitous firm Roman & Williams. Designed by Henry Ives Cobb and...
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The Printed Page : Mirrored Floors Turn Modernist Home Into Surreal Experiment
All photos by Johannes Schwartz via Het Nieuwe Instituut/Dwell Rotterdam's Sonneveld House, a 1930s home that is considered one of the best examples of Dutch modernism, has been open to the public since 2001 as a house museum. For the...
CurbedArtistry: Behold Munich's Eerie Olympic City of 1972
All photos via Creative Boom/Behance The 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich transformed its host city. Seen as an opportunity to fast-track development, the Munich subway began running in 1971, just in time for the Olympic takeover. Photographer Nick Frank has...
CurbedSold Stuff: Sarah Jessica Parker Finally Sold the $20M Townhouse That She Never Lived In
After first listing the house for $25M two-and-a-half years ago, celebrity super-couple and serial real estate hunters Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick have finally managed to unload their townhouse in New York City's Greenwich Village. The Daily News...
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Cool Graphic Thing: History's Tallest Buildings, Visualized with Fancy 'Flashcards'
Screenshot via Skyscraper Museum: History of Height The newest web feature from the Skyscraper Museum in New York City comes in the form of an interactive timeline on the history of height. On a mission to share the "what and...
CurbedArchitecture of Death: 8 Architects Who Took Their Trademark Styles to the Grave
Le Corbusier's grave site. Photos via Anna Armstrong/Flickr The architect Adolf Loos famously wrote an essay opposing ornament in art (with the pugnacious title "Ornament and Crime.") "The evolution of culture," wrote Loos, "marches with the elimination of ornament from...
CurbedHouse of the Day: $1.65M Buys a Late SoCal Architect's Breezy, Park-Like Estate
Have a nomination for a jaw-dropping listing that would make a mighty fine House of the Day? Get thee to the tipline and send us your suggestions. We'd love to see what you've got. All photos courtesy of Doug Braunstein...
CurbedFace Value: 8 Homes That Make a Case for Perforated Façades
Photo by Amit Geron via Dezeen Perforated façades have long been employed to help buildings regulate ventilation, light, and privacy. And with today's advanced digital design and fabrication techniques, they're easier to create than ever, leading to plenty of buildings...
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CNBC.com11 Money-Saving Remodeling Strategies from a Hollywood House Flipper
"Reuse, restore, recycle" is a familiar mantra, but 25 years back, Amanda Pays was one of the early adapters. An actress turned designer (she's currently appearing in the TV series The Flash, revisiting a role she first played in 1990), you might not expect frugality to be central to her mission.
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Did you know Ireland has the perfect horticultural environment? So much so that things get a little wild and overgrown and mossy (just the way we like it).
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