The Four Seasons Restaurant has announced that it has signed a lease on a space in 280 Park Avenue. Brazilian architect Isay Weinfeld will design the 20,000-square-foot space, in addition to furniture and tableware.
French conceptual artist Daniel Buren has created a temporary, site-specific work for the Frank Gehry-designed Fondation Louis Vuitton building, in the Bois de Boulogne park in western Paris.
Today, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum has announced winners of the 17th Annual National Design Awards, which recognize excellence and innovation in 11 categories.
“It all started with a very slow bartender at a gallery opening,” says composer Raphael Mostel of his longtime collaboration with architect Steven Holl.
Set against a dramatic backdrop of distant mountains and boundless sky, a tiny chapel in Austria’s southernmost state of Carinthia magnifies the intensity and natural beauty of its location.
The Salerno Maritime Terminal by Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) was inaugurated today in southwestern Italy, marking the first project to be completed since the death of Zaha Hadid on March 31.
While big box retailers churn out cheap knock-offs of Eames rockers and Saarinen tulip chairs to meet consumers’ growing demands, Chicago collector and craftsman Michael Yurkovic has his eyes on a smaller market: mid-century modern miniatures.
Named for the conventional Japanese word meaning “house,” Naomi Pollock’s book surveys the “wonderful, as well as the weird” residential architecture of Japan.