MOMA, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, has recently opened their Architecture and Design Galleries, and is currently showing the exhibit, Shaping Modernity, 1880-1990.
The exhibit examines the iconic objects that helped shape the modern age starting with the Art Nouveau age in 1880s up to 1990.  On our cover is a 1964 [...]

This past Thursday I took advantage of Target’s generosity and paid a (free) visit to MOCA, the Museum of Chinese in America on Centre Street. I did not realize before my visit that the museum’s address is fairly new, and that it is now housed in an exquisitely-realized space by (Chinese-American) architect Maya Lin.
Out of [...]

…we do. Is it wood or is it fabric?  It’s a bit of both. This German designer, Elisa Strozyk, has come up with a way to combine very thin veneers with fabrics; the result is this fabric that looks like wood. Kudos to Strozyk for her terrific imagination and her eagerness to see the world [...]

If you saw my previous post on the Bauhaus exhibit at MOMA (or if you scroll down to it now) you’ll see that MOMA has this terrific extravaganza of all things Bauhaus—paintings, sculpture, furniture, weaving, hands-on-workshops. Everything but a beer garden.
Not only that, but right uptown, at the Guggenheim Museum, there is a huge Kandinsky [...]

One of the most influential schools of art and design, The Bauhaus, involved everything from furniture to design to textiles, from ceramics to painting. The Bauhaus thrived in post WW I Germany, and was shut down by the Nazis in 1933. Credited with the flourishing of modernism, the Bauhaus attracted such greats of the [...]

Are you wacky for modernism? And you’re in New York, or will be coming during the holiday season? If so, you must plan a visit to MOMA to see their new exhibit, Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity. Until it was shut down by the Nazis, Bauhaus was a hotbed of creative thinking, re-examining all the [...]

Ever had the problem of trying to find the right size artwork for that narrow space on your wall between two doorways or a really wide picture to put above a mantel?  Now someone has come along to make your designing life a little easier - Art That Fits.
This company provides a wide selection of [...]

“Good Design” was a concept that first appeared in the 1930s and then ushered design through the mid-century. It’s essentially what you think of when you think of mid-century  design: Charles and Ray Eames, Hans Wegner, clean lines, interesting new uses of materials.
You can see a great selection at MoMA’s exhibit titled “What Was Good [...]

Just found this blog, hosted by interiordesign.net:
http://www.interiordesign.net/blog/1850000585.html
This is a collection of posts by five different writers, including D.B. Kim a “traveling design guru,” with the article round-up overseen by Editor-in-Chief Cindy Allen. It’s an intersting assortment of points of view and takes on design; the latest post on the Musee D’Orsay in Paris gives an [...]

If you’re going to San Francisco….before next weekend, schedule in a stop at the Metropolitan Home “Modern By Design” show house in Pacific Heights.

Several designers, each of whom was assigned a different area of the house, will show off their work in the  historic 7,000 square feet home. Proceeds will go to the San Francisco [...]