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Alan Wanzenberg named to Elle Decor’s A-List
Among his many accolades, Alan Wanzenberg is one of the ten new designers named to the 2013 Elle Decor A-List, the magazine’s “fourth annual salute to the country’s top talents-designers who continue to excite, inspire, and intrigue us.” We are … Continue reading
The Museum of Things
My friend and former colleague from Remains, Bryn Veditz, gave me a tour of her new gig in the Museum of Things a few weeks back. She won a yearlong fellowship in curatorship/museum studies in Germany and I overlapped with … Continue reading
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Tagged Bryn Veditz, Deutscher Werkbund, Museum Der Dinge
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Industrial Architecture in Berlin: P. Behrens’ AEG Turbine Factory
I tricked two friends to ride 15 kilometers from our hotel on rented bikes to check out the architect Peter Behrens’ 1909 turbine factory on a recent unseasonably freezing cold morning. Michael Graham and his partner Phil Leiderbach of Leiderbach … Continue reading
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Tagged Berlin, Leiderbach and Graham, P. Behrens, Turbinenfabrik, WEG Turbine
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From Darkness, Light
It’s spring. Buds are breaking on twig tips, fine sprays of grass fringe walkways, and a shifting palette of salt, slate and blue in the foggy mornings lifts to reveal gently sunny afternoons. With spring comes an itch to move: … Continue reading
Sugaring on the Farm
Recently, one of our colleagues based in Vermont has been lending a hand in her spare time to a different kind of artisanal producer, she’s helping to haul in this year’s crop of maple sap. Each year during Vermont’s famous … Continue reading
Please turn off your lights for Earth Hour
This Saturday at 8:30pm (local time, wherever you are) turn off your lights, even if they are beautiful, and you bought them from Remains, and leave them off for at least an hour. Join me, the WWF, and participate in … Continue reading
Spongebob Would Feel Right at Home, More on the Shedd Aquarium
After exhausting the possibilities of the front rooms of the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago and pestering the staff for more information on the fixtures (they had none) and on any other old, original parts of the building (“this is it”), … Continue reading
Spongebob Would Feel Right at Home – Nudibranches
I had a few hours between meetings to explore the Shedd Aquarium, part of Chicago’s lakefront neoclassical cultural campus including also the Field Museum and the Adler Planetarium. The Shedd was conceived by John G. Shedd, designed by architect Philip … Continue reading
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Tagged Shedd Aquarium, Sterling Bronze Company
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