I wrote a piece about a new generation of creatives calling San Miguel de Allende home. It ended up being the cover story. Will add link once it is online. Worth reading, I promise....
He's not only an awesome interior designer but a lovely human, who agreed to submit himself to the Orior Q+A. You can read the whole highly entertaining interview here....
“I thought this was a good opportunity to have a festive, ‘come on shake your body, baby, do the conga’ summer tablescape,” says Rebecca Gardner of Eggleston Cabaret, a line of decorative accessories — napkins, a tablecloth and a lampshade — she created with fabrics from Electra Eggleston, a textile company run by Andra Eggleston, daughter of the photographer William Eggleston. Gardner, an event and interior designer who has an online shop called Houses & Parties, has long been a fan of Eggleston’s fabrics, printed in Monroe, N.C., on Belgian linen and in Glarus, Switzerland, on Irish linen. She is...
To visit Culture Object’s gallery in Manhattan’s Garment District, whose premises were previously storage space for street vendors’ carts, is to experience a full range of emotions. It starts with confusion, followed by surprise, awe and (depending on one’s powers of concentration) alternating levels of distraction. It's such a great space and interesting program and you can read the whole article here....
Donald Judd is an artist generally associated with strict rectilinear forms, from his iconic milled aluminum boxes permanently installed at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas, to his austere furniture designs realized in wood. Now, 29 years after his death, he’s finally throwing the world a curve: a collection of eight sterling silver tableware pieces, all circular forms, created by venerable French silversmith Puiforcat. These pieces - dinner, salad, soup, bread and dessert plates as well as a cup and large serving bowl - are just a small selection from a full set of dinnerware that Judd designed in 1989....
A stately medieval castle in southern Austria may seem an unlikely destination for the international design set, yet Schloss Hollenegg has become just that. Located less than three hours south of Vienna in the small (population 2,000) village of Hollenegg, the 21,000-square-foot, 52-room living museum of sorts hosts a residency program and annual themed exhibition curated by ascending design world darling Alice Stori Liechtenstein. Born in Milan and raised in Bologna, Liechtenstein, who holds a master’s degree in design from Barcelona’s Elisava School of Design, moved to Austria in the early aughts after meeting her now-husband, Alfred. The castle had been...
The best part of any interview is the surprise. If there is one. And there almost always is. The surprise with Alfredo Paredes came with the "do you have any ties to Ireland" question. And it turns out that he's actually Irish, and the way that was figured out is insane. Read it here....
I recently posed a few fun questions to artist Zoe Buckman for Orior furniture's IRL column. You can read her (I promise) interesting answers here....
I'm obsessed with set designers, production designers, and the like - they're some of my favorite people to interview, and I've been lucky to interview quite a few. The latest is Scott Pask, the Tony award-winning set designer, who hails from Yuma, AZ and originally studied architecture. Super fascinating and obviously super talented. I interviewed him for Hemispheres....