Emerging throughout Renaissance Europe as conspicuous displays of wealth and knowledge, wunderkammers, or cabinets of curiosity, contained carefully amassed collections of oddities, natural elements, and era-distinctive examples of material culture. The reserve of particularly learned… Read More »Katrien Van Der Shueren’s Cabinets of Curiosity Are at Once Primeval and Present-Day
School design often centers on a series of basic classrooms placed together to support study and extracurricular activities for young learners. Yet these facilities can be more institutional than imaginative, and often have little connection… Read More »The Landscape Becomes a Tool for Learning at This School in India
Rugs have yet again become a popular medium for fresh, unabashed ideation. Art for the floor, this hyper-refined furnishing typology is being reassessed as a potent and plenteous conduit for pictorial representation and abstract expression.… Read More »The Logic of Weaving Entwines These Rugs
Texture holds memory. From warped wood steps worn down from years of use to the sun-faded fibres of a favorite carpet, time-worn spaces and surfaces bear physical evidence of the past. Celebrating this patina of… Read More »A Return to Roots with Bentley Mills
After a decade of staging exhibitions inside Manhattan residences, Radnor is opening a gallery in Brooklyn, closer to where the story began. The studio has operated out of Gowanus’s American Can Factory for years, while… Read More »Radnor Marks Ten Years With a Brooklyn Tower Penthouse Gallery
Using material to its fullest potential can seem subjective at first. For Brooklyn-based KLN Studio—the multidisciplinary practice of Sam Keene, James Lepkowski, and Toby Newman—it means allowing a material’s story to be told again and… Read More »KLN Elevates Reclaimed Wood To New Heights