May brings thousands of visitors to New York City for art and design fairs and related events. The largest and most established include two major art fairs, Frieze New York (Thursday through Sunday), and TEFAF New York (Friday through Tuesday), the NYCxDesign Festival (May 15-21), the International Contemporary Furniture Fair …
This article is part of our Design special section about how food inspires designers to make and do surprising things. Many people look at avocados and see guacamole. An agave plant is little more than a future shot of tequila, a corn stalk the raw material for a warm tortilla. …
This article is part of our Museums special section about how artists and institutions are adapting to changing times. In the Gilded Age, when newly wealthy Americans sought to advertise their social status here and abroad, several of them turned to what had long been a practice of the established …
This article is part of our Design special report previewing Milan Design Week. Where else but at Milan Design Week would you find bookcases made from books, a bar cabinet covered in hairy hide and a pavilion (and all its contents) fashioned from the stuff that stoppers wine bottles? The …
This article is part of our Design special report previewing Milan Design Week. Few gallerists in the contemporary design sphere have the singular vision of Nina Yashar, 67. Ms. Yashar, the founder of Milan’s Nilufar gallery, established in 1979, and Nilufar Depot, now marking its 10th anniversary, has long been …
This article is part of our Design special report previewing Milan Design Week. Ask nearly anyone with any kind of tenure in the design industry about Established & Sons, and their first response is likely to be the same: “I remember the parties.” For a brief but intense period following …
This article is part of our Design special report previewing Milan Design Week. Chairs are to design fairs what apple pies are to state fairs: comfortable fixtures with (at least) 10,000 variations. At Milan Design Week, the new introductions include some popular repeats, like Patricia Urquiola’s Tufty-Time sofa for B&B …
This article is part of our Design special report previewing Milan Design Week. Bouncing off glossy metal, being devoured by voluptuous fabrics or pouring out of lamp heads, light is always a design star. At Milan Design Week, it makes a conspicuous presence in the reflective surfaces of Michele De …
IN 1888, THE Swedish painter Carl Larsson and his wife, Karin, were given a remote log cottage in the village of Sundborn, 140 miles north of Stockholm, by her father. Over three decades, the couple transformed the house, which they named Lilla Hyttnäs, into an elaborate meta-art project, a hand-embellished …
This article is part of our Design special section about the reverence for handmade objects. It often starts with a box. These utilitarian objects are expressions of a woodworker’s technical rigor and style. But for Wendy Maruyama, who earned a master’s degree in furniture design from the Rochester Institute of …