ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN
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PIN-UP: The Mexican ingenue Frida Escobedo is the designer of the 2018 Serpentine Gallery Pavillion. The erudite architect with voracious intellectual appetites brings economy of form to complex architectural ideas.
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PIN-UP: Curator Adrian Lahoud on tradition, generational rights, and advocacy at the first iteration of the Triennial of the charming Gulf State.
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PIN-UP: After working with Tadao Ando the Bangkok born architect took the world of museum architecture by storm. He takes his no-nonsense approach – on budget and on time – from the culinary: you can’t bullshit with food.
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LUFTHANSA: Eero Saarinen’s 1962 stunning TWA terminal at JFK gets a revamp and becomes a destination in its own right.
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VOGUE: Jeanne Gang’s architecture firm Studio Gang shapes Chicago's skyline with superlatives. The Aqua Tower is the tallest building designed by a female architect. But Gang’s practice goes beyond phallic constructions. The MacArthur Fellow’s passion lies in social justice and interdisciplinary work.
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LINDSEY ADELMAN
ICON: I spoke with artist and designer Lindsey Adelman’s about the calm and associative powers of her sculptural light installations.
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DOILIES
PIN-UP: A brief history of the lacy domestic snowflakes from antimacassar to pointelle sophistication.
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PFIZER HOUSE
DIE DAME: Filmmaker Dana Ben-Ari’s stunning mansion in Brooklyn’s Clinton Hill once belonged to pharma tycoon Charles Pfizer. She and her husband turned the brownstone into a playful family motley slash modern art space.
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CALIFORNIA MODERN
CYBEX: A conversation with Felix Burrichter, editor in chief of PIN-UP magazine, on modernism, Madonna, Richard Neutra, and the impact of photographer Julius Shulman on staging California.
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CYRIL DUVAL
DIE WELT: A visit to New York artist Cyril Duval’s playroom of capitalism.