If there were a future where you never had to call me a female designer again because designers were just designers, I would be all for that,” says New York-based lighting designer Bec Brittain. Right now, however, she concedes that the label is far from redundant. “It’s really important to […]
Modern Design
The Mexican architect Frida Escobedo, who at 38 was the youngest architect to design the Serpentine Pavilion in 2018, has been selected to design the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new $500 million Modern and contemporary art wing, the museum announced on Sunday. “It’s a very important commission,” said the museum’s […]
BOSTON — Driving rain, salty air; the waves are so loud you can hardly hear the wailing. The weather is dreadful even by English standards, and the harbor-dwellers have rushed down to the beach, anxious to alert a ship in distress. Their clothes are soaked, their hair is bedraggled; they […]
Written by Jacopo Prisco, CNNLondon The very first FIFA World Cup final, contested by Uruguay and Argentina in 1930, started with a disagreement: Who would supply the ball? Both teams wanted to, because they were used to playing with their own equipment and didn’t trust one another. In the end, […]
Lenny Kravitz always looks stylish from head to toe — and at Sunday’s 2022 Grammys, you’d be forgiven for fixating on his feet. The “Fly Away” singer, 57, hit the red carpet in a metal mesh top by Natalia Fedner, black leather pants and tall, high-heeled boots he designed with Modern […]
The mid-1980s home just outside Castle Hills was perfect for the family of four: four bedrooms, a pool for the kids and their friends and it was closer to the husband’s work than their old home in Boerne. But that kitchen. It was large, but it was dated. The countertops […]