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One hallmark of parametric design is the lightning-fast, almost organic flexibility it lends architecture—which was formerly, perhaps, the least adaptable of the arts. What happens when someone builds a design as changeable as the weather? Visitors...
Letter From Greenwich: What We Talk About When We Talk A...
Forget it,” a Greenwich friend predicted, when I told him I was seeking local points of view for an article I was writing about a Connecticut statute known as 8-30g. “No one will talk to you.” His remark made me laugh. The statute in questio...
Punch It Up
Need a new workout, or just looking for an awesome way to tire out the kids? Greg Loomis, the Wellness Manager at the YMCA, is building on the success of his popular cardio boxing classes with offerings for kids, teens and adults.
Troubled Times: The Role of Design in Fascist Italy
Bertrand Russell famously argued that propaganda is better at fostering hate than love, but a group of three interrelated exhibitions on Italian art and design between the world wars, currently on view at the Wolfsonian-Florida International Universi...
OLEDs Ready To Transform Lighting Design
The I.Rain fixture, designed by Thierry Gaugain, descends from the ceiling of the new Blackbody showroom in New York, the first OLED store in the world. The company’s founders, Bruno Dussert-Vidalet and Alessandro Dolcetta, put together a team of 1...
I Work in Chaos: The Art of Lou Beach
If he’s most often described as a collage artist, it’s perhaps because Lou Beach, over the course of a long and productive career, has created a body of work that is difficult to sum up any other way. You can’t bottom-line him; and describing h...
