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Design History
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Viewpoints
Chairs in Space: When Design History Inspires Science Fiction
Films like Poor Things and Blade Runner rely on design icons and architectural references to imagine different realities.
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Products
How Fermob Sparked a Revolution in Public Space
Even in the age of social distancing, the brand’s iconic French Bistro chair can teach us about coming together in public space.
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Products
A New Video Takes Viewers Into the Vitra Design Museum’s Chair Collection
"Chair Times: A History of Seating from 1800 to Today" is a white-gloved tour of the museum's encyclopedic collection of chairs.
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Viewpoints
Home Stories Summons Up a History of 20th-Century Interior Design
The exhibition at Vitra Design Museum in Germany revives 20 iconic interiors. It's an ambitious task, writes our correspondent, but one that's ultimately successful.
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Viewpoints
New Exhibitions Dive Deep Into Previously Unexplored Isamu Noguchi Projects
The twin shows at the Noguchi museum in Queens, New York, look at the designer’s work toward a “perfect” ashtray and for Idlewild Airport.
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Viewpoints
Henry van de Velde: Designing Modernism Offers a Snapshot of Modern Architecture’s Beginnings
Though still largely unknown, the Belgian-born architect and artist forged ideas and places—including the Bauhaus’s predecessor—that defined 20th-century design.
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Projects
With Its Exhibition Add to the Cake, Foreign Legion Calls for Inclusion
The curators take on the subject of gender inequity in design history and contemporary practice, in a show staged at Kunstgewerbemuseum Dresden.
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Viewpoints
How Landscape Architecture Hoped to Save the City
An exhibition at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum explores the intersection of landscape architecture and social reform at the turn of the 20th century.
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Profiles
The German Designer Who Elevated Early Modern Design in America
Kem Weber, whose work includes the Walt Disney Studios complex and numerous household and office products, fused European design concepts and American ideals of progress and industry.
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Viewpoints
“Lab Cult” Looks to History for Parallels Between Science and Architecture
The Canadian Centre for Architecture's latest exhibition uses architecture to fill in the blanks of classic scientific experiments.
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Viewpoints
MoMA’s “How Should We Live?” Fails to Do Justice to Its Subject Matter
The Museum of Modern Art's latest exhibit revisits Modernism’s home remedies, but it misses the symptoms they were intended to treat.
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Viewpoints
New Exhibition Rediscovers the Overlooked Design Work of Pierre Chareau
A new exhibition at the Jewish Museum in New York City rescues the French avant-garde architect and designer from obscurity.
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Viewpoints
Herman Miller Announces The Aeron Chair, Remastered
In this exclusive interview, Metropolis talks to designer Don Chadwick, who co-designed the original Aeron Chair, to understand the spirit behind the update.
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Projects
Kickstarter Hopes to Reproduce Depero’s Iconic Bolted Book
Fortunato Depero’s Bolted Book, an icon of Italian Futurism, may just make its return, thanks to a new Kickstarter campaign.
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Viewpoints
The London Design Biennale’s Utopian Dreams Land With a Thud
The inaugural biennial taps into a long legacy of utopian design, but fails to add anything to this tradition.
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Profiles
Gere Kavanaugh: Pioneer With a Penchant for Color
Paul Makovsky speaks to the renowned designer about her colorful world, the collaborative and creative scene of L.A. in the ’60s and ’70s, and the power of the pencil.
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Viewpoints
The Man Who Elevated Landscape to Art
Roberto Burle Marx was more than the peerless landscape architect who revolutionized the garden aesthetic. He was also a consummate artist whose innovations drew on a wide range of cultural and natural references.
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Profiles
Antennae to Experience: What Bucky Fuller Taught Me
Buckminster Fuller's daughter shares a previously unpublished essay and reveals a rarely spotlighted side to the revered thinker.
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Viewpoints
Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley Are Tangled Up in Design
With this year's Istanbul Biennial, academics Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley aim to reboot the history of civilization and “redesign” the human subject altogether.
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Viewpoints
Q&A: Beverly Willis on Finding Design in Everything
The architect-designer discusses her long career and mulls over her influence in fields from art to software design.