Leilah Stone Archives

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Leilah Stone

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Contemporary Quilters Are Piecing Together a New Era of the American Craft

These six textile artists are building on the narrative potential of quilts for a new era that centers identity, circularity, and communities of care.
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We “Designed” Buildings Using an AI Image Generator—Here Are the Bizarre Results

Metropolis associate editor Leilah Stone has been feeding architectural styles and keywords to Midjourney bots. The results highlight the complicated relationship between design, technology, and image-making.
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Piero Gilardi’s Nature Carpets Merge Art and Everyday Life

On view at New York's Magazzino Italian Art through January 2023, Gilardi: Tappeto-Natura is the artist's first museum retrospective in the United States.
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A New Book Examines Peter Shire’s Legacy

Peter Shire: Towers with Ranch Dressing evaluates the ways in which towers have influenced the artist’s work as signifiers of “nostalgia, joy, memory, and anxiety.”
Profiles

For Multi-Hyphenate Designer Alex Proba, No Surface Goes Untouched

Founder of Portland, Oregon and Brooklyn-based Studio Proba sits down with Metropolis to discuss her expansive practice, marketing product design in digital environments, and embracing failure.
Profiles

French Designer Audrey Large Aims to Challenge Perceptions of Reality

Large talks to Metropolis about the difference between digital and physical exhibitions, "vibrant matter", and designing objects using cinematic processes.
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The Founder of Zyva Studio Talks Trans-Design and the Metaverse

Anthony Authié discusses recent work, his experience making NFTs, and the relationship between body, architecture, and fiction.
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The Hirshhorn Museum Commissions Nicolas Party to Transform its Facade

The artist's temporary mural, Draw the Curtain, will be on display while the exterior of the Washington, D.C., museum undergoes repairs.
Products

Furniture Brand Vaarnii Celebrates the Possibilities of Pine

The self-proclaimed "brutally Finnish" furniture brand's inaugural collection features pieces by talents such as Mac Collins, Max Lamb, and Kwangho Lee.
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Brian Peters’ 3D Printed Ceramics Merge Art and Technology

Based on an initial prototype launched during Dutch Design Week in 2012, the Pittsburgh artist’s full-time fabrication studio pushes the limits of 3D printing with clay.
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A New Generation of Designers Brings ‘Sloppy Craft’ to Commercial Interiors

An unconventional handmade aesthetic is emerging, challenging the predictability and sameness of contract furnishings.
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9 Collections from Cersaie 2021 That Prove Tile is the New Wallpaper

From Victorian florals to tropical jungle patterns, Cersaie 2021 was filled with new “ceramic wallpaper” launches that aim to bring the outdoors in.
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Six Initiatives Model Ways to Practice True Design Justice

Across the globe, architects, designers, and planners are redefining what it means to be an advocate in the design professions.
Profiles

The Potter Who Helped Shape Cranbrook Architecture

Metropolis digs into the archives of longtime Cranbrook faculty member Maija Grotell, “the Mother of American Studio Ceramics.”
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For Asheville, North Carolina–based Samsel Architects, Sustainability Is an Ongoing Process

From downtown adaptive reuse projects to ultra-green mountain homes, the 35-year-old firm prioritizes stewardship and civic responsibility as guiding values.
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Queeries Is Documenting the Experiences of LGBTQIA+ Architects and Designers

The ongoing survey of queer architects, designers, and students aims to challenge the discourse of diversity and inclusion.
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Beyond the Wheel: BZIPPY Challenges Conventions in Clay

Bari Ziperstein’s socially and historically informed practice helps explain the current renaissance of ceramic furniture in contemporary interiors.
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New Talent: Common Works Builds a Fresh Legacy in Oklahoma

Founded on simplicity and practicality, a home-grown firm is helping define Oklahoma City’s creative identity.
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A New Film Chronicles the Design Legacy of Airstream

Alumination, a new documentary by filmmaker Eric Bricker, captures the history and legacy of the iconic American travel trailer on its 90th anniversary.
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LikeMindedObjects Uses Waste to Create Sustainable Products With Personality

In addition to running her Hudson, New York studio and storefront, Elise McMahon of LikeMindedObjects has recently launched a collection of recycled pillow inserts called CRCL EARTH.