Estate & Design
Design
Furniture, materials, craft and studios: the culture of making exceptional environments.
Design
The Lime Cycle: The Oldest Wall Finish Is the Most Modern Choice
Burn limestone, slake it with water, lay it in three coats, and let the air finish the work. Lime plaster is two thousand years old and suddenly the most contemporary finish in the room.
Design
Frank Lloyd Wright: The Architect Who Made Buildings Belong
Frank Lloyd Wright, 1867 to 1959, designed more than a thousand buildings and insisted they should grow from their sites. A life of the most consequential American architect, from the Prairie houses to the Guggenheim.
Design
Charles Rennie Mackintosh: Scotland's Prophet of the Total Work of Art
Charles Rennie Mackintosh, 1868 to 1928, fused Art Nouveau, Celtic Revival, and the Arts and Crafts into the Glasgow Style, and designed houses as complete works of art down to the last detail. The Scottish master the modernists never forgot.
Design
The Return of Natural Stone
In serious residential architecture, stone is structural and spatial again. Four buildings show what the material is teaching.
Design
Jean Prouve: The House That Could Be Built in a Day
A French metalworker with no architectural training set out to house a ruined country from a factory floor. The portal frame was his answer.