Curvas Dining Chair

Beauty in simplicity realized by Portugese designer Gonçalo Campos

When we last heard from Portugese product designer Gonçalo Campos he had just announced the Geo table, a beautiful balance of raw and polished materials. Now, building on this refined aesthetic is the Curvas dining chair, a solid pine seat purposefully designed to be comfortable and beautiful. To blend high and low tech production Campos called upon computer-controlled machinery to cut each piece, while relying …

FDR Skatepark: A Visual History

Fifteen years of DIY evolution under an ordinary overpass outside Philadelphia

In the early 1990’s skateboarding had found a special place in Philadelphia, Love Park. Kids young and old traveled from around the world to skate its pristine ledges and infamous fountain gap. And while the struggling skateboard community embraced the park, the city felt otherwise. To “clean up” downtown Philly the city hired security at Love Park and slapped some concrete under an I-95 overpass …

Thanks for the View, Mr. Mies

A humanist look at living in Mies van der Rohe and Detroit's Lafayette Park

Amongst the expanses of desperate homes and floundering businesses the media has repeatedly brought to light, a lone two towers and low lying complex of townhouses stands in downtown Detroit. Lafayette Park, as it’s called, comprises the largest collection of buildings designed by legendary minimalist Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in the world. Not unknown by any means, the unique modernist environment has been the …