Melding Swiss and American Graphic Design with Piera Wolf

Surveying the Brooklyn-based Swiss artist's visual creations

While Piera Wolf might not be a household name, many in the fashion, design and art worlds are familiar with work by the talented graphic designer. And, if you’re planning a trip to Washington, DC’s Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture (NMAAHC) for its 2016 opening, you’ll definitely become well-acquainted with her designs. Wolf—who was born in the small town of Chur, …

Inside Seattle’s Jet City Winery

Winemaker Charles Smith transforms a former Dr. Pepper bottling plant into the largest urban winery on the West Coast

In 2014, Charles Smith won Wine Enthusiast’s global winemaker of the year. It was an accolade he thinks fondly on (with more than a note of surprise), but it was telling of the years worth of work invested in his Washington state wines. His latest project, unveiled on 25 July, happens to be a wine destination of epic proportions. Charles Smith Wines’ Jet City winery, …

NARKi Furniture

Modern wood and steel pieces covered with classical-style paintings in this collaboration between fine artist and product designer

Wooden and steel furniture with baroque­-inspired paintings upon their surface is the latest project by Prague’s UMPRUM product design graduate Roman Kvita and Academy of Fine Arts painting student Dominik Běhal. The two friends fused their different skills to create these unconventional objects for the collection—called NARKi—and blend historical and traditional styles like baroque, rococo and classicism with modern forms. “Distinctive decoration of furniture had—apart …