UrbanGlass

New York's historic glass studio reopens in a renovated space, adding a gallery and storefront

BAM’s Harvey Theater now has a shiny new neighbor. Founded in 1977 by Richard Yelle and Joe Upham, the New York Experimental Glass Workshop—the country’s first open-access glass studio—has bounced around from its original Great Jones Street location in Manhattan to several other locales before settling down in downtown Brooklyn in 1991. Along with the move came a new name that was a little easier …

Vienna Design Week: Bertille & Mathieu + Lobmeyr

The French-Swiss duo reinvents an iconic company's products in a sweet collaboration

by Adam tch As part of Vienna Design Weekwhich concludes this Saturday, 5 OctoberFrench-Swiss designers Bertille Laguet and Mathieu Rohrer (Bertille & Mathieu) are currently collaborating with iconic glassware and lighting company Lobmeyr. And Leonid Rath of Lobmeyr says, “They are as sweet as their project.” Now in its seventh edition, the eventcurated by Tulga Beyerle and Lilli Holleinis highlighted every year with its Passionswege …

Fifty Bicycles That Changed the World

London's Design Museum chronicles two-wheel transportation at its finest

Short of material innovation and aesthetic refinement, the bicycle as we know it has changed very little since its early days of development in the late 19th century. However slight, the evolution of the world’s most widely used mode of transportation is not one to overlook. To document the most significant iterations to reach market, London’s Design Museum recently published the aptly named “Fifty Bicycles …