Jahan Khalili is a Texas-based cancer researcher who enjoys making things with scientific objects he salvages, and old x-rays are a favorite. Quickly becoming obsolete as digital x-rays replace them, x-ray films provide an increasingly exotic material to work with. Jahan's x-ray lamps offer a glimpse into an intimate yet abstract world. Have any of your own x-rays laying around the house? Send them to …
Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan, design guru, regular commentator on the HGTV show "Small Space, Big Style", and of course, Apartment Therapy impresario, has ushered in the next generation of design books with the release of Apartment Therapy: The Eight-Step Home Cure. This illustrated paperback demonstrates how anyone can re-imagine their space and bring balance, harmony, and tranquility to their home without draining their bank account. Divided into …
An extensive retrospective of the work of famed German modernist architect Egon Eiermann is currently underway in Berlin (and will be moving to Nuremberg next). Celebrating his birth 100 years ago, the show documents his buildings, including the German embassay in Washington, D.C., the Parliamentary Office Tower in Bonn, and his sleek and practical interiors and furniture designs. Perhaps more than any other architect he …
