While it was made back in 1957 (by NYC’s George Nelson Associates for the Howard Miller Clock Company), the Petal Clock is as beautiful today as it ever was. Inspired by a four-leaf clover, this authentic Nelson clock (now archived in the the Vitra Design Museum, along with Nelson’s other inventive designs like the joyful ball clock) is a simple and bold piece of American …
Between 2010 and 2013, artists Stefanie Zoche and the late Sabine Haubitz traveled to South India (and seemingly back in time) to photograph the country’s multitude of old-fashioned theaters. Each cinema they captured “displays an unusual mixture of Modernism, local architectural elements, a strong use of color and, in the case of some older cinema halls, of Art Deco,” writes the duo. The retro theaters …
Michael Graves, one of the most influential architects in modern American design, died on 12 March 2015 at the age of 80. Graves was an early member of The New York Five, a group of architects whose works stood as the pinnacle of modernist design in the 1970s, but later defected from the group to pursue post-modernist design in the ‘80s. Aside from the staggering …
