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From craft to industry: furniture designed by Edward Durell Stone for senator Fulbright Only yesterday, basket-weaving and wood-working were bandicraft operations in Arkansas. Today ... they have developed into an industry making modern ......(Continue Reading) Streamlining and art deco in American industrial design A NEW AESTHETIC EVOLVED IN AMERICAN DESICN OF THE 1930S THAT DEFIED BOTH ART DECO AND FUNCTIONALIST MODERNISM. This was streamlining. From the Graf Zeppelin to the 20th Century Limited train and th...(Continue Reading)Shed style: recycled wood warms up a Rocky Mountain retreat The challenge for Liz Le Coq Currier and her husband, Joe Currier, was to design their new home in Crested Butte, Colorado, around two 120-year-old wooden industrial sheds. A National Historic Dist...(Continue Reading)The ultimate outdoor furniture: spend blissful days in an easy-to-build chair - wooden Adirondack-style furniture - Mother's Woodshop Adirondack-style chairs are made with wide wooden slates, arms, and deep wide seats. Instructions are given for building a wood-slate chair, with matching ......(Continue Reading)Challenging the Cruel Cubicle - ergonomic furniture In, a recent show at MOMA, commissioned projects and examples of current office design examined the workplace we inhabit now and the one we may want ......(Continue Reading)
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