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Making room for modern: secondhand stores and flea markets yield a treasure trove of modern design for this Dallas collector - David Cadwallader
IN HIS PROFESSIONAL LIFE AS ONE OF DALLAS'S LEADING INTERIOR DESIGNERS, DAVID CADWALLADER IS NO STRANGER TO TRADITIONAL ANTIQUES AND FLORAL PRINTS. BUT THE VISION IS PURELY modern in his own high-r...(Continue Reading) The modern gothic furniture of Pottier and Stymus
The New York, NY-based Pottier and Stymus was one of the leading cabinetmaking companies of the late 19th century in the US. In 1875, the company had revenue ......(Continue Reading)Eighteenth-century Philadelphia case furniture at Stenton
James Logan (1674-1751), the learned secretary to William Penn (1644-1718), arrived in Philadelphia from England in 1699. By the 1720s, he had found ......(Continue Reading)The Museum of Modern Art reopens on 20 November after being closed for over two years. Its new galleries, designed by Yoshio Taniguchi, are a triumph:
On 20 November, after two and a half years of closure, New York's Museum of Modern Art re-opens with three additional new buildings, all by Yoshio Taniguchi, ......(Continue Reading)Was there a George VI style? Now that the story of British architecture and design in the twentieth century is less often distorted by over-emphasis on
Writing under his pseudonym, Peter F. Donner, in the Architectural Review in November 1941, Nikolaus Pevsner opened by stating that 'Every phase in history has its style permeating all its producti...(Continue Reading)
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