Object Lessons
Architect Zaha Hadid, the mastermind behind the surreal Guangzhou Opera House and troubled MAXXI Museum, has made it her practice's signature to create curvilinear forms frozen in motion, as if they had been thrown at a very high speed and suspended midair. Her latest venture into frozen industrial design, Liquid Glacial, possesses a...
Rockstar Lenny Kravitz proved his acting chops in 2009's "Precious," and more recently in this year's "Hunger Games," but his third talent has managed to stay largely under the radar. Surprise! It's furniture design. And Kravitz's lesser-known hobby is taking the stage at Milan's flagship Kartell store during the Salone Internazionale...
Not wanting to miss out on any of the festivities at this year's Salone del Mobile, the go-to annual Milan fair for all that's new and innovative in the design world, Italian fashion house Marni is jumping into furniture design. The lusted-after label is presenting a collection of 100 cheerfully colorful chairs that it ...
Daniel Arsham and Alex Mustonen, better known as the Brooklyn-based artist-architect hybrid Snarkitecture, have quite a few artistic accomplishments under their belt. There's their performance art, which includes a human-sized tunnel system that Arsham carved and chiseled out of a mammoth block of architectural foam at the Storefront for...
As if in response to our recent analysis of the quickly multiplying number of incomprehensible watches, Germany's Biegert & Funk design agency presents Qlock Two W, the wristwatch that literally spells out the time. The square face is an LED-lit grid of 110 letters that illuminate to display the current hour at the push of a button,...
Among the many stand-out vehicles at the New York International Auto Show 2012, one of our favorites was the ludicrously extravagant, MIT-engineered Terrafugia Transition, better known as “that flying car” (or "that driving plane" to the glass-half-empty types). With hourly wing-unfolding demonstrations and a sales pitch that...
"Ball so hard got a broken clock /Rolleys that don't tick tock /Audemars thats losing time /Hidden behind all these big rocks"Jay-Z in Kanye West’s “N----as in Paris”Hova has noticed what I’ve noticed: Watches don’t tell time anymore. Time-obscuring "big rocks," in Jay-Z's case, or a flashy, colorful face with an inscrutable...
NEW YORK — In our digital age, being permanently plugged in — in more ways than one — is essential, as was made abundantly clear by the well-connected new vehicles unveiled at this year's New York International Auto Show, opening tomorrow and continuing through April 15. The resonating theme at the fair was design for the future. There...
NEW YORK — The hype has been mounting about the Nissan NV200, better known as the Taxi of Tomorrow, a new breed of cab set to hit the streets of New York City in 2013. Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced the new model in May last year, and after nearly a year of anticipation, ARTINFO had the chance to actually sit inside it yesterday at...
A seminal figure in American postmodern architecture, Michael Graves has designed hundreds of major buildings worldwide, but a new exhibition at the Anne Reid ’72 Art Gallery of the Princeton Day School focuses on his other postmodern masterpiece: the tea kettle.In the very cleverly titled show “...
