Custom-Made Miracles
By Andrea Codrington
Combining craft, technology, and all five senses, Issey Miyake has
created a magical clothing universe that transcends mere fashion.
Nasculture
By Phil Patton
The graphic design aesthetic of stock car racing--cluttered,
chaotic, vernacular--goes mainstream.
The Utility of it All
By Matt Steinglass
While two French museums argue whether to treat African material culture
as fine art or artifact, collectors are treating it as design.
Leisure Ware
By Paul Makovsky
Postwar American ads peddled a vision of a world where luxury and ease
were just an electric stove, "Perma-lift" girdle, or cigarette
away.
Water Works: Maya Lin
By Christopher Hawthorne
For downtown Grand Rapids, Maya Lin sculpts an urban space.
Time Will Tell
By Marty Kapell and Lyle Rexer
The authors discover that the renovators of Grand Central Terminal tried
to turn back the clock--and lost their sense of time.
Sand Man
By Paul Makovsky
Artist and designer Costantino Nivola created a remarkable body of
public art all over the United States. But some of his best sculptures
and murals in New York are sadly neglected and in need of restoration.
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Metropolis Exclusive: Even more about Nivola
The Metropolis Observed
The return of Palace Depression; giving museumgoers
a window on the West; a hotel for high schoolers?; drawing from the WTC;
mad about red; farewell to Fresh Kills.
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