Rapson's second-place design for a 1950 NAHB competition. Image: Ralph Rapson Sketch by Ralph Rapson , from Ralph Rapson Sketches a...
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Image 2 of 22 from gallery of JR’s Hut at Kimo Estate / Anthony Hunt Design + Luke Stanley Architects. Photograph by Hilary Bradford
Step inside the home of the American footballer and his model wife
We were wondering how we might illustrate the late centenarian ceramic artist Beatrice Wood’s extraordinary statement: “My life is full of mistakes. They’re like pebbles that make a good road” . Then we came upon the work of artist Richard Long, who for decades has made remarkable path works that seem to echo Wood’s words…
When the photographer Greg Girard first ventured into Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong in 1986, he didn’t take any pictures. Instead, he simply absorbed the sights, sounds, and smells…
The design often contains an attached garage together with patio area. You've created an architecture that you
I was born in Athens, Greece in 1974. I have a degree in graphic design and I love art. I started as a scale modeler 20 years ago and for the last 8 years, I have been working as a diorama and miniature artist. My dream is one day to see this artwork in museums introducing the art of miniatures all over the world. Maybe in this way, the world will seem more beautiful…
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“I wasn’t expecting people to be so into these beta designs from the charity stream. They certainly hold a special place in my heart. Perhaps there’ll be a time to explore this alternate world in the future. ⚔️”
Ivo van Hove, one of the world's most exciting directors, makes his National Theatre debut with a modern production of Ibsen's masterpiece. Press Night for Hedda Gabler is 12 December. The production will continue in repertoire until 21 March.
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Completed in 2013 in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom. Images by Paul Raftery . Maggie’s Newcastle, completed in May 2013, injects a seasonally responsive, fluxing, landscaped realm into the Freeman Hospital grounds. Responding...
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Some buildings will absolutely fascinate you with their stunning designs, genius architectural decisions, and the sheer power of their aesthetics. This article isn’t about these kinds of buildings, however. Nope!
Daylesford is now arguably the regional capital of architecture and interior design, with big-city names putting their cosmopolitan stamp on the style-conscious town and its surrounds.
The jetsetting society darling formerly known as the "Punk Princess" has gone domestic. Can you blame her?
Image 9 of 10 from gallery of The Garriga Houses / Blancafort-Reus Arquitectura. Floor Plan
Most of us, one way or another, are out there working. After all, we’ve got bills to pay, and mouths to feed, ain’t nothing in this world is free. So it can be helpful to find little ways throughout the day to make work, one’s career, and getting things done easier.
A look inside the New York City apartment where Paul and Jamie Buchman lived in the popular sitcom "Mad About You" in the 1990s.
Completed in 2008 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. (…) The most wonderful in a room is the light that comes through the window of the room. The sun never knew how great it was before a room was built...
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The Astor mansion at 65th Street and Fifth Avenue, circa 1900. Designed by society's famed architect, Richard Morris Hunt, who had designed many a mansion for the Vanderbilt family, the mansion was built by the John Jacob Astor IV, the Astor family playboy, for him and his mother, Caroline, the self-appointed queen of New York society and known to everyone as simply, THE Mrs. Astor. Mrs. Astor had originally reigned at a four-bay brownstone on 34th Street ~ currently today the present site of the Empire State Building. Due to a social fued between herself and her nephew, William Waldorf Astor, the neighboring townhouse at 34th Street, owned by her nephew, was demolished and replaced with a 13-story hotel, named, interestingly enough, "The Waldorf Hotel". All the dirt, dust, noise and traffic the hotel brought forced Queen Caroline to move from her home of 40 years. Replacing her home, a 17-story hotel built by son John, named rightfully, "The Astoria". Despite the family's feud, business, was, after all, business, so the two fueding cousins decided to merge the two hotels to form the "Waldorf~Astoria", New York City's most luxurious hotel. Carolus Duran's famed portrait of Caroline Astor, which she regally greeted guests in Front of. It now hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of Ar. Circa 1890's. Mrs. Astor made sure her new home would be the epitome of luxury. She and her son asked Hunt to create matching residences for them both, exact duplicates. The mansion, on the outside, would appear to be one palatial fortress, on the inside would be two matching residences facing each other, one for the queen, the other for her son and his family. Connecting the two residences was a sumptuous ballroom, which also housed Mrs. Astor's expansive collection of European art. Both homes would rise to a towering five-stories. Mrs. Astor filled her side(the left) of the mansion with the finest French antiques, many of which had come from her brownstone at 34th Street. Dominating her reception room was Carolus Duran's portrait of herself, which she greeted guests in front of. Wearing her signature diamond stomacher, her 200-stone diamond necklace and her diamond star-shaped tiara, she held the most lavish parties of the season, including her annual Patriarch's Ball, which officially opened the New York social season. Her ballroom, capable of holding 1,200 guests, 800 more than her famous '400'. The Ballroom/Art Gallery in the Astor mansion at 65th Street. Circa, 1902. The dining room in the Astor mansion at 65th Street. Circa 1908. The stair hall in the Astor mansion at 65th Street. Circa 1908. The mansion underwent massive renovations carried out by her son, after her death, to transform the home into a single residence. The partition wall was removed and the two staircases were replaced with one, baronial bronze great hall. Rooms were taken out and moved. Walls and floors were ripped apart and replaced. Furniture was sold and bought. Bedrooms were torn apart to make bigger ones. Fixtures were replaced. Moldings were updated. The only room not to be touched, save replacing the furniture, was the now out-dated ballroom, which it was said John kept as a tribute to his mother. The home was completely transformed. The Great Hall in the renovated Astor mansion at 65th Street. Circa 1912. After a mere 33 years in the Astor family, the mansion was sold by Caroline's grandson, Vincent, in 1926 for around $1 million. Had her son John not died in the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, it is likely the home would have survived much longer than it did. The wrecking ball finally put an end to Mrs. Astor's 5th Avenue palace, 18 years after her death, to be replaced by the Temple Emanu-El.
Samara's dad gutted this building in the '70s, and now she calls it home. She's filled it with MCM servingware from her Gran's entertaining heyday and DIY sewing projects.
