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Clerkenwell Design Week Wrap
By Peter Harris and Regina Connell Getting to this a bit late in and among all the other shows we’ve been going to of late, but it’s well worth a wrap up because we think we’ve spotted some enduring...
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Craft + Design @ Fifth Floor Gallery
By Regina Connell. Galleries can be tough places to love. So often they can be exclusive, cold, and impenetrable (and this has nothing to do with price). You often get to wondering … is there some...
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Hot Press, Cool Events August 2013
By Danielle Sabalvaro. It may be sultry out there but our new events editor, Danielle Sabalvaro, has found some things that might get you out of your digs and into the galleries, museums, markets, and...
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Chaos to Couture at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
By Deenah Shutzer. When Johnny Rotten, the lead singer of the Sex Pistols, penned the lyrics “I am an anti-Christ/I am an anarchist” in 1977, I doubt he envisioned that this punk ethos would wind up...
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Hot Press, Cool Events September 2013
By Danielle Sabalvaro. Get ready to kick off the fall season with these fresh, fun, and city-inspired events! NORTHERN CALIFORNIA Architecture & The City Festival September 1-30, 2013, San...
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Hot Press, Cool Events October 2013
By Danielle Sabalvaro. Why not jet set off to Tokyo for Designers Week, hop over to the Netherlands for Dutch Design Week, take a textile pop-up class in San Francisco, and get lost in Portland’s...
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Hot Press, Cool Events November 2013
NOVEMBER EVENTS By Danielle Sabalvaro. Photo ©Jerry Takigawa, Untitled F-374 from Jerry Takigawa: False Food, image courtesy of sfmcd.org Editor’s Note: As the weather chills, take some time to do the...
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Hot Press, Cool Events December 2013
By Danielle Sabalvaro Editor’s Note: ‘Tis the season for cocktails and cashmere, so what better way to wrap up your year than with craft fairs and makers’ markets, East and West. Let your artisanal...
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Noticed: 2014 Good Food Awards Finalists Announced!
By Lee Havlicek. All images courtesy of the Good Food Awards. Throughout the year, we’ve featured dozens of the remarkable winners from the 2013 Good Food Awards and their meticulously crafted and...
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Dwell on Design ’13 Wrap Up
By Regina Connell and Nicole Bemboom. Last weekend was the mammoth Dwell on Design show in LA. It bills itself as the country’s largest modern design event and with 30,758 design aficionados swarming...
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Hot Press, Cool Events January 2014
By Danielle Sabalvaro. We all have the “try something new” resolution written down somewhere… Local pop-up shows and international exhibits await you, so cheers to 2014! Starting this month, we’re...
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The Curated Object: In The Making
By Joanne Molina. The Curated Object. Exhibit: IN THE MAKING When: January 22–May 4, 2014 Where: Design Museum (London, England) Thonet GmbH, photo Mirko Krizanovic. This exhibition, curated for the...
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Review: Making room for craft
By Regina Connell. Architects and interior designers are huge consumers and fans of craft: their creations rely extensively on the work of local metalsmiths, woodworkers, glassmakers, resin artists,...
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The Curated Object: Laura Flusche – MODA Celebrates 25 Years
By Joanne Molina. The Curated Object. Laura Flusche, image courtesy of Jerry Burns The 21st century is the age of design thinking. Design philosophers, futurists, and critics are asking how our...
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2014 Good Food Awards Winners Announced
By Lee Havlicek. You may have noticed: We like the Good Food Awards around here. In fact, we think the GFA team and the gloriously inventive foods and makers that they celebrate are downright awesome....
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Hot Press, Cool Events February 2014
By Danielle Sabalvaro. Editor’s Note: We’re deep enough into the winter freeze that there’s plenty of rough weather going around to keep us cooped up inside offices, apartments, houses for days on end...
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Hot Press, Cool Events March 2014
MARCH EVENTS By Danielle Sabalvaro. Editor’s Note: March is here! And we couldn’t be more thrilled. With the start of this month, we’re on the cusp of all sorts of bright new things—especially that...
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The New Luxury @ the AIA SF
What is the new luxury and what on earth does it mean to the architecture and design communities? Find out on April 2, between 12 and 1:30 at AIA San Francisco when Regina Connell lifts the veil on...
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Hot Press, Cool Events April 2014
APRIL EVENTS By Regina Connell. Editor’s Note: Whoa, where did January-March get to? If you’ve been slightly sloth-like (like yours truly) you might actually be feeling the need to get out and about....
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Chicago Hope: Room406
By Regina Connell. I love Chicago. It’s the city that just gets on with it. The Coasts have the dazzle factor, but Chicago has this tendency of getting things done without necessarily calling a lot of...
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