The woman who helped usher the interior design industry into full flower in the United States was prolific in putting out ideas that will help freshen up today's interior design business. Look at our latest Designer Monthly, Interior Design: Look Forward by Looking Back to Dorothy Draper.
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Alexia Rossetti Friday, April 16, 2010 at 9:28AM MAD or Museum of Arts and Design in New York is presenting an upcoming exhibition on organic living things. Several artists transform what was once alive into creative art and sculptures. In the exhibit, Dead or Alive, artists use skeletons, plant materials, feathers, and other fauna to create statements about their environment.
Alexia Rossetti Monday, March 1, 2010 at 12:25PM MOMA, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, has recently opened their Architecture and Design Galleries, and is currently showing the exhibit, Shaping Modernity, 1880-1990.
The exhibit examines the iconic objects that helped shape the modern age starting with the Art Nouveau age in 1880s up to 1990. On our cover is a 1964 chaise lounge from Olivier Mourgue. The Djinn Chaise is made of foam, steel, and nylon. The Djinn is named after the supernatural genie in Islamic culture.
Also in the exhibit is a Bauhaus object from the famous school in Germany. Marianne Brandt designed her teapot from nickel silver and ebony in 1924, but its geometric proportions still look fresh and current.
Over 300 works of art will be part of the ongoing display at the MOMA.
Caroline Wolfe Papocchia Wednesday, January 27, 2010 at 11:49AM 
This past Thursday I took advantage of Target's generosity and paid a (free) visit to MOCA, the Museum of Chinese in America on Centre Street. I did not realize before my visit that the museum's address is fairly new, and that it is now housed in an exquisitely-realized space by (Chinese-American) architect Maya Lin.
Sheffield Admin Monday, January 4, 2010 at 7:09AM ...we do. Is it wood or is it fabric? It's a bit of both. This German designer, Elisa Strozyk, has come up with a way to combine very thin veneers with fabrics; the result is this fabric that looks like wood. Kudos to Strozyk for her terrific imagination and her eagerness to see the world in a new way.
You can see more at http://www.elisastrozyk.de
Sheffield Admin Wednesday, December 23, 2009 at 5:38AM If you saw my previous post on the Bauhaus exhibit at MOMA (or if you scroll down to it now) you'll see that MOMA has this terrific extravaganza of all things Bauhaus---paintings, sculpture, furniture, weaving, hands-on-workshops. Everything but a beer garden.
Not only that, but right uptown, at the Guggenheim Museum, there is a huge Kandinsky exhibit, showing the artist's work from his early, more representational paintings through his heyday as one of the Bauhaus instructors, and right on through his fascination with bimorphic imagery.
("Improvisation" by Vassily Kandinsky)
This exhibit is so exhilarating you have to be careful at the top not to fall over the edge with art-induced dizziness. It really completes the picture started at the MOMA exhibit---or the MOMA exhibit completes this picture.
Whichever, kudos to the Guggenheim and MOMA for holding these exhibits simultaneously. This is why I live in New York (and why you live here, or why you are going to come visit before the shows go---MOMA on January 25, Kandinsky on January 13).
