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Oct 93 min read
The Bienecke Rare Book Library
To Me, You Are Perfect (My Keira Knightley Building) Remember that scene in the movie "Love Actually" where the guy is holding up a bunch...
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Sep 106 min read
Ken Adam: the man who made James Bond modern.
Long before Mad Men and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, the early Bond movies introduced modernism into popular culture. Those modern...
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May 612 min read
ISOKON
Imagine a private dining club designed by one of the hottest architects, with food provided by a celebrity chef, where creative types...
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Mar 123 min read
Thinking Beyond the Frame
A new post from contributor Rose White, originally posted on the substack Little Mama Drama Architects and creatives have long...
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Feb 269 min read
Will this year's Pritzker be the same old Kenergy?
March is here, and with it Women’ s History month. You’ll have to forgive me if I’m less than excited. March is also Oscar month. And the...
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Dec 13, 20234 min read
Crawford House: Culture War Casualty
I know. Another article about Paul Rudolph!? Why, you ask? Well because a couple of weekends ago, Mr. Don't Bruise the Booze and I were...
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Sep 11, 20233 min read
Carlo Scarpa: The Architect's Architect
Now regarded as one of Italy’s (and quite possibly the world's) greatest post-war architects, Carlo Scarpa was almost completely unknown...
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Sep 11, 20235 min read
Gae Aulenti. Eccentric genius or provocateur?
"Her ranking in the international architectural fraternity is disputed, but her notoriety is assured. "1 Although Italian designer Gae...
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Mar 29, 20235 min read
Lina Bo Bardi. Stalinist. anti-feminist. architect.
Lina Bo Bardi was a mass of contradictions. A self-described “Stalinist, anti-feminist” who “never faced any obstacles, not even as a...
tipsy modernist
Dec 24, 20226 min read
Philip Johnson Gay. Modernist. Nazi Sympathiser.
I know what you're thinking-why bother talking about Philip Johnson ? In 2020 both Harvard and MoMa removed his name from their buildings...
tipsy modernist
Oct 25, 20223 min read
Add Bates. Black. designer. performer. polymath.
I first heard about designer Add Bates while attending a lecture by art historian Kristina Wilson about her fascinating book “Mid-Century...
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Jun 30, 202211 min read
Paul Rudolph: the brutalist architect whose buildings people love to hate
Photo courtesy of Paul Rudolph Foundation Beloved or reviled, (what brutalist isn't) Paul Rudolph's sculptural concrete buildings illicit...
tipsy modernist
Mar 29, 20226 min read
SVETLANA KANA : the Modernist from Montenegro
Now that Brutalism has been trending for a couple of years, Soviet-era Brutalism, and the work of Eastern European modernists are being...
tipsy modernist
Jun 18, 20213 min read
Hilyard Robinson. Modernist. Black Architect.
Born in Washington DC in 1899 into a working class family, Hilyard Robinson went on to become one of the most prolific architects in the...
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Apr 19, 20213 min read
French Modernism
With the recent birthdays of Jean- Michel Frank, Robert- Mallet- Stevens and Jean Prouvé , it seems an appropriate time to celebrate the...
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Apr 15, 20214 min read
Robert Mallet-Stevens. Architect. Dandy. Modernist.
Robert Mallet-Steven occupies a curious place in the history of architecture. Although his cubic, white plaster forms are clearly...
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Apr 14, 20213 min read
Pierre Chareau. architect. refugee. modernist?
Pierre Chareau was another architect whose career was destroyed by WWII. With almost his entire archive lost, his reputation rests on a...
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Apr 13, 20212 min read
Jean Prouvé. designer. innovator. modernist.
Jean Prouvé is known for his innovative designs which were heavily influenced by the aeronautical industry. His studio specialized in the...
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Feb 28, 20212 min read
Jean-Michel Frank. The James Dean of interior design.
Jean-Michel Frank lived fast and died young. He was a self-trained interior designer based in Paris and Argentina from 1932 to 1941 whose...
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Feb 17, 20215 min read
Paul Revere Williams. Pioneering Black Architect
Although he was practicing architecture in the twenties and thirties and even won an AIA Award of Merit in 1939, Paul R.Williams is not...
Obsession, Betrayal, Jealousy and Modernism
The Modernists Guide to Cocktails is a meeting place for fans of modernism who love a good cocktail along with gossip about architecture's most notorious scandals. Conversely,it's also a site for cocktail lovers who happen to be design curious. It takes an unvarnished look at modernism via social histories, juicy anecdotes, and the favorite cocktails of the founders of modernism. And let's face it we all need a strong drink these days...
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