The New Yorker1d
Min Jin Lee’s Indelible Twentieth-Century Women
The “Pachinko” author recommends four novels that present character studies of bold women making their way in changing times.
In Kim Hostler and Juliet Burrows’s Upstate New York Home, Scandinavian Design Sets the Tone
Just in time for Modernism Week in Palm Springs, California, designer Michelle Boudreau conceptualized a sleek, contemporary ...
PBS25d
Appraisal: Chinese Porcelain Rouleau Vase Fragment, ca. 1710
APPRAISER: It's porcelain ... and early 18th century. GUEST: Oh. APPRAISER: So we're going back to somewhere around 1700 to 1720 or so. She was likely accompanied by other female figures and ...
Dezeen27d
Eight bathrooms resurrecting pink sinks for the 21st century
After white, pink was the most popular colour for porcelain fixtures in mid-century ... filled with pieces by famous 20th-century designers including Alessandro Mendini, Gerrit Rietveld and ...
Observer19d
Almine Rech Spotlights Marie Laurencin’s Singular Sapphic Vision
Last year’s retrospective at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia further cemented her place among the overlooked figures of the early 20th-century ... Rech Trained in porcelain decoration ...
ArchDaily9d
Formal and Material Experimentation: Key Lessons from Modernist Architecture Pioneers
Learn about the interplay of form, function, and cultural identity in modernist architecture—a legacy of innovation and experimentation.
Dezeen29d
Sigla Studio restores original features inside 1900s Barcelona apartment
Original mosaic floors and decorative mouldings have been restored in this early 20th-century Barcelona apartment ... projects and interviews with industry figures. Plus occasional updates and ...
70 Huge Facts About the ‘Titanic’
The 'Titanic' sinking became the most infamous shipwreck in history—but what really happened on that unusually calm night in ...
When In Rome: Inside Alessandro Michele’s New Vision For Valentino
When Alessandro Michele was growing up in Rome in the 1970s, one of his favorite pastimes was to rummage through his mother’s closet and to run his hands over the rustling taffeta, glinting sequins, ...
The New Yorker29d
The Long Shadow of the Chinese Exclusion Act
It is estimated that, by the mid-twentieth century, at least a quarter of Chinese ... His phrase underscores the heightened loneliness of these figures, who were effectively abandoned twice ...
Hosted on MSN14d
Great makers' and designers' pieces from early 1900s go under hammer
The collection comprises a fascinating group of items, with fine pieces by some of the greatest makers and designers from the first half of the 20th century ... all figures exclude buyer’s ...
The Daily Telegraph12d
The 10 best things to do in Lisbon
The main attraction of the Mosteiro dos Jerónimos is the delicate Gothic chapel that opens up on to a grand monastery, in which some of Portugal's greatest historical figures are entombed.