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Propelled by the success of the Selfridges store, Future Systems may be approaching its warp-speed moment, meaning it's poised for serious takeoff. It has under way two major projects in Italy, that museum for the Maserati car company in Modena and a subway station in Naples that's a collaboration with Anish Kapoor. He's the British artist best known in the U.S. for Cloud Mirror, the reflective steel sculpture in Chicago's Millennium Park that locals call the Bean. Obviously, beans are a developing theme here...
...this somewhat simplifies architectural history. The curving line survived as a kind of subdepartment of Modernism. It flowed through the work of the great Finnish architect Alvar Aalto, spiraled up the ramp of Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum, filled the sails of the Sydney Opera House and even ballooned into the later work of Le Corbusier, the Ur-modernist himself. "It never went entirely away," Kaplicky insists, and he's right. But on the whole, and for a long time, it was straight lines that carried more authority. For decades contours endured a kind of underground existence. Anything...
Over the past 10 years or so, all of that has changed. The parabolic line has made its most powerful reappearance since the high-water moment of Art Nouveau at the close of the 19th century. Frank Gehry's billowing Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, which opened 10 years ago, didn't invent the new direction, but for many people it served as the announcement. There's a whole subdepartment of architectural practice now called blob design, a term that speaks for itself. We have come to a point where the lines between architecture and ice sculpture get thinner...
Even high-end pieces of art are up for let. While corporations have long been able to borrow works from galleries and even museums, now individuals can bring favorite pieces home, if only for a few months. The Seattle Museum of Art has had such a great response to its leasing program that it recently moved its leasing gallery from inside the museum to a larger, more prominent location a block away. Last month 75% of its transactions were rentals as opposed to sales. Because the program offers three-month leases at 9% of the purchase price, the gallery...
...SHOULD SOMEBODY START A DESIGN COLLECTION? The first thing I would recommend?because I love this object?is the OXO Good Grips Swivel Peeler. It's in the permanent collection in the MOMA, and it only costs $6.99. So that means anybody can own something that's in a museum if they only know what those things...