World’s Weirdest Windows: Why Aren’t Window Replacement Companies Making These?

Man, windows can be so square! They slide up. They slide down. They glide right, they glide left. It’s all very humdrum, don’t you think? Don’t window companies understand that there is more to geometry than squares, rectangles, and the occasional circle? There have got to be some architects and window designers in the world who see the curvature in things. Where we see a rectangle, they see a rhombus. Where we see a transom, they see a trapezoid… Following are 15 of the world’s weirdest

The Revolution Will Be Illustrated

Early-20th-century artists and designers greatly admired Russian revolutionary posters and typography, and the art movements that sprang from the October Revolution: Constructivism, Suprematism and Productivism. These fostered new forms of painting, sculpture, architecture, advertising and graphic design. Much of this art was not, however, art for art’s sake, but rather a means to propagate the ideology of the state. When it began, the Russian avant-garde was a radical departure from accept

The Fales collection of jewelry at the Metropolitian Museum of Art

The Fales collection of jewelry at the Metropolitian Museum of ArtBy the 1930s its holdings comprised necklaces, bracelets, rings, brooches, and knee buckles. A small display of American jewelry was mounted in 1926, just two years after the opening of the American Wing.2 While most of these early acquisitions date from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, twentieth-century pieces manufactured by Tiffany and Company and Cartier, or by designers such as Florence Koehler (1861– 1944), reflect t

Tiffany Fire Place Screens

Louis Comfort Tiffany was a much respected designer of stained glass works of art and many of his original pieces can command huge sums when they appear in auction. Today, there are several designers and makers of Tiffany-style fireplace screens using the same Copper foil construction process which he developed in the early part of [...]

Tiffany Fire Place Screens

Louis Comfort Tiffany was a much respected designer of stained glass works of art and many of his original pieces can command huge sums when they appear in auction. Today, there are several designers and makers of Tiffany-style fireplace screens using the same Copper foil construction process which he developed in the early part of [...]

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