April 22nd, 2009 | by Fifi | published in Interiors
Bil Ehrlich, a young Harvard-trained architect, bought and gutted a derelict five-floor Manhattan town house and created, behind its old cast-iron facade, a huge white alterna-house. But it seems downright laughable today that the house might have once been seen to be cold and impersonal. [...]
March 12th, 2009 | by Fifi | published in Interiors
Karen Santry has a 500-square-foot studio at Westbeth, the storied artists’ housing complex in the far West Village.
February 23rd, 2009 | by Fifi | published in Design
Takashi Murakami is frequently called the Japanese Andy Warhol, is an astute manipulator of visual languages, artistic mediums and business models. The show which I present was organized at Brooklyn Museum, last year, New York City.
January 23rd, 2009 | by Fifi | published in Design
RIO DE JANEIRO is a place with jungles, forests and all kind of plants, flowers and trees. Today the Brazilian Landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx came along and organizing native plants in accordance with aesthetic principles, especially Cubism  and abstractionism. He created a modern grammer [...]
December 11th, 2008 | by Fifi | published in Design
This MASS MoCA installation of the wall pieces is designed between 1969 and 2007 and is pretty gorgeous. 12/1/08 North Adams, MA — (From left) Wall Drawing 630 A wall is divided horizontally into two equal parts. Top: alternating horizontal black and white 8-inch (20 [...]
July 12th, 2008 | by Fifi | published in Travel
Years ago Lisbon was a manufacturer of weapons and grenades. Today they are replaced by concert rooms, art studious, exhibition spaces, bookstores, restaurants and various bars.
June 25th, 2008 | by Fifi | published in Design
This Ontario Science Centre is one of the world’s leading facilities of its kind. Here visitors are encouraged to use their creativity and imagination.
