Diana Budds
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New York, NY, United States
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What the Design of Atlanta’s ‘Cop City’ Says About Policing
The Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, also known as “Cop City,” includes a tactical village — a mock city that’s used for reality-based scenario training. The growing sophistication of its architecture reflects changes in policing. → Read More
‘New Antiquarians’ Highlights Young Antiques Collectors
New Antiquarians, a book by the art historian Michael Diaz-Griffith, features the homes of 22 antiques collectors from the United States and England, filled with Shaker chairs, Regency furniture, Indian textiles, and 19th-century tapestries. → Read More
The Artist Making Furniture Out of Real Flowers and Toy Ants
Designer Chris Wolston makes expressive and surreal furniture and lighting out of natural materials and traditional craft techniques. “Flower Power,” his latest collection of terra cotta chairs and bronze vessels, is on view at the Future Perfect. → Read More
A New Antiques Gallery, Utopian Furniture, Bubble Glass and More Finds
Antiques at the Lower East Side’s Galerie Was, Sophie Lou Jacobsen’s Coral Collection of bubble glass, the Sight Unseen Collection, Furnishing Utopia’s Navy Yard exhibition, Bowen Liu’s cast-glass tables, and Caroline Shao’s mirrored cabinet. → Read More
Marta and Catalog Sale Exhibit Ad Hoc Chairs for NYCxDesign
The Los Angeles gallery Marta and New York auction house Catalog Sale exhibited contemporary and antique ad-hoc chair in “Make Do,” an NYCxDesign furniture show. Artists include Chen & Kai, Minjae Kim, Isabel Rower, and Shaina Tabak. → Read More
A New Infinity Room, Architecture for Ants, I ♥ NY Knockoffs, and More Finds
Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Room at David Zwirner gallery, Milton Glaser’s collection of I ♥ NY Knockoffs, Naming the Lost’s COVID-19 memorial at Greenwood Cemetery, and the American Museum of Natural History’s Leafcutter Ant exhibit. → Read More
International Objects’ Exhibition of Experimental NYC Design
The new Bushwick gallery International Objects — founded by Trang Tran, Matt Taber, Annaka Olsen, and Nate Heiges — is focused on work that’s somewhere between art and design, by Chen Chen & Kai Williams, Jumbo, Simone Bodmer-Turner, and Max Lamb. → Read More
Ikea’s Answer to Inflation? Make Things Flimsier.
Ikea is changing the design of some of its products due to supply-chain changes and inflation. There is now paper foil on the Billy bookcase, aluminum instead of zinc, and plastic instead of wood. → Read More
A Museum’s Pollinator Garden, Rare Pierre Paulin Furniture, and More Finds
The pollinator garden at the Brooklyn Museum by Rebecca McMackin and Brook Klausen, Pierre Paulin’s state furniture at Demisch Danant, the Vkhutemas exhibition at Cooper Union, Jeremy Frey’s woven baskets at Karma, and more design news. → Read More
Zaha Hadid Architects Is Using AI to Design Buildings
Patrik Schumacher, the principal of Zaha Hadid Architects, spoke on a panel in April about how he encourages the use of text-to-image design tools like DALL-E 2, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion in the early phases of designing buildings. → Read More
The Artist Making Furniture Out of Felted Concrete
The New York City based artist Susannah Weaver makes furniture out of a material she developed that consists of dyed wool and concrete. She has exhibited her lighting at Carpenter’s Workshop and Design Week Mexico. → Read More
There’s a Monument to South Central L.A. on Top of the Met
Los Angeles artist Lauren Halsey designed an ancient-Egypt inspired monument to South Central L.A. for her Metropolitan Museum of Art rooftop commission. It’s etched with her artistic influences and features Sphinx sculptures of her family. → Read More
Everything We Know About JPMorgan Chase’s 270 Park Avenue
JPMorgan Chase hired Foster + Partners to design its new global headquarters at 270 Park Avenue in Midtown. The supertall skyscraper will be 1,400 feet tall and offer 2.5 million square feet of office space for 14,000 employees. → Read More
New York City’s Smart Composting Bin Requires an App
The Department of Sanitation installed 250 Smart Composting Bins around Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, and the Bronx. They are designed with streamlined graphics to be user friendly. The NYC Compost app on iOS and Android is needed to use them. → Read More
Gaetano Pesce’s Drawings, Helen Levi’s New Ridgewood Store, and More Finds
Gaetano Pesce’s drawings at Galerie56, Rafael Prieto’s furniture at Emma Scully, Holloway Li’s T4 modular chair at Coming Soon, Colony’s residency for Mar Mar Studio and Alexis & Ginger, and Helen Levi’s new ceramics shop in Ridgewood. → Read More
The Tiny Antiques Gallery of an Avid 31-Year-Old Collector
Christopher Cawley, an antiques dealer, opened his new gallery in the 75 East Broadway mall in Chinatown. Calwey sells Murano glassware, vintage Moroccan textiles, French tapestries, oil paintings, Chippendale chairs and cabinets, and Mexican masks. → Read More
A Minimalist Ashtray, a Carved-Wood Lamp From the 1970s, and More Design Finds
A Wendy Maruyama carved wood lamp in Blurring the Timeline at Superhouse, the Passport Table from Herman Miller, Bar Americano by Space Exploration, and Ashtray from Laundry Day and Alvaro Ucha Rodriguez. → Read More
The Sauna-Inspired Bastua Collection From Ikea and Marimekko
Ikea and Marimekko’s Bastua collection of furniture and home goods is inspired by the pleasure and joy of Nordic saunas and landscapes. The collection features new textiles with rhubarb leaves, graphic prints, and steam-inspired motifs. → Read More
Ekene Ijeoma Has Removed All Bad Design From His Life (Except for Streets)
Ekene Ijeoma, founder of the Poetic Justice Lab at MIT and a media artist, discusses interactive art installations, Bouroullec for Hay furniture, MoMA’s R&D salons, Contax T3 film cameras, the Lower East side restaurant Cervo’s, and Local Projects → Read More
The Controversy Over Cooper Union’s Vkhutemas Exhibition
An exhibition of student work related to the Vkhutemas, a Soviet Union art school active from 1920 to 1930, is at the center of a debate. An op-ed by Peder Anker published in Archinect that criticized curator Anna Bokov contributed to the backlash. → Read More