WEEKLY EMAIL: NOVEMBER 12, 2009
FEATURED THIS WEEK : ALEXANDRA LANGE
Love & Architecture
When Aline met Eero in January 1953, she was the associate art editor and critic for the New York Times, recently divorced, and on a trip to Detroit to meet the young architect whose General Motors Technical Center had proved to be such a smashing success. She was to write a profile of Saarinen for the New York Times Magazine, eventually published on April 23 as "Now Saarinen the Son" with the byline Aline B. Louchheim. A little over a year later she would become Aline B. Saarinen.READ MORE
JOHN GALL
The Nabokov Collection
The assignment: redesign Vladimir Nabokov's book covers, all twenty-one of them. The solution: twenty-one specimen boxes, the kind used by butterfly collectors like Nabokov, each created by a different designer.READ MORE
ALEXANDRA CARDIA
From Cabinet: Jacket Required
Defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as referring to "a protective (and usually decorative) paper cover placed around a bound book, usually with the title and author's name printed on it," the phrase "dust cover" or "dust jacket" was first used in the late nineteenth century.READ MORE
OWEN EDWARDS
Not the Same Old Same Old
In an article in the Financial Times a while back, a business writer, in the course of condemning the government bailout of automotive manufacturers here and abroad, took car advertising to task for its unrealistic image of modern driving. Decrying the insistent romantic vision of automobiles — wind in the hair, open road, and all that.READ MORE
RECENT BOOKS RECEIVED
Site FurnishingsBill Main & Gail Greet Hannah
Becoming a Landscape ArchitectKelleann Foster
Piazza San MarcoIain Fenlon
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