For Scarpa, modernism was not a style but an attitude. Great buildings are achieved by the artful managing of light and space ...
Following her participation in the 2011 Venice Biennale, New York-based artist Carol Bove was invited by curator Pavel Pyś to make an exhibition for the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds. As a foil for ...
Architect Carlo Scarpa took the traditions of Venetian glassblowing and created some of the 20th century’s most dazzling conceits. A selection of his visionary pieces will be offered at Christie’s in ...
Carlo Scarpa was an Italian architect and designer whose enigmatic works combined the influences of Venetian architecture, Japanese aesthetics, and Modernism. Scarpa’s compelling furniture, housewares ...
Jessica Vincent fondly remembers embarking on frequent thrifting trips — at secondhand stores, yard sales, flea markets — with her mother as a child. It’s a habit she retained into adulthood, and one ...
Carlo Scarpa would have been thrilled to learn that the works he designed for art-glass manufacturer Venini is now the subject of a major exhibition at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. 'I would ...
If there is one city you do not visit for its modern architecture, you might think it would be Venice — the seductive Serenissima, seemingly floating, ethereal and eternal, its cityscape completely ...
“A masterpiece. The best museum design I have ever seen in my entire life.” This is how, in 1967, Walter Gropius described the Regional Gallery of Palazzo Abatellis in Palermo (in the heart of the ...
A woman bought this 13.5-inch-tall Carlo Scarpa vase for just $3.99. Wright Auction House Over the summer, Jessica Vincent bought a vase at a Virginia Goodwill for just a few dollars. The piece turned ...
Reuse of Architectural Components’ proposes a circular construction industry in which the reuse of waste materials could ...