A version of this column ran in the Telegraph Journal's art section, Salon on Saturday June 1st, 2013. ________________________________________________________________ This is the Normann Copenhagen Flagship Store in Denmark. In 2005 it was transformed from an old cinema into 18,000 square feet of design Mecca. For all sorts of...
This column ran in Saturday's Arts Section "Salon" in the Telegraph Journal, May 18th 2013 Acquired taste Photo: The inexorable evolution of taste can transform what leading critics once called 'garbage' into one of the most expensive modern paintings sold in the 20th century, such as was...
One of the most challenging principles of both interior design and decoration is determining a room's proper focal point. As the website freshome.com notes about the problem of focus,” “A well-designed room always has, depending on the size of it, one or more focal points....
A version of this column ran in Saturday's Telegraph Journal, Salon- April 20th 2013. ...
A version of this column ran in Saturday's arts section, Salon, in the Telegraph Journal on April 6th 2013. ___________________ I've been a designing rooms for a number of years, remade any number of interior domestic spaces, but it wasn't until last month that I was asked...
A version of this column ran on March 23rd, 2013 in the Saturday Arts Section, Salon, in the Telegraph journal. Column: Design Driven " I’ve been compiling various images of – for want of a better term – ‘conceptual’ pieces, under the theme, “Art or Design?...
A version of this column ran in the Telegraph Journal’s Art Section ‘Salon’ – Design Driven by Judith Mackin _____________________________________________ Vacation: All I ever wanted. For any traveler, various factors come into play when booking accommodations. For most, I suspect, it’s a combination of price (as determined by the...
A version of this column ran in the Telegraph Journal's art section, SALON; column - Design Driven. Powder rooms, guest bathrooms, 2nd bathrooms – by whatever name, these invariably small ancillary facilities constitute, at least potentially, areone of the most interesting rooms in your home. Photo: Hemmings...
A version of this column ran in the Telegraph Journal, Salon (arts section) Column: Design Driven on Saturday January 19th 2013. __________________________________ REVIEW: Coast Modern Directed by: Michael Bernard, Gavin Froome 55.30 minute2012 While on line recently, I happened upon Coast Modern, a film on Modernist Architecture. A link took me to British Columbia’s...
A version of this column ran in Saturday's Arts Section 'Salon' in the Telegraph Journal, January 5th 2013. ______________________ Your Best Design Moments of 2012! As you may recall, in Design Driven’s column of December 22nd – the last of 2012 – I described my top three design ‘wow’ moments of the year. What follows...
A version of the column ran in the Telegraph Journal's art section Salon in my column 'Design Driven' on December 22nd, 2012. _______________________ As someone who happily invests enormous amount of time and effort studying and researching design, I’m not entirely unaccustomed to ‘wow’ moments. And when those moments...
A version of this column ran in Saturday's Arts Section, Salon in my column, Design Driven. (December 8th 2012) _________ At the very top of my list of ‘must-visit’ sites on a recent trip to Vancouver was Canada’s Marimekko concept store on Hamilton Street. I’ve been a...