Mansfield’s plentiful arts and entertainment choices showcase a few of the region’s—and the world’s—finest performers and artisans. Exhibits are most-certainly palms-on and designed to excite all the senses. Its 2.2 acres of outdoor learning environments is exceptional, offering a running creek, treehouses, gardens, the Splash Dance Fountains, climbing buildings, the […]
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Feng shui lessons from a design master who has your back
I was clearly in over my head. When I signed up for an online course in feng shui, an ancient Chinese practice of using design to enhance health and prosperity, I somehow missed the part about its being a “master” class. My fellow students included a graduate of a three-year […]
This Mothers Day, 7 Designers Share the Style Lessons They Learned From Their Moms
3 years ago
Courtesy of Nate Berkus, Sarah Sherman Samuel and Bobby Berk; Photography by Laure Joliet. For many of our favorite designers, great style started at home. In honor of Mother’s Day, we asked everyone from Bobby Berk of Queer Eye to designer and author Justina Blakeney about the design lessons they […]
Frank Lloyd Wright ‘virtual classroom’ offers design lessons for K-12
3 years ago
In the time of social distancing, learning has taken on a whole new dimension. Namely, it’s happening at home, and it’s happening online. For any young architecture and design fans cooped up at home right now, an intriguing new virtual education opportunity is on the way. Starting April 15, the […]
Interior design lessons from the coronavirus
3 years ago
We should think differently about our material and finish choices. I wish I lived in Tottenville. It’s a town imagined by Waldemar Kaempffert of the New York Times in 1950 and published in Popular Mechanics, imagining what life will be like in 2000. “Tottenville is as clean as a whistle […]
Home design lessons from the coronavirus
3 years ago
It’s time for a rethink about what’s really important in a home. Four years ago I wrote a series of posts about how antibiotic resistance will change the way we live. It resulted from a worry that we would soon be back to the world between the great wars, when […]