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Home Interior Design: Architect Daniel Libeskind's Angular Weekend Getaway
Location: Connecticut, USA Size: 2,000 square feet Architect and Interior Designer: Studio Daniel Libeskind Eighteen copper panels slice through an open Connecticut sky in the 18.36.54 house by Daniel Libeskind, the master plan architect of the new World Trade Center site in New York. Best known for his public buildings, including the Jewish Museum in Berlin and MGM Mirage's City Center in Las Vegas, this deconstructivist weekend home was Libeskind's first private commission. Named for the 18 planes, 36 points, and 54 lines spiraling around an open living plan, Libeskind likened the 18.36.54 house to "a musical composition...[It is]
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Design
Home Interior Design: The Modern Transformation of an 18th-Century Carriage House
Location: Breukelen, the Netherlands Size: 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2 stories Interior Designer: Zecc Architects Major residential renovations often reveal surprising interior details, especially when the home is over 250 years old. Utrecht-based Zecc Architects was commissioned to transform a carriage house and the rear annex stables—originally built in 1760—into a spacious residence. Historical elements were uncovered by stripping away previous work to return the beauty of the home's original infrastructure.
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Wheels
4 Must-Visit Car Museums
Four new architectural marvels make worthy settings for some of the sexiest cars ever built. Porsche Pavilion at Autostadt Wolfsburg, Germany On the outside, the Porsche building in Volkswagen's 69-acre "car city" looks like something the king of aerodynamic design, Eero Saarinen, might have built. On the inside, 25 silver models depict Porsche's unlikely evolution from the 1948 teardrop-shaped 356 two-seater to the brawny Cayenne SUV of today.
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Design
Italian Design: Study the Classics
Alessi may be Italy's best-known name, but these four iconic pieces defined a generation.
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Design
How One Simple Chair Started a Revolution: Artek's Stool 60 Turns 80
Before there was IKEA, there was Artek, but there wouldn't be an Artek without the accomplished Finnish architect and designer, Alvar Aalto, whose ideas of pairing mass production with quality craftsmanship transformed the design and manufacture of furniture in the early 1930s. Now, the forerunner of Finnish design is celebrating the 80th anniversary of one of Aalto's most ubiquitous and beloved products, Stool Number 60.
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Shopping
Now Open: Aether's Repurposed-Shipping-Container Shop in San Francisco
Converting shipping containers into fully functional shops is nothing new—London's Boxpark, which opened in 2011, was the first to use them in an outdoor pop-up mall, and a Starbucks in Tukwila, Washington, just south of Seattle, followed suit last year—but that doesn't mean we don't get excited each time a forward-thinking retailer gives the clunky metal boxes a new life. Aether Apparel is the latest brand to open a sustainable storefront in the San Francisco pop-up shopping hub Proxy, a two-block project of shops, galleries, and restaurants all made from renovated shipping containers.
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Design
6 Hotels for the Tech-Obsessed
Forget free Wi-Fi—these international destinations have digital bells and whistles so advanced you may think you've checked into the future.
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Design
Cool Thing of the Week: Louis Vuitton Leather Hammock
After more than 150 years, Louis Vuitton still sets the standard for luxury travel. Its new Objets Nomades Collection features 16 products for jet-setters by top designers—including a sumptuous leather hammock by Atelier Oï (pictured), a portable solar-powered lamp by Barber Osgerby, and a luxe travel cabinet by the Campana Brothers.
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Design
Cool Thing of the Week: 2013 Mazzanti Evantra
Everyone knows the big names in the supercar market—Ferrari, Lamborghini, Bugatti—but few know the niche Italian brand Mazzanti and its latest piece of high-performance eye candy, the Evantra. The 2013 model features a 7.0-liter 700-horsepower V8, Brembo brakes, 20-inch OZ wheels wrapped in Continental tires, and the ability to go from 0 to 62mph in 3.2 seconds.
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Design
Cool Thing of the Week: BeoPlay A9
Gone are the days of big, brick-like subwoofers and hulking sound units. The most modern and aurally advanced speakers have shed that extra bulk in favor of clean, pure, round shapes, like Bang & Olufsen's BeoPlay A9. Created by Danish industrial designer, Øivind Alexander Slaatto, a major player in the Scandinavian design scene, the BeoPlay A9 swept up the industry's major honors, winning the prestigious 2013 IF Product Design Award and a CES Design & Innovation Award.
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