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An Architecture Grounded in Craft

by Jayne Merkel
|November 20, 2008
|Categories: Architecture

It took the late architect Terry Brown 10 years to tap into his Midwestern roots and create a style focused on materials and the handmade. Jayne Merkel writes of Brown’s Mushroom House in Cincinnati.

Material Matters: Quiltmaking in the 21st Century

by admin
|September 03, 2008
|Categories:

Materially speaking, quilt makers today have left tradition behind. Investigating the quilts in the Columbus Museum of Art show "Material Matters," Christine Kaminsky discovers bold works that broach new frontiers of meaning, materials and techniques.

Making the New MADhouse

by Shonquis Moreno
|July 08, 2008
|Categories: Architecture, Design

Shonquis Moreno finds that in the act of transforming New York's Huntington Hartford building into the new home for the Museum of Arts & Design, Allied Works Architecture has created a vast crafted object.

New Jewels: Taking Materials to the Extremes

by Shonquis Moreno
|January 23, 2008
|Categories: Jewelry

Shonquis Moreno dives into the cutting-edge world of international studio jewelry and finds the material explorations happening there to be "extremely" refreshing.

Max Lamb: Furniture on the Beach

by Virginia Gardiner
|November 20, 2007
|Categories: Design, Furniture, Metal, Mixed Media, Sculpture

Virginia Gardiner spends a theoretical day at the beach with furniture maker Max Lamb and his Pewter Stools cast in sand and also learns a thing or two about his new Poly Chairs.

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