Design Classics: The iconic block lamp
Leave it to Finland By Kim Messenger/Life@Home Only a handful of objects we have manufactured as a species achieve perfection — the ceramic bowl, the Japanese sword come to mind. These are objects that...
View ArticleDesign Classics: The iconic Fiesta Ware
Getting Festive By Kim Messenger/Life@Home The U.S. Postal Service recently introduced a series of domestic stamps celebrating the “Pioneers of American Industrial Design” — 12 stamps with lamps,...
View ArticleDesign Classics: Sometimes it starts with a bookshelf
Design Envy By Kim Messenger/Life@Home We’ve all had design envy, that moment when you walk into a stranger’s apartment, or maybe their waiting room, and encounter something so much smarter than you...
View ArticleDesign Classics: The Titania lamp
Simple & Sublime By Kim Messenger/Life@Home So I recently bought a replica of an Eames chair for my living room. You’ve seen one I’m sure. They are the iconic mid-century lounge chair, with wooden...
View ArticleDesign Classics: The dish doctor comes to the rescue
The Doctor is In By Kim Messenger/Life@Home I am driven, in most of my acquisitions, by hate and envy. I hate clutter. I am envious of people whose houses are free of clutter (mine is not). I also hate...
View ArticleDesign Classics: The wonder of Chanel No. 5 packaging
Bottled Beauty By Kim Messenger/Life@Home Marilyn Monroe once announced that the only thing she wore to bed were two drops of Chanel No. 5. She had a lot going for her in that department. I’m told that...
View ArticleDesign Classics: The Gae Aulenti table
Free-Wheeling Beauty By Kim Messenger/Life@Home Have you ever been to the Musee d’Orsay in Paris? Ahh yes, I remember it well. I was living as a student in England and having a nervous breakdown. My...
View ArticleDesign Classics: The Barcelona Chair
Shadows in the Design World By Kim Messenger/Life@Home No single piece of design cries “modernity” with more clarity and authority than the Barcelona Chair. Designed for the German Pavilion at the...
View ArticleDesign Classics: The Noguchi “Tribeca” coffee table
The Zen of Furniture By Kim Messenger/Life@Home Now, it stands to reason that if you grew up, say, on the Serengeti plain between Kenya and Tanzania, you would assume that everybody lived in domed huts...
View ArticleDesign Classics: Going Mobil
By Kim Messenger/Life@Home God I hate filing cabinets. I’m surrounded by them and they terrify me. I have no idea what is in them and I don’t want to know. I put my tax documents in there someplace,...
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