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...High-end designers are chasing the booming children's-wear and children's-furniture markets with ever more stylish fare. Already companies like Bottega Veneta, Tod's and D&G have been creating apparel and leather goods for tots, and J. Crew is entering the field with tiny Argyle cardigans. In response to increasing demand for baby furniture that "flows with the rest of the house," the home-furnishings website Nurseryworks has commissioned midcentury modern-style cribs, above, changing tables and rocking chairs from California-based designers Glenn Lawson and Grant Fenning of Lawson-Fenning, as well as graphic bedding...
...oxymoron: a feel-good reality show. Without any participant's having to eat animal entrails or be insulted by judges, it has exploded in its second season into a Top 10 hit by presenting itself less as a home-improvement show than a life-improvement show. Each week the design team meets a family with a heart-wrenching story--disability, death, debt--and tailors a monster renovation to its needs. For the Vardon family of Oak Park, Mich.--two deaf parents with a blind, autistic son named Lance, 12, and a sighted son Stefan, 14--the team built a house...
...maximum potential. Such simple and broad access to knowledge in one place could change the way our scholars do research and remove physical boundaries from the pursuit of knowledge. Faculty or students abroad could access Widener’s legendary stacks; students in the Quad could access the Loeb Design Library’s holdings without braving the hike; the disabled and infirm could access volumes of information with ease. And most significant of all: Books will always be available, no matter what time of day, how many patrons demand access or however rare the physical text...
...some savory situational comedy (particularly when a gang of pirates invades the crew’s ship) and the soundtrack—largely composed of Seu Jorge’s soulful Portuguese reworkings of Bowie classics—is one of the year’s best. The set design on the ship is truly stunning, and a pair of scenes that capture the bustle on board while panning across a cross-section of the entire ship are jaw-dropping in their brazen gaudiness. But, as The Life Aquatic ends with Anderson’s trademark last-call denouement, where...
...Visual Arts in 1963. The mission of the department has changed over the years. Currently, its express aim is to give its students an understanding of the structure and meaning of the visual arts through practical and theoretical explorations. The arts expressly defined include painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, design, film, video, and photography...