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...DESIGN CONSCIOUS...
...ultra-stylish Wallpaper City Guides brazenly skip the well-trod tourist spots to instead focus on what interests the authors: iconic architecture, hot shopping venues, glamorous hotels and the hippest clubs and restaurants in 20 design-conscious cities. The Paris guide won't help you locate the Eiffel Tower, but it will show you how to find a dozen of Le Corbusier's architectural gems...
...looking for a monument, an art museum or the best route to the airport, you are out of luck with the eat.shop guides. But if you absolutely must find the best cowboy boots in Austin, Texas, a bait-and-tackle shop with high-design sensibilities in Providence, R.I., a Persian ice cream parlor in Hollywood or Japanese tapas in Brooklyn, N.Y., these compact urban guides may be for you. Each volume focuses on 90 locally owned shops or restaurants in cities from Portland, Ore., to Paris...
...senior lecturer in art and design at Monash University, Gregory also happens to be the brother-in-law of Arkley's widow, Alison Burton, and Carnival in Suburbia: The Art of Howard Arkley (Cambridge University Press; 214 pages) benefits from intimate access to the artist's studio archive. Here, an entry gleaned from one of his student notebooks - "I offer the following as an example of my state of mind... hint: there could be something that at first seems false. but things are never what they seem" - could be a useful guide for visitors to the retrospective, which opens this...
...McMansion design seems to me to have been originally conceived as an anesthetized imitation of the past, a sort of fairy-tale version of grandeur meant for mass consumption. As such, it is inevitably an artistic failure. The bizarre meld of faux-antique European design seems out of place 10 minutes away from Toledo (Ohio, that is, not Spain). Tradition cannot be created ex nihilo with only a vague sense of the past. It needs to be handed down from one generation to another or carefully rediscovered...