The Saarinen-designed John Deere headquarters prompted O’Keeffe to create the monumental Sky Above Clouds IV in her Ghost Ranch garage.
Alexander Girard
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This Designer’s Inflatable Trousers Will Blow You Away
Menswear designer Harikrishnan sent models down the runway wearing cartoonishly inflated latex trousers — and they’re brilliant.
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In an Indiana Town, a Treasure Trove of Modernist Design
“Exhibit Columbus” celebrates the legacies of the architects and designers who filled the town with private and civic works before going on to be some of Modernism’s biggest names.
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Alexander Girard, the Designer Who Made American Modernism Less Sterile
In Girard’s fantastic retrospective at the Cranbrook Art Museum, we see how he mitigated the starkness of American Modernism with bold color, earthy materials, and folk art aesthetics.
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Alexander Girard: Design for the World — and Just About Everything in It
Sometimes an exhibition can be so packed with information and ideas that it can send viewers racing home to try their hands at their own creations. That’s the kind of pay-off that can feel as rewarding as examining a deeply illuminating show itself.
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Airplane Art Through the Ages
This World Cup, the Brazilian national soccer team has been taking its characteristic flair to new heights. It has been flying to its games in a Boeing 737 painted by identical twin street artists Otavio and Gustavo Pandolfo, better known as Os Gêmeos.