Canstruction Comes to New York’s World Financial Center

http://dailyfix.interiordesign.net/products/2815/canstruction-comes-to-new-york%E2%80%99s-world-financial-center

From House of Tiffany, a Line of Pottery

Between 1903 and 1917, Tiffany’s factory in Corona, Queens, produced about 7,000 clay works with monochrome or spattered matte glazes. They did not catch on. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/12/arts/design/12antiques.html?_r=1&ref=design

Window Dressing Warriors

David Hoey and Linda Fargo, who design Bergdorf Goodman’s windows. “We take our frivolity very seriously,” Mr. Hoey said.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/04/fashion/04bergdorf.html?pagewanted=1&ref=fashion

Bird in the Hand

The lamp, designed by J.P. Meulendijks Design Studio for plankton, is a tribute to the universal art of hand shadows; making shadows on the wall using your hands to create birds, rabbits and other figures.
http://coolboom.net/products/bird-in-hand/

Gigantic Wooden Parasols Are Popping Up in Seville

Expected to be the biggest wooden structures in the world.

http://inhabitat.com/2010/11/17/gigantic-parasols-rise-to-shield-seville-from-sun/metropol-parasol-1/?extend=1

Curator’s Choice | Tim Gunn for Ahalife

Ahalife, the two-month-old Web site that offers its readers one guest-curated item every 24 hours, includes departments like Dress Me, Optimize Me and Design Me. http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/12/curators-choice-tim-gunn-for-ahalife/

Grass Blanketed Huts Make Up Sweden’s Most Primitive Hotel

This may not be your dream vacation but it's definitly a GREEN vacation.

http://inhabitat.com/2010/11/12/grass-blanketed-huts-make-up-swedens-most-primitive-hotel/

Suburban Family's Old Vase Fetches $84 million

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101112/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_valuable_vase

Renzo Piano’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Set to Open in 2012

Much of the public and critics alike attest to the excellence of Renzo Piano’s modern addition to the Art Institute of Chicago’s classical Beaux-Arts building. So can the Pritzker Prize-winning architect do the same for the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston? We’ll find out in early 2012 when the museum is scheduled to open. http://dailyfix.interiordesign.net/projects/governmentinstitution/2689/renzo-pianos-isabella-stewart-gardner-museum-set-to-open-in-2012

Warhol Painting of Coca-Cola Bottle to be Auctioned Tuesday

Expected to go for between $20-$25 million!

http://www.ajc.com/business/warhol-painting-of-coca-732999.html?cxntlid=thbz_hm

HUGO’s US Challenge

Artists and designers from America are invited to create an image that features not only the bottle, but also an American city that inspires them.

http://www.metropolismag.com/pov/20101102/hugo%e2%80%99s-us-challenge

Cantilevered Office Anchors Green Campus in Mexico

http://inhabitat.com/2010/11/04/cantilevered-office-anchors-green-campus-in-mexico/

Modern Masters Lead to Records at Christie’s

Modigliani Sells For $68.9 Million

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/04/nyregion/04auction.html?ref=design

Places that Work: A Room at the Met

Sally Augustin's perspective of the Met's Sackler Wing, home of the Temple of Dendur. http://www.metropolismag.com/pov/20101027/a-room-at-the-met 

Hölick Sea Resort by Mats Edlund,

Stockholm architects Mats Edlund, Henrietta Palmer and Matts Ingman have designed this timber cabin as part of a camping site in Hudiksvall, Sweden. http://www.dezeen.com/2010/10/28/holick-sea-resort-by-mats-edlund-and-henrietta-palmer/

The Morgan Restored

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/10/28/arts/design/20101029-morgan-ss.html