• Landscape Design

    Bay Area Landscape Designers: Meet the Next Generation | Architectural Digest

    Pine Household Edible Gardens Armed with a quiver of prestigious degrees, Leslie Bennett started her career in the fields of environmental justice, land-use and cultural-house legislation, and preservation. Then she determined it was time to get her fingers dirty. “I felt useless staying a tremendous-wonky desk worker,” Bennett recalls. “I needed to reconnect to the land.” So she established off on a journey into the entire world of organic and natural farming, apprenticing at functions on both sides of the Atlantic. Following returning to her indigenous Northern California, Bennett launched her yard enterprise in Oakland in 2010 with a mission to provide the wonders of eco-friendly place to city dwellers…

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  • Beautiful Art

    6 Brilliant Prints By A New Generation of Female Artists

    Rockett St George We know the power art has in transforming a plain wall, whether as a single framed piece or within an artfully curated gallery wall, but it’s so much more than just adding personality to a living space. When shopping for art, knowing the story of the artist or the artwork brings an intimacy and value that goes beyond the visual interest. So if you’re looking for some new prints to grace your walls, look no further because Rockett St George have just launched some very special prints by talented young female artists from all over the UK. Rockett St George co-founders, Jane and Lucy, treasure hunt across…

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  • New Art

    New York’s Midcentury Art Scene Springs to Life in ‘The Loft Generation’

    They are a spiky, ambitious lot. We encounter the poet John Ashbery, to whom Schloss complained about being called “semiabstract” by a critic. “‘Isn’t all life semi?’” he replied consolingly. And the composer Elliott Carter, who sneered of folk music’s influence on modern urbans: “We are not shepherds. We are not coming out of the hills. We are not folk.” The dancer and choreographer Merce Cunningham rears up “like a furry old faun”; the gallerist Leo Castelli has a Felix Unger-ish fastidiousness. Explore the New York Times Book Review Want to keep up with the latest and greatest in books? This is a good place to start. Schloss writes of…

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