Category: Design

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Michael Wolf’s photographs of ‘Hong Kong Informal Seating Arrangements’

One of my favorite on-line sources for critical writing about all sorts of design – from architecture and urbanism to product, fashion, graphics and beyond – is Edwin Heathcote’s “Reading Design” initiative. Heathcote and his team regularly post excerpts from a variety of contemporary and historical sources, mostly texts already published elsewhere. I especially appreciate it … Continue reading Michael Wolf’s photographs of ‘Hong Kong Informal Seating Arrangements’

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Reading About Furniture

As part of my summer reading, I’m getting back to books that I have collected over the past year. One of these is Witold Rybczynski’s Now I Sit Me Down: From Klismos to Plastic Chair – A Natural History (2016). When it was first published last summer, Mark Medley interviewed Rybczynski for The Globe and … Continue reading Reading About Furniture

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Interesting New Resource for Design History and Theory

This week I was pleased to discover The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design in the ‘New Books’ area from the circulation desk at Humber College’s spiffy new Library. Perhaps hard to see in the shadows of the lower shelf, this recently-published three-volume set offers a credible, scholarly option for design students starting their research on academic … Continue reading Interesting New Resource for Design History and Theory

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New Furniture

One evening this week I was invited to the EQ3 Toronto flagship in Liberty Village to celebrate their Summer Sale. I was interested to follow up on the company’s collaboration with 10 emerging Canadian designers launched earlier this year as the capsule collection “Assembly.” Many of these pieces are now deeply discounted and offer a … Continue reading New Furniture