Art & Design

Plane in the House

Sometimes they use the parts of planes in designs of houses etc, but mainly those are detached villas or some sort of bars or cafes like this one Russian plane bar.

| by Richie Berges | Feb. 10 |

Those Russian house owners went even further and attached for some reason a Russian TU jet body to the second floor of the multi stored building.

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Now Showing | Norwegian Good

In tSnøhetta is coming to New York.

| by PILAR VILADAS | Feb. 10 |

These rock stars of Scandinavian architecture will be featured in “Snøhetta: architecture-landscapes-interiors,” opening Feb.

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The Guggenheim’s Wright Restaurant

It would have been easy to design the Guggenheim Museum’s new Wright Restaurant, which opens to the public Friday, exactly as Frank Lloyd Wright himself would have wanted it.

| by MONICA KHEMSUROV | Jan. 10 |

Among the 400 drawings he made for the 1959 building, a few were devoted to a ground-floor dining space, though not one particularly suited to a contemporary audience.

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Say hello to the girl who’s got next in the D.C. arts scene. The Indonesian-Irish beauty shares her travel aspiration, fondest memories and art influences as SHY gets to know the person behind the paintbrush.

| by Jan F. Lee | Nov. 09 |

IIf you’ve ever eaten at Indebleu Dining Room and loved how the art made your experience all the more better, you have Sahara to thank. Commissioned to create ambiance, Sahara is the artist responsible for 4 pieces in the Indebleu art collection, which includes the works Chaos in Transition and New Bleu Parts I & II.

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Design for Living

These days, most entrepreneurial Ivy Leaguers spend their early postcollege years developing Web-based social networks or iPhone applications. Charlie Ferrer (University of Pennsylvania ’06) and Ana Meier (Harvard ’04), however, opted to work on something more tangible.

| by Marshall Heyman |

Their furniture company, Meier/Ferrer, launches in October at New York’s Paul Kohn Design with nine pieces, among them the bleached walnut–and–polished nickel Katherine vanity, designed with input from Meier’s mother, and the lacquered walnut Rosemary console table, commissioned by Ferrer’s.

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