Clean lines and organic forms are associated with midcentury design, along with a harmonious blend of materials that adds a functional simplicity. A new book by Phaidon, Mid-Century Modern Designers, ...

One of Los Angeles’s defining mid-century design companies began at the kitchen table of a young couple living in a new housing tract in Mar Vista. In 1950 Max and Rita Lawrence, enamoured with ...

For our mid-century modern series, author Dominic Bradbury picks out eight lesser-known buildings that encapsulate the era.

More than 70 years after its birth, the popularity of mid-century modern design and architecture shows no signs of abating. This overview by Penny Sparke kicks off our series about the movement.

The chunky midcentury ceramic clock from Bitossi looked ugly at first. Then I had to have my own. A brief dive into a lesser-known niche of midcentury design history, produced by Herman Miller’s ...

Mid-century furniture refers to the style of the mid-1940s to the late 1960s but also includes its later impact in the 1990s and now 2023, is part of normative ideas of good taste and aligns with the ...

Irita Marriott spends on porcelain and Mark Hill invests in mid-century Italian ceramics.

At Laboratorio Paravicini, Vintage-Feeling Italian Ceramics Are New Again From its start in the mid-1990s, the beloved Milanese line has adhered to romantically old-fashioned methods and designs.

Italy is known all over the world for its ceramics. Indeed, handmade and hand painted pottery is common all over the country, from north to south: colorful and bold or understated and elegant, you can ...

The beauty of the Italian Maiolica and the Renaissance Lustre Pottery have been the main topics of the lecture held by professor Justin Raccanello and hosted by the De Young Museum in San Francisco a ...

New research challenging the ‘scooters and espresso machine’ view of 20th Century Italian design is published this week. The Hockemeyer Collection: 20th Century Italian Ceramic Art, a book by a ...