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Plant Exploration for Longwood Gardens
By Tomasz Anisko
Many of us have strolled through Longwood Garden’s historic parks and gazed with awe at the ornamental and flowering species adorning its arboretums and conservatories. Less well-known and what author Tomasz Anisko brings to light are Longwood’s significant contributions to botany through programs that introduce new species from around the world into North [...] -
Around The Horn
Natural forms provide the bones of great design.
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The Furbish Company: Eco-Innovations
Michael Furbish sees life these days in shades of green “the darker the better.” After all, pale imitations and downright imposters of green products deluge the country—but Furbish is “the real thing.”
Though straw bale walls, solar and geothermal radiant HVAC systems, and living roofs are his standard fare, Furbish is especially excited about two innovative [...] -
Furniture A La Mode
At one point in time, modern furniture seemed synonymous with the proverbial little black dress: simple, daring, spare (and often, barely there). In the hands of early 20th century designers hungry for change, less became more.
Traditional ornamentation, materials, and European-influenced forms vanished. In their place were arcing cantilevers, steam-bent rails, Plexiglas, a sweep of shining [...]
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Technology In The Garden
In today’s “smartest” homes, refrigerators are connected to Internet recipe libraries and the oven can be called from work and you can tell it start dinner. You can even “sign for” packages delivered to your front door while on the way to a meeting downtown. Now, technology is ubiquitous in the natural world as well.
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Go Ahead And Stair!
By their very nature, stairs are unlike any other space in your home. Integral physical conduits, they’re not the first or second floor—they’re neither.
Duchamp treated the stair in his Nude Descending a Staircase as a multi-faceted diagonal structure, a “portrait of motion.” Some architects agree that stairs, indeed, are all about motion, designed to pull [...]
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Wired For Fun
The latest digital home entertainment systems can’t beam you up to Mars just yet. However, new technologies are now being leveraged for the home so that you can navigate cyberspace on your flat screen and summon TV, DVD’s, CD’s, digital photos, and video games galore. From your own “command-control” couch, you can create, control, and [...]
