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Architect Gerald Luss, who designed the interiors of the Time & Life Building, is granting visitors access to his 1955 residence with a curated display of contemporary art and design.
While designing the interiors of one of New York City’s most iconic midcentury skyscrapers a building thrust into popular culture via AMC’s hit series
Mad Men architect Gerald Luss was living at his family home in the village of Ossining along the Hudson River. The glass-and-steel dwelling, Luss’s first stand-alone design, hosted planning meetings for the Time & Life Building, and the two structures even share a few design elements: an indoor/outdoor connection, a material palette of glass and steel, and colored panels that, in the office, could be rearranged to create flexible partitions; in the home, hallway cabinetry recalls that moment of innovation.
New Canaan focusing on plan to beautify 23 vacant storefronts
Grace Duffield
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There are nearly 30 vacant stores in New Canaan. Picture was taken April 30, 2021.Grace Duffield / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less
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With 23 vacant storefronts in the downtown area, the Tourism and Economic Development Advisory Committee is working on having murals created to spruce up the unused brick and mortar locations. The murals would feature pictures of cultural and town buildings of New Canaan.
The village right now has an 11 percent vacancy rate in its 207 street-level store fronts, according to a count conducted by Hearst Connecticut Media on Monday, May 3.
Get Ready to Bid on This Mirrored Prefab Chock-Full of Herman Miller Furniture
The Herman Miller at the Mirror House Auction a fundraiser for the new library in New Canaan, Connecticut goes live April 12 with a starting bid of $75,000.
The development team behind the new library in New Canaan, Connecticut, needed a private place to meet would-be donors and an eye-catching way to raise awareness within the community. Ellen Sullivan Crovatto, head of the new library’s capital campaign, came up with a solution that not only honors the town’s role in design history, but also funnels funds toward the build.
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Let’s begin with two bookcases.
Both are made of simple, sturdy pine, expediently joined together. One will likely be familiar: It’s the primary unit of the Ivar shelving system, which has been manufactured by the Swedish megabrand IKEA since the late 1960s. Its name rhymes with that of the company’s founder, Ingvar Kamprad, who died in 2018. It retails for $69.