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In Brooklyn, Adjoining Homes Offer a Bold Case Study in Preservation and Design

1 month ago | architecturaldigest.com | Sam Cochran |Jason Schmidt

All products featured on Architectural Digest are independently selected by our editors. However, when you buy something through our retail links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Photo: Jason SchmidtIt takes a moment to notice the hush. Inside two side-by-side Brooklyn town houses, dated to the 1840s and now revived according to Passive House strategies, you’ll hear no din of ventilation systems, no noise from the streets.
Taking a Trip to Kenny Scharf's Ecstatic LA Abode

Nov 13, 2024 | architecturaldigest.com | Mayer Rus |Jason Schmidt

All products featured on Architectural Digest are independently selected by our editors. However, when you buy something through our retail links, we may earn an affiliate commission. From the time Kenny Scharf emerged on New York City’s downtown art scene in the 1980s, his elastic, fantastic practice has encompassed painting, sculpture, video, fashion, performance, and installation art. To these various disciplines one can now add landscape design.
6 ways patents add value to your startup

Oct 7, 2024 | bizjournals.com | Jason Schmidt

Investing in a patent can be a strategic move that pays dividends throughout the company’s life cycle. It’s good to be first — it’s even better to be first and exclusive. Obtaining a patent for your invention requires capital, and for many startups, that initial capital is extremely valuable. At the early stages, especially pre-revenue, there are always more projected expenses than the pool of resources can handle.
Tour an Eco-Warrior’s Studio in an Iconic Lloyd Wright Design

Sep 11, 2024 | architecturaldigest.com | Mayer Rus |Jason Schmidt

All products featured on Architectural Digest are independently selected by our editors. However, when you buy something through our retail links, we may earn an affiliate commission. It seems not only fitting but poetic that Los Angeles–based designer and eco-preneur Vicki von Holzhausen chose architect Lloyd Wright’s own 1927 studio and residence as the symbolic headquarters of her namesake company, von Holzhausen, a pioneer in the development of high-performance plant-based materials.
Tour Artist Mimi Lauter's Magical Los Angeles Garden

Sep 6, 2024 | architecturaldigest.com | Mayer Rus |Jason Schmidt

All products featured on Architectural Digest are independently selected by our editors. However, when you buy something through our retail links, we may earn an affiliate commission. When it comes to gardens cultivated by painters, there’s a natural inclination to regard the landscape as a correlative to the artist’s studio practice.
The Dream-like Art of Marcel Dzama

Aug 27, 2024 | nuvomagazine.com | Rosie Prata |Jason Schmidt

The Dream-like Art of Marcel Dzama Current Issue — Diving into the spectral influences behind the artist’s work and his latest solo show Ghosts of Canoe Lake, on a cross-Canada exhibition tour. Marcel Dzama photographed in his Brooklyn studio.
Braves win state championship

Aug 22, 2024 | osceolasun.com | Jason Schmidt

Osceola Braves 2024 Class B State ChampionsAfter winning the semi-final in Glidden, the Osceola Braves punched their ticket to the state finals and received the four seed in the eight-team single elimination tournament. The St. Croix Valley Baseball League (SCVBL) was well represented this past weekend in Whittlesey/Rib Lake with five teams participating (Bay City, Ellsworth, Elmwood, New Richmond, Osceola).
They Gave a Home on Long Island a New Life. Then It Changed Theirs.

Aug 12, 2024 | nytimes.com | Alice Newell-Hanson |Jason Schmidt

AS AN ANALOGY for life's unpredictability, a home renovation goes far. There are few more literal ways in which we try to make our visions of the future concrete. But pipes leak, budgets creep and patience runs thin. Then there are the strange, happy accidents that come from making something personal under heightened conditions.
Married Artists Eddie Martinez and Sam Moyer Mount Simultaneous Shows-And Live to Tell All About It

May 21, 2024 | vogue.com | Dodie Kazanjian |Jason Schmidt

It’s not every day that two artists who are married to each other have simultaneous solo shows at the same museum—and remain on speaking terms. This summer, Samantha (Sam) Moyer and Eddie Martinez will both mount shows at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, Long Island. It helps that their work is very different, although related in its combination of abstract and figurative elements.
Rotting Fruit, an Animatronic Mouse and Other Highlights of the Venice Biennale

Apr 24, 2024 | nytimes.com | Jason Schmidt

A tour of the international exhibition, which opened last week and runs through November. The Venice Biennale, the art world's most prestigious exhibition, opened last week to some fanfare, some and a number of protests. Viewers generally look to the Biennale as a reflection of its time, and this one arrived at a fraught moment in history defined by political unrest and distrust for traditional systems of power.