In the nineteen-fifties, the designers and developers of Detroit’s Lafayette Park believed that they had thought of everything to make city living as attractive as any suburb. A marquee architect from ...

What is design? -- Arts & Crafts: 1850 - 1920 -- Art Nouveau: 1880 - 1910 -- Art Deco: 1919 - 1940 -- Modernism: 1910 - 1939 -- Mid-Century Modern: 1940 - 1959 ...

“Follow the red thread,” my high school Latin teacher used to say. What she meant was to keep track of the subjects, verbs, and overall plotline, while translating a passage of, say, The Aeneid. But ...

The volume introduces 250 influential figures across 50-plus countries, from established names to unsung and emerging talents, and opens by reframing design history through a feminist lens. Hall ...

In August 1991 a Vanity Fair cover story on the actress Demi Moore sent the conservative American magazine industry into one of its periodic fits of morality. The startling photograph, by Annie ...