Annabelle Selldorf on Architecture as Portraiture
In another life, the German-born architect Annabelle Selldorf might have been a painter or a profile writer. In this one, she expresses her proclivity for portraiture as the principal of the New York–...
6 Joulu 20231h 9min
Walter Hood on Connecting People and Place Through Landscape Architecture
To the landscape architect Walter Hood, “place” is a nebulous concept made meaningful only through the illumination of its history and the people who have inhabited it. Hood has dedicated his career t...
29 Marras 20231h 16min
Min Jin Lee on the Healing Power of Fiction
Min Jin Lee could be considered an exemplar of the old adage “slow and steady wins the race.” The author’s bestselling 2017 novel Pachinko—a National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestseller ...
15 Marras 20231h 5min
Mira Nakashima on Keeping Her Father’s Woodworking Legacy Alive
In art and design circles, the name George Nakashima is synonymous with expert woodworking, exquisite furniture, and high-quality craftsmanship. Over the past 30-plus years, his daughter, the architec...
8 Marras 20231h 12min
Ian Schrager on Consistently Capturing the Zeitgeist
Behind every unforgettable space and every extraordinary experience is a certain je ne sais quoi. If anyone has an idea of what exactly that is, it’s the hospitality impresario and Studio 54 co-founde...
25 Loka 20231h 7min
Sanford Biggers on Patching Together the Past, Present, and Future Through Art
To Sanford Biggers, the past, present, and future are intertwined and all part of one big, long now. Over the past three decades, the Harlem-based artist has woven various threads of place and time—in...
18 Loka 20231h 2min
Edmund de Waal on Pottery, Poetry, and the Act of Letting Go
The London-based artist, master potter, and author Edmund de Waal has an astoundingly astute sense for the inner lives of objects. Each of his works, whether in clay or stone, is imbued with a certain...
4 Loka 20231h 8min
Trent Davis Bailey on Finding Family and Community Through Photography
The artist and photographer Trent Davis Bailey (our host, Spencer Bailey’s, identical twin brother) continually seeks to unearth the tangled roots of his identity through his intensely personal and pl...
20 Syys 20231h 27min
