Summer 2008 Volume 11, Number 2

DEPARTMENTS
12 Editor’s Word
15 Mailbox
18 In the Museums
22 Modern Times: News, People, Products

90 City Report: Modernist Boston
By Patricia Harris and David Lyon

100 Close Up Han Pieck’s 10,000 Chairs
The true story of a beloved — and rare — chair is revealed.
By Wiet Hekking
Photography by Kevin van der Brug

104 Shelf Life Past, Present and Futurism
By Sandy McLendon

106 Where to Buy Modernism

110 Advertisers’ Index

112 The Back Page
Villa Tugendhat: A Turbulent History
By Judy Polan

FEATURES
36 Leisurama
Long Island Readymade
The brief, idealistic life of the affordable Hampton’s vacation home.
By Jake Gorst

48 Alfred Browning Parker
The Master of Coconut Grove
This influential Florida modernist, praised by Frank Lloyd Wright for his “organic” architecture, is still building his own designs at the age of 91.
By Juliette Guilbert

58 Artifort
The Little Company that Could
A happy confluence of vision, creative freedom and independent-minded designers put this Dutch furniture company on the world map in the 1960s.
By Andrea Truppin

66 Mary Nohl
An Artist between Worlds
Defying categories, Nohl designed everything from silver jewelry and pottery to a fantastical sculpted environment.
By Leslie Umberger and Jane Bianco

78 Spaces
Villa Martel: Parisian Masterpiece
In 1927, architect Robert Mallet-Stevens transformed a street into a “total work of art.” This house has survived intact.
By Valérie de Calignon
Photography by Roland Halbe