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Modern Landscapes Then and Now
Architecture gets a lot more attention than landscape, but the other types of environments that surround us, whether parks, plazas, waterfronts or highways, affect our daily lives as much as buildings. Now the Cultural Landscape Foundation and the Chicago Architecture Foundation have joined forces to present The Second Wave of Modernism in Landscape Architecture in America from November 13 to 15 in Chicago to consider the question of what makes a landscape design modern. The conference looks at the work of leading landscape architecture and garden design professionals to learn how it has been influenced by the preceding generation of modernists, starting with Fletcher Steele and his 1929 Camden Amphitheatre in Maine and ending with such 1970s projects as Lawrence Halprin’s Freeway Park in Seattle; Hideo Sasaki’s Waterfront Park in Boston; and SOM’s design for Constitution Gardens in Washington, DC. Speakers include leading landscape architects such as Andrea Cochran (San Francisco), Walter Hood (Berkeley), Tom Oslund (Minneapolis), Peter Lindsay Schaudt (Chicago), Michael Van Valkenburgh (New York City), Reed Hilderbrand Associates (Watertown, MA) and Thomas Woltz (Charlottesville, VA). For more information, visit www.tclf.org/secondwave.— AT

Real Modern: Floored by Design
It’s a decorator’s truism that rugs are the anchor for any room. This is especially true for modernist rooms; minimalist décor benefits enormously from a dose of pattern and color. The bright hues, daring designs and differing textures of midcentury rug designs are hot all over again. But while vintage rugs are the darlings of collectors, they’re expensive and can also have problems due to age, wear and tear and damage — all of which are costly to correct. Vintage rugs are best purchased in person, at auctions and shops where the merchandise can be closely examined. It also helps to get the opinion of someone who knows rugs, like an established collector or a rug restorer. Some midcentury rug brands were of such excellent quality that their products have a high survival rate, like Edward Fields of New York City. Founded in 1935, the company pioneered the concept of the “area rug” beginning in 1952, with modernist patterns created by British textile designer Marion V. Dorn (1896–1964), whose Art Deco rug designs were part of the original décor on the Queen Mary, Cunard’s celebrated ocean liner. While Fields did a brisk business in traditional designs, it was more famous for modernism; in addition to its highly popular residential offerings, the company contributed rugs to Raymond Loewy’s designs for the original Air Force One jet, built in 1962 for President John F. Kennedy. Vintage Fields rugs can auction for thousands of dollars, but there’s a way to get the look for much less. Today’s rug designers have clearly looked to old Edward Fields designs for inspiration, as seen in one example from the Earth and Sky Rug Collection sold at Target stores under the Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen brand name. The famous twins’ offering to design buffs is in 100% nylon with a machine-made cut pile. Prices range from $119.99 to $459.99. The rug is so handsome that it just might pop up in auctions of the future. — Sandy McLendon
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