Lorraine Wild
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Lorraine Wild|Essays
Decorum, RIP
Mid-century modern is associated — especially in California — with an easier time, a more casual lifestyle: it's the spatial expression of a loosening of Depression-era habits. We associate restraint with the style of the mid-century, but the contemporary …
Lorraine Wild|Essays
Exhibitions by Renzo Piano and 2x4
Vitra Showroom by 2x4, New York 2003. Photo: Courtesy of Vitra.Designers invited to display their work in the space of a museum face quandaries. Certainly the largest of these is that almost nothing about the processes of design — from the point of view of the public, anyway …
Lorraine Wild|Essays
A Design Annual Captures 1968
The images above are taken from one of the oddest artifacts of the design profession created during the sixties: a booklet documenting the work chosen for the 14th Annual Type Director's Club Show of 1968 (not to be confused with Typography 14, which is the fourteenth annual book …
Lorraine Wild|Essays
The Scourge of "Tuscan"
Where whole new neighborhoods are still being constructed Tuscan is the style du jour.
Lorraine Wild|Essays
New Year's Housecleaning
I am a member of a typical Los Angeles turn-of-the-century multi-cultural family, so the concept of the New Year as we practice it stretches from its mere Gregorian beginning on January 1st through the much grander lunar New Year of early February. The lunar will celebrated in many ways, …
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