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This fall, Stanford University will open the McMurtry Building, an innovative new facility to house Stanford’s Department of Art & Art History as well as the Art & Architecture Library. Designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, the 100,000-square-foot space will unite the making and studying of art at Stanford under one roof for the first time. Open to students in time for the fall quarter and with a dedication ceremony on October 6, 2015, the $85-million building is the newest addition to Stanford’s burgeoning arts district at the entrance of campus.

When two of Denmark’s most iconic design figures come together to create a piece of furniture, the results are bound to be spectacular. This important Cuban mahogany cabinet by Kaj Gottlob for AJ Iversen is a stunning example of one such sublime collaboration. Offered by H.M. Luther, New York-based dealers of rare and unique works by the most celebrated designers from Scandinavia and Continental Europe, this highly sophisticated piece was conceived by Gottlob, a leading architect, and crafted by Iversen, an accomplished cabinetmaker. Iversen, along with the many architects and designers he partnered with, including Gottlob, helped pave the way for Danish Modern, an iconic style revered for its...

His “Normandie” pitcher is one of the prime examples of Art Deco streamlining, sleek as a funnel on that great steamliner and elegant as one of its staterooms. And yet Peter Muller-Munk himself, who designed it in 1935, has passed largely from view.

Now the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh has announced its intention to make us notice him: On Nov. 21, the museum opens “Silver to Steel: The Modern Designs of Peter Muller-Munk,” the first survey of the designer.

After years of delays, the Peabody Essex Museum is moving forward with its expansion plan, adding a gallery wing to the existing complex and a massive off-site facility for managing and conserving collections.

The plan, which the museum announced Wednesday, represents a significant departure from its earlier intent to build a 175,000-square-foot addition to the existing museum. The new design, by contrast, calls for 40,000 square feet in new gallery space and an 80,000-square-foot off-site facility known as the Collection Stewardship Center. The museum hopes to break ground next year, with a projected completion date in 2019.

 Art Southampton, the Hamptons’ premier contemporary and modern art and design fair, is kicking off its fourth edition at a stunning new location. Held at the Nova’s Art Project, a sprawling sculpture park in Bridgehampton, Art Southampton will bring together art and design from the 20th and 21st centuries in a pastoral yet decidedly luxe setting.

Produced by Art Miami LLC, the company behind a number of the country’s top art fairs, including its flagship fair Art Miami, Art Southampton will open with a...

The Guggenheim has become something of a brand over the years, with satellite locations in Venice and Bilbao, Spain, and one planned in Abu Dhabi. Now this museum’s proposed branch in Helsinki, Finland, has taken a step closer to reality, with the selection of a design that features charred timber and glass punctuated by a lighthouselike tower overlooking South Harbor.

It is still uncertain whether the design, by the relatively young husband-and-wife firm Moreau Kusunoki Architectes, founded four years ago in Paris, will be accepted by its surrounding city, which has been bitterly divided over the project, largely because of concerns over its price of about $147 million.

Created in 1956 for Frank Lloyd Wright’s only skyscraper, this monumental chair is more than a fascinating piece of Modernist history. Lacy Anderson of Exchange Int, the Houston- and Detroit-based gallery offering the chair, says, “It has several components that identify it as a Frank Lloyd Wright piece, but there’s more to it than that. It’s so unique in its design and you can’t really assign it to a period right off the bat. I also like the way people respond when they see it. We work with people, including collectors and interior designers, who have...

Gail Green, the founder and principal of Gail Green Interiors in New York City, is celebrated for her timeless and elegant yet decidedly modern interiors. Her firm, which specializes in upscale residential and commercial projects of all sizes, is dedicated to creating beautiful, comfortable, and practical interiors. Combining form and function, Gail Green Interiors constructs unique, luxurious spaces that exude a sense of harmony, balance, and order.

Educated at Columbia University and trained at a number of esteemed architecture firms, Green has been...

Eli and Edythe Broad have been regular visitors to Art Basel along with the founding director of the Broad, Joanne Heyler. But this year the collectors are giving the fair a miss: opening the Broad on September 20, a $140m, 120,000 sq. ft museum on Los Angeles’s Grand Avenue, has had to take priority.

Heyler is busy overseeing the installation of the inaugural hang in the Diller Scofidio + Renfro-designed space, which will feature works from the Broad’s own collection and that of the Broad Art Foundation, which they established in 1984.

Design Miami/Basel will kick off in Switzerland on Tuesday, June 16, continuing the tenth anniversary celebration that began in Miami last December.  Launched in 2005, Design Miami/ quickly emerged as the premier venue for collecting, exhibiting, and discussing collectible design thanks to its inimitable exhibitor list, museum-quality offerings, and innovative programming. Design Miami/’s two fairs, which run alongside the monumental Art Basel fairs in Miami each December and in Basel each June, bring together the most influential collectors, gallerists, designers, curators, and critics from around the...