| Tokujin Yoshioka | Materialist Paper or plastic? The Japanese industrial designer and artist Tokujin Yoshioka couldn’t possibly choose. His Honey-Pop chair from 2001 is made entirely of paper; “Powder Snow,” a sculpture from 2006, is a three-dimensional plastic puppy complete with pliable hair. nytimes.com |
Home Again When Eileen Gray’s 1919 “Dragons” armchair sold for $28 million at the Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé auction last winter, it fetched the highest price ever paid for a work of 20th-century furniture. Now the Irish-born designer, who lived most of her life in France, is poised for more posthumous acclaim: her 1929 Villa E.1027 (below) opens this fall in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, on the French Riviera, after a painstaking and protracted restoration rescued it from years of dereliction (e1027.or... nytimes.com |
Empty Nesters Still Need a Place to Sit A simplicity craze leaves the author with little to no furniture when she needs it most. nytimes.com |
Biogen, Cal-Maine, Pulte, Sand... Shares of the following companies are having unusual moves in U.S. trading. Stock symbols are in parentheses, and prices are of 11 a.m. in New York. topix.com |
Recalls for the week include baby strollers, cribs and more cars Millions of baby strollers and thousands of cribs were recalled this week after dangerous malfunctions were found. topix.com |