A Compendium of Design (...and occasionally other things)

Sometimes discoveries don't come from a museum's art galleries, but from its library. While visiting the Getty last week, I stopped...

is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends, and of which every desire prompts the prose...

This could very well be my new all-time favorite image of Palm Springs: the Thomas Davis residence, 1957. ...

For nearly two years we have searched for attractive and absorbent coasters. Hallelujah, we found them yesterday! We were in downtown ...

Last month I visited the new outpost of the Palm Springs Art Museum, the former Palm Desert Visitor Center now completely revamped, mode...