CULTURE CLUB Backdrop and Xavier Donnelly Make a Toast—and an Ice Luge On May 8, an intimate group of design-world notables gathered in Manhattan to raise a glass to...
DESIGN Antiquity-Inspired Paintings, Imagined As Frescoes for Your Walls Xavier Donnelly, the creative director of design firm and hotelier Ash, partners with Backdrop to...
CULTURE Dystopian Capitalism Underpins the So-Called “Year of the Girl” Behind the cutesy moniker that 30-somethings masquerading as “girlies” have clung to this year,
CULTURE CLUB Backdrop Celebrates Porsche’s Colorful Heritage On September 12, guests from the worlds of design, fashion, business, music, and entertainment...
DESIGN DISPATCH Koyo Kouoh will Curate the 61st Venice Biennale, and Other News Plus, Olufar Eliasson's Breathing Earth Sphere lands in South Korea, and Sarah Andelman curates a...
DESIGN DISPATCH Medieval Art and Design Artifacts Were Unearthed Beneath Notre Dame Cathedral, and Other News Plus, Herman Miller takes aim at the problems posed by open office floor plans, and a commemoration
DESIGN DISPATCH Incoming Fair Director Bridgit Finn Opens Art Basel Miami Beach, and Other News Plus, a newly restored Notre Dame Cathedral is unveiled to the public, and gamma radiation is...
RESTAURANT With Clemente Bar, Daniel Humm Sets Out to Fashion the Best Bar in New York Together with Italian contemporary artist Francesco Clemente, the Eleven Madison Park chef expands...
DESIGN DISPATCH Murano Illumina Il Mondo Opens With Heavy-Hitting Glass Artistry, and Other News Plus, a mycelium installation lands at Maison Ruinart’s Sculpture Garden, and the Orient Express...