This project works toward building a technology platform, community, and database for designers and design enthusiasts. The subject matter is furniture, both innovative (new) designer works and iconic (vintage) classics of 20th century design.
Misogyny is at the core of the binary gender order. Female misogyny directly leads to the further strengthening of the patriarchal system. And mass media, as a communication tool, undoubtedly plays an accomplice role in strengthening female misogyny. Based on the study of female…
This dissertation reexamines the work of the Victorian polymath William Morris (1834-1896) through his relationship with the landscape of the River Thames. Morris passed his whole life within the Thames’s system of streams and gentle valleys, and the river flows through his inte…
Through a design historical approach at a micro level, this thesis traced the global circulation of a collection of eighteenth-century Portuguese tilework and its re-contextualization in a new diplomatic terrain; the American embassy grounds in Lisbon, Portugal, built between 19…
Whether we inhabit a desk in a classroom or office or occupy a seat on a train or in a theater our bodies are enveloped, supported, manipulated, and controlled through the form and operation of furniture that is seldom noticed. Ubiquitous, intimate, and often compulsory, commerc…