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Currents | Décor: A Table That Stands on Its Own 2 Legs

Marsia Holzer’s new side table was made in what she calls “the George Nakashima style” without a handle on the drawer. The drawer front extends three-quarters of an inch beyond the table on either side, so it doesn’t need one. Ms. Holzer, 61, a ...

From ELAINE LOUIE, The New York Times,  18 Nov 2009

Lighting: Chandeliers, Blazing With Recyclables

Lucy Slivinski, a sculptor in Chicago who makes lighting fixtures out of salvaged metal scraps, attributes her affinity for recycling to her grandparents, who recycled as a matter of necessity during the Depression. Wonder Bread bags, with their red, ...

From ELAINE LOUIE, The New York Times,  11 Nov 2009

The Temporary Vegetarian

JOAQUIN BACA has cooked Asian-flavored noodles with David Chang at the Momofuku restaurants and has lived in the Philippines, Bolivia and Uruguay. But his roots are Texan, and he has never lost his touch with American comfort food: barbecued ribs, ...

From ELAINE LOUIE, The New York Times,  3 Nov 2009

Related Topics: David Chang,  University of Texas

On Location: An Ode to ’70s-Style Living

JASON MILLER, a 38-year-old furniture designer best known for creating a popular ceramic chandelier in the shape of antlers, no longer lives in a loft. “In a factory space or an industrial space, there’s a certain level of finish that’s not there,” he ...

From ELAINE LOUIE, The New York Times,  28 Oct 2009

The Temporary Vegetarian: Hungarian Cabbage Strudel

“AMERICANS are not exposed to cabbage,” said Andre Heimann, the owner of Andre’s Cafe on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, and of Andre’s Hungarian Strudels & Pastries in Forest Hills, Queens. “They know coleslaw.” But in Hungary, “cabbage is used for ...

From ELAINE LOUIE, The New York Times,  27 Oct 2009

The Temporary Vegetarian: Sara’s Spinach Pie

IT was 1969 and Anna Thomas, a film student at the University of California, Los Angeles, found herself slowly becoming a vegetarian and, equally slowly, writing a cookbook. “I wasn’t eating much meat,” she said recently from her home in Ojai, Calif. “ ...

From ELAINE LOUIE, The New York Times,  13 Oct 2009

Related Topics: University of California, Los Angeles

Currents | Books: Rising Right Before Your Eyes

“Wendy Evans Joseph Pop Up Architecture” (Melcher Media, $75) may be one of the very few architectural monographs in the form of a pop-up book. The 14-page book, which is being published this month in an edition of 4,500 copies, features ...

From ELAINE LOUIE, The New York Times,  7 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Paul Goldberger,  Vitra

The Temporary Vegetarian: Orzotto Is Simpler Than Risotto

AN orzotto is like a risotto except that orzo, the rice-shaped pasta, is used instead of rice. And why might you want to do that? “Orzo is easier to work with than rice, because the rice is much more delicate and easy to overcook,” said Cesare Casella, ...

From ELAINE LOUIE, The New York Times,  29 Sep 2009

Currents | Books: A Coffee Table Book for a Big Table

It took Mr. Salvaing 10 years to shoot the buildings in the book, including the Ibirapuera Auditorium in São Paulo (below left), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Brasilia (below right) and the Niterói Museum of Contemporary Art (bottom). The project ...

From ELAINE LOUIE, The New York Times,  23 Sep 2009

The Temporary Vegetarian: From Spain, White Gazpacho

WHEN Anthony Sasso was growing up in Woodstock, N.Y., “soups were something that you ate to warm you up, a recovery food,” he said. If someone in the family had a bad cold, a soup was made with a stock simmered with beef bones or a few chicken legs, ...

From ELAINE LOUIE, The New York Times,  1 Sep 2009

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