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Aspen Golann’s Elegant Brooms and Brushes Take a Playful Approach to Woodworking

Aspen Golann’s Elegant Brooms and Brushes Take a Playful Approach to Woodworking

For Aspen Golann, determining the function of an object is the perfect creative constraint for beginning a project. Working almost entirely by hand in her New Hampshire studio, she carves and sands wooden furniture, spoons, candlesticks, and other goods with a playful twist.
“Group Work,” for example, contains a single handle that forks into five heads, while even more minimal designs like the “Double Loop Brush” elegantly stacks two perfectly round spheres atop one another. More
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Water Rises Around Vibrant Architectural Models in James Casebere’s Haunting Photos

Water Rises Around Vibrant Architectural Models in James Casebere’s Haunting Photos

In the late 1980s, architect Balkrishna Doshi designed a housing complex for poor residents in Aranya, located just a few kilometers outside Indore, India. He believed that homes were “living entities” that would change and evolve over time with new residents, new uses, and new ways of life. Having trained with Le Corbusier, Doshi built 80 homes designed to merge public and private life, their constructions outfitted with sharp, geometric angles and vivid colors that contrasted the often somber hues of public housing. More
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Bioremediation 101: Everything You Need to Know

Bioremediation 101: Everything You Need to Know

Quick Key Facts What Is Bioremediation? Over the last century, urbanization and industrialization, combined with poor waste management, has led to an alarming rise in the amount of pollution in our soils, waterways, groundwater and air.  Heavy metal toxins from industrial production, chemicals from the agriculture sector, untreated wastewater, plastic pollution, crude oil leaks and […]
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