The all-glass, rectangular vintage refrigerator containers are from Kubus, 1938 – also stackable and still quite usable. Manufactured by Anchor Hocking, the oven-to-refrigerator containers were available to the public for nearly a decade. The food storage containers at the top were offered exclusively in my Martha Stewart Everyday line at Kmart. And guess what? 24-years later, today’s kitchen certainly does. It is about my ideas for the “Kitchen of the Future.” I believed it would incorporate more sustainable and “smart” appliances.
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This article is a New York Times Magazine clipping from 1996 – perhaps some of you remember it. I also worked closely with the Wolfsonian team to incorporate their beautiful collections and place them with their present-day counterparts. I gathered many of the objects from my home for this exhibit – items I still use and love. The exhibit includes items from my private collection, my design lines, other brands I’ve enjoyed using, and various Wolfsonian works that inspire me. The pop-up display within The Wolfsonian’s Art and Design in the Modern Age shows how today's kitchens and homes, and all the appliances for cooking, cleaning, and living, have evolved over the years.
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This dinner and reception also highlighted my new installation at the museum - a collection of curated kitchen and home items for the “ Then + Now” exhibit. This year, I co-hosted two big dinners for the Food Network & Cooking Channel South Beach Wine & Food Festival presented by Capital One - one at the Buccan with Chefs Clay Conley and Katie Button, and the other with Chefs Michael White and Antonio Bachour at The Wolfsonian–Florida International University. The unique form allows for a variety of views, and draws attention to the diversity of the ocean from shoreline to greater depths.If you’ve never been, I encourage you to attend SOBEWFF - with more than 100 signature events, tastings, parties, seminars, dinners, and classes, it is a wonderful way to enjoy food and to learn from some of the world’s best chefs. The unique ‘martini glass’ form of the tank allows visitors to view the fish and creatures within from a number of angles, including from an outdoor deck that overlooks the tank, portholes in the tank’s sides, and, finally, through a large oculus that will allow guests to look up into an immersive view of the water from below.
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One of the highlights of the museum is the Gulf Stream Aquarium. As the landscape in and around the museum matures, the building will appear settled within the park landscape and complementary to the adjacent art museum. The building is placed in order to take advantage of breezes off Biscayne Bay and views to the water. The forms of the museum, from the spherical planetarium to the curved walls of the core building, are unusual and finished in materials that play with sunlight through reflections and casting shadows that create textures which change throughout the day. The museum is composed of unique shapes and positioned prominently within Museum Park. The architecture subtly reminds visitors of the natural and scientific worlds we engage every day as we go about our lives. Walkways that connect exhibit rooms offer views to Biscayne Bay children can peer into the museum’s largest tank from an outdoor terrace and native flora fill the landscape. The indoor/outdoor nature of the museum reminds visitors of the natural worlds around them as well as the intimate connection between humans and the environment. Grimshaw took the opportunity to use the architecture and design of the Frost Science Museum to reflect and extend the lessons within to the building’s form.