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edited by Sheila Kim -- Interior Design, 1/1/2003 12:00:00 AM

Benchmark

Gere Kavanaugh is the first interior designer to win a City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department COLA grant. Usually presented to architects, artists, and sculptors, the grant will fund the fabrication of Kavanaugh's pigeon-motif bench, which she hopes will someday grace a public plaza…

Silver Streak

The Dallas Museum of Art has acquired an important collection of modern American silver. Amassed over 20 years by scholar Jewel Stern, the 301 objects were designed by such major 20th-century talents as Eliel Saarinen and Erik Magnussen…

Ventura Venture

Los Angeles firm AC Martin Partners has unveiled its design for the Ventura County Museum of History & Art. To open in 2005, the renovated complex will feature such native materials as river rock and cedar…

Tupperware Party

Ohio's Columbus College of Art & Design takes a closer look at a versatile but often overlooked piece of Americana. Opening January 25, a Tupperware exhibition explores the popular containers, which have organized kitchens for more than 50 years…

Merger Urge?

The California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco and Oakland, and the San Francisco Art Institute are discussing the possibility of joining to form a new institution for visual-arts higher education…