Larry Weinberg

Larry Weinberg is a graduate of Amherst College and an alumnus of the Hagley Program in the History of Technology, University of Delaware. He has studied and worked at numerous museums, including Historic Deerfield, Strawbery Banke, and the Brooklyn Museum. In 1994, he co-founded the Lin-Weinberg Gallery, which became one of New York City's premiere showcases of vintage modernist furnishings. Lin-Weinberg participated annually in Sanford Smith’s Modernism show, and it hosted a number of design exhibitions, notably the blockbuster 1997 show entitled “Edward Wormley: The Other Face of Modernism.” More recently, he worked with the Museum of the City of New York to mount an exhibit of his collection of early post-war American furnishings.

In April, Larry opened a showroom in the New York Design Center, from which he also writes. View his current inventory of vintage design at weinbergmodern.com.

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Pick Six: Lunar Globes of the 1960's

In honor of this week's winter solstice full lunar eclipse, an event which last occurred in the 14th century, this week's post will take a look at moon globes from the 1960's. FYI, I did not stay up Monday night until 1:30 to view the eclipse, which apparently threw off more red light than a normal lunar eclipse. I suspect I was not alone in blowing off this celestial event, and I also suspect i... More

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Robert Loughlin: Portrait of the Artist as a Puffier Older Man

Picker, painter, performance artist. Plastered peripatetic, intoxicated on life and an impressive array of substances. Had he been born at the turn of the century, Robert Loughlin would surely have been part of the Dada group, selling Peter Behrens clocks and Christopher Dresser trays to Man Ray and Duchamp, and painting faces on urinals. Had he been born in the thirties, he'd have been on t... More

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Roosevelt Island: A Tradition of Brutalism

Roosevelt Island, formerly Welfare Island, has a rich and unusual architectural history. As an island next to a metropolis, it was used during the nineteenth century to sequester the insane and the infirm. (For a treatment of the cultural basis of such insanity, see Michel Foucault's seminal "Madness and Civilization"). The dominant structures were Andrew Jackson Davis' 1839 NYC Lunati... More

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BoY, Oh BoY

Interior Design magazine’s 2010 Best of Year Awards ceremony, held this year at Frank Gehry’s IAC Building, was a night of firsts. First time the show was held at the Gehry venue; first time I’d been in the building; first time for categories such as Modern Farmhouse and Café; and first time an active Interior Design blogger won a BoY award. Congratulations to my friend and colleague Ghislaine Vin... More

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Circular Reasoning: On the Geometry of Chairs

Beginning with de Stijl, geometry became an obvious metaphor for the scientific and mechanistic modes of thinking associated with avant-garde modernism. Mondrian's canvases, arguably influenced themselves by Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie School architecture, became templates for mid-century wall systems and modular case good systems, as well as graphic inspiration for architecture. All of these ap... More

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