Phaidon Press's Blog, page 434

The Dominican Republics concrete legacy at Venice

The national submission remembers its 1956 fair, and how its citizens now live their lives in among the architecture

Deyan Sudjic and Barbara Radice on Sottsass

The Design Museum director and Sottsasss widow discussed the great man last night Here are some highlights

America brings an architects office to Venice

The American Pavilions Office US looks at how Meier, Saarinen and Wright built abroad

When Ettore Sottsass met Barbara Radice

To mark tonights Design Museum talk, we look at how Sottsasss second wife enabled him to reach new heights

What links Mies vander Rohe to Ferris Bueller

How director and Chicago native John Hughes sought out a Mies protegs building for his 1986 film

Welcome to the Sottsass pleasure Dome

The great designer Ettore shunned public commissions, favouring ambitious private, hedonistic undertakings

Georgia OKeeffes little sisters retrospective

The Dallas Museum of Art appeals for Ida OKeeffe anecdotes ahead of a show dedicated to the little known artist

The Insiders Guide to Venice

Event organiser Tommaso Speretta reveals his favourite places as featured in our Wallpaper City Guide

Unseen since 1970 Bacon tryptych up for sale

Three Studies for Portrait of George Dyer was painted at the height of his passionate affair with the petty criminal

When Sottsass met Bob Dylan and the beat poets

How a life-threatening illness led to the Italian designer meeting Kerouac and co