design research
For some reason that picture of the Herzog+deMeuron parking garage reminded me of this photo from an article I stumbled across last week. |
| photo via the boston globe |
I've always liked this building and visited it many times when it was a Crate&Barrell [which is evidently gone now!]. I had no idea what its history was.
In 1969 the building was built as the flagship location of Design Research, an interior design store founded a few years earlier by a GSD professor. It was quite revolutionary for the time and was credited with bringing modern design pieces from Europe to the US.
It's interesting that Harvard Square, which on the surface seems so Colonial and Ivy League had such a place in the history of modernism.
Evidently Crate&Barrel moved out a few years ago [I guess I haven't been to Harvard Square in a while!]. With the space vacant, the wife of the Design Research founder created an installation recerating the store's original look. Check out this Globe article as well.
1 comments:
the image is practically the same! and the buildings are certainly close cousins... sometimes boston does surprise with it's bits of modernism. i should try to not be so poopoo about it's eighties-ness all the time!
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