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Jenn Thornton

Writer, Editor, Editorial Consultant

Athena Calderone & The Symmetry of Space

Jenn Thornton November 10, 2021
With a new collection for Beni Rugs, the Morocco-based maker of customizable rugs that blend modern design with heritage quality, designer Athena Calderone—the lifestyle impresaria and creative engine behind the award-winning lifestyle site EyeSwoon—is once again flooring the world of contemporary design.

Vaux-Le-Vicomte & French Evolution

Jenn Thornton October 28, 2021
Vaux Le Vicomte: A Private Invitation by Guillaume Picon tells the fantastic tale that begins with Nicolas Fouquet’s elaborations and ends with the efforts of its current third-generation stewards, the de Vogüé family, to ensure Vaux endures.

Montalba Architects’ Riviera Loft: Circular Motion

Jenn Thornton October 28, 2021
Montalba Architects Riviera Loft, which saw the firm transform a historical, exposed, three-story space into multi-family residences juxtaposing the old and new to form something entirely, even radically, unique.

Worrell Yeung Renewed in the Dunes

Jenn Thornton October 28, 2021
Max Worrell and Jejon Yeung, partners of New York City-based architectural firm Worrell Yeung, refresh an original Charles Gwathmey structure from the 1970s House in the Dunes—a two-story beach abode with modernist bones—to its architectural essence.

Raffles Hotel: A World-Class Restoration

Jenn Thornton October 22, 2021
With the world increasingly reopening its doors, one property is making a grander entrance than most—Raffles Singapore. As it would, naturally, given the 19th-century heritage hotel’s rich history, its luminary-filled guest list, its verdant views, and its mannered, immersive ways.

Marion Sims Wyeth: The Pride of Palm Beach

Jenn Thornton September 15, 2021
Many of these projects are highlighted in the forthcoming book From Palm Beach to Shangri La: The Architecture of Marion Sims Wyeth (Rizzoli) by Jane S. Day. The exuberant tome, a paean to Marion Sims Wyeth and historic preservation, gives overdue recognition to an architect who is too little considered in contemporary times.

Kara Mann: Lady of the Lakehouse

Jenn Thornton August 19, 2021
Kara Mann’s flair for materiality and architecture, and more importantly her feel for these things, are all present in what is effectively a lakehouse set on the Northshore of Lake Michigan.

Texas-based Architectural Firm Lake|Flato’s Horizon House

Jenn Thornton August 5, 2021
Soon to debut, Lake|Flato Houses: Respecting the Land (Rizzoli) is the latest foray for the firm, which was named AIA’s Firm of the Year in 2004, and whose remarkable, environmentally sensitive, and astute structures explore an intimate relationship to site and surround.

William F. Cody: Master of His Domain

Jenn Thornton July 21, 2021
Architect William F. Cody was reliably prolific visionary desert modernist with works ranging from Arizona, to Cuba and Hawaii. Daughter Catherine Cody, Don Choi and Jo Lauria discuss how his legacy lives on in the built environment he left behind.
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Nate Berkus: Well-Traveled & Destination Design

Jenn Thornton July 7, 2021
Since establishing his award-winning interior design firm at the ripe old age of 24, Nate Berkus has bridged the worlds of easy and elevated with a fine eye and light touch. With a megawatt smile and a sincerity of skill rather than outright swagger, he is, as one of his timelessly textured interiors, approachable.