Napa Valley gets a taste of its own rustic beauty at the Carneros Inn, a resort by Shopworks and William Rawn Associates. Something fresh has sprouted amid the rolling vineyards and cow-dotted farms of Northern California’s Napa Valley. The Carneros Inn, the wine region’s first new resort in 20 years, takes its design cues from …
Mies van der Rohe’s love-it-or-hate-it celebration of Modernism endures as a cautionary tale on the merits of glass houses. The Farnsworth House in Plano, Illinois, about 60 miles southwest of Chicago, is revered as one of the world’s most important Modernist icons. But architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s masterpiece—the glass-walled embodiment of his dictum …
