5 Favorite Modern Design Gift Guides
Modern Holiday: Taking a look at highlights from the best modern design gift guides for the 2013 season and sharing a few of our favorites...
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Sand Drawings + Solar Lanterns: Illuminating the Beach with Glowing Land Art
Jim Denevan's monumental sand art has transformed beaches around the world into context-driven landscapes, incorporating geometry, pattern and the natural environment in a temporal celebration of place, process and form.
A recent installation in Laguna Beach features beautiful sand patterns lit by hundreds of solar lanterns stretching from the cliffs to the water.
Sustainability + Solar Homes: Photos from the Decathlon
View MYD's photo gallery from Irvine's Great Park for the 2013 Solar Decathlon, where 20 student-built projects compete in a series of contests in order to determine overall livability, efficiency and affordability of each design.
While a few of our favorites took top honors, all the teams demonstrated innovation and creativity in their approach to green building and design...
Going Green at the Great Park: Solar Decathlon 2013
For the first time since its inception in 2002, the U.S. Department of Energy's Solar Decathlon is being held at a location other than the mall in Washington D.C., and we're looking forward to welcoming the biennial event to the West Coast this fall.
Read MoreFurniture as Architecture: Stoller Works + Modern Interiors
The custom walnut dining table by Stoller Works arrived last week at MYD's Mission Viejo modern renovation. A key component of the interior scheme, the table has a two piece walnut top 'floating' above the trestle structure, whose steel legs are sections of a steel i-beam, stabilized by stainless steel rods.
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