by Lise Funderburg | Nov 4, 2015 | Lay of the land, Uncategorized, Word Up
Today I got called a “filthy jew.” This is not the first time it has happened, and in keeping with past instances, it appeared on the Internet and from an unnamed source: this one used the moniker “moremane.” In fact, today’s slander was a two-fer, in which I was...
by Lise Funderburg | Jun 13, 2015 | Uncategorized, Word Up
When I tried to look black, it was the late 1970s and I was in England for a semester abroad. I had hair down to the middle of my back, the blonde of my birth long since turned a medium brown but the hair itself still fine and mostly straight, with more of a bend than...
by Lise Funderburg | Dec 29, 2014 | Word Up
I’ve been exploring our built environment lately, thanks to assignments from Architectural Digest’s website (click on the pictures to get to the magazine’s site). Topics have ranged from the precious handful of preserved historic theaters around the...
by Lise Funderburg | Aug 15, 2014 | Word Up
Click here to read about Ferruccio Laviani’s line of neo-Tudor cabinetry—produced by a fourth-generation Milanese furniture maker—on Architectural Digest’s website.
by Lise Funderburg | Jul 21, 2014 | Word Up
Plenty of eye candy and great advice here from Judy Kameon, an LA-based landscape designer who knows from hardscaping and employs a mid-century modern aesthetic in ways that are fresh (rather than fussy). She recently published her first book, Gardens Are for Living,...
by Lise Funderburg | Jan 12, 2014 | Word Up
From today’s interview with photographer Yael Ben-Zion in the Sunday Review section of The New York Times: Q. In what ways is your own marriage an intermarriage? A. The obvious thing would be that I’m Jewish and he’s not. He does not define himself as Christian,...
