The Eye in Dining
Alison Pearlman is The Eye in Dining, an art historian who writes about restaurant design and experience. This newsletter brings commentary on these topics as well as occasionally, art and broader trends in design.
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I Look Forward to Visiting the New Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, But I Question the Premise (opens the original)
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Is 'Discipline, Glut, Veil, Guts, Elan, Streamline, Utility, Funk, Jazz, Remix, [and] Whimsy' a Rosetta Stone for Design? (opens the original)
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Extreme Scenes: Where Hedonism and Artistic Radicalism Both Go for Broke (opens the original)
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