A kissa—or, more traditionally, a jazz kissa—is a type of café that initially sprang up in Japan in the 1920s as a communal ...

The finality of the wildfires’ destruction has taken 10 more cherished buildings — by Richard Neutra, Gregory Ain, Eric Owen ...

More than 24 lives and 12,000 structures have been lost in the ongoing Los Angeles fires, among them famed houses by Richard ...

In preservation, we have experienced losses before but never to this extent, all at once,” says Adrian Scott Fine at the Los ...

Houses by Richard Neutra and Ray Kappe are among more than 12,000 structures lost in the ongoing fires in Los Angeles. Here, we roundup five of the most significant to have been destroyed. The ...

Historic landmarks by the likes of Myron Hunt and Elmer Grey and a noted Midcentury retreat by architect Ray Kappe have been ...

“We were all stroking the wood when it arrived ... There is, of course, Charles and Ray Eames’s revolutionary Eames House, its colorful prefabricated panels a symbol of midcentury experiment.

Ray Kroc, a Multimixer salesman, saw the restaurant's potential and became McDonald's first franchise agent. In 1955, Kroc founded McDonald's System, Inc., which would later become the McDonald's ...

Brenton Wood, the soul singer behind 1967 hit single “The Oogum Boogum Song” and who formed his own record label in the Seventies, has died at the age of 83. Wood’s death was confirmed by ...

Brenton Wood, the soul singer and songwriter best known for “The Oogum Boogum Song,” has died at 83. Per Entertainment Weekly, Wood died in his sleep of natural causes at his home in Moreno ...

Charles (American, 1907–1978) and Ray Eames (American, 1912–1988) were designers most well known for their groundbreaking contributions to architecture, and furniture and industrial design and ...