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Mara Fisher

Mara is a writer, researcher, and designer based in Los Angeles. A guiding interest in her work is design history, including topics related to architecture, ephemera, and hyperlocal geographic areas. Her writing has appeared in the Graphite Interdisciplinary Journal of the Arts.

Mara's Articles

Photo: John Cairns. Courtesy the Bodleian Libraries. — An Exhibition at Oxford Highlights the Sensorial Splendor of Books
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Courtesy Lara Call Gastinger — Botanical Artist Lara Call Gastinger on Seeing Scents
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Courtesy the Chipstone Foundation — Glenn Adamson on “Material Intelligence” and Why It Matters
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The Future Library Forest. (Photo: Rio Gandara. Courtesy Helsingin Sanomat) — At a Library in Oslo, the Books Can’t Be Read Until 2114
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“Windy” spins on New York’s High Line. (Courtesy Meriem Bennani, High Line Art, and Audemars Piguet) — On Manhattan’s High Line, Experimentation Leads to a Whirling, Whizzing, Whooshing Sculpture
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A still from Kandis Williams’s multiscreen work “Triadic Ballet” (2021). (Courtesy the artist and the Rosenkranz Collection.) — In Aspen, an Exhibition Meditates on “Mountain Time”
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(Photo: Delfino Sisto Legnani) — A Book About Joints Celebrates the Big Ideas Behind Tiny Details
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Maria Cristina Didero. (Photo: Stefan Giftthaler) — Design Miami’s Curatorial Director Sees Art Fairs as Powerful Platforms for Cultural Exchange
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Alexandre Benjamin Navet. (Courtesy Van Cleef & Arpels) — Alexandre Benjamin Navet Presents Flowers, Real and Imagined, on New York’s Fifth Avenue
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Installation view of “Plastic: Remaking Our World.” (Photo: Bettina Matthiessen) — At Germany’s Vitra Design Museum, an Exhibition Considers the Promises and Problems of Plastic
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Cover of “Nichetto Studio: Projects, Collaborations, and Conversations in Design” — The Prolific, Genre-Defying Output of Luca Nichetto
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Ceramic vessels by Omar Sosa — These Earthenware Vessels by Omar Sosa Invite Improvisation and Play
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A New Biography Looks Back on Stewart Brand’s Planetary Impact

A patchwork tapestry by Megumi Shauna Arai. — Megumi Shauna Arai’s Enchanting Textiles Are Patchworks of Stories and Traditions
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Audio works from Nancy Holt’s “Tours” and “Visual Sound Zones” series in The Warehouse Dallas exhibition “Sound as Sculpture.” (Photo: Kevin Todora) — In Dallas, the First In-Depth Presentation of Nancy Holt’s Audio Works
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Sky High Farm Workwear’s recycled denim chore coat and double-knee pants. (Photo: Ramie Ahmed) — Clothes Fit for Modern Farmers, With a Message
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Journalist and novelist John Colapinto — The Magic and Miracle of the Human Voice
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Ecologist Carole Collet. (Photo: Misha Haller) — What the Fashion Industry Can Learn From Biology
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Jana Winderen using a hydrophone to record underwater in the Dominican Republic. (Photo: José Alejandro Alvarez) — By Listening to the Ocean, Jana Winderen Exposes the Vital Role of Sound in Aquatic Life
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Vollebak’s Indestructible Puffer. (Courtesy Vollebak) — From an Indestructible Puffer to 100-Year Pants, Vollebak Makes Clothes for the Future
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A spread from “How to Take a Japanese Bath.” (Courtesy Stone Bridge Press) — For Leonard Koren, Taking a Japanese Bath is the “Ultimate Experience”
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A hallway in AORA’s virtual gallery. (Courtesy AORA) — These Virtual Exhibitions Draw on the Real-Life Health Benefits of Art
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CW&T’s Time Since Launch clock. (Courtesy CW&T) — A Brooklyn Studio Whose Creations Alter Our Perspectives on Time
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Walden meditation cushion and mat — A Brooklyn Wellness Brand That Harnesses the Power of Good Design
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Soft Baroque’s coffee table for Vaarnii. (Courtesy Vaarnii) — How a Finnish Furniture Company Explores the Potential of Pine
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A Smallhold minifarm installed at a Whole Foods in Brooklyn. (Photo: Deirdre Lewis) — Smallhold’s Mushroom Minifarms Give New Meaning to the Term “Local Food”
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Wild Design book by Kimberly Ridley — Nature’s Functional Forms, Billions of Years in the Making
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Cheese expert Erika Kubick — How Cheeses Get Their Funk, According to a Self-Proclaimed Cheese Evangelist
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Mycologist Giuliana Furci — How Fungi Can Save the World
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A visitor at the Van Abbemuseum’s “Delinking and Relinking” exhibition. (Photo: Joep Jacobs) — When Scent Meets the Museum, Do We See Art Differently?
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Modernist Pizza book — Modernist Cuisine Applies Its Signature Science-Meets-Art Approach to Pizza
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“Untitled” (2018–2019), by Kazunori Hamana and Yukiko Kuroda. — At a Los Angeles Exhibition, “Almost-Dysfunctional” Japanese Pottery That Conveys the Circle of Life
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Return Brewing’s inaugural beers, Heathenous and Polished Pilsner. — In New York’s Hudson Valley, a Brewery of Innovation and Intent
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