Tag archives: The Riv

So much talk these days about our southern border. Not to mention Mexico has challenges with its own southern border. At least in our all new Riv mag you can see some positive interventions to the border space. Ronald Rael’s pink seesaws through the border wall may have created the perfect metaphor. What happens here […]

By now you know the new issue of our Riv architecture and design mag looks closely at the migrant labor force that turns our architectural fantasies into built reality.   Alejandro Cartagena is an outstanding photographer who brilliantly aims his lens downward from a freeway overpass and has now spent decades chronicling the daily journey […]

What is the long road from Prada Marfa to Montecito? It’s the road that runs along the US-Mexico border which the Riv decided to look at because, well, timing is everything. Our border, of course, is a highly complex issue, with as many opinions as there are people and bots. Not to mention that Mexico […]

The new Riv design mag “The Long Road from Prada Marfa to Montecito” is finally out. The Riv always has its finger on the design pulse, and if there’s not a story in there that gets your juices flowing, you might want to check your own pulse. What you’ll find between the heavy card stock […]

Legendary Decorator, beloved villager, and Charlie Munger muse Penny Bianchi is herself a striking figure – a living, breathing design element in her own right. The indescribable Bianchi casually radiates charm, wit, joy – and the fauvist Je ne sais quoi one experiences when falling into a painting by Chagall. To madly understate it, there […]