In 2014, when the artist Dan McCarthy moved from Brooklyn into a converted schoolhouse in upstate New York, he decided the grand hall would be a future gathering spot for his many Facepots: large, wonky vessels decorated with a spectrum of grins and grimaces. The earliest ones, about a decade old, recall a time of emotional swings. “I hadn’t even found the clay that worked,” McCarthy says of that experimental phase, “so a lot of the pots were breaking in the kiln.” He learned to relinquish control, repairing the salvageable works using the Japanese technique known as kintsugi, in which mended seams are accented in silver or gold. The Facepots brought a new openness to McCarthy’s practice, as did the Hudson Valley. Absent the city’s pressures, he explains, “I was like a kid — on my hands and knees, lost in making a thing.” “Freedom,”a new monograph of McCarthy’s work, charts that arc, with nods to his Southern California upbringing, seen in rainbow-colored paintings of surfers and songbirds perched on guitars. Birds also animate new ceramic works in his solo exhibition at the Tokyo gallery Kosaku Kanechika, on view through Nov. 16. For McCarthy, these first faceless pots offer a shift in narrative. “Instead of a vessel, maybe it’s a nest,” he says, describing a fascination with his neighborhood birds. Kintsugi-like detailing appears on these pieces, too: Silver-leafed slabs camouflage the occasional split, while shiny rectangles evoke the little mirrors tucked inside birdcages. For the artist, fresh off his first flight to Japan, it’s a time of possibility. “I’m 62, which is old and not,” McCarthy says. “I think I’ve got another act in me. It should be an adventure.”
Delta’s Entire Fleet Is Getting New Cabin Designs—Here’s a First Look
16.10.2024 - 16:27 / afar.com / Mauricio Parise
Delta Air Lines passengers will soon begin noticing a brand-new look when they board their flights.
The Atlanta-based carrier announced Tuesday that it has started an ambitious retrofit of its entire fleet that will include new seat upholstery, seat cushioning, mood lighting, and an all-around updated motif with a new design language throughout its airplane cabins.
“This refreshed cabin interior infuses utility with beauty to create an atmosphere that feels fresh, elevated, and timeless while reflecting our customers’ evolving tastes and expectations,” Delta’s Vice President of Customer Experience Design Mauricio Parise said in a statement.
The standout feature of the new design is the modernized seats. Switching from the airline’s current light-blue seats to mostly navy blue with red accents, the airline is the latest to modernize its aircraft seating, following in the footsteps of similar recent seat overhauls at Southwest Airlines and British Airways.
First-class domestic seats will feature new memory-foam cushions and engineered leather.
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The color of the seats isn’t the only change that is coming. Business-class passengers in the Delta One cabin will get entirely new memory-foam padding with covers made from a breathable wool and nylon blend that Delta says will better regulate temperature. Premium Select (Delta’s version of Premium Economy) and first-class seats (on domestic flights) will get a new seat cover made with engineered leather and memory-foam cushions. Main cabin and Comfort+ seats on Delta’s wide-body planes will also get the memory-foam cushion, while all other seats fleetwide will get the new engineered leather and updated styling with the fresh color scheme and accents.
Importantly, Delta isn’t saying that it’s putting new seats in its planes; rather, it’s updating the look and feel to create a contemporary and consistent passenger experience between aircraft.
Beyond the seats themselves, the airline is putting new touches on the bulkheads and dividers between classes to match the seats, giving them a “celestial sky” pattern. The lavatories, too, are getting a slight glow-up, with new colors and the same stellar pattern as the dividers.
New memory-foam cushions will be installed in Delta’s Comfort+ seats.
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Another enhancement will be the ability to adjust the cabin lighting for different moods. During boarding, for example, Delta says it will use warm and open lighting, while during meal times it will tone down the atmosphere to make passengers feel as if they’re at a “candlelit dinner.” The cabin lights will remove blue tones and mimic the sunset for sleep, then slowly brighten the lights to mimic daylight when it’s time to wake up.
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