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Toshiko Mori, FAIA, principal of Toshiko Mori Architect and former chair of the Department of Architecture at Harvard University Graduate School of Design, says of the architects featured in Four Florida Moderns, “The strength of expression and primacy of geometry still exist as heroic gestures, but the possibility of intimacy in modernism as demonstrated by their work has never before been achieved.” The book, which will be available in bookstores in December, is available for pre-order from the publisher, W.W. Norton & Company. For a synopsis, visit.

DesignCommotion spied the new carpets from bright and bubbly Amy Helfand at ICFF in May. Her new designs are as equally reflective of her personality as always. Adrift, below, is particularly vivid.

The exhibition is being organized by the center’s One-Three Collective. Above, from the Miami-based photographer’s 1940’s Cornet Model Series; left, Man-Fan, print transfer on plastic.

Hakatai is introducing the Bohemia series of glass mosaic tile. The mini-brick style 1-3/16” by 9/16” semi-transparent tiles are arranged in a traditional offset pattern. Colors include Mirage, Mallard, Chanterelle, Nutmeg, Loam, Sargasso Sea and Azul. The tiles are film-faced for ease of installation, and are suitable for interior walls, countertops, back-splashes and light-traffic residential floors.

After Color, an exhibition curated by Amani Olu, will open at Bose Pacia on July 8 with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. Exhibiting artists include Michael Bühler-Rose, Talia Chetrit, Matthew Gamber, Stephen Gill, Adrien Missika, Pushpamala N, Arthur Ou, Noel Rodo-Vankeulen and Michael Vahrenwald. After Color examines how artists employ conceptual black-and-white photography to strengthen their ideas and how such usage comments on the dominance of large-scale, color photography as seen in the contemporary art world over the last 25 years. Arthur Ou’s Untitled (Test Screen 4), 2008, an Archival Pigment print on silver rag paper, is shown.

Gallerist Dina Mitrani explains her focus for the show: Within the grouping of images of water in its liquid state, there are many different dramatic states as well.  There is the stormy, almost violently moving currents in the piece by Alberto Adsuara; the serene slow moving wave by Silvana Agostoni; the surreal flooding of Miami’s 395 highway by Vicenta Casañ; the symmetrical abstractions of a pool by Yuri Tuma; the poetic and historic image by Kanako Sasaki; and the purity of the images by Alexandra Rowley. A visually playful piece by Miami artist Marina Font shows an installation of 12 monochromatic photographs called Memories of the Sea. At first glance these are close ups of waves and waterfalls, but a closer look reveals folds and fuzz of the sheets on a bed.