pganonovo Pilar Viladas Dies at 70; Journalist Chronicled Trends in Design

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Pilar Viladas, a veteran writer and editor whose human touch and encyclopedic knowledge of architecture, design and art history gave her work a quiet authority, died on March 15 at a hospital near her home in Southbury, Conn. She was 70.

The cause was amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig’s disease, her sister Luisa Viladas said.

Among national universities, Princeton was ranked No. 1 again, followed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard. Stanford, which tied for third last year, fell to No. 4. U.S. News again judged Williams College the best among national liberal arts colleges. Spelman College was declared the country’s top historically Black institution.

Starting at Interiors magazine, a trade publication, in 1979, Ms. Viladas’s decades-long career traced the whipsaw design trends of the past half-century,66jogo casino including the arch whimsy of the Memphis movement in early 1980s Italy, the gilded excesses of late-1980s interiors, the minimalism of the ’90s and the swaggering era of star architects at the turn of the last millennium.

Ms. Viladas was an editor at Progressive Architecture, HG and The New York Times Magazine, and a contributor to Town & Country and Architectural Digest, among many other magazines that documented, with anthropological zest, the totems of privilege and lives well lived. But Ms. Viladas wasn’t interested in fads or fetishes, although she noted them with amusement. Her taste was for enduring expressions of good design.

Holly Brubach, a former style director of The Times Magazine, hired her in 1997, after Ms. Viladas had completed a Loeb Fellowship in advanced environmental studies at Harvard.

ImageMs. Viladas gave a presentation of Italian design in Miami in 2014. Credit...Alexander Tamargo/Getty Images for Poltrona Frau

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