Amy Azzarito is the managing editor of Design*Sponge. She graduated from the Parsons/Cooper-Hewitt with a Master’s in the History of Decorative Arts and Design. She’s published on diverse topics such as the evolution of French cuisine for Paris-New York: Design Fashion Culture, 1925-1940 and more recently, an essay about handbuilt homes in late 1960s as part of the countercultural movement for West of Center: Art and the Counterculture Experiment in American Art, 1965-1977. She is currently at work on Past and Present, a book that translates topics of design history into a present-day craft projects and is based on her Design*Sponge column. The book will be published by Stewart, Tabori, and Chang in Spring 2012. When not researching design history, she practices yoga, rides her bike or skateboard and tends to her bees, who live on a Brooklyn rooftop, and to her two cats, Loki and Freya, who allow her to live in their Williamsburg apartment.
