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Functional art on fire at SOFA
The Art Newspaper / April 22nd, 2010
A strong gate and brisk sales to museums and private collectors energized the 13th annual Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Fair (aka Sofa) at the Park Avenue Armory, 16-19 April. Japanese ceramicist Koike Shoko proved popular on opening night. Dealer Joan Mirviss sold out her offerings ...
Keno Bros. new furniture line deemed 'sexy'
Hartford Courant blog / April 19th, 2010
"The designs have so many curves, flared feet and serpentine styling details that they seem downright sexy," writes Hartford Courant blogger Nancy Schoeffer of the Theodore Alexander furniture line designed by twin brothers and antiques experts Leigh and Leslie Keno. The Keno Bros. ...
Six museum (re)openings keep art fresh this Spring
MSNBC / April 6th, 2010
New or newly expanded museums around the country this spring will showcase everything from Tiffany lamps to Wyeth paintings, as well as some cutting-edge new architecture to house it all. “Wyeth: An American Legacy, Treasures from the Farnsworth Art Museum” and Japanese woodblock prints are on ...
Tiffany, Nakashima featured in Skinner's 20th-century design sale
Auction Central News / March 25th, 2010
Art Nouveau, Arts & Crafts, Art Deco, Mid-century Modern and Studio Movement furniture and decorative arts, including Scandinavian modern, will be auctioned March 27 at Skinner's in Boston. Highlights include a Tiffany student lamp, bronze with green damascene shades, estimated at ...
High hopes for blue-chip art sales at TEFAF
Luxist / March 10th, 2010
The Dutch city of Maastricht is now hosting 263 top dealers, bringing about $2.7 billion worth of art and antiques to the world's biggest art fair, TEFAF. Opening night, this Thursday, may be a litmus test for how buyers will react to such offerings as a $15 million ...
TEFAF aggregates the world's best art for sale
Hello Magazine / February 25th, 2010
Over 30,000 works of art, from antiquities to modern paintings, much of it desirable for pedigree, rarity, and beauty, will descend upon the Dutch town of Maastricht from March 12 to 21. With 263 top-tier exhibitors bringing the best of their blue-chip art, plus special sections for design, works ...
U.S. picks "blastproof" glass cube design for new embassy
Bloomberg / February 23rd, 2010
Kieran Timberlake, the Philadelphia architecture firm noted for such projects as Yale's Sculpture Building & Gallery, has been chosen to design a new (and very expensive) U.S. embassy in the U.K. With a billion-dollar budget, the 12-story, cube-shaped building is not without critics who ...
Financial fortunes rise for Boston's Gardner Museum
Boston Business Journal / February 22nd, 2010
Rich in works by Old Masters and American impressionists, the palazzo-like Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum says its investment portfolio closed out the year valued at $161.6 million — some 53 percent higher than at the end of June, the close of its last fiscal year. A rise in the stock market and ...
Lingering thoughts of Tiffany, other tantalizing treasures at Winter Antiques Show
Canadian Press / February 16th, 2010
January's Winter Antiques Show is still generating buzz. Among the unveilings at the presitigious New York fair was one of the most significant Tiffany lamps to come on the market in decades. The exquisite example, with cascading pastel lilies and a lily pad bronze base, ...
Re-visiting Margi Hofer's 2007 book "A New Light on Tiffany: Clara Driscoll and the Tiffany Girls"
Tallmedge Express / February 10th, 2010
In 1906, the highest paid female in the U.S. was a woman born and raised in Tallmadge, Ohio, who was making it big in the big city. Clara (Wolcott) Driscoll moved to New York City and became Louis Comfort Tiffany's go-to designer. Driscoll is noted for her jewelry ...
A Distant Bauhaus Star: Margarete Heymann was ahead of her time
New York Times Art / November 1st, 2009
Margarete Heymann was a gifted ceramicist who had a falling out with the director of the Bauhaus school and now is largely ignored in the influential 20th century design school’s “official’' history. Her work was original, functional, very beautiful and remarkably advanced for its time. The ...
Style-Mixing Guru: Designer Suzanne Tucker will speak at SF Fall Antiques Show
San Francisco Chronicle / October 25th, 2009
At this year's San Francisco Fall Antiques Show, which will be held Thursday through Nov. 1, interior designer Suzanne Tucker will reveal her creative insights in a lecture based on her new book "Rooms to Remember: The Classic Interiors of Suzanne Tucker." Tucker is known as especially adept at ...
Great Houses of New York: River House, the Best Address
Huffington Post / October 22nd, 2009
Author Michael Henry Adams takes readers on a trip to Manhattan's fabulous River House overlooking the East River. Surmounted by a ballroom in the tower's graceful cupola was once a most palatial apartment occupied by the family of sportsman and publisher, Marshall Field, III. Field's English ...
Weekend Auction: Modern design stars at Sollo Rago
Auction Central News / October 20th, 2009
Wharton Esherick, Wendell Castle, Gio Ponti, Campo & Graffi, Richard Blow, George Nakashima, and Albert Paley are just some of the modern masters whose furniture is offered in Sollo Rago's much anticipated Modern Auction Weekend, October 24-25, in Lambertville, New Jersey. Studio furniture ...
Creative Spaces: Mixing folk art, antique styles in a Spanish Colonial
Architectural Digest / October 12th, 2009
“Each object becomes a piece of art,” Malibu-based designer Karin Blake says of her treatment of folk art in her clients' Los Angeles house. She placed an antique rocking horse on an 1890 sideboard with an oil by Rufino Tamayo. Her signature style is a blend of antiques, often from unexpected ...
Museum Sleep-over: Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater now open to overnight guests
Reuters / September 24th, 2009
MILL RUN, Penn. - Fans of Frank Lloyd Wright's house Fallingwater have long been able to visit the architect's modernist masterpiece as a museum, but soon they can enjoy the house almost as if they were living in it. A new Insight Onsite program allows guests to lounge about reading, enjoy a ...
RISD Museum of Art's Director Unexpectedly Resigns
UnBeige Mediabistro / August 5th, 2009
Rhode Island School of Design's Museum of Art's director Hope Alswang has announced that she is resigning, effective immediately, to pursue other opportunities.
With British Museum Plans Canceled, Richard Rogers Loses Second Big Project to Anti-Modern Forces
UnBeige Mediabistro / July 28th, 2009
Starchitect Richard Rogers seems neck and neck in competition with Frank Gehry for popular architect most raked over the coals in 2009. Last week, Rogers was back on top with the news that an unprecedented two of his projects had been shortlisted for the Stirling Prize. But now the bad ...