As mid-century Brazilian furniture been discovered and no longer considered the last largely unknown modernist design, Brazil’s contemporary design has been flourished. Just as the pioneers of modernism who utilized local materials, and particularly rich and textured hardwoods to achieved design which was not only full of grace, but also represented Brazilian identity, so those […]
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It is hard to believe, but this week marks the end of another successful lecture tour in Tel Aviv and we will be packing and travel home. Every morning, when we look outside of the window in the beautiful apartment at the center of Tel Aviv, we can see an architecture marvel, one of Israel’s
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On April 25th, New York University Department of Art History will hold a lecture entitled ‘A Challenge or a Gift? Conserving the Original Building Materials of Louis Kahn’s Salk Institute for Biological Studies,’ with Kenneth Itle, Associate Principal and Kyle Normandin, Associate Principal, Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc. One of the most beloved architecture icons,
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When you watch the documentary Strange and Familiar: Architecture on Fogo Island (directed by Katherine Knight and Marcia Connolly), you start thinking differently about modernism as you get to witness the long way it has gone since the early International Style, as it was seminally called, to the 21st century when modernist architecture has become
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I am pleased to tell you that the film Collecting Paul Evans will be screened for the first time in May and we have just uploaded the trailer (below). Since start shooting the film last spring, Paul Evans has been cemented as the most collectible of all American designers in an article which Jacob Bernstain published
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When a famous musician’s design dream comes true. It has been considered one of the most magical American esidences of the mid-century years, the recently restored home which George Nelson designed in the 50s (completed, 1958) for his friends the Kirkpatricks, in Kalamazoo, Michigan. With an incredible taste, and personalized details, testimony to the allure
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was honored to be invited to deliver a talk on the role of collectible design in the world’s finest interiors at Fresh Paint, foremost Israel’s contemporary art fair. Held each year in a surprising location in Tel Aviv, this year it is taking place at the new Steinhardt Museum of Natural History. While the fair
In the new selling exhibition at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, entitled ‘Masters of Design,’ the masters are defined as those who had come to shape French design in the years following WWII. Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, Jean Prouvé and Charlotte Perriand were not only active in the rebuilding of France and its colonies, and in substantiating
R & Company’s co-founders Zesty Meyers and Evan Snyderman can be credited for bringing mid-century Brazilian furniture to the conscious of collectors, for supporting scholarship, and for forging the path for its now international market. They have been responsible for disseminating the allure of design created in Brazil during the decades after WWII by immigrants
According to an excellent article published by Fred Bernstein in WSJ this weekend, Grete and Seamour Shavin of Chattanooga, Tennessee are among the only five original owners of Frank Lloyd Wright, still living in the homes that the American architect designed for them in the 50s. The couple, in their 90s, wrote a letter to
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