Thank you, AN Interior Magazine for including me in the article on contemporary collectible design and on the state of the market, published in March, 2020. Above: A display of unrequited love finds itself scribbled in cursive handwriting. Exhibited as part of a Pierre Yovanovitch solo show mounted at New York Gallery R & Company in Fall […]
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To the design dealers, who have put effort, love, and passion into rediscovering the world of modern design. To those who have devoted their careers to advancing scholarship, given and sold to museums, discovered pieces that would otherwise be destroyed, promoted preservation, and made 20th-century design shine in our homes. This series of posts is to them, to recognize those dealers who carry on in
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What we learnt this morning from Detroit-based designer Chris Schanck is that everything about his work is contemporary. You can call ‘contemporary’ anything made in the present, ca. 2020. However, if you want to be true to the definition, ‘contemporary’ is only what captures the zeitgeist. In design, it means new, experimental, daring, independent. Contemporary
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Who designed this scooter? Following the success of the first part of the online program The Story of Modern Design with AIA New York | Center for Architecture, we are opening the second part, devoted to the Modern Movement in Italy, Germany, France, Russia, and the US. Five Fridays from 5 pm starting on May
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Today, April 21st, is the time to think about Brasília, Brazil’s capital, which marks its 60th anniversary. It was built by the ambitious Brazilian president Juscelino Kubitschek, who moved the capital away from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil’s capital since 1763, creating a new and modern city from scratch. So what is special about Brasilia from an architecture
To the design dealers, who have put efforts, love, and passion into rediscovering the world of modern design. To those who have devoted their careers to advancing scholarship, gifting museums, resurfacing pieces that would be otherwise destroyed, promoting preservation, and making 20th-century design shining in our homes. This series of posts is to them, to
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What I find moving about Japanese bamboo art is its natural beauty, and the way it appears: as humble, almost shy, delicate, and graceful as the landscape fabric of Japan itself. It is not as powerful as lacquer or influential as ceramics, but it is captivating and appealing in an extraordinary way. No less than
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When you come to start a collection as a connoisseur, seeking to make it ambitious, refined, and the best of its kind, you can do it smart, structured, focused, and to quickly define a personal mission statement. This is what happened to Boston-based collector Jeffrey Horvitz, whom I have hosted this morning in the program Collecting
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I am pleased to promote this beautiful charity. Milan is the capital of design, and now, when it suffers that much under COVID-19, designers are coming together to help their beloved city. ‘Design Loved Milano‘ is a fundraising auction, which will be taking place online on May 12th, conducted by Milan-based auction house Cambi. This
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Let’s remember them on their birthday, April 8th. Two architects who were active on the opposite sides of the ocean, did not belong to the same generation, yet, what put them together, aside from their birth date is their impact on 20th century culture. They were both visionaries who changed the face of architecture, and
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