Conversation Piece 2015 Carpenters Workshop Gallery is presenting Vanishing Point, a new series by Dutch designer Sebastian Brajkovic for Design Days Grand Paris this week. The cashmere wool fabric is luscious. The pieces are playful and irreverent, making them rather exciting. … Continue reading
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Rare M2 and M3 ceiling lights by Joseph André Motte at Galerie Pascal Cuisinier for Art-Saint-Germain des Pres. Motte was one of the first French designers to use perspex in this specific interlocking design. Each light is made up of four … Continue reading
The Harlem Toile de Jouy pattern by Sheila Bridges is represented in the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian National Design Museum’s permanent wallpaper collection. This year is the Bicentennial anniversary of the death of Christophe-Philippe Oberkampf (1738-1815), the founder of the … Continue reading
Furniture For Sale from the Private Collection of an Art Advisor in Paris These items are all in good condition and priced to sell.contact@arte-case.com or +33 6 22 37 44 72We will help arrange shipping. Hanging PULP lamp by Jo Meesters, 2008, Purchased from Tools … Continue reading
We were up at Les Puces for the first time in quite a while this week. Each year it becomes more “established” and this year is no different – from new numbered awnings for easier identification of the stands to … Continue reading
If you are visiting Design Days Dubai next month (16-20 March) make sure you make a stop at Fumi Gallery www.galleryfumi.com to see Tuomas Markunpoika’s work. Engineering Temporality Cabinet made of welded steel rings. Photo courtesy of Gallery FUMI Inspired by his grandmother’s disintegrating memories as … Continue reading
Frank Lloyd Wright created the philosophy of organic architecture. His idea of “organic architecture is a reinterpretation of nature’s principles as they had been filtered through the intelligent minds of men and women who could then build forms which … Continue reading
Flemming Laasen’s (1902-1984) ‘Tired Man’ chair, originally designed for the Joiners Guild Exhibition in 1936 is intriguing. The curved forms can be interpreted as the designer’s individual response to the austere internationalism prevailing in the pre-WWII years of the 1930s. … Continue reading
This beautiful sculptural portemanteaux designed by Felix Agostini, straddles the worlds of Art and Design – it can as easily be described as a piece of sculpture as it can a functional piece of design. Sculpturally it has a personal and playful quality, … Continue reading
Treasure hunting in Paris on a rainy day ~~ A pair of 1960s Scandinavian teak and rosewood chairs. These exceedingly comfortable chairs carry some recognizable trademarks of midcentury Scandinavian design. The sculptural form of the arms is one and … Continue reading
