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• Bringing Power Back to the Collector: Daniella Ohad on Her New Course “Collectin...

  

  Francois-Xavier LalanneSet of Four Sheep, 1996-1999Expoxy Stone BronzeProduced by Landowship Fonduer FranceNumber 79 From an Edition of 250 RamsCourtesy of... Read more

  Posted on 28 July 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• A Tour of Art Nouveau Riga Courtesy of Yours Truly and Modernism Magazine

  

  Eisenstein's dreamy apartment building (built in 1902) at 10 Elizabetes Street. Photo by Imants Predelis. The summer issue of Modernism Magazine features an... Read more

  Posted on 29 June 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Summer Decorative Arts Calendar

  For those lazy summer afternoons when you don't feel like going to the beach..here are some ideas on what to see in the city (and not just New York City)... Read more

  Posted on 23 June 2012 CULTURE

• Sotheby's Has a Winner with the Sale of Suzanne Belperron's Jewelry

  

  Suzanne BelperronOn May 14th Sotheby's Geneva held the sale of the personal effects of one Suzanne Belperron (1900-1983). For those in the know, this was an ver... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Sneak Peek: "Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations"

  

  Tomorrow morning the highly anticipated exhibition "Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations" opens to the public at the Costume Institute at the... Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE, FASHION, LIFESTYLE

• "Collecting Design": Everything You Need to Know

  

  My friend and mentor Daniella Ohad (who is also behind those wonderful On Design videos that I wrote about here last summer) is starting a new course called... Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2012 ART & DESIGN, INTERIOR DESIGN

• At SOFA Jewelry Takes Center Stage

  

  With all of the art and design fairs that take place each year in New York, SOFA (International Expositions of Sculpture Objects + Functional Art), which... Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Gallery LOUPE at SOFA NY

  

  One of my favorite gallery's, Gallery Loupe, will be exhibiting at the International Expositions of Sculpture Objects + Functional Art (SOFA), opening to the... Read more

  Posted on 19 April 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Decorative Arts Calendar: April

  I just found out about a few wonderful fashion-related exhibitions that I am going to include on this month's calender. As you will see, they have already opene... Read more

  Posted on 11 April 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Schmuck 2012 (Part Three)

  

  Saturday, March 17, 2012 Studio Visit: Laura Deakin I had the pleasure of accompanying Patti Bleicher, owner of Gallery Loupe in Montclair, NJ,... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Schmuck 2012 (Part Two)

  

  Friday, March 16, 2012 Pinakothek de Moderne My AJF ladies and I started our day with a visit to the Pinakothek de Moderne. We spent the entire morning here as... Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Happy Birthday Mies! Villa Tugendhat in Brno Now Open to the Public.

  

  Villa Tugendhat Exterior. Photo taken by David Židlický. Image courtesy http://www.tugendhat.eu/Today marks Mies van der Rohe's 126th Birthday. To design and... Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Schmuck 2012 (Part One)

  

  Schmuck 2012 (March 14-20, 2012) Earlier this month I traveled to Munich with the Art Jewelry Forum (www.artjewelryforum.org) t... Read more

  Posted on 27 March 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Guinness Wardrobe Heads to Auction to Benefit Isabella Blow Foundation

  

  Anyone who reads this blog on a regular basis has come to learn that I am obessessed with the fate of the late Isabella Blow's wardrobe. Read more

  Posted on 12 March 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Decorative Arts Calendar: March 2012

  See Theatrical by Design: A Century of The Shubert Organization’s Theatre Interiors, March 7- April 27, 2012. New York School of Interior Design. Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Asagi Maeda and "Spirits of Klimt"

  

  Asagi Maeda, "Spirits of Klimt", September 2007, Sterling silver ( 24K gold plated), enamel, milky amber, green amber, 18K gold (for balls on the center of... Read more

  Posted on 29 February 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Living with Design: Rago Auctions Preview at the Apthorp

  

  One of my favorite aspects of attending an auction preview is trying to imagine the interior that a console, a table, or an armchair will fill. Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2012 INTERIOR DESIGN

• Fashion Inspired: Marc Jacobs and Gustav Klimt

  

  Marc Jacobs sent his models down the runway this past week during Fashion Week in New York (see the show in its entirety here) in large coats and even larger fu... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE, FASHION, LIFESTYLE

• Lillian Bassman (1917-2012)

  

  Last Monday, February 13th, the great fashion photographer Lillian Bassman passed away at the age of 94. In the sea of great fashion photographers (a group... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Grossman's "Cobra" Lamp

  

  Greta Magnusson Grossman, USA, circa 1950 Table lamp in enameled aluminum on a chrome-plated steel base with one cone shade and one "Cobra" shade. Designed for... Read more

  Posted on 10 February 2012 ART & DESIGN