Modernism
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The New PAD
Pictured: A stunning wing chair designed by Frits Henningsen, Denmark, circa 1940s, ModernityThe Park Avenue Armory reopens its doors to another antique fair this past Thursday, November 8th. The show will end on Monday, November 12th. Salon Art + Design was created by veteran show producer Sanford Smith. It is the first American fair to collaborate with the Syndicat National des Antiquaires, Europe’s most prestigious association of dealers. Most of the dealers were in attendance at the renowned Biennael des Antiquaires in Paris, this past September. Altogether the mix of genres, periods and styles reflected the eclecticism of today’s collector.While this show highlighted 20th century and contemporary art and design, historic design were represented by the oldest decorative arts gallery in Paris, an Old Master dealer with multiple European locations, and a selection of dealers in ethnographic and Asian material. Collectors in attendance welcomed, once again, the opportunity to pair a Brueghel with a Jean Michel Frank table or a tribal mask with a Le Corbusier painting. The range and caliber of material at the Salon will attract discerning collectors, designers, and art enthusiasts around the world.
The venerable Tribal art dealer from Paris, Bernard DulonTop left: A Teke People Mask, congo, before 1920
Luba: Shankadi people, D.R. of Congo, 19th Century – wood, Galerie Bernard Dulon
Clean lines, overwhelming elegance: Top left – a Jean-Michel Frank’s wooden X lamp covered with tobacco-colored leather, L’arc en Seine
Galerie Valois
Victor Vasarely, Naissance-Pas, 1958, Painting on panel
Yayoi Kusama “Pollen” chair, circa 1984, Vivian Horan Fine Art
Left: A rare and unique Gaston Suisse, Wooden dark gray and black lacquer furniture (c. 1939) opening with three doors and eggshell on the handles, Galerie Felix Marcihac
Carpenters Workshop Gallery
An extremely rare large drawing of Le Corbusier
Galerie Downtown
Two door cabinet of welded aluminum, black enameled steel from Paul Evans, Bernd Goeckler Antiques
Wendell Castle
A masterful sculpture by Wendell Castle from “A New Environment”, Barry Friedman
The insightful and playful art dealer Jason Jacques
Horror Vacui from Morten Lobner Espersen, Jason Jacques Gallery
A very whimsical Jean-Marie Fiori bull-dog, lacquered bronze, and signed from Galerie Pierre Dumonteil
A series of stained pine Zig Zag chairs from Gerrit Rietveld, circa 1950s – early 1960s
A single Otto Wagner, post chair from Modernity
A favorite pair of Andre Sormay armchairs, circa 1925, Galerie Alain MarcepoilImages courtesy High End Weekly™All rights reservedYou May Also Like
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Conceptual Designs by Joe Cesare Colombo
“I don’t think of myself as an artist nor as a technician, but as an epistemologiest… A designer is the creator of the environment of the future” – Joe Colombo
The Milanese organic designer Joe Colombo who passed away the same year I was born, firmly believed in creating an integral habitat where the aesthetics of a home developed out of the way it was meant to be used as environment for living.Thoroughly Modern: Multi chair by Joe ColomboHe originally started his career as a painter and sculptor, and you can see evidence of this on the lurid colors, as well as the technological and functional innovation he used in his furniture design.
The famous KD27, circa 1970, in my favorite color, Orange!These designs are in great demand at auctions houses throughout the world. In the 1960s Joe Colombo created the 4801 chair – an authentic symbol of the design world at that time. That famous chair, which has since been licensed to Kartell was produced entirely of wood. Nowadays, technology enables the manufacture to produce them in PMMA, a process which emphasises their rounded, smooth shapes.
From Left: Continental, 1965, and Combi Center, 1963, by Joe Colombo
The 4801 Chair
The 4801 chairs by Joe Colombo now produced by Kartell
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Industrial Clocks by George Nelson
He was widely known as one of the founding fathers of American modernism, who was also admired as the creator of beautiful and practical things. As an interior designer, I appreciate the aesthetics of George Nelson’s designs, and make use of them whenever the project calls for it. Yes, I’m much enthused with his industrial clock designs, but do not want to over look his architectural contribution; his iconic furniture designs, like the 1956 kangaroo chair, his sling sofa and coffee table, and of course, his ever more popular steel legged chairs. A room with a view: The George Nelson retro modern chairs (circa 1956)are a perfect compliments to his industrial clocks. Photo via ArchzineThe settees, the bedroom pieces he designed while working with the Herman Miller company in the 1940s will forever remain in the archives as a notification of what great design really signifies. George Nelson was an amazing industrial designer with a vision that left an imprint and is still carried out by today’s top 21st Century Product Designers.
Futuristic!George Nelson’s Clocknik Table Clock
Message in a bottleGeorge Nelson Design for Herman Miller Clock Company, circa 1950
Round and Around We GoTop: Re-issued by Vitra, The Wheel, circa the 1950s, or 1960s. Right: Ball Clock, circa 1964Bottom: Tripod Clock, circa 1947. Right: An extremely rare Vintage George Nelson ClockSpoonfedGeorge Nelson Spoon Pendulum ClockForward to a new Modernism
The EssensialsTop: George Nelson: Architect / Writer / Designer / Teacher/ Full color, extensively illustrated, this book from the Vitra Design Museum is a fitting tribute to this seminal figure. With eight essays by German and American design historians, the publication deals with all of the areas of his work, many of which are presented here for the first time. Bottom: Building a New Europe: Portraits of Modern Architects (Yale School of Architecture) covers a series of articles from the 1930s, as Nelson eloquently introduced astonishing buildings and fascinating personalities from across the Atlantic to wider American audiences.NOTE: Please notify us directly, if you believe that certain images on this post are alleged to infringe upon the copyrights of others, according to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Thank you.
