Abstract floral imagery is featured in many of the tapestries of Jan Yoors, whose picaresque life and multi-media creations were the subject of a feature in the Summer 2010 issue of Modern magazine. And, appropriately, the work of Yoors—as well as ...
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Design Miami 2010 Part Two Talking Furniture “Creating a dialogue” between furnishings, or between works of art, is one of the stock phrases used by dealers to explain the way they curate their galleries. It’s an unassailable bit of jargon bec...
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Design Miami 2010Part OneYou could say, jokingly, that the Design Miami fair, inaugurated six years ago, has been a tick, riding on the big dog that is the Art Basel Miami Beach extravaganza.That metaphor had, until this year, one flaw: Design Miami ...
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In the fall of 1926 Barker Brothers, then the largest furniture retailer in the United States, opened a striking new shop on the fourth floor of its eleven-story building in downtown Los Angeles. The new “store-within-a-store,” christened “Mode...
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From the Laboratory to the Living Room Amid a clutch of young designers basing their work on scientific concepts, the questing Dutch polymath Joris Laarman is a standout By Christine Soares Scientists like to call evolution a blind ...
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Baby, Are You for Real?Los Angeles auctioneer Peter Loughrey offers a tale of aesthetic detective work Occasionally I am asked by a potential purchaser, “How do you know this is real?” Although I’m tempted to answer with a quip about ontology, ...
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