Current & Coming |
Eames House tour contest
February 22, 2010 |
The Delaware-based type foundry and design firm House Industries is offering three lucky individuals a chance to win an exclusive tour of the Eames House (Case Study House #8) in Pacific Palisades, California, where the dynamic design duo lived from 1949. Although the grounds of the Eames House are open to the public, tours of the interior are usually only available to Eames Foundation members once a year. Winners will be announced tomorrow, February 23. Don't miss your chance—enter here!
For a peek inside, check out this vintage photographs from the Library of Congress:
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Discovery |
A to Z: Penwork
February 22, 2010 | 
A Regency penwork cabinet, England, 19th cetury. Courtesy of Mallet/1stdibs.com.
Penwork A type of decoration applied to japanned furniture in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, mainly in England. Furniture to be treated in this way was first japanned black, then patterns were painted on in white japan and finally the details and shading were executed in black India ink with a fine quill pen. The effect is delicate and lacy, rather like an etching in reverse, with white motifs on a black ground (The Penguin Dictionary of the Decorative Arts edited by John Fleming and Hugh Honour)» More
The Market |
This week's top lots
February 19, 2010 | 
What: Leather and brass dog collar belonging to Charles Dickens, 19th century
Where: Bonhams New York (February 19, The Dog Sale)
Estimate: $4,000-6,000
Sold For: $11,590
Like most Victorians, Dickens's love for dogs was well known. Although the exact animal that wore this collar is unknown, one account of his home at Gad's Hill (the address inscribed on the collar) writes: "the large dogs were quite a feature of the place, and were also rather a subject of dread to many outsiders...Linda, a St. Bernard had been living in the garden at Tavestock House before she was taken to Gad's Hill. She and Turk—a mastiff—were the constant companions in all their master's walks."
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Discovery |
Recommended this week
February 17, 2010 | The Met blog show off a recently acquired daguerreotype The Salon of Baron Gros by Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gros—a French diplomat who took up photography while stationed in Bogota, Columbia. Curator Malcolm Daniel calls it the Met's finest French daguerreotype.
Ryan Sutton reviews the sleek new restaurants at the Museum of Arts & Design and the Guggenheim, and gets nostalgic for cafeteria food. Read it at Bloomberg.com.
Budding gallerists take heed! ARTNews examines just the right shade of white for your walls from Benjamin Moore's November Rain to the Getty's custom shade of (Richard) Meier White. Take your pick.
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Discovery |
ANTIQUES bookshelf
February 16, 2010 | Film historian Ira M. Resnick bought his first film posters forty years ag
o. These are still a part of his collection, which has grown to some 2,000 posters and 1,500 film stills, and has been published for the first time in Starstruck: Vintage Movie Posters from Classic Hollywood. As both a dealer and a collector, Resnick, who owns the Motion Picture Arts Gallery in New Jersey, is a leading authority in the world of film memorabilia, and here presents both a guide to collecting—with an appendices of his fifty favorite posters and a glossary of terms—and an in depth history of Hollywood's golden age from 1912 to 1962.
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Pickle Dish, American China Manufactory (Bonnin and Morris), Philadelphia, 1771-72. Soft-paste porcelain with lead glaze; height 4 3/16, width 4 1/2
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