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U Can't Leave Doha Without Seeing the Islamic Museum!

April 4, 2013 8:30 AM

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Doha's Museum of Islamic Art,

influenced by the austerity & simplicity

of Islamic architecture,

is the last building designed by world renown

architect I.M. Pei.

It is breathtaking in both setting & design ....

this architectural "must-see,"

is an absolutely brilliant building

both inside & out!!!

Herzog & de Meuron's Parrish Art Museum ... at Night!

December 3, 2012 8:30 AM

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Everything I've read about the newly opened

Parrish Art Museum,

designed by internationally renowned architects

Herzog & de Meuron,

says that it's " all about the light"!!!

Historically the East End of Long Island has attracted

artists because of it's spectacular light!!!

Parish Director Terrie Sultan says one of the goals

of the museum's design

is to give its visitors the opportunity

to see the museum collection

"in the same light as the artists,

when they created the work."

Herzog & de Meuron Senior Partner

Ascan Mergenthaler

also referenced the light of the area ....

"The beautiful landscape and this light

is a very important form of inspiration to us."

Unfortunately thus far,

I have only gotten to see the museum at night .....

and I must report that it is spectacular!!!

But undoubtedly ......

I know I'll be seeing it in daylight soon!!!

2013 "Accessoration Trend" ..... Hiding In Plain Sight!!!

November 1, 2012 8:30 AM

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All of a sudden it's everywhere!!!!

Camouflage has invaded my head & my 'hood!!!!

It all started with these two delightful chairs in

House Beautiful's Dec/Jan issue ....

I desperately coveted them!!!!

Then, I went to visit my niece in Buffalo ....

& saw artist Jim Hodges'

fabulous stainless steel & enamel

camouflage sculpture

in front of the

Albright Knox Gallery!!!

Three day later, at a decadently delicious dinner

at a friend's fabulous new house

I fell madly in love with Chinese artist

Liu Bolin's

"self-camouflaged" photographs!!!

The next sighting was at NYC's D&D Building,

where I visited fabric & wallpaper "star"

Clarence House .....

& this stunning linen fabric called to me,

insisting it had to recover my dining chairs!!!

OH, I almost forgot

my sighting of Wall Street's famous Charging Bull

"redressed" in crochet camouflage by

the avante-garde artist Olek ...

but, then again,

she "re-dresses"everything in camouflage!!!

Two days ago, I was visiting the divine WR

as he was packing his "Boy Birken,"

a divine monogramed L.L. Bean camouflage tote,

giving camouflage the ultimate

"fashion approval rating"!!!

FINALLY, I got home last night,

after days & days of being inundated

with "camouflage," .

& this gigantic High Line Billboard

greeted me with artist

Thomas Bayrle's

"American Dream" .....

an homage of "Chrysler camouflage"!!!

As an "accessorator supreme"

all this intense camouflage imagery

can only mean one thing .....

A TREND .....

HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT!!!!

Another Fabulous Egg Chair ..... This Time in Brasilia!

October 10, 2012 8:30 AM

I love, love, love furniture designer

Arne Jacobsen's 1958

Egg Chair!!!

It's probably the world's most

"iconic accessoration"!!!

I have seen a zillion variations in the

"design universe" .....

including artist Tal R's

50 bespoke chairs

at the MuBE (sculpture museum)

in Sao Paulo!!!

(see blog 9/20/12)

But, when I "met" these shiny yellow

molded plastic chairs .....

sitting side by side, in the lobby of the

Hotel Melia Brasilia,

I thought they were the cleverest,

most contemporary & fun version to date!!!

Don't you???

Sheila Hicks Crossing Boundaries @ Sao Paulo Bienal!!!

October 1, 2012 8:30 AM

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The theme of the

Sao Paulo Bienal 2012

is "The Imminence of Poetics."

Included in the exhibition is world-renown textile artist

Sheila Hicks.

Her extraordinary "non-traditional" fiber pieces,

blurring the boundaries between art, craft, & design,

are "color-infused visual poetry"!!!

Introduced to this work by my friend the divine SDE,

I was immediately enchanted & inspired ......

the dynamic vitality of color, pattern, texture, & design

is extraordinary!!!

Ms. Hicks is an "accessorator supreme."!!!

By the way, if you don't get to Sao Paulo ....

her work can be seen in NYC at

Sikkema Jenkins Gallery.

Tal R's "re-accessorated" Egg Chairs in Sao Paulo!!!

September 20, 2012 8:30 AM

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I'm back ......

And I saw sooooo many fabulous things in Brazil .....

I'm not even sure where to start!!!

Sao Paulo's

Mudeo Brasileiro da Escultura (MuBE)

featured an installation of 50

"re-accessorated"

Arne Jacobsen classic Egg chairs,

"reupholstered" by Copenhagen-based,

Israeli artist

Tal R!!!

The chairs were divine ....

but unfortunately they weren't for sale!!!

Kusama "Accessorates" Pier 45 @ Hudson River Park!!!

August 29, 2012 9:44 AM

I adore the work of Japanese artist

Yayoi Kusama!!!

(blog 10/22/10 & 7/13/12)

This morning, I was thrilled to see this

divine Kusama installation

"accessorating" Pier 45

at the Hudson River Park !!!

Titled "Guidepost to the New Space" (2004)

the piece celebrates the her current retrospective at the

Whitney Museum!!!

The exhibition continues through September 30th

& is an honest to goodness "must-see" ...

HURRY!!!

ONE LAST KUSAMA THOUGHT .......

Last week,

I scored this fantastic pair of sunglasses

from the brilliant Kusama inspired

Louis Vuitton collection!!!

They are an absolutely fabulous, over-the-top

"accessoration" ...'

& I was told they are the only pair in NYC!!!

Kwoma Ceiling .... Largest Object @ NYC's Met Museum!

June 6, 2012 8:30 AM

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Last week, I stumbled upon the Oceanic Galleries

at the Metropolitan Museum of Art ....

& they are fabulous!!!

The centerpiece of the Melanesian Gallery is the

ceiling of a ceremonial house

of the Kwoma people of New Guinea .....

& it is covered with the most incredible

"pattern accessorations"

I have ever seen!!!

Commissioned by the Museum,

in the early 1970's,

the ceiling is more than 80 feet long & 30 feet wide,

& is composed of 270 stunning paintings,

from 24 master Kwoma artists.

I highly recommend a trip to the museum!!!

These galleries are a "must-see" .....

& there are another zillion incredible things

in the museum

that are divine eye-candy!!!

Mario Bellini's Designs for Venini Spanning a Decade!!!

April 27, 2012 8:30 AM

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SOGNI INFRANTI, 1992 Mario Bellini

CHIMERE work in progress, 2012 Mario Bellini

I love the vibrancy & grace of blown glass

and was once again enchanted by

exhibition during Milan Design Week.

(see blog 4/21/11)

It was held at the divine Museo Bagatti Valsecchi,

a stunning "house museum" on Via Gesu,

in the middle of Milan's shopping mecca,

between Via Monte Napoleone & Via Spiga!!!

Titled "The White Collection,"

this extraordinary selection of "glass art" includes

renown international designers,

including Japanese architect Tadao Ando,

Italian designer Alessandro Mendini,

and English designers Barber & Osgerby,

who most recently designed the 2012 Olympic Torch.

I was most captivated by the two collections,

created 10 years apart, by Italian designer & architect

Mario Bellini.

All six pieces are sublime ....

the over-the-top whimsey & color in the earlier series

is a revered "accessoration supreme,"

while the more minimal, sculptural shapes & colors of 2012

have a more contemporary feeling.

I can't make a "must-have" decision ....

& would be equally thrilled

by anyone of these pieces

"accessorating" my living room!!!

"Must See" ..... Art Fairs Are All Over NYC this week!!!!

March 7, 2012 8:30 AM

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Brent Birnbaum, "Lack" 2007-2012

68 pieces of Ikea Lack furniture purchased off Craigslist & screws

7 feet x 30 feet x 2 inches

Site Specific Intallation @ Scope Art Fair

Art is the "buzz word" in NYC this week!!!!

There are art fairs everywhere ...

& it is up to all of us to get to

one, two, three, four ....

or even all five!!!

ADAA - THE ART SHOW

March 7 - 11, 2012

Park Avenue Armory

Park Avenue & 67 Street

THE ARMORY SHOW

March 8 - 11, 2012

Piers 92 & 94

Twelfth Avenue at 55th Street

SCOPE NEW YORK

March 7 - 11, 2012

SCOPE Pavillion

57th Street & 12th Avenue

INDEPENDENT

March 8 - 11, 2012

548 West 22nd Street

VOLTA

MARCH 8 - 11, 2012

7 West 34th Street

Glasstress ....... From Venice to New York City!!!!!

February 15, 2012 8:30 AM

Thomas Schütte, "Berengo Head" 2011

Tokujin Yoshioka. "The Glass Tea House" 2011

Jaume Plensa, "Glassman II" 2004

Yutaka Stone, "Every Snowflake Has a Different Shape #30" 2010

Jan Fabre, "Greek Gods In A Body-Landscape" 2011

(room installation)

Barbara Bloom, "To Allan McCollum From Each And

Every One of Us (Together In Harmony)" 2010

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Javier Perez, "Corona" 2011

Marya Kazoun, "They Were There" 2011

(installation/performance collaboration)

Koen Vanmechelen, "The Walking Egg" 1989

Kiki Smith, "Milky Way" 2011

Glasstresse,

my favorite exhibition at the 2009 & 2011

Venice Biennale

had it's American debut yesterday .....

at the Museum of Art & Design!!!!

Adriano Berengo curator & createur

of this project commissioned a group of international

artists & designers,

unpracticed in glass as a creative medium,

to create a new visionary collaboration between

glass & their own practices.

The work is innovative, interesting, & exciting .....

a major "must see" for all accessorators!!!

THE MUSEUM OF EVERYTHING IS COMING TO NYC!!!

January 19, 2012 8:30 AM

One of my favorite Englishmen, James Brett

is bringing his delightful

Museum of Everything,

as well as the stunning books

that were created for the museum's exhibitions,

to NYC this month!!!!

January 21, 1:00pm

Book Launch & Talk plus Q&A by James

Metro Art Show

Metropolitan Pavilion

125 West 18th Street

NYC

January 26 - 29

The Shop of Everything .......

includes "everything" divine featured at

Selfridges, London!!!

(see blog 10-17,18,19 2011)

Outsider Art Fair

7 West 34 Street

NYC

January 27th,

2:00pm Film "Is It Art?"

5:30pm "Films of Everything" & talk

January 28th,

6:00pm "Collecting Obsession" panel discussion

I'LL BE AT "EVERYTHING".....

COME JOIN ME!!!!

#3 Museum of Everything's "Windows of Everything"!

October 19, 2011 8:00 AM

James Brett's Museum of Everything pop-up is extraordinary,

the "Store of Everything" is fantastic .......

but Selfridges "Windows of Everything" are the best!!!!!

Imagine devoting every window on Oxford Street,

a gigantic city block in London,

spanning the front of one of the world's greatest stores,

to "everything" that can't be sold!!!!

This is a phenomenal design installation,

and I applaud the Selfridges team for being sooooo brave!!!

This is a major tribute to the arts ....

but I can't help wondering,

who in NYC would ever be this brave?????

#1 ..... Museum of Everything 4.0 @ Selfridges!!!!!!

October 17, 2011 8:00 AM

James Brett's pop-up

Museum of Everything (blog 12/14/10)

is having it's latest divine incarnation at

Selfridges, London.

Brett's collection of self taught artists,

with developmental and physical disabilities,

is on display in a delightful warren of rooms

in the department store's lower level.

In addition to the the delicious exhibition,

great graphics are throughout the store,

a divine "shop of everything" is on the main floor,

& sublime "windows of everything" run across Oxford Street!!!!

You can't miss this "installation of everything"......

it's all the "accessoration quirkiness"

that makes London ..... London!!!

Squint Creates Sofa For London Transport Museum!!!

September 27, 2011 9:17 AM

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English designer (and my friend!) Lisa Whatmough,

owner of the fabulous London furniture company .......

Squint Limited

was asked by the London Transport Museum

to create this divine bespoke sofa .......

to be used on the posters that appeared in the Underground Tube stations

during the London Design Festival!!!!!

Made from the famous "moquette" fabric,

which has been used to upholster seating across the

London Transport system for over 100 years.

Lisa incorporated some of the most iconic patterns,

including the bold District Line pattern

designed by Misha Black in 1978 ...

and the Green Line moquette.

In addition, Lisa created a bespoke chair that was auctioned-off

at the Tent London design exhibition last week.

Surrounded by loads of people trying to "win" the chair ......

it was almost impossible to get it's picture!!!!

But, here it is!!!

Wish I'd won it ......... don't you!!!

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