Sonia Delaunay
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Artful Gifts with A Past
Sonia Delaunay’s fashionable gifts from The Met StoreNow is the the time to get a head start on your holiday shopping. After all, immediately following Labor Day comes a barrage of holidays, and if you love the arts, and have some of those hard to please artsy friends, we suggest you try the shopping experience from The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s annual holiday catalogue. Once we looked through its pages we were delighted to find merchandise collections inspired by and evocative of objects in the Museum’s vast holdings.
Like the previous years before, The Met has continued a tradition that began in 1870, their merchandising staff work closely with art historians, master craftspeople, and responsible manufacturers to assure that each of their publications, reproductions, and adaptations offers superior design, quality and value. These holiday introductions (and many more) are also available at store.metmuseum.org and in the Met’s retail locations: 1000 Fifth Avenue (within the Museum) and Rockefeller Center (15 West 49th Street). -
Sonia Delaunay at the Cooper Hewitt
We’ve waited long enough! The Cooper Hewitt National Museum is featuring the works of Sonia Delaunay now until June 19. This is the first major exhibit of Delaunay’s works in a national museum for over 40 odd years. Yes, it’s been a long time coming. Delaunay (1885-1979) was a Jewish-French artist whose design aesthetics dwell in strong colors and geometric shapes. Along with her husband Robert Delaunay and others, she co-founded the Orphism art movement.Through her paintings, drawings, painted ceramics, neon lights, sculptures, posters, textiles and costume designs, Ms. Delaunay merged art and everyday life. The beautiful textiles that she produced through her life proved her idea that color was “the skin of the world”.Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum2 East 91st Street, 5th AvenueNew York, NY 10128
Above Photos by High End Weekly™
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