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The Grand European Tour: 1st Destination – Art Basel
Saul LEITER, Cap, c.1960 3/10Chromogenic printFirst Time in Art BaselExhibiting for the first time at Art Basel, Howard Greenberg Gallery of New York City will present an important exhibition of iconic and captivating work by leading photographers of the 20th and 21st centuries. The wide-ranging selection will include photographs by Eugène Atget, Richard Avedon, Edward Burtynsky, František Drtikol, Bruce Davidson, William Klein, Saul Leiter, Arnold Newman, Edward Weston, and Edward Steichen, among others, at Art Basel in Switzerland, June 13-16, 2013. The Gallery has shown at Art Basel Miami Beach for more than eight years.The premiere of a new photograph by Edward Burtynsky, an artist known for his documentation of humanity’s impact on the planet, will be one of the highlights of the exhibition at Howard Greenberg Gallery. The large-scale image depicting a gushing Chinese dam on the Yellow River in HenanProvince, will also be the cover image for a new book on Burtynsky’s series about water, to be published by Steidl this fall. In addition, Watermark, a feature documentary film will be released in September 2013. Coinciding with the book and the film will be an exhibition entitled WATER of Burtynsky’s photographs from 2007 to 2013 at Howard Greenberg Gallery from September 19 through November 2, 2013.Among the 20th-century masterpieces of photography will be the work of the celebrated French photographer Eugène Atget, who brought a poetic and meditative tone to his landscapes. Saint-Cloud, a park with spectacular gardens in the Western suburbs of Paris, inspired him enormously, and several of his photographs taken there in the 1920s depict his transcendent vision.
Howard Greenberg Gallery is well known for its specialization in Czech photographers, who pushed the boundaries of the medium to modernity beginning in the 1920s and into the 1950s. Among them were František Drtikol and Josef Sudek, whose moody nudes will be on exhibition.
Arnold Newman photographed many famous artists in the 1940s and ‘50s, and a number of his portraits will be on view including those of Alfred Stieglitz and Georgia O’Keeffe, Max Ernst, and Willem de Kooning. Of particular note will be an extraordinary oversized image of the legendary composer, pianist, and conductor Igor Stravinsky. The only one of its kind, the portrait was made for a museum exhibition in 1951, and is known as the photographer’s signature work.
An enchanting 1930 Edward Steichen portrait of Anna May Wong, the first Asian American actress to gain international recognition, will also be on view. A number of rare still-lifes by Steichen, Edward Weston, and Brett Weston show the masters’ remarkable ability to find exquisite beauty in simple objects.
A 1940 photographic collage by the American artist Herbert Bayer, who was the last surviving member of the Bauhaus, projects a quality of surrealism its integration of images of figurative sculpture with lines of perspective. Born in Austria, he was an influential graphic designer, painter, photographer, sculptor, and architect, whose work was represented in a number of important exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City.Photographs by William Klein, one of the leading photographers of the postwar era as well as an influential filmmaker, painter, and graphic artist, will be exhibited following a critically acclaimed exhibition this spring at the Gallery in New York. A long-time resident of Paris, William Klein began his career as a painter, first studying with Fernand Léger. On view will be his early black and white fashion photographs taken for Vogue in the 1960s, and his painted contacts — enamel painting on blown-up contact sheet outtakes from the 1960s through 1990.
Art Basel
June 13-16, 2013
Hall 2.0/Booth D4
Eugene ATGET, Saint-Cloud, 1922Gold chloride printing out paper print; printed c.1922
Frantisek DRTIKOL, Nude, c.1927-29Pigment print; printed c.1927-29
William Klein, Smoke + Veil x 3, Paris (Vogue), 1958 (painted 2004)Hand-painted gelatin silver print; printed later, 19 5/8
Berenice ABBOTT, Fifth Avenue Houses, Nos. 4, 6, 8, 1936Gelatin silver print; printed c.1936
Edward WESTON, Egg and Bone, 1930Matte-surface gelatin silver print; printed c.1930
Walker EVANS, Main Street, Saratoga Springs, New York, 1931Gelatin silver print; printed 1930s
Arnold NEWMAN, Willem de Kooning, New York, 1959Gelatin silver print; printed c.1959
Herbert BAYER, Study of Perspective, The Measure of Man, 1940Images Courtesy Howard Greenberg GalleryAll Rights Reserved - Fashion Review, Guest Blogger, HEW Hotels, Polly Guerin, Punk: Chaos to Culture, The Metropolitan Museum
When Punk Meets High Fashion
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, “Punk: Chaos to Culture”From left, looks from Yohji Yamamoto, Viktor & Rolf and Chanel.Photo by Thomas Iannaccone, via WWD.comJust what exactly defines the punk era? Is it anarchy, rebellion or a do-it-yourself venue that continues to engage and excite our imagination? In this compelling and outrageous exhibition, “PUNK: Chaos and Couture,” May 9 to August 14 at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute,curator Andrew Bolton argues high fashion has adopted punk style more than any other counter cultural movement. The exhibition examines punk’s impact on high fashion from the movement’sbirth in the 1970s through its continuing influence today.
Karl Lagerfeld for House of ChanelPhotograher: David Sims PUNK’S ORIGINSince its origins, punk has had an incendiary influence on fashion,” said Mr.Bolton. Punk began in the mid-1970s as youth movement centered on the music scene at New York, CBGB club and then moved to London and there it grew full blown and fashion-focused with designers Vivienne Westwood at the helm. Punk broke all the rules in a time when originality was celebrated and championed the individual’s individuality. The museum explores this visually with 100 designs for men and women.
COMPARISON VIEWSOriginal pink garments from the mid-1970s are juxtaposed with recent, directional fashion to illustrate how haute couture and ready-to-wear have borrowed punk’s visual symbols, with paillettes being replaced by safety pins, feathers with razor blades, and bugle beads with studs, and other hardware. The exhibit is organized around the materials, techniques and embellishments associated with the anti-establishment style.GALLERY PRESENTATIONSThe seven galleries, organized thematically have designated punkheroes. The first gallery is devoted to CBGB represented by Blondie, Richard Hell, The Ramones andPatti Smith., Next gallery is inspired by Malcolm McClaren and Vivienne Westwood and their Seditionaries boutique in London. The Clothes for Heroes examines designers who extend the visual language of punk, as it was originally articulated by McClaren and Westwood. Do-it-yourself, punk’s contribution to high fashion is explored in the four final galleries focus on couture’s use of studs, spikes, chains, zippers,padlocks, safety pins and razor blade with Sid Vicious as its icon.MUSIC and VIDEOSPresented as an immersive multimedia, multisensory experience, the clothes are animated with period music videos andsoundscaping audio techniques; original punk pieces and videos showing punk icons wearing their infamous looks. The designers includeVersace, Balenciaga, Dolce & Gabbana and Karl Lagerfeld. It is interesting to note the couture and punk had value handcrafted, individual pieces. Bolton said, “Just as couture has made-to-measure one of a kind garments, punk would take a leather jacket and customize it so that you are the only person in the world who wears it.”
A book, Punk; Chaos To Couture, by Andrew Bolton with Prefaces by Three Punk Originals, Richard Hell, John Lydon (a.k.a. Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols) and Jon Savage each contribute with enlightening and fascinating essays illustrated with photographs of vintage punks and high fashion. Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
A Vivienne Westwood ensemble.Photo by Thomas Iannaccone, via WWD.com
Versace’s safety pin dress that created Elizabeth Hurley.Photo by Thomas Iannaccone, via WWD.com
A Stephen Sprouse dress works a graffiti vibe.Photo by Thomas Iannaccone, via WWD.com
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A series of Comme des Garçons dresses against a video wall featuring Johnny Rotten.Photo by Thomas Iannaccone, via WWD.comWritten by Polly Guerin -
Experience Some of the Most Extraordinary Photographs by Ahae at the Versailles Orangerie!
Ahae PhotographyJune 25th to September 9, 2013, Paris, FranceHigh End Weekly will be attending Ahae’s second major exhibition of photographs in France. This exhibit will be presented throughout the gardens of the Orangerie at the Palace of Versailles from June 25 through September 9, 2013. On view for the first time, THE EXTRAORDINARY WITHIN THE ORDINARY includes works in which all the languages of nature are explored by the photographer’s watchful eye: animals, movement, shadow and light. All of the photographs are taken from the same window… a radical challenge. From this unique viewpoint, Ahae aims to arouse our ability to be amazed by the simplest things and to perceive the primal messages they express. He urges us to open our eyes, see the natural world around us, and do whatever we can to protect it before it is too late.
THE EXTRAORDINARY WITHIN THE ORDINARY, an installation of monumental and large photographs, is part of the Palace of Versailles’s 2013 tribute to André Le Nôtre, the creator of the Versailles gardens. Admission is free.About The Exhibition: Subject Diversity
Though taken from the same window, Ahae’s works embrace a surprising diversity of subjects. Nature is out there, present and mobile. Its variations and nuances are the subject of a wild, moving quest—the permanent wonder offered by this landscape world, with its spaces and its inhabitants. Indeed, an impressive bestiary inhabits Ahae’s photographic world. The animals are the source of simple amazement in their dialogue with the elements, sky, earth and water.The Poetic Span of a Landscape
If every morning, winter and summer, Ahae manages to capture all the flavor of the landscape he sees from his window, it is because he understands its intricacies. From sunrise to the chiaroscuro of the moon, this microcosm is arranged around shared time. In succession, visitors traverse all the key moments of a day of the photographed landscape: a dreamed day, where we see the same subjects and events at the same time across the seasons. Variations in climate, like different times of the day, are a matrix in which the banal becomes exceptional. And focusing our gaze on “practically nothing”, the ordinary becomes extraordinary. Dialogue is established.The Languages of NatureThrough his photos, Ahae’s intent is to spur visitors to adopt a curious and attentive focus on that which speaks the language of nature. Those who know how to listen already understand the words of silence. In a world of familiar noises, Ahae’s photographs are an invitation to learn once more how to look and listen. The gray wagtail, the water deer, the azure-winged magpie and the black-naped oriole provide a plethora of characters for an open-air theater. Under the dome of the changing skies, nature is a breviary whose alphabet is written in the fleeting impressions captured by the photographer in every moment.
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Thomas Woodham-Smith, Mario Buatta, Susan Gutfreund, Geoffrey Bradfield, Audrey Gruss, Ellie Cullman, Philip Hewat-Jaboor, Nazy Vassegh, Nicola Winwood, Jamie DrakeThis was the second year that the American Patrons for Masterpiece London held their New York kick-off to announce plans for Masterpiece London, which opens with a preview on June 26 and runs through July 3 at the South Grounds of The Royal Hospital Chelsea. This year Ellie Cullman hosted the reception at her magnificent apartment.
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Guest Post: Sitting Pretty on Charles Eames Top Chairs
Written by Rebecca Jones
Charles Eames was an American designer who helped change the face of 20th century, modern furniture design with his extensive portfolio of work. His enduring pieces are a stunning marriage of comfort and functionality. Charles Eames furniture has remained at the forefront of modern furniture design, influencing numerous subsequent and contemporary designers.
Ergonomic Paradise
With the ever-increasing hours we seem to work in the Western world, it is essential that we look after our weary skeletons to ensure that all our hard work is not futile and we can live long, happy lives. Enough of the corny stuff, in all seriousness though, investing in a well-made, ergonomic chair is the best measure to protect your back and promote optimum spinal health.
Office Group Chair EA219 Gold EditionCharles Eames was a pioneering force in the furniture design world. His innovative vision and exciting designs lead him to create a number of pieces for an office environment including the Office Aluminium Group Chair EA119 Mesh. This is a task chair which is designed with the intention of being used at a desk. This chair is exceptionally comfortable due to the mesh panels and is also adjustable which further enhances the comfort factor and has a swivel functionality enabling the user to move 360 degrees.
Office Soft Pad Group Chair EA219The original intention for this piece was for outdoor use, hence the mesh fabric as it is hard-wearing, durable and immensely functional. The original mesh design was quickly discontinued and black leather took over as the material of choice. In 1969, the chair was further updated and a soft, padded version with cushions was created.
Office Aluminium Group Chair EA117 Gold EditionThis chair has an exceptionally sturdy aluminium framework and is arguably one of the first executive chairs. It is also light, versatile and the design enables the chair to adapt to the sitter’s body which makes for maximum comfort. The high back also guarantees that your back is perfectly supported. Since it’s creation, this piece has become an office essential.Child’s Play
Inject a new lease of life into your home with the Eames RSR Rocking Chair. This Chair will ensure you release your inner child. This piece is made from plastic which means its durable and can withstand daily wear and tear. Available in a number of vibrant colours, this piece is true to Eames form blending comfort with functionality. It is the re-edition of the now legendary Eames Chair is based on the original 1948 design which the first industrially-manufactured plastic chair. It is also available in fibreglass, another lightweight, robust and unyielding material.
RAR Rocking Chair (Fibreglass)A rocking chair is also an exciting addition to any interior and will look fantastic in a modern or more traditional decor scheme.
Bachelor Chic
This Charles Eames Lounge Chair from SwivelUK is the ultimate addition to any bachelor pad. Not only does this piece ooze luxury and sophistication, it is now considered a timeless classic in the history of modern furniture. This stunning feat of exquisite design and engineering features a bent rosewood frame and aluminium base, with chunky cushions made from the finest Italian leather. Originally designed in 1956, this piece has become a staple for the funkiest bachelor pads around and is not only stylish but exceedingly comfortable. For the perfect finishing touch to your abode the matching Ottoman is a welcomed addition featuring the same design and materials to ensure a slick, polished and ultra refined look.
Lounge Chair and Ottoman, Black Powder CoatingAll images in this article are courtesy of SwivelUKAuthor Bio: Rebecca is an avid writer and interior design aficionado. She frequently writes about her interests. Rebecca resides in the United Kingdom
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From Fair to Home
Vyna St. Phard admiring a Pablo Picasso plate from Leah Gordon, New York These are the long awaited photographs from my tour of the Park Avenue Armory earlier this month, during The Spring Show.
William Weston, London 
John Eric Riis, Georgia 
Leah Gordon Gallery 
Carlton Hobbs, New York The tour was at 3’oclock in the afternoon, but we were able to reach the finish line at 4:45pm. I guess that’s what happens when you are having too much fun. There was so many great and interesting objects to see and discover, and my group and I were at times inspired by them – mainly for their historical, and artisitc appeal. Once again, I’d like to thank everyone who came to the tour, and made it my highlight of the week.
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Vyna St. Phard admiring a Pablo Picasso plate from Leah Gordon, New YorkA few of my Favorite ThingsThese are the long awaited photographs from my tour of the Armory earlier this month. So much have happen since then… And again, I’d like to thank everyone who came to the tour and stuck it out for more than one hour and a half. Yes, that’s right. The tour was at 3 in the afternoon, but we finished close to 4:45pm. Everyone had so much fun, we all learned so much, and the time just flew by. I hope you’ll enjoy the images as much as I have. Have an excellent week, and a tres bientot!
William Weston, London
John Eric Riis, Georgia
John Eric Riis, Georgia
John Eric Riis, Georgia
John Eric Riis, Georgia
Douglas Dawson, Chicago
Leah Gordon
Carlton Hobbs, New York
Carlton Hobbs, New York
Carlton Hobbs, New York
The 2013 Spring Show at The Park Avenue Armory
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Vyna St. Phard visiting with Brett Beldock
Right: Brett Beldock, New York
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When Art meets Design
The 41st Annual Kips Bay Decorator Show HouseThe 2013 Kips Bay Designer Showhouse
The 41st Annual Kips Bay Decorator Show House opened its door last Tuesday, May 7th and will stay open to the public until Tuesday, June 4th. Eighteen of the nation’s most celebrated interior designers and architects participated in this year’s show house. Each designer spent weeks transforming an assigned space of the impressive Sharp Townhouse, at 161 East 64th Street between Lexington and Third Avenues in one of New York City’s most picturesque neighborhoods.
The 2013 participating designers and architects include: Andrew Suvalsky Designs, Barbara Ostrom Associates, Christopher Peacock, Dineen Architecture + Design PC, Eve Robinson Associates, Felicia Zwebner Design, Garcia / Maldonado, Inc., Gomez Associates, Huniford Design Studio, Jack Levy Design, Judy King Interiors, Kathryn M. Ireland Textiles & Design, Kristen McGinnis Design Inc., Monica Rich Kosann Photography, Nievera Williams Design, Robert Brown Interior Design, Sara Story Design, Stephen Mooney Interiors, West Chin Architect, PLLC.
“We are honored to have such an accomplished team of designers and architects and look forward to seeing how each chooses to transform their assigned room. With this impressive team, we hope to surpass this year’s fund-raising goal for the Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club which has a tremendous impact on both our region and the nation’s youth.” Bunny Williams, celebrated interior designer, and this year’s showhouse chair.
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The 2013 Spring Show
Bernard Goldberg Fine Arts The 3rd Annual Spring Show came and went and it was glorious. I remembered attending the first show and thought how powerful that bold splash of red looked in the entrance of the lobby as soon as I walked in. The energy, the atmosphere, the content of the space with its outstanding decorative and fine arts were thrilling then, as it was from May 1-5. My tour on Friday, May 4th, was a huge success, and I’m hoping to share the images with you as soon as possible, and I’d like to say a special thank you to everyone who attended and the many others for their support.
“A glorious welcome to springtime in New York.” VSP
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Brett Beldock, New York 
Brett Beldock, New York 
John Eric Riis, Georgia 
Milord Antiques, Montreal I’d like to apologize for the lack of posts these last few days, but I’ve been ill, and following my doctors orders by resting to regain my strength. Right now is an exciting time in New York, and Paris and I wish I had enough time to recount them all. My following posts will highlight my favorite decorative and fine art pieces from the fair, The Kips Bay Designer Showhouse, the much talked about Collective.1 Design Fair, various interviews, and much more.
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The 2013 Spring Show
Bernard Goldberg Fine ArtsThe 3rd Annual Spring Show came and went and it was glorious. I remembered attending the first show and thought how powerful that bold splash of red looked in the entrance of the lobby as soon as I walked in. The energy, the atmosphere, the content of the space with its outstanding decorative and fine arts were thrilling then, as it was from May 1-5. My tour on Friday, May 4th, was a huge success, and I’m hoping to share the images with you as soon as possible, and I’d like to say a special thank you to everyone who attended and the many others for their support. I’d like to apologize for the lack of posts these last few days, but I’ve been been ill, and following my doctors orders by resting to regain my strength. Right now is an exciting time in New York, and Paris and I wish I had enough time to recount them all. My following posts will highlight my favorite decorative and fine art pieces from the fair, The Kips Bay Designer Showhouse, the much talked about Collective.1 Design Fair, various interviews, and much more.
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