Showing posts with label vintage art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vintage art. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Yellow & Blue Make Me So Happy!




You know how I really do rate the Series 7 chair by Arne Jacobsen, as the most iconic chair of the 20th Century?
Floral throw by Olivier Desforges

  Well here it is in my daughter's room in white against the dark navy blue walls. I have a number of these chairs used for dining and occasional chairs all over my home.
 I have dark brown stained ones from the early 1970's, white ones from the 1980's and cherry red gloss examples from this decade. 

 They are unbeatable for their comfort and practicality.  In my view the Series 7 will compliment any interior, and can be stacked for easy storage.

  I am also obsessed with yellow and the yellow ceramic piece on the bedhead is one of a pair of wonderful 
Italian 1970's pendant lights which have since been installed as hanging bedside lights.


Australian stylist Marcus Hay obviously feels the same way about the chair and the colours....yellow and blue. 
 Below are a few pics from his Manhattan apartment as featured in Elle Decoration.


Salon hang of 1950's & '60's  pieces including Italian calendar and metal fish sculpture.
The empty frame is also an interesting addition.
Interesting salon hang of found objects

Vignette with found objects and pieces of Italian Bitossi Pottery

Love the way the old doors have been used as a way of delineating a dining area by providing a back drop in a very small space

images via Elle Decoration

&
J Watson-Evans for WWID


Monday, April 18, 2011

Purple Haze! The Art of Maximilian Feuerring

floral abstract by Maximilian Feuerring circa 1972

Detail of painting


Maximilian Feuerring was born in 1896 in Poland, 
and came to Australia in 1950.


We have collected a number of this wonderful artists works 
and are very proud of our collection.


Not that much is known about Feuerring except that
 apart from being a prisoner of war in Germany for five years, 
he had his first one man show in Rome in 1926,
 and exhibited at the Sao Paulo Bienal in 1965.


He was a prolific producer and his works show his talent
 as a versatile artist and great colourist.


He is represented in all the state galleries of Australia
 as well as
  Washington, Warsaw, Poland, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Rome.


Max died in 1985 and to this day I think his work is significantly overlooked an undervalued.


Some of my favourite works in our collection
 are vintage paintings by Max Feuerring!


I can't wait to share more of these stunning paintings with you!




Photo by The Decorator
J Watson-Evans


Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Love American Style - The Decorating Episode!

This wonderful book was published in 1975 and I find myself often flicking through its slightly yellowing pages.

I get so inspired when I see some of these interiors that feature incredible museum quality 20th Century iconic art, like the pics from the Scull Pop Art Collection and the interior by
  Billy Baldwin which features works by Jackson Pollock, Kenneth Nolan,
 and Helen Frankenthaler!

By the way this apartment was owned by S.I Newhouse Jnr, media tycoon and Chairman of Conde Nast!

Wow! Oh for the privilege of working an interior around such modern masterpieces!

Please enjoy the following images from "Decorating American Style" by Jose Wilson
and Arthur Leaman!


The Scull Pop Art Collection featuring the James Rosenquist and French Provincial Dining



Jasper John's "Flags" with sculpture by Claes Oldenburg



Pumpkin Vinyl walls with black and white floor by Richard Ohrbach



Billy Baldwin interior for SI Newhouse featuring the Jackson Pollock, Kenneth Nolan and
Helen Frankenthaler



Michael Taylor all white interior with tv and red abstract!
Adore the white artwork to the left!



Mickey Mouse bedroom by Arthur Leaman



Jasper Johns "Target" and lifesize George Segal sculpture owned by Henry Geldzahler



Scull collection with Andy Warhol faces of Ethel Scull  and Roy Indiana painting with "Stove" by Claes Oldenburg



Wall to wall red Kartell storage units 



Interior with Morris Louis painting



David Eugene-Bell blue and white extreme!



Sublime Michael Taylor all white room



70's does thirties interior with cactus by Richard Himmel



Shades of Grey by Barbara Darcy of Bloomingdales



The cover of Decorating American Style by JoseWilson and Arthur Leaman

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