Chicago's leading auction house, Wright, hosted 'Living Contemporary' A stylish, curated sale of art and design, Living Contemporary on April 25th 2013 - a design auction that achieved a total of $3M, selling 75% by lot and 79% by value.
Phillips London Design Auction realised a total of £6,109,375 / $9,286,250 / €7,147,969 selling 87% by lot and 83% by value.
Andy Warhol's New York home is currently up for sale - at $5.8 million. Located in the Carnegie Hill neighbourhood of New York, the 3,072-square-foot townhouse was bought by Warhol for just $60,000 in 1959.
Living Contemporary is Wright's highly-anticipated auction featuring a well-curated selection of art and design. This season's sale features a broad spectrum of works by iconoclast American artist Christopher Wool, offering a snapshot of the New York art scene in the 1980s and 90s and insight into the artist's creative process.
Phillips is proud to announce highlights from the upcoming April Design auction, featuring 267 lots with a combined pre-sale low estimate of £3.9m and a pre-sale high estimate of £5.6m.
This year the Temporary Museum for New Design organized for the Fuori Salone by Superstudio Group, based on a project by Gisella Borioli and with the art direction of Giulio Cappellini, was held as always at the two iconic locations in the Tortona district: the capacious Superstudio Più, exhibition and creativity center, at Via Tortona 27 (10,000 m2) and the historical Superstudio 13, the famous
During Salone del Mobile, DMY Berlin presented the 6th edition of their exhibition series Berlin Milano: The showcase Berlin Trails presented compelling new works by Berlin-based designers and studios at Ventura Lambrate.
In the only program of its kind, design historian Daniella Ohad highlights such major areas in collecting design as French Art Deco, American Modernism, Contemporary Design, Italian, American, and French mid-century design and more. Ohad hosts some of the world’s leading experts who share their knowledge and passion about their areas of expertise.
From the 8th of February - 13 of April HEDGE gallery presented 'Singularity' by Christopher Kurtz.
From Kurtz:
In this new exhibition, “singularity”, i have created a number of sculptures made up of constructed and carved pieces of wood. The forms appear to elongate and stretch out into dynamic compositions.
Wilson visited the Salone del Mobile this year, a place where they show many, many sofas and chairs and things one can’t really describe unless one has been to engineering school.
Taking place at ExCeL in London’s creative east, from 19-21 May, four separate design trade events will combine to form The May Design Series.
Artist designer Marcus Tremonto will be showing a new collection of unique illuminating "Orbital Mirrors", the first in a continuation from the "Stitch Series" shown for Spazio Orlandi at the Salone del Mobile in 2009.
Nilufar will present the latest piece of The Leather Collection during the Salone Del Mobile, from 9-14 April
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In the past a few foreign galleries made exhibitions devoted to the work of Gerrit Th. Rietveld.
Galerie Vivid is very proud to be the first ever Dutch gallery to organize a comprehensive presentation of the Dutch architect's original works.
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