Amy Shaw of Greenjeans talks about how she conceived the booth for this year’s Searchlight Artist booth.
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After four days of frenzied crowds at the Eleventh Annual Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Fair (SOFA) at the Park Avenue Armory in New York—opening night alone drew over 2,600 people—visiting the exhibition on Sunday, June 1, the final day, was an unexpectedly calming experience. No longer were there throngs pushing past each other rushing to stake claims on one must-have piece or another. Rather, people stood in small groups or by themselves, some speaking quietly with artists and gallery owners, others closely examining ceramics at Lacoste’s booth, testing out furniture by ...
After three days at the American Craft Council show in Baltimore, assistant editor Christine Kaminsky made her way back to New York with a handful of hearty selections—both her favorites and the judges! If you were at the show, we want to know, did Christine miss anything? Take a look and tell us your Best of Show picks…
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After three days at the American Craft Council show in Baltimore, assistant editor Christine Kaminsky made her way back to New York with a handful of hearty selections—both her favorites and the judges! If you were at the show, we want to know, did Christine miss anything? Take a look and tell us your Best of Show picks…
...This interdisciplinary exhibition highlights a wide range of objects from Chicago collections, exploring, through a thematic history, the complex influences of the Arts and Crafts movement.
The artisanal urge—the fundamental human desire to make something with one’s own hands—has never been so endangered as it is right now. Quite frankly, this is a situation that sends a chill down my spine. Consider the work of Jeff Koons, one of the most widely discussed and highly praised artists of the last 20 years. His Hanging Heart, [figure 1] an oversized version of a shiny magenta bauble suspended from a golden ribbon, obviously manufactured to the artist’s specs, recently sold at auction for $23.6 million. So far as I am concerned, Hanging Heart is a piece of ...
A 1973 Craft Horizons article focused on the outsized jewelry of the now-acclaimed metal sculptor.
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The time has finally come—this Saturday, September 26th, the Museum of Arts and Design will be opening its doors to its brand new light-filled, ceramic-encased building on Columbus Circle in New York City, offering the public the chance to see and experience more than they were ever able to before in the museum’s three different locations on West 53rd Street, where it had been located since its inception as the Museum of Contemporary Crafts (and later renamed the American Craft Museum) 52 years ago. We, however, got a sneak peak of the new building and it’s opening ...
Dutch designer Wieki Somers finds the poetry in everyday objects.
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The South as a region capable of preserving craft traditions through the generations even as it attracts contemporary artists is highlighted in this touring exhibit organized by the Southern Arts Federation. “Tradition/Innovation: American Masterpieces of Southern Craft & Traditional Art” provides a curious mix of 120 works by 58 master craftsmen living in the region. Some follow traditional means of perpetuating a cultural heritage, while others consciously create something new. The viewer must tease out the not always obvious connections between the two.
Kathleen Mundell, curator of the traditional ...
Wherever he goes, be it a restaurant or a friend’s new house in Tuscany, Cosimo Terzani can’t help but notice the light.
“It’s the first thing I look at,” says the 27-year-old, who is an executive in his family’s business, a Florentine maker of high-end lamps and lighting fixtures. “Light is the most important thing.”
Tutto E’Luce—”Everything is light”—is the Terzani motto. The firm was founded in 1959 by Orlando Terzani, whose son, Sergio, took over in 1985. Now the grandsons—Cosimo and his brother, Nicolas, 32—are at the helm, carrying on a tradition of innovative design.
“For my father, the important thing ...
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Over the weekend of June 13th I spent about 8 hours at the 4th Annual Renegade Craft Fair…
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