Rightsizing Looks at How You Use Your Home
My friend Mo asked me to discuss RIGHTSIZING, a newly coined term, as it pertains to lived space, opposed to the horrific and overused term DOWNSIZING. We know in the …
Eye Catching Citrus Crate Labels
ER owns three citrus crate labels, and wonders if they’re valued as art or pieces of paper. The first label is recognizable—Goleta. We’ve all seen that on tea towels and …
Religious Mosaics Equal Byzantine Wonders
CR owns a pair of religious mosaics, one a Christ figure and one of Mary. These exceptional mosaics measure fifteen by twenty inches, weighing eighteen pounds, set in lead. He …
Small Plates Tell a Story
PC collects hors d’oeuvres small plates. The smallest is a set of six from the International Toasts Series by Fondeville Ambassador Ware. Fondeville NY imported these from England in the …
80s Mixed Media Flowed From Mentorship
GF owns a surrealistic image of a businessman’s tie, rendered in paper and mounted in a three-dimensional structure of paper supported, and bounced, on little springs. I didn’t find a …
HOT NEWS in the artworld?
Oh, YES! Searching two definitive sources for artworld news, this article compiles stories found recently on ArtNetNews, headquartered in NYC, and The Art Newspaper, with offices in NYC and London. …
Rene Lalique Blurred the Line Between Nouveau and Deco
DF sent me a design by Rene Lalique from his later years. The fourteen-inch glass relief vase with silver and black overlay Art Deco designs gives me a perfect opportunity …
Reg Manning Bonded with the West
EC owns a wonderful, but not very politically correct, little pocket sized book inherited from her father called Reg Manning’s Cartoon Guide to California (1939). Its almost original condition becomes …
Lufkin Micrometer Set: Unique Precision Instruments
LO owns a midcentury “Inside” micrometer set (680A) by Lufkin Company of Saginaw Michigan. Although I know nothing of tools, I found the micrometer story fascinating, and admired the precision …
Unexplainable 1970s Wicker Plant Stand
PS owns a whimsical five-foot-tall wicker giraffe plant stand found buried in her late grandmother’s planting shed. When she restored it, she found that somebody painted over the natural buff …