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 …
Your Personal Psychology Around OBJECTS
I received FOUR questions from FOUR clients: How do I furnish a home on a budget in this market, when I spent ALL my funds on the house itself? I’m …
Weaving a Tale About Kilim Rugs
FG sent me a photo of her little dog perched on two ottomans covered in a tribal style wool fabric. She wants to know about them. That flat weave tapestry …
Gerstner and Sons Toolbox Shows Off Tools
FG owns a H. Gerstner and Sons toolbox from the 1950s at sixteen inches, tall, nine inches wind, twenty-five inches long, found in a Goleta garage. Its origins go back …
Piero Fornasetti and Practical Madness
HH sent me a box with a distinctive classical Renaissance PalladianPalladian print superimposed upon it, with a unique perspective, I see a near illegible signature beginning with “F” and ending …