Never wholly out of demand since top Victorian upholsterer Howard & Sons began producing furniture from its Soho […]
Isamu Noguchi was a well-respected and admired Japanese American sculptor and designer. At the urging of his mother, Noguchi enrolled at the Leonardo da Vinci Art School, where his talents were recognised and encouraged. Noguchi’s forms seem to suggest nature and human beings interacting with one another or with their surroundings. His preference was generally for wood or stone. Noguchi’s work was also richly inspired by European surrealism and abstraction. His sculptures, fountains, and gardens are focal points in major cities of the United States and worldwide. Noguchi was best known for sculpture, but he worked in many other mediums, including painting, ceramics, interior design, and architecture.
Underlined by a £65,000 bid for a table cabinet, the attraction of Indo-Portuguese furniture – that combines familiar […]
The wealth of material brought back to Britain from the days of the East India Company was illustrated […]
Silver across five centuries caught the eye at provincial sales in February. Extracted from Antiques Trade Gazette | […]
This early 18th century walnut chest of drawers offered at Rowley’s (22.5% buyer’s premium) Ely rooms on February […]
Familiar striking shapes and bright colours retain a strong following despite a fall in demand from the 1980s-90s […]
Rather sparsely catalogued, this unusual 14in (36cm) Lalique glass dish with a lovebirds design had emerged from a […]
Two early panel paintings, one German, the other Cretan, emerged from a Florida collection to sell for six-figure […]
Scottish artist Craigie Aitchison (1926-2009) painted few subjects more obsessively throughout his career than the crucifixion. Extracted from […]
A fine copy of the very first issue of the Beano has sold at auction for £8700. Beano […]
The concertina-cut novelty pictured here is one in which a painted roundel of a cottage pulls up to […]
Drawing on the Scandinavian tradition of functionalism, simplicity, and craftsmanship, a lot of Danish designers utilised the new industrial design methods to design furniture, buildings, and domestic objects. On the other hand, the making of industrial design was utterly started by the foundation of the Royal Copenhagen Porcelain Manufacturing Company at the end of the eighteenth century. Beauty, function, and an excellent selection of materials can be discovered in just about all designs which were made in Denmark even ten years ago. For the period of many years, Danes were influenced by a variety of elements but the fact is that the core principles ever remained the same.
Sotheby’s is to offer what it deems “the most important work of William-Adolphe Bouguereau’s celebrated career” as part […]
Two previously unpublished ink sketches by John Constable (1776 -1837) excelled at Chiswick Auctions’ latest British & European […]
Post-war art stored in a cupboard for “many years” by an academic institution in Leicestershire drew strong bidding […]
Regarded in their time as examples of the finest cabinet-making rather than simply reproductions, good 19th century French […]
Florence Knoll Bassett is considered to be one of the most influential designers in America after World War II. She was taken under the wing by world-renowned designer Eliel Saarinen after he took notice of the young Florence’s interest in the buildings around her school campus. While working for Hans Knoll, they fell in love and married, and Florence became a partner in the company. Florence used to call her furniture designs as “meat and potatoes”, fillers among the pieces of such great designers as Bertoia, Saarinen and van der Rohe. But even with such big names, Florence’s furniture creations weren’t overshadowed. In fact, they are still admired and produced to this day.