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Evelyn and Jerome Ackerman did it “their way,” designing for people like themselves, who were on a budget yet wanted to live with beautiful, well-made things. ...
People & Places
“I have a really strong community up there,” Susan Stinsmuehlen-Amend says of her decades-old ties to the Pilchuck Glass School in Stanwood, Washington, which recently honored her with its 2007 Libensky Award for contributions to the glass field. “They were the first people to say to me, ‘You’re really doing something different and important.’” Active for years in the glass community (she was the first woman president of the Glass Art Society), Stinsmuehlen-Amend jokes that she “disappeared” in 1994 to Ojai, California, where she still lives with her husband, Richard Amend, an artist and film production designer (the younger ...
Material Matters
“My work is not about keeping secrets,” says Max Lamb, who delivers his furniture using one or two tools and makes videos of his methods. ...
On Our Radar
Matthias Pliessnig talks fast, as if to keep up with a rapid flow of ideas. Movement interests him, whether it’s flight, the way a boat cuts through water or the physics of how a seat responds to its sitter.
Recently the 29-year-old sat still long enough for a conversation by the shore of Lake Mendota (“I come here all the time,” he says. “I just got bitten by a duck”) near the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he’s pursuing a graduate degree in furniture design/sculpture. He spoke about his life and work so far, which “definitely includes movement.”
Pliessnig was born in New ...
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Moving freely through the worlds of craft, fashion, art and everywhere in between, the Ladd brothers have created a space for themselves that defies definition and in the process captured the imagination of a diverse group of enthusiastic admirers. ...
Product Placement
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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Dubhe Carreño Gallery
1841 S. Halsted St.
Chicago, Illinois 60608
312-666-3150 ...
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Chris Antemann’s figural porcelain vignettes, such as her 2007 piece Gather, are naughty, full of quasi-18th-century harlots and housemaids cavorting with naked suitors.
It’s funny, selling her work,” says Leslie Ferrin, one of her dealers. “Viewers approach it thinking it’s some sort of [innocuous] figurine. They end up tongue-tied.” No wonder people who buy one often tuck it away in a private spot in the master bedroom or bath.
An homage to traditional European and Asian figurines (think Staffordshire, Meissen, Delft), Antemann’s exquisitely detailed little domestic mise-en-scènes are really about relationships—particularly between women, as sisters or rivals— hence the erotic ...
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An eclectic, somehow quintessentially L. A. fusion of art, design and fashion (with a dash of politics and showbiz) marked the coming-out bash for Kristen Lee and Joe Cole’s store TenOverSix on October 16, during Los Angeles Fashion Week.
Fashionistas flocked to inaugurate the new multi-label accessories boutique, a corner space on trendy Beverly Boulevard (a decidedly “blue” neighborhood, as demonstrated by the store’s several large displays celebrating Barack Obama). Guests browsed the merchandise (think high-end, high-concept shoes, bags and jewelry) then partied in the moonlit courtyard of the eccentrically configured building, which also houses a ...
Editor’s Letter
If I’ve learned anything during my time at American Craft, it’s that trying to define what’s happening in the visual and material world is a task that proves tougher each day. Mediums are mixing, painters and sculptors are borrowing craft techniques and craft work is freely making its way into galleries and museums previously known for showcasing primarily two-dimensional work and sculpture (for example, the recent “Makers and Modelers” clay exhibit at the Gladstone Gallery in New York and the “Shy Boy, She Devil, and Isis” exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, ...
Books
By Sabrina Gschwandtner, foreword by David McFadden
Stewart, Tabori & Chang
$29.95
It’s not news that during the past decade there has been a huge resurgence in the popularity of knitting. A younger generation is gathering in bars and coffee shops, finding others who share their passion for what was generally regarded as a homey craft. And their creations extend far beyond, although don’t exclude, sweaters and scarves. Sabrina Gschwandtner, the founder of the zine KnitKnit, brings us makers of high-end fashion, miniature dollhouses, teacups and navigable boats. These knitters are interweaving science and technology and using not only yarn, but ...
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Edited by Nicole Stuckenberger
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College
University Press of New England
$24.95
The Inuit people of the Arctic will be—indeed, already are—among those most profoundly affected by climate change in the earth’s polar regions. In January 2007, with the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding and its Institute of Arctic Studies, the Hood Museum presented a comprehensive exhibition of Dartmouth College’s Arctic collections. as one of the first projects to explore the human dimensions of climate change on Inuit culture. Invaluable objects from the collection were displayed—harpoons, masks, clothing, canoes—that evocatively embody the link between the ...
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By Kathleen Mangan
browngrotta arts
Wilton, Connecticut
$25
In honor of the 100th birthday of Lenore Tawney, who in the 1950s and 60s was one of a group of artists who created sculptural weaving or fiber works that hung freely in space, browngrotta arts has published this 36-page monograph, the first in a series examining a particular period or body of work by an established artist. It presents Tawney’s geometric drawings of the 1960s and their realization in the 1990s as three-dimensional thread constructions in Plexiglas boxes—“drawings in air.” Bringing together Tawney’s ideas and intentions, Kathleen Mangan offers insight into these ...
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By Juli Cho Bailer
Museum of Glass
Tacoma, Washington
$8.95
In installations and sculptural works, eight internationally established artists—Wim Delvoye, Teresita Fernández, Mona Hatoum, Maya Lin , Jean-Michel Othoniel, Kiki Smith, Fred Wilson and the late Chen Zen—have used glass to explore a variety of visions and narratives, having selected the material for its “extraordinary potential and complex cultural and metaphorical allusions,” according to curator Juli Cho Bailer, in this catalog of an exhibition at the Museum of Glass through February 3. Each work is presented with an account by Bailer of the themes and technical approaches of the artist. ...
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Essay by Don Davidson
Mobilia Gallery
Cambridge, Massachusetts
$35 ($20 students and artists)
Magical and witty describe the metal box sculptures fabricated during the last five years by Japanese-born Mariko Kusumoto, presented in this enchanting catalog. “Most of my pieces are interactive… the viewer must keep opening things to see the secrets inside or push, pull, or wind up something to see movement or hear sounds.” The essay by Don Davidson, an art historian, notes Kusumoto’s eclectic sources of inspiration—jazz improvisation, for example, and a 400-year-old Buddhist temple—he writes, “Her disparate combinations of personal and cultural references bespeak both a history ...
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By William Warmus
Harry N. Abrams
$60
In 40 years of working with glass, the artist Dan Dailey has created a remarkably varied oeuvre—blown vessels and sculpture, narrative Vitrolite panels, figural lighting fixtures, large-scale murals and other commissions. All have been executed with superb technical proficiency and are notable for refinement in the details and, frequently, a playful, even cartoonish humor. Before being plunged into the dramatic presentation of some 400 images of Dailey’s work in this monograph, the reader is primed by the glass scholar William Warmus, who discusses Dailey’s place in the studio glass movement—he is a professor at ...
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By William H. Robinson, Jordi Falgás and Carmen Belen Lord
Foreword by Robert Hughes
Cleveland Museum of Art
Yale University Press
$65
From 1868 until 1939, with the fall of the Second Spanish Republic, Barcelona, the principal city of Catalonia and a major Mediterranean port, experienced tremendous economic growth, emerging as the most politically and culturally progressive city in Spain. This fascinating period is explored in depth in this comprehensive book—with more than 30 contributing scholars—that accompanied an exhibition this past year at the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Although it is interesting to learn about ...
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By E. Graeme Robertson and Joan Robertson
Thames & Hudson
$65
Were you to randomly open this reference work to any of its abundant, evocative illustrations—of balconies, say, in the French Vieux Carré in New Orleans or of bridges in Leningrad—you would likely be drawn into a deeper investigation of the subject matter. Reprinted directly from the first edition of 1977 and largely a photographic essay, all in black and white, the book has become a classic in the literature of architecture and design. Motivated to bring attention to the aesthetic value of a distinctive form of decoration, E. Graeme Robertson, ...
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By Eleanor Heartney, Helaine Posner, Nancy Princenthal and Sue Scott
Foreword by Linda Nochlin
Prestel Publishing
$39.95
Once upon a time the art historian Linda Nochlin pondered the question, “Why have there been no great women artists?” That was 1971. In 2007, as Eleanor Heartney, Helaine Posner, Nancy Princenthal and Sue Scott—prominent critics and curators who happen to be women—attest, this question is no longer relevant. Over the past 35 years, due in no small part to the feminist movement, women have become a significant presence in the contemporary art world. Posner tells us that Louise Bourgeois, with her psychosexually charged ...
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