Featured Artist: Eve Kaplan...
Eve Kaplan’s handmade, earthenware work is infused with inspiration from 18th century gilded pieces. They have drawn comparisons to the Mid-Century work of Line Vautrin yet her sculptural objects are entirely modern and unique. Eve’s wonderfully Baroque mirrors, lighting, and furniture incorporating both low-fired glazing as well as traditional gilding techniques are all available exclusively through Gerald Bland [...]
Featured Artist: Fresco Photography by D...
Fine art photographer, Diane Epstein, has a keen eye towards bringing to life Ancient and Renaissance Rome, as well as other old-world cities. Epstein captures an original view of the monuments, statues, fountains and the hidden with a textural, timeless quality. With her own innovative form of fresco photographs™, she revives the large-scale narrative painting and panoramic [...]
Featured Artist: Leora Armstrong...
Leora Armstrong grew up on the West Coast of Scotland surrounded by the sea, hills and Scottish weather. It was this changing light of the West Coast, upon the landscape, which happens so dramatically and wonderfully that has inspired her to work with colour. After graduating with Honors from Chelsea College of Art, she now lives [...]
Consuelo Crespi Collection...
From the extraordinary collection of the late Countess Consuelo Crespi: 20th Century design by John Vesey and Howard Dilday. The works are offered alongside decorative objects and smaller pieces of furniture from September 29, 2011. The Crespis commissioned the pieces from Vesey and Dilday, two American designers, for their apartment at the Palazzo Odescalchi [...]
Piranesi in Pieces, Collages by James La...
New Orleans architect and painter James Lamantia graduated from Tulane University’s School of Architecture and received a degree from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design under Walter Gropius. He was awarded a Prix de Rome in 1949 and a Fullbright Fellowship in architecture and painting in 1950. He has taught at Harvard, Yale and Columbia [...]
Mita Corsini Bland, Interiors from Siste...
Featured in the much-anticipated book “Sister Parish Design: On Decorating,” Mita Corsini Bland’s watercolor renderings were on view from October 20. The exhibit coincided with the book’s publication earlier that month. Please visit MitaCorsiniBland.com to view or commission artwork.
Albert Hadley: Interior Design Sketches...
Beginning April, 2009, we are offering a collection of legendary interior designer Albert Hadley’s sketches. Representing decades of iconic interiors the drawings offer a rare glimpse into the design process, allowing us to see Hadley’s thinking on paper as he worked out these masterful rooms for his clients. Albert Hadley was born in Nashville, Tennessee. [...]
Meet Their Ancestors...
A collection of Chinese Ancestral Portraits. Popular throughout Chinese history, these works of art were commissioned to worship ancestors and were displayed on holidays and days of remembrance.
Leora Armstrong: Colorfield Paintings...
Born in 1966 in London, Leora Armstrong grew up on the Isle of Islay, Scotland. She traces the origin of her work to the temperamental climate and stunningly dramatic vistas there, to her days looking at the light on the hills and reflection of clouds tumbling across. As a consequence, her work has evolved around [...]
The Bruce Collection...
From the estates of Ambassador David K.E. Bruce and Evangeline Bruce: furniture, paintings, drawings, decorative arts, memorabilia.
Fashion Sketches of Bill Blass...
Executed between 1984 and 1987, these drawings were the first iterations of what would go on to become couture designs. Having begun his career as a sketch artist at the House of Dior, Blass never lost his great sketching talent. Saved by a close senior staff member, these original pieces constitute a unique collection, as [...]
