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Object & Thing is heading to Longhouse
The roving gallery Object & Thing, which takes up residence in architecturally significant houses, has announced its next location: Longhouse, Jack Lenor Larsen’s East Hampton home, where the textile designer lived with a vast collection of art, design, and craft. A Summer Arrangement: Object & Thing at Longhouse, which runs from May 27 to September 3, plays on that idea, using the gallery and guest level of the space to display contemporary works of art and design in dialogue with works from Larsen’s collection, such as the carved-wood dining table by Wharton Esherick that was shown at the 1939 World’s Fair, or the quotidian straw hats Larsen collected on his travels.
The exhibition, co-curated by Abby Bangser, founder of Object & Thing, and Glenn Adamson, curator-at-large at Longhouse in collaboration with Longhouse director Carrie Rebora Barratt, will feature works by nearly a dozen artists—many of them site-specific commissions. All will be artfully arranged by interior stylist and friend of AD Colin King.
Christie’s unveils inaugural edition of The Collector in collaboration with Jane Schulak and David Stark
The decorative arts get the spotlight in The Collector, Christie’s expansive new biannual auction series simultaneously unfolding in its London, New York, and Paris salerooms. For this first iteration, with its more than 600 lots of furniture, ceramics, clocks, and silver spanning from the 16th to the 20th century, designers Jane Schulak and David Stark, authors of At the Artisan’s Table, were tapped as tastemakers, orchestrating a trifecta of presale exhibitions at each location. While the Paris Edit puts a pair of Louis XV floral marquetry commodes front and center, for example, London’s bold color scheme pulls from an 18th-century George II red and gilt japanned secrétaire, and New York’s features treasures like a Royal Copenhagen porcelain dinner service emblazoned with a mushroom motif. Kicking off April 4, the sale closes on April 18, 19, and 20, in London, New York, and Paris, respectively.
Colony to launch a design incubator this month
Jean Lin, founder of the designers’ co-op Colony in New York, has always championed the indie, under the radar talents making furniture, lighting, textiles, and objects. Now she’s taking that unwavering support to another level with The Designers’ Residency, an eight-month program that immerses young designers, artists, and makers (the first participants are RISD graduates Ingemar Hagen-Keith of Marmar Studio and Alexis Tingey and Ginger Gordon of Alexis and Ginger) in the worlds of product development and entrepreneurship as they produce their first collections for Colony. The residency’s backbone is a curriculum shaped by Lin and Colony art director Madeleine Parsons influenced by their time as professors at Parsons and RISD, coupled with heaps of priceless time in the studio.
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