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Homey and Hip: Knoll Design at the Shelburne Museum
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"Homey and Hip: Knoll Design at Shclburnc Museum," on view through October 31 at the Shelhurne Museum, Shelburne, Vermont, is a new exhibition of masterworks from Knoll, Inc., one of the pre-eminent furniture design and manufacturing companies of the 20th century. The exhibition is about fifteen works created for Knoll from the 1940s to 1990s by designers including Frank Gehry, Isamu Noguchi, Eero Saarinen, and Harry Bertoia. Several works in Homey and Hip feature new fabrics and designs by K...
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Homey and Hip: Knoll Design at the Shelburne Museum
Antiques & Collecting Magazine
; "Homey and Hip: Knoll Design at Shclburnc Museum," on view through October 31 at the Shelhurne Museum, Shelburne, Vermont, is a new exhibition of masterworks from Knoll, Inc., one of the pre-eminent furniture design and manufacturing companies of the 20th century. The exhibition is about fifteen
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Items and Icons / neat seats
The Independent - London
; A chair, says the dictionary, is "a seat with a back on which one person sits, typically having four legs and often having arms". And the rest! Because a chair is far more than merely a utilitarian construct. How much more may be seen from Sarah Columbo's appreciation, just, one of four bijou books
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Shamrock by Harry Bertoia
Mayo Clinic Proceedings
; Harry Bertoia (1915-1978), furniture designer, sculptor, and architect, was born in San Lorenzo, Udine, Italy on March 10, 1915, and emigrated with his father to the United States in 1930. Bertoia received a scholarship to the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Mich, in 1937. Two years
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 "Morning Call (Allentown, PA)")
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The metals, movement and sound of Harry Bertoia.
Morning Call (Allentown, PA)
; ... gehman@mcall.com 610-820-6516 Copyright (c) 2006, The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa. Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Business News. For reprints, email tmsreprints@permissionsgroup.com, call 800-374-7985 or 847-635-6550, send a fax to 847-635-6968, or write ...
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(book reviews)
Interior Design
; A colorful panorama of '50s furniture ('40s, too) is presented in Ms. Greenberg's book, reminding us of the look and of the impressive creativity of the period. The ten chairs the author considers the decade's best, for example, include designs by Harry Bertoia, George Nelson, Oswaldo Borsani,
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The mod squad.(market)
Interior Design
; Shown at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan, Alfredo Haberli's Nais wire chairs for Classicon are smaller and lighter than their famous forerunners by Harry Bertoia and Charles and Ray Eames. The chromium-plated version is indoors-only; powder-coated or color-coated options also allow
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Fifties Furniture
Antiques & Collecting Magazine
; FIFTIES FURNITURE By Leslie Pina, published by Schiffer Publishing, Ltd., 11 1/2"x8 1/2", 240 pages, color, some black-and-white photos, hardbound with bibliography, price guide, and index, $39.95 Fifties Furniture provides a detailed look at the modern furniture of the 1950sfurniture by suCh
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Best buys: Sit down in style
The Scotsman
; If you're looking for iconic furniture such as a Mies van der Rohe Barcelona chair, or a Harry Bertoia armchair, head to Ocean interiors. There's contemporary furniture for every room, including office accessories, storage, lighting and mirrors. Currently there is a 15 per cent discount off various
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Unpainted lady: bare is beautiful, at a San Francisco branding firm's office by Pfau Architecture.
Interior Design
; There's no second chance to make a first impression. It's a tenet that Damore Johann, a 15-year-old branding, marketing, and communications firm based in San Francisco, lives by and drives home to its clients. So, for its own new headquarters in the South of Market neighborhood, the firm
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Huntington Library installs new sounding scultpure
Pasadena Star-News
; SAN MARINO - A 19-foot tall bronze sounding sculpture made in the 1970s by American designer and sculptor Harry Bertoia, has been installed on the grounds of The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. The sounding sculpture consists of a delicate, airy tower formed by a tall
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