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A Meditative Design
Architect. Inventor. Designer. Jean-Marie Massauds creativity knows no bounds and only elegance. Building on the historic craftsmanship of Poltrona Frau, he reinvented the armchair for the Italian furniture-maker. His Archibald chair invites people to mediate and relax with an undulating leather backseat a silhouette at once architectural and organic. Referencing the ergonomic legacy of Charles and Ray Eames, Massaud let comfort inform every element of the design, from the goose-d . . .
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Bright Stars
Truly home of the brave, the United States claims a cloven of brave designers, visionaries who have boldly imagined new forms for interior function. We proudly carry the exclusive lines of two such designers Calvin Klein and Ralph Lauren contemporary luminaries who have reshaped the landscape of American design and beyond. Both men have ingeniously married the worlds of high fashion and high design, much as their predecessors Bill Blass and Geoffrey Beene did decades before. Cogn . . .
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Harmonic Legacy
Terroir describes the interplay between place and agriculture, the ways in which geography, geology and climate shape the special characteristics of everything that grows within the area. Derived from the French terre or land, terroir is loosely translated as sense of place.This week, we celebrate the synergy between the terroir of wine and the terroir of interior design and decorating through our participation in the Jackson Hole Wine Auction. Both expressions of nature-infused . . .
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Top Dog
Our newest team member, Buddy, appreciates fine fabrics:Naptime finds him cuddled up beneath the Loro Piana cashmere samples. Quite theconnoisseur.Now Buddy joins his new sibling Marley in the showroom; together,they form our hospitality team, greeting every visitor with a wagging welcome.Having recently rescued Buddy,we feel particularly passionate this year about sponsoring PAWS Tuxes andTails Gala tonight at the Center for the Arts. The dog days celebration beginsat 6pm . . .
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Global Discoveries
Echoing our exhibition designs, we imbue our showroom with moments of discovery. By featuring evocative pieces, we hope to channel the epiphanies we experience on our sourcing trips to Europe, Asia and beyond.Quintessential of our global revelations are the Turkish pillows we had custom made from textiles we found a year ago at the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul. Our fantastic trip through Turkey found us immersing ourselves in the ancient history of Ephesus, marveling at the drama of Cappadocia, an . . .
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Auction Reflection
Ludger tom Ring the Younger painted the first still life with flowers in a vase, free from the context of nature or religion, in a container all its own. Whats more: He only made eight still lifes in his career, four of which are held in a single German museum. The late Henry and June Jimmy Weldon owned the most harmonious of the eight, Still Life with Wild Roses, Peonies and Other Flowers in a White Earthenware Vase, a remarkable painting that led Sotheby&rsqu . . .
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Focusing the Experience
A quiet joy of exhibition design is trailing people as they walk through the galleries as they notice elements we took great care to choreograph.Today, we experienced such joy while welcoming the first visitors to the exhibition we designed for the Weldon Collection at Sothebys headquarters in New York. The astonishing array, focused on 17th century Dutch and Flemish masterworks, will be sold at auction next Wednesday, April 22.Challenged by the small scale of the paintings, we set out to . . .
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In Print
We work in context the context of nature, the context of community, the context of architecture. In Jackson Hole, weve found a context of like-minded trailblazers keen to collaborate on visionary projects. Two such projects have been recognized recently in ink, starting with the Snake River Sporting Club feature in the 2015 issue of Homestead Magazine. The article tells the story of the Sporting Clubs renaissance through the lens of the collaborations that occurred when fou . . .
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A Solo Flight
How an individual is transformed into a collector is a unique experience, a solo flight, always tempered by diverse circumstances that fire his imagination and drive him and his inner being to search for a special object. June Jimmy WeldonThe word resonance was conceived for moments like these, when someone elses thoughts ring so true, they forever echo in our world.Jimmy Weldons reflections on collecting sum up our career-long . . .
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Cementing Form and Function
Swiss designer Willy Guhl approached his discipline differently than most, letting sound function sing in his sculptural designs: "There is no 'good' or 'bad' material," he said. "What makes the difference is its right and adequate use."By his hand, any material could be put to good, beautiful use. Even fiber cement a composite manufactured in slabs to build homes. Interested in ergonomics and inspired by his participation in the 1948 MoMA competition "Low-Cost Furniture Design," . . .
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Hope springs
"The earth laughs in flowers," Ralph Waldo Emerson once said.Too true: Spring finds us smiling at the sight of tender shoots tenaciously breaking through frosty soil. Giddy with new growth, we strive to spread the joy of the season through its most essential expression flowers an aesthetic approach informed by Rush's background in landscape design. Blooms now grace our showroom in a variety of forms from fresh bouquets in crystal vessels to the botanical photographs of Ed . . .
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Apres Style
Moving West meant getting to know a new vernacular, both literal and cultural. Concepts like bison jams and first ascents were foreign to us when we first arrived. High on the acclimatization list was the notion of apr s ski: Long-time skiers, we had previously devoted entire vacations to the sport, so the idea of subtracting precious slope-time for socializing seemed anathemas to us.Not so now: We love the chance to cap a Saturday spent on skis with friends fireside. Certainly the . . .
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