Phillips de Pury & Company
New York
Phillips de Pury & Company’s latest themed sale, NOW: Art of the 21st Century, took place on the 6th of March in New York with interesting results. These themed sales from Phillips offer a varied alternative to traditional auctions that focus on one particular medium, and the results are proving to be as mixed as the lots up for grabs.
In this article for America’s TIME Magazine, Kate Graham discusses the Rough Luxe Hotel, one of London’s more interesting boutique guesthouses.
The hotel was created and designed by Rabih Hage, and it is a fantastic example of how cutting-edge contemporary design can fuse with historical character in a way that is inspirational for both designers and collectors alike.
On the 23rd of February, the US Sate Department unveiled the winning design for the new US embassy in London. The proposed building comes from Philadelphia architectural firm KieranTimberlake, and it has received mixed reviews.
This month, we highly recommend picking up a copy of ‘Objectivity: A Designer’s Book of Curious Tools’ by David Usborne with a foreword by Thomas Heatherwick.
Written by collector and teacher of design David Usborne with a foreword by innovative British designer Thomas Hetherwick ‘Objectivity’ provides a miscellany of mysterious objects that celebrates the beauty of simple, useful things.
With the first batch of 2010 Design auctions less than a month away it is a positive sign to see how well the auction market has been doing recently. As reported by Scott Reyburn for Bloomberg News, the string of London auctions that ended last Saturday with Philips de Pury’s sale of Contemporary Art broke records and left collectors with optimistic feelings.
In this article William Hamilton discusses the recent upswing in the antiques market as demonstrated by last month’s series of major antiques shows and sales in New York City. It is interesting to see this year’s optimistic mood spreading across the different sectors of the collecting market, and read the opinions of various collectors and dealers.
Last week at the New York City launch party for the Roy Lichtenstein exhibition now on view at the Triennale Design Museum in Milan, the Triennale announced its plans to open a New York satellite space this spring called Triennale NYC.
In this recent article for the FT, renowned architectural critic Edwin Heathcote turns his attention to design and offers an evaluation of the intellectual criticism available on the subject (which he seems to find pretty grim).
Recently, famed Dutch trendspotter Lidewij Edelkoort (Li) shocked the design community when she issued an open letter of resignation from the Designhuis and Eindhoven, in which she blamed the vision of the city’s governance for her departure.
In this article for Design.nl, Gabriella Kennedy speaks with designers, members of the local government, educators and other affected parties about their reactions to the news and the conflict between bureaucracy and autonomous design.
On 27th January Apple Inc.’s Steve Jobs held a press conference in San Francisco, California to announce ‘a major new product that we’re really excited about,’ which we could only assume was the widely hyped Apple Tablet computer.
In a world where phones have become computers, and computers try to look like phones, where everything from espresso machines to sink faucets has a digital touch screen, when has the digital trend gone too far? There are many articles out there on this subject (some serious and some hilarious). Here are two recent ones that are interesting food-for-thought for both designers and consumers alike.
For a fresh look at everything design from 2009, view Wallpaper Magazine’s ‘Design Awards’, featuring important and unique pieces from an array of sources. Categories such as ‘Best New Domestic Design’ (a slow cooker from Margaret Foolen for Royal VKB), and ‘Best Armchair’ (‘Archibold’ by J.M. Massaud) are just a few of the 2009 wonders.
In light of the ongoing debate regarding the Jerusalem Museum of Tolerance’s plans to place a design by Frank Gehry over a plot of land once occupied by an ancient Muslim cemetery, Frank Gehry has decided to drop out.
In this recent article for the FastCompany, Lydia Dishman discusses SEED, a project from Clemson University that aims to use industrial shipping containers as emergency housing.
In this recent article for the Financial Times, Nicole Swengley takes a look back at the last decade and the many ways in which design has transformed since the start of the new millennium.
As Swengley points out, ‘new materials, processes and technologies offer far greater freedom for today’s designers...
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