Sentences with phrase «by modernist design»

Fellow Scot Martin Boyce creates atmospheric, sculptural art inspired by modernist design.

Orlaineta's works are influenced by modernist design and its legacy and combine hybrid forms where modernist ideals and contemporary realities collide.

Martin Boyce's work creates atmospheric, sculptural art inspired by modernist design history, which it often directly quotes, writes Matthew Cain.

Working in formed and welded sheet bronze, Todd's work is inspired by modernist design.

Not exact matches

By Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi With its clean lines, natural materials, neutral colours and open spaces, you could say modernist design is the ultimate in eco-interiors.

A marble - topped LaVerne table designed by famed modernist architect Craig Ellwood is the focal point of stylist Brad Goreski's Los Angeles dining room, but we must say we love those leather sling chairs, too.

Rather, this group of about 45 women and a few men are set to embark on a full - blown architectural tour of London's most famous brutalist landmarks and modernist social housing estates, finishing with lunch at the Isokon building, a white concrete block designed by architect Wells Coates.

there's so much to love about the film: the sound design, by Ben Burtt, is incredible adding to the tactile sense of the objects as never before in an animated film; the modernist soundtrack by Thomas Newman, mixed with a wonderful Louis Armstrong version of «La vie en rose» and a couple of songs from Hello, Dolly!

Douglas Blain gets his hands on a rare alloy - bodied example in Great Leap Forward with photographs by Stefan Marjoram / In this months Auto - biography Jonathan Rishton meets Delwyn Mallett, the former art director who spent his career in the advertising industry whilst amassing an enviable collection of exotic machinery / In A beginner's guide to Rétromobile Stefan Marjoram doesn't know which way to look on his first visit to the unmissable Parisian old - car show / Scott Barrett remembers how a Riley Nine was the first light car to complete the Athens to Monte Carlo route of the famous rally, whilst Gordon McAllan shares his diary of the Classique re-run, in Monte Carlo or Bust / Ivan Margolius explains his theory of how Tatra car seating inspired an influential Modernist chair design in Cars, Furniture, Architecture / In his article Bellanger: the international car, Michael Worthington - Williams tells the story of the bull - nosed cars built in Neuilly - sur - Seine from 1912 - 1925 / In this months Sicilian snapshots, Simon Moore continues his trawl through a family album, this time sharing some pictures of the exotic road cars they owned / In the latest of his Back on the Road series, Michael Ware reports on a rare Austin 10hp van.

This modernist boutique hotel was designed by architect Albert Frey in the 1930s, and is just an easy walk away from downtown and Palm Springs» Design... Read More

With its retro signage, Neptuno's exterior is evocative of Modernist Miami; its interior, meanwhile, is pure Spanish design, with a dramatic glass elevator surrounded by a cascading waterfall.

Twenty - five - foot - high glass walls artfully enhanced by American graffiti artist JonOne Perello finish off each of 12 villas at The Stairs Bali, an intimate hotel designed by Philippe Starck just off Seminyak Beach near waterfront Alila Seminyak, an imposing Modernist address from Singapore's URBNarc.

This modernist boutique hotel was designed by architect Albert Frey in the 1930s, and is just an easy walk away from downtown and Palm Springs» Design District.

Set in a Midcentury Modern bank designed by E. Stewart Williams — a pioneer of the area's Desert Modern style (a retrospective of his work, «An Eloquent Modernist,» was the center's opening exhibition in fall 2014)-- the striking glass - and - steel structure houses a trove of inspiration for aspiring architects.

Barcelona's modernist architecture, much of it designed by Antoni Gaudi, is world famous and some appear to be sculptures rather than buildings.

A jewel of modernist architecture in Barcelona, the building was designed by the influential Catalan architect, Lluís Domenech i Montaner, and the name Casa Fuster translates into the House of the Carpenter.

Forming part of his Tsukumogami series (meaning a type of Japanese spirit), his radical designs are greatly inspired by the early experiments of the Russian and Italian Modernist movements, as well as Dada inspired concepts of perceived realities.

The exhibition explores the history of American modernist ballet and new representations of the body through a combination of contemporary works by Mauss and historical works from the 1930s and 1940s in ballet design, the visual arts, theater, and fashion.

On Edge also includes tabletop sculpture by Anthony Caro (1924 - 2013), with the installation utilizing iconic modernist tables by designers such as Charles and Ray Eames and George Nelson generously provided by Design Within Reach.

THE JEWISH MUSEUM unearthed the life and work of the architect - designer Pierre Chareau (1883 - 1950), previously known mostly for a single modernist masterpiece, the Maison de Verre in Paris, in a first American retrospective framed in a snappy design by Diller Scofidio & Renfro.

In Brazil, Ms. Brito presents exhibitions in a breathtaking modernist bungalow with a garden designed by Roberto Burle Marx.

Austin's legacy at the Atheneum can be seen in the museum's Avery Memorial wing — designed to his specifications in Bauhaus style, with «Venus Attended by Nymph and Satyr» in center court — and in the museum's holdings in 20th - century modernist works.

Duchamp extended his provocations in the art world to exhibition - making, by designing installations that countered the white walls and rectilinear spaces of modernist galleries.

Under the new leadership of Rodman Primack, who made his mark in London as chairman of Phillips de Pury & Company, the tented design fair translated the branding sponsorship of Perrier - Jouët, Audi, Fendi, Louis Vuitton and Swarovski into the dazzle of such over-the-top showpieces as a glittered sculpture of King Kong climbing Dubai's Burj Khalifa hotel, a monumental wood - hewn structure commissioned from Seattle architect Olson Kundig to house the cafeteria, furniture commissioned by Herman Miller from French modernist Pierre Paulin circa 1972, but realised only now, and a stream of technology - driven works involving a table whose motor sensors raised handcrafted metal flora at the viewer's approach, a clock spinning out countless time zones beforesettling on local time, and an installation by architect Jeanne Gang and photographer James Balog involving a resin iceberg, pierced with brilliants and set against an Arctic panorama.

Enhanced by elements of surrealism and abstraction, her oeuvre responds to past forms of conceptualism, current art trends, interior design, and modernist architecture.

Langsam is best known for her paintings of iconic Modernist buildings designed by celebrated architects such as Walter Gropius, Mies van der Rohe, and Le Corbusier.

For example, Meandering Abstractly, curated by Dr. Galvez, argued through art historical exhibition history by evoking Alfred Barr's famous 1936 exhibition, Cubism and Abstract Art, for which he designed the image construct of a genealogical tree whose leaves were the modernist art — isms.

The gallery is designed to replicate Wagstaff's white modernist cube of a penthouse, including ficus trees in chrome planters and an elaborate silver ice bowl and spoon once owned by Wagstaff.

Other works in the exhibition include Jorge Pardo's handcrafted wooden palette and modernist designed furniture that question the nature of the aesthetic experience; pioneering conceptual artist Joseph Kosuth's discourse on aesthetics in neon, An Object Self - Defined, 1966; Rachel Lachowicz's 1992 row of urinals cast in red lipstick, which delivers a feminist critique of Duchamp's readymade; Richard Pettibone's paintings of photographs of Fountain; Richard Phillips» recent paintings based on Gerhard Richter's highly valued work; Miami artist Tom Scicluna's neon sign, «Interest in Aesthetics,» a critique of the use of aesthetics in Fort Lauderdale's ordinance on homelessness; the French collaborative Claire Fontaine's lightbox highlighting Duchamp's critical comments about art juries; Corey Arcangel's video Apple Garage Band Auto Tune Demonstration, 2007, which tweaks the concept of aesthetics in the digital age; Bernd and Hilla Becher's photographs, Four Water Towers, 1980, that reveal the potential for aesthetic choices within the same typological structures; and works by Elad Lassry and Steven Baldi, who explore the aesthetic history of photography.

Black Slacks, 2008, for example, upends the cool remove of modernist design by making it overtly theatrical; propped on its side without a cushion, the leather straps across hard wood of a Mies van Der Rohe Barcelona daybed give the frame the appearance of a torture device rather than a napping place.

Art In Stead, co-curated with Lisa Henry, Nizan Shaked, and Gloria Sutton, which presented 21 newly commissioned artworks on Los Angeles billboards (2010); Sympathetic Seeing: Esther McCoy and the Heart of American Modernist Architecture and Design, co-curated with Susan Morgan (2011); AV: New Works by Andrea Fraser, Vanessa Place (2014); Begin Again, Begin Again, a solo exhibition by Renée Green (2015); and Schindler Lab, co-edited with Anthony Carfello and Sara Daleiden (2015).

Its main character, an artist played by Opie's friend Pig Pen, begins to burn down iconic modernist homes in Los Angeles, destroying the idea of modernism's aim to bring good design to the masses.

On display are new truncated assemblages composed of bronze, polished concrete, mirror acrylic and more, each suggesting the bold futurism sought by the Modernist architects» design of early and mid twentieth - century urban centers.

The Clark is making good use of its new Tadao Ando - designed gallery to celebrate some of those artists, with an exhibition of abstract modernist paintings by the likes of Jackson Pollock (whose Number 1, 1950 (Lavender Mist) is a highlight), Mark Rothko and Helen Frankenthaler.

Forget that Gropius, Corbusier and Perriand were also media - savvy; the point is polemical: they, the protagonists of modernist design, were cued by functional structures, vehicles, things, but we, the celebrants of Pop culture, look to «the throw - away object and the pop - package» for our models.

Including Renaissance painters Filippino Lippi and Tintoretto and British favourite Anthony van Dyck, the works are housed in the ingenious, semi-buried picture gallery designed by the modernist architects Powell and Moya.

In other pieces in the show, everyday objects such as books are transformed by applying to them the geometry of paper ornaments and minimalist sculpture (Minimal Bibliography), and photographed window fences with geometric designs are isolated from their functional environment by cutting the prints and flattening the illusionistic space of the photograph, thus relating those specific daily life situations with the idealistic language of modernist geometric abstraction (Popular Geometry).

One of the final buildings designed by prolific modernist Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886 — 1969), the 1968 Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin has long fascinated art and architecture lovers alike.

While they might now feel a little overshadowed by the later fate of modernist design, they can also be read as an attempt to make the ideas powering Clark's artistic production relevant to a wider audience, and to integrate them with lived experience.

Modernism: On and Off the Grid, curated by Niko Vicario, brings together works engaged with the legacy of Modernist architecture and design.

The second addition, originally intended for large - scale sculpture, was designed in a Modernist style by I.M. Pei in 1966 and completed in 1968.

The duo explained: «Set in a time characterised by the conflict of Modernist and Postmodernist convictions, the freely designed buildings reflect the contrast of manmade ideals and the acceptance of life in chaos... It's shaped by an original set of rules, metrics and processes.

In a major project last winter, Hayes turned the glass - walled lobby of Lever House — the iconic Modernist office building on Park Avenue designed by Gordon Bunshaft — into a huge terrarium with a landscape of tropical trees and foliage.

These were not the typical trappings of the museum's clean, modernist restaurant, Untitled, designed by Renzo Piano.

Designed by architects Smith & Thompson, the critically acclaimed modernist - inspired structure of glass and Cor - ten steel is included in a number of books about contemporary architecture, and has attracted attention from all over the world.

The hanging lamps, by contrast, were geometric clear plastic designs that are more characteristic of Pardo's modernist style; «Those are pure Pardo World,» the gallery's Maia Gianakos told A.i.A.

The quirky (and clearly illegal) «art bar» reprised an earlier effort, by four Austrian artists - in - residence at the MAK Center, to turn one of the carports in Rudolph Schindler's modernist, Mid-City apartment building into an approximate replica of Vienna's Adolf Loos - designed American Bar.

Located in the heart of Chelsea, the gallery's three story modernist - inspired structure designed by architects Smith & Thompson boasts one of the few outdoor sculpture gardens in New York City, and is included in a number of books about contemporary architecture.

Photographs of the newly restored modernist villa designed by Eileen Gray, E. 1027, are featured in The Guardian This modernist villa on the Côte d'Azur, designed by Irish architect Eileen Gray, has witnessed wartime shootings, murder and vandalism by Le Corbusier.

Last fall's circa 1963 included work by artists as diverse as Josef Albers, Ben Shahn, and Yoko Ono, and illustrated the multiplicity of themes, materials, and styles that had bloomed while the aging modernist toiled on the Carpenter Center design in his Paris studio (with the help of Guillermo Jullian de la Fuente, a Chilean architect).