Sentences with phrase «modernist designs for»

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In between, we are given snapshots of a vanished America where religion and culture still played a vital role in public life, as well as odd and unexpected little tidbits: a craze for church bell towers in the 1920s; Cram's home life with his beloved wife, Bess, and their children; the messy business breakup with Goodhue; Cram's mildly embarrassing foray into the horror genre, Black Spirits and White; his strange proposal for an island to be raised ex nihilo in Boston's Charles River; the problems inherent when working with rich Swedenborgians; and a Japanese Christian university he designed on a mix of Oriental and Dutch Modernist themes.

Jackie Fields, Beauty Writer: If you can get over how gorgeous this palette is (the 3 - D design is everything) and actually dip your fingers in it, Hourglass's Modernist Palette may be the BFF your lids have been looking for.

Meanwhile, the company's modernist branding is a result of his close collaboration with a few critical people: Moses Voight, but also Mathias Augustyniak and Michaël Amzalag, the design duo behind the creative agency M / M (Paris), which has worked for clients ranging from Björk to Balenciaga.

His passion for architecture and all aspects of design has resulted in the recent completion of his modernist home which contains a unique collection of mid-century modern furniture, Italian glass and modern art.

The design and décor are exquisite throughout, with a large wall of exposed stone, lovely wood furnishings, and an overall aesthetic of modernist naturalism that create the perfect ambiance for serene escape into the present.

Superbly situated for travel, Sofitel London Heathrow invites you to discover international cuisine and immerse in modernist design elements drawn from across the globe.

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.

Described as a «jewel» of modernist design, the dramatically scalloped lagoon with cascading waterfall has been the stage for Ester Williams» wet ballets.

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.

One star here is Julius Shulman, whose photos depict homes built for the 1945 Case Study Houses program that saw leading Modernist architects (Eero Saarinen, Charles and Rae Eames, and Pierre Koenig, to name a few) design prototypes for mass - produced housing.

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.

Kamrooz Aram, a Brooklyn - based artist whose works often challenge a modernist disdain for decoration, shares his thoughts on ornament and its complex relationship to modernist painting and exhibition design as demonstrated in his own varied practice in which painting, collage, sculpture, and the art of display operate as equals.

While Meckseper's earlier vitrine works commented on contemporary consumer culture using the shop window as an example and focus point for civic unrest and protest in our late capitalist society, her current works allude to the political dimension of early modernist display architecture and design between World War I and II in Weimar Germany.

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 — isFor 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 — isfor which he designed the image construct of a genealogical tree whose leaves were the modernist art — isms.

Richard Meier is an American abstract artist and Modernist architect best known for designing such iconic museums as the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art and the Getty Center in Los Angeles.

The convergence of nineteenth century and modernist design further represents status and class, an aspiration for economic growth, and the prevalence of European and American influence on Guadalajara.

New works conceived for this exhibition consider how the formal designs of modernist architecture and planning, and the aggressive, deeply politicized modernization of Newark, have impacted the everyday lives of residents and their communities.

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.

Central to Crowner's practice is research into the history of 20th century abstraction and modernist design, as well as an obvious penchant for textile production.

Goodman's design for the synagogue was boxy, streamlined, and nothing if not High Modernist.

Known for swathes of standardized modernist high - rises, the South Korean capital is transforming itself into a hub for architectural design

Engaging with the history and mission of The Arts Club itself, the two - part installation will bring together McElheny's film The Light Club of Vizcaya: A Women's Picture (2012) and a new site - specific installation titled The Club for Modern Fashions (2013), a constructed glass pavilion into which performers and guests are invited during the lunch hour, Tuesdays through Fridays, dressed in vintage attire from the 1920s to the 1970s — decades that signify the height of a modernist imperative across the cultures of fashion, design, and architecture.

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.

For this 6th project they produced a series of paintings comprised of either a combination of designs from various schools of Modernist art or a series of patterns from primitive art objects.

The form speaks to the sheer variety of musical expression while simultaneously referencing modernist sculpture, and was created as part of the conceptual design phase for the National Music Centre of Canada.

Martin Boyce, whose work explores the visual language of modernist architecture and design, has been nominated for this year's Turner prize.

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.

As creatives — whose services include graphic design and art direction for print, web, and video — they're known for bringing clients a cool cachet and a contemporary look while remaining grounded in a love of the classics, from old movie typography to modernist art to the work of mid-century design icons.

Martin Boyce, an artist known for creating sculptural installations that pay homage to Modernist design, has won this year's prestigious Turner Prize.

LOS ANGELES — If you ever admired Eero Saarinen's modernist Tulip chair, a mid-20th-century industrial design icon, and thought it made for better sculpture than whatever you just saw in the art gallery down the street, you will enjoy The Useful and the Decorative at the Landing.

Altoparlante Solimar (Solimar Loudspeaker), 2008, is an enormous ebony wood structure emulating Havana's Solimar apartment building, designed by Manuel Copado in 1944 and well - known for its modernist design, imposing height and its large - scale sinusoidal balconies.

From May, the Barbican will show Bauhaus: Art as Life, the biggest UK exhibition of the German modernist design school's work for 40 years.

In 1996 he moved on to Californian Institute for the Arts, strongly influenced by supervisor and conceptual artist Michael Asher — where he developed an interest in how time has affected modernist design.

Opening: «Roberto Burle Marx: Brazilian Modernist» at the Jewish Museum A celebrated Brazilian landscape architect, Roberto Burle Marx is best known for his Copacabana Promenade, a stylish mosaic pavement on the Rio de Janeiro beach and the gardens of Brasília, the dynamic capital of Brazil that was planned and designed by architects Lúcio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer.

And while you listen, you watch a slow - paced, meticulously calibrated video in which, for long periods, the camera pans soothingly over ordinary domestic objects carefully arranged on a desktop of modernist design.

Designed by Stephan Braunfels and opened in 2002, the modernist building displays four separate collections: Art (in association with the National Collection of Modern and Contemporary Arts), Architecture (in association with Munich Technical University's Museum of Architecture), Design (in association with the National Museum for Design and Applied Arts (Neue Sammlung) and Works on Paper (in association with the National Collection of Works on Paper).

Amongst the rare and much sought - after items in Christie's forthcoming Design Masterworks sale, a pair of Steltman chairs, for instance, designed by Gerrit Rietveld in 1963 — placing their production firmly in the mid-century period — are rooted in the far more remote early modernist years, while hints of the 1960s» brutalist architectural style are also easily detected in the form.

His new sculptural installation in the North Galleries of the White Cube gallery in Bermondsey takes as its starting point the iconic modernist penguin pool designed by architect Berthold Lubetkin for ZSL London Zoo in 1943, which acts as an amphitheatre for performances by dancers and musicians during the course of the exhibition.

At the heart of this designscape, sits a library table designed by Jean Prouvé for the Maison de l'Etudiant in Paris; but to this quote, Boyce adds a further reference in the form of a hanging mobile, immediately evocative of work by Modernist artists such as Alexander Calder.

For Art Basel Miami Beach week 2013, the French artist duo Kolkoz created Curiosity, a new large - scale outdoor installation in the form of a snow covered wooden hut floating in front of the Miami Marine Stadium, an iconic modernist structure designed powerboat racing stadium by architect Hilario Candela in 1963.

But there's also Modern art at TEFAF — Alexej von Jawlensky's colorful 1913 canvasHead of a Woman, painted in a colorful expressionistic style, was on offer for $ 3.4 million at Galerie Thomas, from Munich; Surrealist Paul Delvaux's erotic rendition of female nudes in a dreamlike setting is at Salzburg's Thomas Salis Art & Design; Piet Mondrian's landscape painting of a house surrounded by trees from 1902, before the Dutch modernist discovered his signature style of geometric abstraction, is at Düsseldorf «s Beck & Eggeling; and Impressionist painter Pierre - Auguste Renoir's enchanting 1885 canvas Au Bord de L'eau (At the Water's Edge), which beautifully captures a woman rowing a boat on a rural lake, is priced at $ 12 million at Dickinson, of London and New York.

Most renowned for his sculpture, but equally influential for his dance sets and playground designs, not to mention his Akari lamps and modernist furniture, Noguchi understood that works of art do not exist in isolation.

Mogensen got his inspiration for this design from a trip to Spain in 1958, where he came across a type of traditional chair which he then interpreted in a modernist way.

Sitting on 77 hectares of reclaimed land along Manila Bay, the Cultural Centre was designed by the modernist architect Leandro Locsin as the nucleus of Imelda Marcos» vision for «A New Society» — the rebirth of the Philippine nation under her and Ferdinand's auspices.

The Met Breuer, housed in the revamped concrete building that Marcel Breuer designed for the Whitney Museum, launched with a survey show whose «unfinished» theme chimes with the rough materiality of the modernist architectural landmark.

The museum is honoring the brutal grandeur of architect Marcel Breuer's modernist masterpiece by reinstalling Robert Irwin's Scrim Veil — Black Rectangle — Natural Light, a site - specific piece originally designed, installed and displayed in 1977 for the Emily Fisher Landau Gallery on the 4th floor of the museum.

Rolph Scarlett (1889 — D. 1984) was a Non-Objective modernist artist known for his abstracted paintings of geometric forms and design.

Against the backdrop of Pumhösl's interest in early Latin - American woven patterns and their reception by modernist artists, for instance, a discursive field opens up combining extra-European influences, the importance of design, and seriality in art.

Around this same time, the Pattern & Decoration movement — for which artists, many of them female, began relying on design elements and ready - made patterning in reaction to modernist abstraction — had begun.