Another amazing item from Heir Antiques.
Full Figured Horned Linen Dress Form
Heir Antiques, Providence
$600, 1st Dibs
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ARTmonday: Timothy Cummings
Over the weekend I chatted with Tyler Doran of Heir Antiques in Providence. I hope to actually visit his shop sometime soon. He has an amazing eye for the creepy and refined. One of the items that caught my eye on his 1st Dibs page is the colorful spot portrait below, by artist Timothy Cummings. Turns out he’s done a whole series of such works. Some are quite disturbing, but some are eerily beautiful.
SPOT PORTRAIT
Iris print with monotype and hand coloring 57/100
12″ X 10.5 framed
Heir Antiques, Providence
SPOT PORTRAIT 4
acrylic on board – 8″x10″
Dabora Gallery, Brooklyn
SPOT PORTRAIT, 2001
SPOT PORTRAIT 8
acrylic on board – 8″x10″
Dabora Gallery, Brooklyn
The last two are not part of the Spot Portrait series, but have a similar aesthetic, I think.
Phantom III, 2008
acrylic on panel – 10″x8″
Catherine Clark Gallery, San Francisco
The Flowering, 2006
Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York City
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Covet: Rabbit Vertebrae Cuff Links
Hand cast sterling silver vertebrae cuff links
by Zimbabwean artist and RISD graduate Vayshalee Naran, $125
Heir Antiques, Providence
TV Alert: Sixx Design on Bravo
The husband and wife design duo behind Sixx Design, Robert and Cortney Novogratz, plus their brood of kids (two sets of twins, a couple of singles, and a new baby), have landed a TV gig. Nine by Design premieres Tuesday at 11pm on Bravo, then moves to its regular time at 10pm.
The series follows the couple over the course of six months, during which they worked on six large-scale design projects including a 24-room hotel on the Jersey Shore, a 10,000 square foot glass house on the West Side Highway and a home conversion of a gun shop located on the edge of Soho.
With any luck, this reality docu-DIY will focus on the team’s talents as taste makers rather than the antics of their ever growing family, though apparently Cortney goes into labor with the newest addition at the end of episode one. I’m definitely tuning in and hoping to get a taste of the magic behind their funky interior transformations. And besides, I need a new show; a girl can’t exist on Gossip Girl alone.
For more on Sixx Design you can read the NYT article from last spring.
And here’s a sampling of their work:
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Shopping Trip: South End Formaggio
I took a little field trip over to the South End two weeks ago to meet up with Ricardo Rodriguez about the Urban Showhouse he’s organizing (more on that later). I stopped into Hudson, tried to figure out what movie they were filming in front of The Buttery, and grabbed a sandwich at Formaggio. It’s neighborhood shops like this that make the South End a tempting place to live. (Not that I could give up the orderliness of Back Bay and proximity to the Esplanade, but still.) It’s a wonderful gourmet gem – so picturesque – and chock full of inspirational ingredients. Plus, my ham and butter pressé was de-licious.
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