The above image: A contemporary work by Harumi Nakashima featured at the fair.
Martin du Louvre, Paris.
The latest edition of the International Art and Design Fair are exhibiting 20th-century European and American antiques which is going to have high-end jewelry, glass, pottery, chairs, tables, cabinets, vases, silver, flatware, bowls, rugs, lamps and all manner of other household collectibles. Nearly 42 dealers gathered at the Park Avenue at Aladdin's cave.
Here many small booths have small antique shops. For people who love collecting stuff, people with great interest in art and student from design field will have fun in collecting rare and valuable items from this junk. For the lay man the show, which has been assembled by the London fair organizers Brian and Anna Haughton, offers a fascinating overview of the reaches of Modernist design.
Yet the floor plan has been redesign for the bulky items, furniture, chandeliers, etc. The main idea is to present modern art, with price tags to match.
Hand carved chest of drawers from 1960s by the American designer Phillip Lloyd Powell, who produced no more than 1,000 pieces of furniture is going to be there. It looks very organic and the manner of the best art nouveau piece. It was bought from a Parisian antiques dealer who acquired it from an expatriate American.
Vintage jewelry is always the main eye at this fair. A pair of multistone gold brooches of birds perched on carved coral by Cartier from the 1950s, at Camilla Dietz Bergeron, is delightful. Sabbadini also has some extraordinary jewelry, including a pair of eye-popping diamond earrings. The central stones are 10 carats each and internally flawless.
A design curiosity of a very different sort is a prototype for a Meccano robot, around 1954, made out of enameled steel and signed on the breastplate, at Martin du Louvre. It is in excellent condition, having come from the family of a former director of Meccano France. It is priced at $85,000.
Here few booths are showing up with art which is mostly from Asia. Paintings by Asian and South Asian artists at Sundaram Tagore; contemporary Chinese and Japanese painting and sculpture at Goedhuis Contemporary and Dai Ichi Arts; and an attractive selection of works by contemporary Japanese and mid-century modern Americans at the Dillon Gallery booth. Scherfig, a Danish writer, was renowned for his works of literature. But he also created paintings. The small selection of his paintings here has a naïve charm.
Some dealers have created focus by keepin only one designer's work. One of the best, from 20th Century, throws a light on Joaquim Tenreiro, a talented Brazilian designer of Modernist furniture from the 1950s through 1980s. Besides simple elegant designs he also like to work with all kinds of rare and expensive woods.
The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design and Culture and the fashion house Proenza Schouler are sponsoring a loan exhibition of rare Knoll textiles. This exhibition offers a brief history of the influence of fashion design on Knoll textiles and upholstery. It is also a sneak preview of a larger show to take place at the Bard Graduate Center in 2010.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/03/arts/design/03fair.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
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