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WHAT TO COLLECT # 135. NINA RODER

Nina Röder

born in 1983 in Germany and graduated with a Master of Fine Arts from Bauhaus University Weimar with the focus on staged photography. Next, to her artistic activities, she is a Ph.D. candidate with the research topic about performative strategies in contemporary photography.

Nina’s photographic work is exposing hidden structures of biographical stories in which she is combining aspects of the theatre, performance, and stage with the time-based image space of photography. Her photographs have been shown in international exhibitions and photo festivals such as Voicees Off Festival in Arles, the European Month of Photography in Berlin or the Goa Photo Festival in India.

Nina lives and works in Berlin.

Title of the photography series by Artist:

WENN DU GEHEN MUST WILLS DU DOCH AUCH BLEIBEN

My grandparents Franz & Theresia Protschka have been expelled after the Second World war from Bohemia and lost everything they had. Therefore it was almost impossible for them to throw anything away when they built up a new life in Germany.

They were both around 90 years old when they died last year. Unfortunately, we had to sell the house both have lived in for more than 60 years. This house in the Franconian province in Germany had been the center for our family.

These pictures were taken in this house when my mother Dagmar, my cousin Laura and me had to clear and clean the house before we sold it. So the photographs had been realized during the decision process of keeping or giving away all the objects.

One way not being too sad about losing this house with all the memories in it, was to do absurd things in the photographs.

In these pictures, you can see my mother Dagmar, my cousin Laura and my brother Heiko wearing old clothes of our grandparents.

The title is a quote of my 9-year-old nephew Luis.

HOW TO BE INSPIRED BY OTHER ARTISTS WITHOUT COPYING THEM

How to be inspired by other artists without copying them 5: composition

Apr 17, 2017 | Inspiration

This is the fifth and final post in the series, focused on helping you become ever clearer about what’s unique to you, even while being inspired by other artists. Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 Each week we’ll look at a single aspect of painting and how…

How to be inspired by other artists without copying them 4: perspective

Apr 10, 2017 | Inspiration

This post is the fourth in a series of five, focused on helping you become ever clearer about what’s unique to you, even while being inspired by other artists. Continuing our series, today we’re looking at viewpoints, or perspective. Part 1 | Part 2 | Part…

How to be inspired by other artists without copying them 3: subject matter

Apr 3, 2017 | Inspiration

This post is the third in a series of five, focused on helping you become ever clearer about what’s unique to you, even while being inspired by other artists. Continuing our series, today we’re looking at subject matter. Part 1 | Part 2 Each week…

How to be inspired by other artists without copying them 2: colour palettes

Mar 27, 2017 | Inspiration

This post is the second in a series of five, in which we’re exploring ways to be inspired by the artists whose work you love, while keeping you focused on developing your own art. Continuing our series, today we’re looking at colour palettes. Part 1 Each…

How to be inspired by other artists without copying them: Part 1

Mar 13, 2017 | Inspiration

Something a bit different this week! This post is the first in a series of five, focused on helping you become ever clearer about what’s unique to you, even while being inspired by other artists. {Which might be handy as we’re all being inspired all the…

a gallery of abstractified art : a selection of works by Abstractify students

Feb 27, 2017 | Inspiration

Last year I put together a virtual exhibition of work from previous Abstractify students to share with you. It was such a great way to showcase their beautiful creations and the possibilities the course offers, I decided to do another this year! As before, I’ve…

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WHAT TO COLLECT #114 . GUDA KOSTER

Guda Koster is a Dutch artist who creates living sculptures and performances, which the photographs are the results of. Koster’s works are created in parallels of time, space, and textile. In her works, Koster uses fabrics, colors, and patterns that underline the codes and meanings our clothing conveys

How would you describe your works? I make installations, sculptures, and photographs in which clothing plays an important part. Clothing doesn’t just have a function but also conveys a message. In our everyday lives, we communicate identity and social position primarily by means of our clothing. Clothing can be seen as a visual art form that expresses the way we see ourselves and our relationship with the world around us.

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Indian summer

photo, work

2017, fotoprint, 90 x 60 cm or 75 x 50 cm

Stormy weather

photo, work

2017, 90 x 60 cm or 75 x 50 cm

One leg

photo, work

2017, photoprint

Size: divers

Happy?

photo, work

2016, 50×75 cm

Just married

photo, work

2016, 50×75 cm

Box

sculpture, work

2015, sculpture, karton, textiel, schoenen, paspop, 100 x 150 x 80 cm

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WHAT TO COLLECT # 112. Lisa Kellner

Lisa Kellner has created and installed room-sized installations and two-dimensional works throughout the United States since 2006. Her work has been exhibited at the Bellevue Arts Museum (WA), the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (NY), the Brooklyn Arts Council (NY) and the Weatherspoon Museum (NC), among others. Also, Lisa has worked with galleries including Ascent Contemporary (NY), Project 4 (DC), BravinLee Projects (NY) and JoAnne Artman (LA). Lisa’s work has been reviewed in The New York Times, The Boston Globe and Sculpture Magazine among others. Lisa created site-responsive installations at the Cornell Fine Arts Museum (FL), the Center for Maine Contemporary Art (ME), Lehman College Art Gallery (NY) and the Target Gallery at the Torpedo Factory (VA). In 2016, Lisa was awarded the New Media Invitational from the Target Gallery. She was also a Joan Mitchell semi-finalist. Her work is currently included in the exhibition, Materiality: The Matter of Matter at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art.

Please, find more information on https://www.lisakellner.com/

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WHAT TO COLLECT # 111. Marina De Caro

Born in 1961 in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Lives and works in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Body, behavior and space; intuition, sensitivity, and perception; experience and knowledge: these are the keywords of Marina De Caro’s work. De Caro develops her poetics from the field of drawing towards the realms of sculpture and performance. Her spatial and action-based works often incorporate soft wearable sculptures especially designed to invite the viewer/performer to experience an unpredictable regard on the every day, on bodily and social behavior and norms. In her drawings and experiences, De Caro disrupts the given, abruptly. A most refined and irreverent master in the use of color, her works also unfold as delicately poetic spatial entities that usually envelop the viewer in a particular novel ambiance and experience.

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WHAT TO COLLECT # 109. Chris Ofili ART

Chris Ofili is renowned internationally for his richly layered works that combine imagery and influences from sources as divergent as comic books, hip-hop, Zimbabwean cave paintings, Biblical scenes, and 1970s-era Blaxploitation films.

Since moving to Trinidad in the mid-2000s, Ofili has looked increasingly to the Trinidadian landscape and mythology in order to further reflect upon his long-term consideration of history and identity.

His most recent paintings have been animated by figures and scenes from folkloric myths and arguably revisit and revise tropes of a modernist painting by artists such as Henri Matisse and Paul Gauguin. Since Ofili’s earliest paintings he has deployed a similar experimental approach to materials— incorporating diverse and unusual items including glitter, collaged magazine images, and organic matter—in order to extend his visual vocabulary.

Over the last few years, he has also experimented beyond painting through immersive installation works. At ICA Miami, Ofili’s extended-run installation will evolve over the course of its duration, with works being added and/or subtracted over time.

Ofili (b. 1968, Manchester, England) has presented solo exhibitions internationally, including at the New Museum, New York (2014); Arts Club of Chicago (2010); Tate Britain, London (2010, 2005); and the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2005), among others. He represented Britain at the Venice Biennale in 2003 and was the recipient of the Turner Prize in 1998.

On view Dec 1, 2017 – Oct 27, 2019

Chris Ofili

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The Woman Behind the First Photography Gallery

Helen Gee risked everything to open Limelight in 1954, selling prints by Ansel Adams, Berenice Abbott, and Robert Frank for less than fifty dollars each. Her tell-all memoir, Helen Gee: Limelight, a Greenwich Village Photography Gallery and Coffeehouse in the Fifties, is now available from Aperture as an e-book. Here, Denise Bethel’s introduction offers a preview of the late Gee’s story.

Arthur Lavine, Helen Gee, ca. 1954–1960

Courtesy Gary Schneider

Dear Helen,

I am writing to let you know that, sixty years on, some of the questions are still the same: who succeeds as a photographer? And, whose photographs sell? When you opened your first show at Limelight, in 1954, you linked those questions together for a new generation of collectors, and they’ve been linked that way ever since. Galleries had been selling art for centuries, but you wanted your gallery to be only about photography. This was an act of courage and an act of faith. Stieglitz sold photographs, and Julien Levy too, but they both offered other art as well. Now, look at what’s happened. In 2014, when I auctioned a sale of photographs for over twenty-one million, I wished you’d been there to see it. I was wearing some of your jewelry that night, given to me by two of your closest friends. There were prints in that auction that sold for tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars, many by some of the same photographers you’d struggled to sell for twenty or thirty or forty dollars a pop—Ansel Adams, Minor White, László Moholy-Nagy, Atget, Berenice Abbott, Gene Smith, Imogen Cunningham, Robert Frank, and more. The list is long. It’s ironic that one of your closing shows, the work of Edward Weston, saw some decent sales at seventy-five dollars a print. It’s all very different now. In my life as an auctioneer, I was as ambitious for the medium as you were, and finally, after years in the low-price trenches, I sold not one, but three photographs by Edward Weston for over one million dollars each.

In those long-ago days of the 1950s, you got into selling photographs through the back door: you were a painter who got hooked on photography, and you became a photographer yourself. You made money retouching photographs, enough money even to hire a secretary. And then you wanted to open a gallery. This was a time-honored route to becoming a dealer—through love of a subject—and in retrospect, it may have been the best one. You couldn’t help yourself, it was almost that simple. This was before photographs had much status in the marketplace, and before they could promise any return on the dollar. In 1980, when I got my first job in the photo trade, we called it “photographica.” Now, it’s “fine art photography,” and it’s a medium that’s sexy, a medium that’s hot, and that element of passion is not the determining factor it once was. Maybe that’s a shame. In 1954, you opened Limelight because you loved it, and you hoped that it would somehow, someway translate into money for food and rent.

Arthur Lavine, Helen Gee retouching transparencies, 1955

Courtesy Collection Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona

For anyone who loves photographs the way I do, your book is a fabulous roller-coaster ride. I love all that gossip and all that juice. People known to me only through their pictures are described by you in wacky detail. Your first photography teachers were Lisette Model and Sid Grossman—Sid kept your classes going on and on past midnight, endlessly pontificating on everything from politics to photo magazines. There were Robert and Mary Frank in their chaotic loft on Twenty-Third Street, boxes everywhere, hard to tell if they were moving in or moving out. The rugged Brett Weston, driving into Manhattan with a gun on his front seat. The tipsy Gene Smith, going from tavern to tavern in the wee hours, threatening to kill himself before he hung his show. The practical Sibyl Moholy-Nagy, glad to clear her husband’s clutter from her closets. Imogen Cunningham holding court at Limelight, giving Peter Hujar one perfect piece of advice. You even babysat the young Robert De Niro, an impossible-to-control toddler with no hint of famous actor in his future. Best of all is your scene with Edward Steichen in a kimono, chasing you around his apartment, putting the moves on. Let’s face it, Helen, you were a looker. But where did you find the guts to turn down Steichen, the most important person in the photography world at the time?

Arthur Lavine, Limelight premises (91 Seventh Avenue South at Sheridan Square) before renovation, February 1954

Courtesy Gary Schneider

These stories make your book a page-turner, and it would be a terrific musical: young woman finds a derelict nightclub in Greenwich Village, goes up to her neck in debt, strong-arms friends to help her plaster and paint, opens a coffeehouse–gallery, and the rest is history. Think of what a director could do with this scenario, Helen, think of the songs, the backdrops, the potential dance numbers—photographers in a cancan! Rain coming in through the broken skylights! We can look back and smile at some of this, but not at the tough parts, no—no, thank you. Let’s save the tough parts for the screenplay: the lawyer who cheated you, leaving you stranded . . . the times you faced bankruptcy . . . the crash course in the restaurant business, the endless staff turnover, the bookies in your apartment building, the union organizers who helped do you in. You wanted to figure out how to sell photographs, not how to work coffee machines. But it was food that kept Limelight going when the photographs didn’t sell, and so you had no choice—you figured it all out. That abandoned nightclub before you transformed it into Limelight—good grief. What exactly were you thinking? You recount it all with equanimity and sometimes, against all odds, with humor: the highs and the lows, the triumphs and the failures. And there’s not an ounce of self-pity in the narrative. It’s a lesson for all of us.

Arthur Lavine, Jerry Tallmer and Helen Gee (during renovations for Limelight), 1954

Courtesy Gary Schneider

When you did sell a photograph, and it didn’t happen often enough at first, you tell us candidly that it was nothing less than “an event.” You hung sixty shows in seven years, gave a lot of photographers their first exhibition, and created a special space, unique in the city then, for photography people to gather. For better or for worse, you brought photography back into the art market debate. Your shows were reviewed, with gravitas, in the New York Times and the Village Voice. One reviewer in the Sunday Times had the nerve to suggest that, for the modern world, photographs might just be more important than paintings. Whaaaaaat?! And so the controversy started up again, years after Stieglitz had thrown in the towel, and I’m writing to tell you that it’s going on still, today. I remember an Old Masters collector who walked into a photo auction preview by mistake. He was stunned when he saw the estimates. “Why, you can buy a good painting for what some of these things are worth!” he said to me, outraged. You just have to keep smiling, right?

Arthur Lavine, The first exhibition at Limelight featured the work of Joseph Breitenbach (and was installed by Sid Grossman), May 1954

Courtesy Gary Schneider

If you had just been able to hang on for a few more years, Helen, just a few. If you had just been able to figure a way around the union who tried to recruit your ragtag staff of part-time actors and out-of-work dancers. You were living one week to the next as it was, on borrowed time. Who could have predicted what the last straw would be, after all the creditors you’d dodged and all the photographers you’d cajoled? It’s heart-breaking to me that you closed when you did, because photography was about to move into the art world in a big, big way. Lisette Model introduced you to the young Diane Arbus, right at the end of your run. Grace Mayer brought by a Midwesterner named John Szarkowski—he was in town for a job interview at the Museum of Modern Art. Less than a decade after Limelight folded, Lee Witkin started down the trail you’d blazed: he opened his gallery in Manhattan, in 1969, and others followed. New York and London began to auction photographs in the 1970s, and slowly the prices went up. In 1989, I was in the room when a photograph broke that magic one-hundred-thousand-dollar ceiling at auction—an Edward Weston nautilus shell. Applause broke out, and all of us thought we’d hit the big time. Yet prices kept on going. In 2006, I was at the podium for the first photograph, classic or contemporary, to sell at auction for over a million dollars, $2.93 million, in fact. It was The Pond—Moonlight, a Pictorial tour de force by your old friend Edward Steichen. And again, I was wearing some of your jewelry that night, wishing you could be in the room to see it. What would you have thought if you had seen that $2.93 million in the press, who by then was jumping on every meteoric rise in price for photographs?

Arthur Lavine, Helen Gee on the way to the opening of Limelight, May 13, 1954

Courtesy Gary Schneider

Does reading your book now, when so much has changed, make me miss those historic old times? It’s romantic to read about, Helen, but maybe not to have lived it. You had the strength of an ox. Now there are more of us in the business, and there is safety in those numbers. You were thrilled when Roy and Anne DeCarava opened a gallery in their apartment on the Upper West Side, because you knew it would be good for Limelight as well. It closed before you did, unfortunately. You tried new kinds of food to keep the doors open and reviewed endless portfolios for free, but it was always a cliff-hanger. In the 1950s, selling photographs was not the way to get rich, that’s for sure. You were far, far out on a limb.

Arthur Lavine, Opening party (Helen Gee and Peggy Tallmer in center), ca. 1954

Courtesy Gary Schneider

And, yes, there’s one more question your book brings up, and it’s a question, like the others, that’s still with us today: not who succeeds at selling photographs, but can it be a woman? Being a woman, Helen, might not have been the easiest way to start. When I climbed into the auctioneer’s box for the first time, I was the first female auction head of photographs to actually take a sale. (“You need to stand up in the podium, don’t sit down up there,” a friend recommended later, when he saw how the box engulfed me. “I am standing up,” I had to tell him. “I’ve been standing up for years.”) Although there are many—many—more women in the photo world today, we’re still outnumbered. And, to top it all off, in your Limelight years, you were not just a woman, you were a divorced single mom. You stayed up nights working, retouching photos, you worked when you were sick, you scrambled to find babysitters, you read all those books on raising children, you wanted your daughter to have the best. Thank you for being frank with us about trying to find the time to date and to make those tricky man-woman relationships work. How did you have any stamina left at all? For single moms out there, career moms with not much money, like you, I expect this may not have really changed.

Arthur Lavine, Exterior of Limelight, ca. 1954

Courtesy Collection Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona

Helen, I’m such a fan. We don’t have enough in print about what it was like in the early days of the photo trade, and in your case, a memoir about the business has become a memoir about the medium itself. Although I adore all that gossip, my favorite parts of the book are your zingers about the lasting (or not!) value of the photographs and exhibitions of your day—your pages on The Family of Man, for starters. Your right-on comments about the whole photo scene can’t be paraphrased—and so I’ll leave it to new readers to discover for themselves your razor-sharp eye. You would have been a great critic, Helen, because you knew the medium from the inside, and you made it your business to know the people. I am in awe of what you did, and for taking the time and trouble to put it down on paper.

With all best wishes,

Denise Bethel, New York, January 2018

Denise Bethel, formerly Chairman, Photographs, Americas, Sotheby’s New York, is now an independent advisor, a writer, and a lecturer based in New York City.

Helen Gee: Limelight, a Greenwich Village Photography Gallery and Coffeehouse in the Fifties, published by Aperture as an e-book, is available on Amazon and other e-book retailers.

Read the original article: https://aperture.org/blog/limelight-helen-gee/

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ART OBSERVATION. FOG DESIGN&ART SFO. January 2018

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INSPIRATION # 130. GREEN IN YOUR SPACE

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INSPIRATION # 110. MINIMALISM

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INSPIRATION # 100. ART IN DESIGN

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WHAT TO COLLECT # 1 Photo Murals by Masha Melnik in Design

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TOP 50 Interior Design Brands for Contemporary Living

The fact is that everyone has the desire to make his residence more comfortable and cozy because that is the only place where most people have to spend their whole life. Besides hiring an interior designer to give our homes appealing looks, we need to choose the curtains, furniture, kitchen wear, and other accessories wisely. It is essential to set the furniture as per the wall-paints so that an appealing and charming look is obtained. While making your selection of furniture, I am sure you would love what is graceful, attractive and affordable.
There is a list of my favorite contemporary and remarkable furniture brands are present in the world with respect to their origin and exclusiveness. I believe it will help you to get a furnished and modern Hollywood house from your dreams.

The Roche Bobois Group is considered today as the world leader in high-end furniture design and distribution, in addition to its elite positioning as a pioneer creator.
As a true testimony to its dynamism, Roche Bobois launches every six months an exclusive new collection and proudly ranks among the most talented furniture brands with an upscale international reputation.

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Well-known for fusing classicism with modernism, Christopher Guy’s style can be described as “contemporary with classical values.” A singular vision and uncompromising sense of style and pursuit of elegance have driven Christopher to continually redefine the aesthetics of the design. http://pin.it/9hMSngT

BRABBU is a design brand that reflects an intense way of living, bringing fierceness, strength, and power into an urban lifestyle. We design and produce a diverse range of furniture, case goods, upholstery, lighting, rugs, art, and accessories that tell stories of nature and the world. All these stories are written by the materials, textures, scents, flavors, and colors that live inside nature and inside the urban life. http://pin.it/Zj5mCI3

Innovation and imaginative design characterize this stylish range of tables, chairs, stools, etc. from Cattelan Italia. The quality of manufacture and elegance of style combine to bring a highly individual, distinctive and discriminating designer flair to your home. http://pin.it/4Pa-WrK

EDRA is the synonyms of creativity which has established it as leader of change with amazing and astonishing designs and high-quality products following latest fashions and trends. It has considered as the reference point of the modern world and new designs, the intersection of modern technology and artistic traditions. EDRA catalog contains well crafted the unique and flawless range of furniture to cover every field of life from the environment to nature and comfortable bed to home along with executive offerings, added among the most expensive furniture brands in the world. http://pin.it/zN1kLeb

“A long ride, with a few obstacles and many challenges, from 1934 to the present. And the feeling that it is never enough… No, “knowledge” is not enough anymore, but we have a magnificent obsession for quality every day and in every detail.” – Molteni & C iconic style with unmistakable class. http://pin.it/90BKuhU

Poliform is a leading Italian furniture brand which offers a wide range of products including wardrobe and library system along with decorative collections like sofas, armchairs, beds and occasional furniture. It has been making the masterpieces since forty years to furnish the houses with its esteemed products and creations to mesmerize the people coming to the home. The Italian luxury modern furniture brand provides high-quality furniture and kitchen setting with customs cabinetry closets making it one of most expensive furniture brands in the world. http://pin.it/5DQeZKG

Boca do Lobo combines the past with present through technology by making masterpieces which can evoke emotions through its exclusiveness and sensational collection. The contemporary designs of Boca do Lobo is all about modern lifestyle and high-end living standards that gave luxurious experience to its users and captivate the attention of guests in quite well manner. Boca does Lobo is one of most expensive furniture brand in the world which presents a wide range of home and office décor with all of the accessories to make them more impressive and incredible. https://www.pinterest.com/bocadolobo

Top designers, quality of manufacture and flexibility in product design, make Flou one of the world-leaders in bedroom systems. Most designs have the versatility to be adapted to a particular customer need. Give your bedroom a distinctive personal style .http://pin.it/Pc62UBH

Kartell is one of the symbols of Italian design around the world that has been founded in 1949 by Giulio Castelli, the leading furniture company is currently owned and operated by Claudio Luti. Kartell has made collaboration with most prestigious international designers to make products more appealing and mesmerizing while its collections became unique pieces through color, transparency, and unique shapes. It has been added to the list of most expensive furniture brands in the world while its products are recognizable all around the globe because of durability and endless. https://www.pinterest.com/kartelldesign

Since, 1989 Fendi Casa has manufactured the prestigious design objects that combine exclusivity and glamor, a passion for experimentation and creativity that ended up with unique and elegant furniture for which it has been added to the list of top most expensive furniture brand in the world. The persistent quest of materials and excellence in craftsmanship make the collection of Fendi Casa more exceptional having excellence and innovative design. The collection contains a large variety of home furnishings, decorative lighting, and accessories while all of the creations are mostly handcrafted by Italian.
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Founded in 1972 by an innovative group of designers BD Barcelona has been offering highly distinctive, striking contemporary furniture designs for public and private living spaces for almost 40 years.
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Since Aurelio Zanotta founded the company over 50 years ago, Zanotta has integrated research, innovation, and design to create a highly successful brand now sought after in over 60 nations of the world. Quality is Zanotta’s watchword: in materials, design, and production. Safe, comfortable, reliable, aesthetically satisfying and distinctive, Zanotta is one of the Italy’s most prestigious brands. http://pin.it/yyEJL6x

Minotti has been at the top of Italian furniture design and manufacture for over 60 years and has built up a client base all over the world. They offer a comprehensive range for every room: beds, sofas, armchairs, stools etc. http://pin.it/CKFCV3N

SOFAS

Founded in 1946, Cappellini has been a driving force of Italian modernism for most of its existence. Their sofas, chairs, and tables have appeared in the collections of MoMA in New York, the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, and the Museum of Decorative Arts. Check my board on Pinterest http://pin.it/-xPvOnD

For nearly five decades, B&B Italia has dominated the contemporary furniture landscape and made major contributions to the history of Italian design. Dedicated to outfitting modern lives with sophisticated and timeless furnishings, B&B Italia collaborates with some of the world’s most renowned designers and architects, including Marcel Wanders, Naoto Fukasawa, and Nicole Aebischer. https://www.pinterest.com/bebitalia

The historic sofa, armchair, and accessories manufacturer have undergone a modern transformation under the direction of Patrizia Moroso, daughter of the company’s founder. Creative partnerships with designers like Ron Arad, Marc Newson, and Patricia Urquiola have pushed Moroso into exciting new design territories. Today, celebrities and Middle Eastern royalty alike, adore the brand’s edgy designs and fresh vision. http://pin.it/O0USNlh

For 40 years Living Divani has been one of the Italy’s most dynamic and prestigious brands. Led since 1988 by architect/designer Piero Lissoni, simplicity and elegance of line with a keen eye for contemporary tastes have characterized the distinctive Living Divani house style. Building on their renowned reputation for high-quality upholstery, Living Divani now offers a full range of products to enhance all aspects of your living environment. http://pin.it/MNTAMzZ

PATIO & OUTDOOR

Based near Basel since 1950, Vitra sells iconic, design-led furniture to the world. Creative flair, quality in materials and manufacture, combine to create products to enhance our experience of the living environment in the home, office or public space. The Vitra philosophy is individual in focus: collections designed to form part of an organic collage of personal choice, not the imposed, packaged anonymity of a corporate or branded style. Vitra’s target is the discerning, discriminating, an independently-minded customer with a passion for quality. http://pin.it/M1KP2Sl

Outdoors or indoors Ego Paris offers audacious, distinctive and exciting furniture from a new company set up in 2004 by the three brothers Sommereaux – Jean,
Yvan and Nicolas. The quality of materials and craftsmanship guarantee elegance and durability for Ego chairs, tables, beach/poolside recliners, etc. Quality wood, aluminum in a wide choice of finishes/colors empowers you to achieve the ultimate in personal style. http://pin.it/LTjcUgj

GOOD for KIDS

The American home-furnishing company Restoration Hardware was founded in 1979 in California which operated in the United States and Canada through 18 outlets in the States. One of the fastest growing and most innovative luxury brands in the home furnishings Restoration Hardware operated a total of 59 galleries including specialized furniture for babies and children. RH is one of expensive furniture brand in the world which positioned as a lifestyle brand and design authority that offers dominant and innovative products.
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The circus was built under a dream. The dream is to allow children to dream their own dreams and to really give them space to be and live their fantasies and magical world. In a certain way, Circus is the ultimate proposition of being free, colorful, innocent, naïve and extremely “bubbly.” What Circus dreams to be is the pinnacle of fun, freedom, and life, introducing a new entire world and a new entire state of mind.

Gigi Brooks is a UK based luxury baby and children’s lifestyle brand dedicated to providing anyone with babies and children in their lives with an expertly curated collection of designer furniture, exquisite interiors, and unique gifts.
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Bambizi Kids traditional British craftsmanship and the best of modern kids furniture design, every piece in the range offers unrivaled quality, safety, and beauty. http://pin.it/snETBui

Home Accessories

Best known for high-end fashion, Missoni remains a family-owned company with an international empire built on their signature brightly colored zig-zag fabrics. Aside from sweaters and dresses, Missoni also sells bedding, poufs. http://pin.it/4Zb3DC_

Carlo Alessi founded the company, and it’s still a family-run operation, currently owned by Carlo’s son Alberto. They focus on the designer tabletop with — for lack of a better description — lots of shiny metal stuff. Alessi has international showrooms and a huge retail network. http://pin.it/BUKQNoO

KITCHENS, BATHROOMS & APPLIANCES
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In 1892 Friedemir Poggenpohl set up a small furniture company and showroom. His aim ‘To improve the kitchen.’ And ever since, generations of Poggenpohl craftsmen and designers have done exactly that.
The Poggenpohl kitchen is built to order. Our designers start with a blank sheet of paper – and the customer’s brief. The home, tastes, and way of life of each client are considered before our skilled designers begin to create a kitchen that is precisely designed for space and the people who will use it. Every cabinet, drawer, and worktop are built to the precise dimensions of the customer’s home at our factory in Herford, right down to the last millimeter of space. That’s why every Poggenpohl kitchen is as individual as our customers are. https://www.pinterest.com/PinPoggenpohl

The story of success of the enterprise Schüller started in the year of 1965 when the first kitchen buffet was developed. Starting 1971 the first built-in kitchens were planned and produced. Continuously expanded during the years that followed, the former carpenter’s shop has now developed into an innovative enterprise, employing approximately 1240 people, belonging to the Top 5 kitchen manufacturers, and exporting kitchens all over the world. http://pin.it/x88BS-l

Porcelanosa does more than just make kitchen cabinets. They also deal with bathrooms and tile. But in the kitchen, Porcelanosa excels in the manufacture of sleek, smooth European-style cabinetry. It also does manufacturer more traditional styles of cabinetry, as well. Based in Spain, Porcelanosa runs a tight ship with over 400 showrooms across the globe–entirely company-owned.

If we take more detailed and careful look at ALNO, which is the German Design winner “Winner” 2016 in the category “Excellent Product Design – Kitchen” we will notice quite a remarkable innovations. Starting with the heat and scratch resistant, a natural material made from particles of oxides and silicide that is quite a something for sensible surfaces like the ones in the kitchen. Another noteworthy innovation is the opening of the cabinets – strongly resembling the lifting of sun blind – very practical for restrained spaces. Style and innovation – what better?

Bulthaup’s minimalist, purist yet sensual kitchen furniture is distinctive and full of character. Using high-quality materials their craftsmen pare function down to its essence, creating an integrated, balanced style. Direct from Italy to your own order, Contemporary Home offer prices that bring this uniquely satisfying range within reach. http://pin.it/DDaxyLd

The VIPP KITCHEN is a design product that according to its creators is a result of 75 years long tradition of working with metal. Inspired by professional kitchens, they create this design more as a functional and cleverly placed instrument than as a decorative element of the interior. So in the end, the result is functionality, stylish outlook and high quality in one place.

Dada – Sleek and modern, Dada manufactures a range of designer kitchen cabinetry that reflects the latest contemporary trends from Europe. Bold and stylish, the streamlined designs will bring a sophisticated feel and a touch of cosmopolitan chic to your home.

THG PARIS, Known the world over for their specialized, unique bathroom faucets and accessories, THG never fails to express ultimate aesthetic beauty. Crystal appliqué faucet fixtures are this brand’s calling card, making every bathroom they are featured in more elegant as a result.

BOFFI is an international trendsetter in the world of bathroom design, and they’ve worked with greats like Joe Colombo. They maintain a New York showroom (designed by Piero Lissoni) in SoHo, as well as multiple European locations. http://pin.it/G4uLXB0

Bisazza Mosaico
One of the top luxury brands in the design sector and the industry’s leading producer of glass mosaic for interior and exterior decoration.
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Azulejos tiles You can use in many dynamic configurations; on the floor, as a part of the cabinetry or wall pattern, but only if the color scheme and compositional layout need a bit of refreshment and vitality. We don’t recommend their use in combination with wooden decoration. http://pin.it/1erOoUc

Lithos Design is the unrivaled Italian manufacturer of modular feature walls and flooring made of natural stone and marble for interior design. The Company was established in 2007 and is now acknowledged by the best international design firms for its design, innovation and quality standards, which epitomize the “Made in Italy” trademark, and especially as one of the leading companies who introduced the concept of industrial stone design.

A brand is like an enduring promise that needs to be fulfilled continuously. Miele adheres to this promise with the utmost commitment. For more than 115 years, Miele has stood for the highest product quality. Miele means durability, reliability, security, and peace of mind. As part of this philosophy, Miele avows itself to Germany as its center of production. Ninety percent of the total value creation is generated there. “Made in Germany” is a promise of quality and Miele strives to fulfill the high requirements of each customer and provide them with appliances of the highest quality and tested durability to make their lives more comfortable. From built-in coffee makers to the innovative steam oven, Meile continues to create must-have appliances.

Jenn-Air creates luxury appliances that are more than a facet of your kitchen – they make your house more of a home. Ranked #1 for the last four years in their creation of built-in refrigerators, Jenn-Air will never fail to impress guests in your home. http://pin.it/rzcYYXG

The dreaminess and beauty of Italian craftsmanship come to life with Officine Gullo. Each set is custom-created with the help of a team of design experts who create layouts and 3D renderings that can breathe life into your culinary visions. An Officine Gullo kitchen is the ultimate way to bring the epicurean experience of a Michelin Star restaurant home.

LIGHTING

FLOS a family-owned company based in Italy, with stores throughout Europe and America. The mid-century Arco Lamp, designed by the Castiglioni brothers, remains their biggest seller, but they also collaborate with contemporary designers like Marcel Wanders and Antonio Citterio. http://pin.it/cnqy78l

Moooi is an avant-garde Dutch design firm specializing in lighting, furniture, and textiles. Its designs, in collaboration with renowned designers including Marcel Wanders, Ross Lovegrove, and Jasper Morrison, are cutting edge, yet retain a playful character. Moooi is well known for its trendy and forward-thinking products featured in the company’s collections of lighting, furnishings, and accessories. http://pin.it/gjkJBAj

ARTEMIDE Italian lighting store was founded by Ernesto Gismondi in 1959, and now has locations throughout the world. They carry lamps by top Italian designers like Mario Botta, Enzo Mari, and Luigi Serafini, as well as non-Italian names like Philippe Starck and Norman Foster. https://www.pinterest.com/artemideworld

Meet DELIGHTFULL, a Portuguese lighting company that will spice up your rooms. DelightFULL’s world is about ambiance, history, moments that stay forever through lighting designs created by artisans with wisdom and passion for craftsmanship. https://www.pinterest.com/delightfulll

With their most recent and highly celebrated collection, Terzani has taken the next step in its evolutionary process – building from its position as an industry leader to create an incubator for the future of lighting where Terzani can focus on new ideas and continue to redefine the way luxury lighting is made. http://pin.it/wCQrmhO

Koncept lighting, international lighting design firm. Dynamic lighting designs to accentuate and complement any space. From conceptualization to reality, it all comes together at Koncept Lighting.

NEMO Lighting is one of the global leaders in lighting striving to constantly create innovative cutting edge design. The collection of the contemporary design includes models conceived by Carlo Forcolini, Jehs + Laub, Javier Mariscal, Karim Rashid, Ilaria Marelli, Foster+Partners, Hannes Wettstein and Roberto Paoli. Contemporary and simultaneously timeless, NEMO fixtures add a touch of luxury to modern spaces. http://pin.it/4K7s-Is

Established in 2002, Tom Dixon is a British design and manufacturing company of lighting and furniture. With a recognized commitment to innovation and a mission to revive the British furniture industry, the Tom Dixon brand is inspired by the unique heritage, the individualistic innovation and the robust, no nonsense engineering of these small islands. In 2004 Proventus, the Swedish-based private investment company, teamed up with Tom Dixon to establish Design Research, a design and product development holding company. Tom Dixon launches new collections annually at the Milan international furniture fair and product is sold across 61 countries. http://pin.it/abdOE6h

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Organic Bar at Boston

Inviting Mother Nature into the home through home design is an exceptional way to get back to basics while infusing a house with warmth, color, purpose, and practicality. We were originally organic, to begin with, so why not keep up the tradition of peace, harmony, and health.

Design, Inspiration and Photography Masha Melnik and Anastasia Ber, 2014

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New trend of 2016 it is a Tech-free space

Every day we are surrounded by screens and technologies that can make us feel stressed and too dependent on it . At the same time advancing technology provides the new opportunity for us to stay informed, connected, entertained, and engaged. Technology products become smaller, lighter, and more portable. And these are good changes!

For 2016, Home Decorators decided to find a perfect balance between technologies and family needs. They advise us to leave all technology behind and create a tech-free space.

Here are a few tips for you how to create a tech-free space:

bring mirrors into the room for reflections and shadows ;
lovely art and photographs. You will never stop watching it; You can find ideas on http://www.mashamelnik.com
fireplace and candles would be good as well for cozy atmosphere;
photo murals and wallpapers. Eco style or dynamic city looking great in different styles; You can find ideas on http://www.mashamelnik.com
bring books to your space and you will always have an interesting time!

And of course – love and joy for your great time with family!

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