On Collecting Art & Design by Grant Pierrus
Whether you’re a collector, curating for a client, or learning to trust your own eye, we share guidance, curated selections, and cultural insights to help you choose well and live beautifully. Written by Grant Pierrus.
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Where to Look This Autumn: London and Paris Art & Design Fairs (opens the original)
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What the Hand Can Say: Homo Faber and Fondazione Dries Van Noten (opens the original)
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The more machines can make, the more interesting it becomes to see what only human hands can do.There are 700 objects by 500 makers at Homo Faber. Es Devlin has turned the Fondazione Giorgio Cini into a breathtaking experience built around them. In A Full Moon Rising, vessels rise above the water of a former swimming pool, their reflections completing an enormous circle. Elsewhere, mirrors catch the architecture, the objects and eventually you.</
The Decisions That Become a Style (opens the original)
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The concept of style takes up an extraordinary amount of space in my mind. It is ever present, and I learned long ago that it is one of the major lenses through which I view the world.I don’t mean this in a judgemental way. No, I’m curious about what people’s choices are telling me. What are they trying to say through their expression of style?Over the past 15 years, through my work with interior designers, artists and craftsmen, I have experienced exceptional homes, been in numerous creative st
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