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Design and Innovation

Eye On Design: Étienne Fermigier’s 1970 Bar Cart

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etienne fermigier 1970 bar cart photo by gail worley
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Who says a bar cart has to be a boring little trolley parked in the corner waiting for cocktail hour? This wonderfully unconventional design by French designer Étienne Fermigier looks ready to serve drinks, store bottles, and steal the show all at once.

Designed in 1970, the cart is a delightful exercise in geometric design. Its boxy form is broken up by contrasting white and coral-pink panels, with open compartments that reveal the layered edges of the plywood construction. The circular cutouts in the shelves add a playful polka-dot effect while providing dedicated spots for bottles. Mounted on wheels, the entire unit can be moved wherever the party happens to be. Continue reading Eye On Design: Étienne Fermigier’s 1970 Bar Cart →

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Eye On Design: Z Chair and Serie Fil Multi-Function Table By François Arnal

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z chair and serie fil table photo by gail worley
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François Arnal (1924 – 2012) was a multidisciplinary French artist who was primarily known as a painter and sculptor. In 1968 he set up Atelier A (Workshop A) to publicize the works of furniture designers. I recently popped into art furniture gallery Demisch Denant on  West 12th Street and was thrilled to find that they had two of Arnal’s most iconic pieces on display! Let’s take a closer look.

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Arts and Culture

Modern Art Monday Presents: Alvin Loving, Septehedron 34

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Septehedron 34
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Alvin Loving (1935 – 2005) once described geometric shape as “a sort of mundane form that could be very, very dull unless a great deal was done with it.” For him, however, geometry ultimately became an arena in which to develop a dramatic color sensibility. Juxtaposing neon-bright pigments, in Septehedron 34 (1970) he created the illusion that the painting’s forms recede or advance relative to one another.
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Modern Art Monday Presents: Andy Warhol, Mylar and Plexiglass Construction

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Mylar and Plexiglass Construction
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A hybrid of Pop and Minimalist aesthetics, this stacked sculpture, Mylar and Plexiglass Construction (1970) relates to Andy Warhol’s Mylar Silver Clouds from 1966 and extends his interest in seriality, color and the readymade into three-dimensional space.
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Modern Art Monday Presents: Duane Hanson, Housewife

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Housewife
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Sculptor Duane Hanson (1925 – 1996) often identified the figures in his artworks by their occupation or social roles, rather than their names. His photorealistic sculptural portraits — cast from life, painted and dressed in clothes corresponding to their roles — are thus transformed into ethnographic types.
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