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Margin for Error: Glass Crib and Cradle By Beth Lipman

margin for error glass crib and cradle photo by gail worley
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In Beth Lipman’s Margin For Error (2014) an infant Crib and an adult Cradle are oriented to evoke the universal journey from birth to death. The crib tilts downward, sinking slowly into the floor, propelling its inhabitant toward childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and old age, at which point the cradle awaits occupation.

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Eye On Design: Cast Glass Chairs By Marc Newson

Marc Newson Glass Chairs
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From the outset of his singular career, designer Marc Newson has pursued parallel activities in limited and mass production of functional design objects. Revisiting his roots as a jeweler and silversmith in an exhibition at Gagosian Gallery in Chelsea, Newson explores increasingly rare decorative techniques at an unconventionally large, even unprecedented, scale.
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Glass Kimono

Glass Kimono
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If you live in or near Palm Springs, California, you still have just over a week to see this cast glass sculpture of a disembodied Kimono, which is called Ojigi-Bowing (2010) by artist Karen LaMonte.
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