Toots zynsky biography of william hill
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The highest priced item in the sale, an English burlwood kaffe (engelska) table bygd George Nakashima realized $62, It was more than 5 feet long and of a wood infrequently used. The sale included a number of Nakashima pieces, all from one collection in Williamsburg, Va.
Review and Onsite Photos bygd Rick Russack, Additional Photos Courtesy Skinner Inc.
MARLBOROUGH, MASS. &#; Skinner&#;s Modern and post-Modern timed sale ended on månad 22, and the lots grossed $,, 93 percent sold. It included furniture by George Nakashima, George Nelson for Herman Miller, Eero Saarinen for Knoll Associates, Frank Gehry and several other makers. There were several lots of glass, including works bygd Dale Chihuly, Mary Ann &#;Toots&#; Zynsky and Martin Rosol, and there was a large selection of studio pottery, including works by Picasso, Lucie Rie, Maija Grotell and a single-owner collection of more than 30 lots bygd New Hampshire potter Gerry Williams. The lots that were expected to do well generally did, and t
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Museum Art Excursion to the Hill-Stead Museum
Inspired by Dearest of Geniuses: A Life of Theodate Pope Riddle by Sandra Katz, the May book selection for the Museum&#;s Read/Eat/Chat book group, we&#;re going on a Museum Art Excursion day trip! Join us as we travel to Farmington, Connecticut to visit Hill-Stead, the grand New England country and Colonial Revival-inspired home and lush gardens designed by Theodate Pope Riddle for her family.
Theodate Pope Riddle () was an accomplished architect, member of the American Institute of Architects, maintained a successful working farm, and was the foster mother to two young orphaned boys. Along with Hill-Stead, all but one of Theodate&#;s buildings still stand today &#; an enduring testimony to one of this country&#;s earliest important women architects. Since her death, Hill-Stead and its contents have remained intact as a museum, and include one of the most significant collections of Impressionist masterpieces in the US, including w
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September | The Shelburne Museum and The Magazine ANTIQUES have a long history together. Within a year of the museum fully opening in , Alice Winchester, the magazine&#;s editor, introduced it to her readers as &#;one of the&#;most unusual museums&#; in the country, its &#;collection of collections&#; assembled over a lifetime by Electra Havemeyer Webb, whom she described, with what turns out to have been some understatement, as &#;a person of rare discrimination, ingenuity, and taste.&#; In the years since, the magazine has published numerous articles about the astonishingly diverse holdings so ingeniously arranged by Webb at Shelburne, which only seem to appear more inspired and inspiring as the years go by. (For a list of the articles about the museum published by the magazine, click here)
During an unseasonably warm and sunny weekend last March, the museum and the magazine collaborated to give eight contemporary fine and decorative artists a close look at Webb&#;s masterwor