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Atmosphere Furniture

fawnellis — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 11:08:01 PDT

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Atmosphere is one of the US firms that has its high-quality custom designs manufactured in Brazil; Shelly Baduay, who heads the Los Angeles–based company, calls it a symbiotic arrangement. “We work only with wood certified by the Brazilian government,” she says. “That means we never use any tree until it has completed its life cycle, and we’re proud to be able to produce 300 pieces of furniture from a single tree. It also means that it may well be five more years before we receive another such specimen of a particular tree.” (via Elements of Living)

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Artefacto

fawnellis — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 11:05:24 PDT

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Artefacto, a world-renowned manufacturer of luxury furnishings, sells its goods domestically through its own stores and grabs attention with a substantial marketing ploy: an annual interior design contest using Artefacto furniture and accessories. The winning designers create model rooms for customers to wander through on the second floor of each store. (via Elements of Living)

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Environmental Home Center

fawnellis — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 10:47:41 PDT

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When entering the Pacific Northwest, one can’t help but notice the high mountains, gleaming bodies of water and lush forests that take over the landscape. Wilderness outfitters and natural-food stores are nearly equivalent to the number of computer-based companies that overwhelm the area. Quickly one realizes that Northwesterners are passionate about the environment. No wonder transplanted Midwesterners Matthew Freeman-Gleason and his wife, Alison, decided to open the Environmental Home Center in Seattle. The idea had its roots in Gleason’s growing awareness that his work as a carpenter and contractor took a huge toll on the environment and human health. After a year of research, his mission became clear: He was to supply homeowners with affordable, stylish and sustainable products that could perform as well as (or even outperform) conventional ones. At the same time he would maintain equivalent or better prices—therefore beating the notion that sustainable products are expensive.
The Environmental Home Center opened its first facility in 1992 and is now located in a 30,000-square-foot showroom and warehouse in downtown Seattle, a far cry from its original 800-square-foot space on an island just outside the city. As the business has grown, so has the number of companies teaming up with it. The store defeats the general misconception that there aren’t many options in sustainable products by offering its consumers choices within categories. Shopping here is basically like going to a “green” Home Depot, and the best part is, you don’t have to live in Seattle to reap the benefits. Online orders are accepted, and the staff answers questions via e-mail. Not all products are on the website yet. However, it is just as easy to phone for samples and other suggestions from the sales experts, who have backgrounds in interior design, environmental science and sustainable materials. Overall, the EHC is a great one-stop shop for the sustainable builder, designer or homeowner on a budget. (via Elements of Living)

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Tesla Lighting Design

fawnellis — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 09:13:42 PDT

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Just off First Avenue in Seattle, South Jackson Street has high-quality antique stores, art galleries and a few noteworthy showrooms, including Tesla Lighting Design, which offers custom mid-century-style lighting made by local glassblowers and artisans. (via Elements of Living)

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Classic Lighting Emporium

fawnellis — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 09:07:37 PDT

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On North Second Street in the Old City neighborhood in Philadelphia, the Classic Lighting Emporium is a dizzying showcase for too many chandeliers, table lamps and sconces to count. The pieces represent a kaleidoscope of styles and eras, and homing in on a potential purchase requires concentration. (via Elements of Living)

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Fabric Workshop and Museum

fawnellis — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 09:05:24 PDT

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Lovers of textiles, take note: Philadelphia is home of the Fabric Workshop, the country’s only museum for contemporary textiles. Founded in 1977, the Fabric Workshop has "developed from an ambitious experiment to a renowned institution with a widely-recognized Artist in Residence Program, an extensive permanent collection of new work created by artists at the Workshop, in-house and touring exhibitions, and comprehensive educational programming including lectures, tours, in-school presentations and student apprenticeships. (via Elements of Living)

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Dane Design

fawnellis — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 09:02:04 PDT

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The distinction of outfitting MTV’s The Real World: Philadelphia, which was shot in the Old City neighborhood, goes to Dane Design, which sells new, mod-inspired furnishings. (via Elements of Living)

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Susane R. Lifestyle Boutique

fawnellis — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 08:51:16 PDT

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Located in the heart of the Miami Design District is the Susane R. Lifestyle Boutique. The owner, Susane Ronai, a vivacious redheaded Hungarian, has lived all over the world, and her shop reﬂects the romance and eclecticism of her various ports of call. Over the course of her 14 years in the Design District, she has built up a loyal following of customers who come to her for period lighting and seating and her large assortment of paintings by abstract expressionist A. Dale Nally. (via Elements of Living)

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The Wolfsonian-Florida International University

fawnellis — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 08:46:07 PDT

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A tour of the much lauded hotels on Ocean Drive and Collins Avenue in Miami is reason enough to pass through the Art Deco District, but while there make sure you reserve some time to visit the Wolfsonian– Florida International University, the acclaimed museum of decorative arts. Housed in a 1927 Mediterranean Revival storage warehouse, the museum focuses on American and European objects from 1885 to 1945, when profound social, political and technological changes revolutionized the world. Head upstairs to the ﬁfth ﬂoor, where selections from the permanent collection, "Art and Design in the Modern Age," are on view. Paul Frankl’s Skyscraper Bookcase from 1926 echoes the spires of New York’s nascent skyline in alternating levels of dark cabinetry and celebrates the progress assured by these marvelous manmade structures. (via Elements of Living)

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NiBa

fawnellis — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 08:38:18 PDT

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NiBa is a showroom opened only last December by Holly Hunt veterans Nisi Berryman and Beth Arrowood. Maybe it’s the sparkling acrylic furnishings by Benjamin Noriega-Ortiz or the whimsical chandeliers festooned with feathers and teardrop crystals or the bright hot pillows from Myanmar that Arrowood says they can’t restock fast enough, but walking into NiBa is an instant mood elevator. Carpets are another big seller, and Berryman and Arrowood rolled out their own line last month, featuring natural fabrics to appeal to the more casually inclined South Floridian. (via Elements of Living)

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Stripe

fawnellis — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 08:27:35 PDT

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Stripe focuses on the fun aspects of what co-owner Eric Cody calls Miami Baroque—Italian chandeliers from the 1950s and 1960s in demand as opulent accents. (via Elements of Living)

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Senzatempo

fawnellis — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 08:17:29 PDT

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While you’re still ﬂush with Machine Age enthusiasm, head over to Senzatempo (“timeless” in Italian) off Miami Beach's Lincoln Road, the pedestrian mall extending from Alton Road to Washington Avenue. Wolfsonian museum founder Mitchell Wolfson, Jr., is a steady customer of this fun collectibles emporium, an exuberant space stocked by owners Matthew Bain and Massimo Barracca with airplane and train models, watches and clocks, furnishings and accessories. A 23-foot-long wall unit by designer and bon vivant Carlo Mollino is chockablock with assorted treasures. Contemporary designer Omar Ali re-creates the Machine Age in his stainless steel lamps and occasional tables, often made from airplane parts. For those seeking more, more, more, talk to Bain about their private stash. (via Elements of Living)

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Harris Kratz

fawnellis — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 08:14:21 PDT

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Harris Kratz, which just set up shop this summer, the Dorothy Draper aesthetic rules. Co-owners Paul Kratz and Jay Harris call it referential modernism: Mid-century minimalism, Regency and neoclassical pieces come together as one piece in their showroom. (via Elements of Living)

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Base

fawnellis — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 08:12:03 PDT

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Base has been a Miami mainstay for 12 years and features a changing assortment of artisan-made home furnishings and ethnic crafts and accessories. Store owner Steven Giles, a self-described hunter-gatherer, traveled to Africa for the ﬁrst time as a dancer with the Béjart Ballet and remains fascinated by the storytelling quality of native crafts. Several years ago, Giles saw a beaded chair made by the Yoruba, an ancient people who live primarily in Nigeria, and he couldn’t get it out of his mind. He ﬁnally caught up with a supply festooned with colorful depictions of animals and ﬁnished in cowrie shells, and recently offered them for sale. (via Elements of Living)

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The Antique Lighthouse

fawnellis — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 08:07:54 PDT

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The Antique Lighthouse makes an outing to Manayunk in Philadelphia worthwhile. Even this destination, a compound of former textile mills, requires looking closer, as it’s located several huffing blocks up the hill behind Main Street.
Owner Rollin Wilber isn’t a particularly outgoing guy. But get him talking about his work, restoring lamps from the early electric era or converting late-nineteenth-century kerosene-fueled pieces, and he lights up. During our conversation, he offered to show us the room where he and his staff of six ply their trade. (Ask to see the 1,000-square-foot metal shop that’s also on-site.) Among other large pieces in inventory, a recently restored $21,000, 37-light Maria Teresa chandelier with sine-curve arms was dripping with crystals. (via Elements of Living)

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Twist Home

fawnellis — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 07:57:51 PDT

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To open a modern-design store on Antiques Row in Philadelphia, the legendary concentration of golden oldies on Pine Street between 9th and 12th streets, it takes passion as well as chutzpah. And there is plenty of both at Lisa Formica and Sharne Algotsson’s Twist Home, which offers a diverse assortment of household accessories and gifts, ranging from functional plastic pitchers to Indian-fabric print blocks. It’s also a showcase for interior and furniture designer Algotsson, whose updated Victorian- and locally handmade, mid-century-inspired sofas and chairs are on display. (via Elements of Living)

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Harry A. Eberhardt & Son Inc.

fawnellis — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 07:49:28 PDT

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Echoes of Philadelphia's Pine Street reverberate several blocks away, where, at 2010 Walnut Street, Harry A. Eberhardt & Son Inc. has the ring of authenticity. Established in 1888, Philadelphia’s oldest antique shop is now run by William Eberhardt in an 1856 Italian Renaissance town house, its glorious woodwork and plaster details overshadowed only by the innumerable porcelain and glass pieces lining shelves and floors. Eberhardt sells Japanese cloisonné and Satsuma from the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. It is also the principal restorer for Lladro pieces; fixing the figurines takes up most of Eberhardt’s time. Your local porcelain restorer probably trained at the side of an Eberhardt or an Eberhardt protégé, and it wouldn’t be overstatement to say this Walnut Street refuge is keeping the craft alive in the United States. How’s that for a sign of preeminence? (via Elements of Living)

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M. Finkel & Daughter

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If you lust for antiques, M. Finkel & Daughter in Philadelphia is a must-see. This two-story corner gallery specializes in early American and English samplers and silk embroidery. Its walls are crowded with stitched alphabets and landscapes by innumerable schoolgirls and the occasional young man. Morris and daughter Amy are true scholars, and they select only the best works of the period. And that means you have to pay a price to get in on the action. Samplers start around $400 and often go for ten times that amount. The shop also carries American and English furniture, such as faux-figured chests and sets of Klizmos chairs. (via Elements of Living)

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John Alexander

fawnellis — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 07:42:55 PDT

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Besides the intimate little stores with their troves of treasures, the Chestnut Hill neighborhood in Philadelphia boasts a collection of grand design spaces. John Alexander, for example, occupies a gray stone building that sits squat on a side street. The imposing façade gives way to a loftlike interior filled with natural light and a preeminent collection of British Arts and Crafts furnishings and decorative arts. (via Elements of Living)

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Minima

fawnellis — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 07:39:27 PDT

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For new wares, North Third Street’s Minima is a kind of mini Milan furniture fair. The brightly lit white surfaces of this store cast halos around designs from Cappellini, Kartell and Vitra, among others. (via Elements of Living)

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Bahdeebahdu

fawnellis — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 07:34:04 PDT

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The most spectacular of the North Third Street shops in Philadelphia has to be bahdeebahdu. Here, lighting designer Warren Muller displays one-of-a-kind pieces made of reclaimed products. Vintage children’s toys, glass vials, bedsprings, old tools—no castoff is unaesthetic in Muller’s eyes. Bahdeebahdu’s interior furnishings were selected by R. J. Thornburg, with whom Muller opened the 2,300-square-foot showroom in spring 2002. (via Elements of Living)

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Philadelphia Print Shop

fawnellis — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 07:28:45 PDT

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An alternative to the artsy Manayunk neighborhood in Philadelphia is the dreamlike Chestnut Hill, the heart of which is tidy Germantown Avenue. First stop on this cobblestone-lined street is the Philadelphia Print Shop, founded in 1982 by Donald H. Cresswell and Christopher W. Lane, a Library of Congress veteran and budding philosopher, respectively. The duo, whom you might have seen on Antiques Road Show, has amassed a collection of prints dating from the fifteenth through the nineteenth centuries. Woodcuts, engravings and lithographs feature famous Philadelphians, botanicals and antique maps. (via Elements of Living)

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Moderne Gallery

fawnellis — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 07:22:43 PDT

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Moderne Gallery presents another excellent selection, mostly from the first half of the twentieth century. A wood carving of a worker, in WPA style, was particularly eye-catching, though it played second fiddle to a large exhibition of work by master mid-century furniture designer George Nakashima, who worked nearby, just outside New Hope, Pennsylvania. (via Elements of Living)

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Gallery51

fawnellis — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 07:17:27 PDT

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Craig Wallen, a former consultant for PricewaterhouseCoopers, runs Gallery 51, a showcase for his tribal carpets and weavings from the Middle East and central Asia. His recent show shifted the spotlight to Africa, New Guinea, Borneo and Burma and featured ceremonial and functional objects made of beaten bark cloth, woven cane, tied and dyed raffia and twisted bark string. (via Elements of Living)

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Marie Colette

fawnellis — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 07:14:37 PDT

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Where some of us merely deal in the past, Philidelphia-based Marie Colette lives in it. Her specialty is tempera painting, a technique usually associated with the walls of Renaissance churches and Baroque mansions. Colette, a French émigré, carries on the tradition with interior projects around the region. You’ll also find painted furniture for sale in her narrow little shop on Germantown Avenue (take care not to miss the fading hand-painted sign). If you’re lucky enough to be in the Chestnut Hill neighborhood on a Monday, call Colette ahead of time and you can grab a slot in her weekly studio class. (via Elements of Living)

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Elizabeth Stuart Design

fawnellis — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 07:05:56 PDT

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Middle King (between Market and Calhoun streets) in Charleston, South Carolina has been largely taken over by chain stores, but en route to Upper King, stop in at ESD, Elizabeth Stuart Design. The shop reﬂects the willingness of owner and interior designer Elizabeth Faith to layer color, style and period into a mix that feels utterly modern. Alongside a sixteenth-century secretary and oversize cork lamps from the 1970s are contemporary dog portraits by Heather LaHaise, cloudscapes by Sean McNamara and richly glazed oyster plates by ceramist Alison Evans. (via Elements of Living)

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Urban Electric Company

fawnellis — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 07:01:13 PDT

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Urban Electric Co., with its suave logo, theatrical windows and polished manner of displaying wares in a spacious showroom, sends a clear message that history can be a helpmate rather than a handcuff. Historically inspired lamps, sconces and chandeliers by creative director Michael Amato and designers Amelia Handegan, Mark Maresca and Justin Walling suit a contemporary loft in Tribeca every bit as much as a Charleston single house. Every ﬁxture, including copper lanterns by master craftsman John Gantt, is handmade locally. (via Elements of Living)

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Historic Charleston Foundation

fawnellis — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 06:57:07 PDT

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Getting oriented in Charleston is as easy as falling into a post-prandial nap. Much of the historic area is south of Broad Street; the main commercial artery is King Street, originally an old Indian path named for King George I. Start your exploration where the two streets intersect, at the Historic Charleston Foundation Shop. The Foundation, in collaboration with such manufacturers as Baker Furniture and Mottahedeh, faithfully reproduces antiques from private houses as well as from its own collections. The selection includes cast-metal shutter dogs (decorative hardware that holds shutters and comes in the shape of shells, anchors, butterflies and other forms), English Regency chairs, and Chinese export porcelain in the Blue Willow and Sacred Bird and Butterfly patterns. The Foundation also produces a paint palette, Colors of Historic Charleston, so you can do your own exporting and introduce a bit of Charleston back home. (via Elements of Living)

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Grimmer Roche

fawnellis — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 06:51:17 PDT

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Like many dealers of American Indian, or "First American," art, Mac Grimmer, of the appointment-only Grimmer Roche, started out as a collector. After moving to Santa Fe from LA, Grimmer renovated a historic building on Canyon Road and opened the Morning Star Gallery in 1982. Twelve years later, as the ﬁnest First American art became rarer and rarer, he sold the gallery and began to deal privately. Earlier this year, Grimmer invited David Roche, then director of Indian art at Sotheby’s in New York, to become his partner. Grimmer Roche’s aesthetic approach is encyclopedic connoisseurship (the average sale is $25,000). They deal in what they describe as "the top 15 percent" of American tribal art, which includes Plains Indians war shirts, Northwest masks and rattles, classic Navajo blankets, and pottery and baskets. The partners plan to open a small by-appointment space downtown this fall, "a beautiful white-wall gallery," as Roche describes it, that will continue to "take First American work out of the trading-post mentality, so people can see it as the art that it is." (via Elements of Living)

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Jackalope

fawnellis — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 06:46:27 PDT

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You won’t ﬁnd museum-quality goods at Jackalope, which sprawls over six acres on Cerrillos Road, a commercial artery that extends from downtown Santa Fe to outlying neighborhoods; but it is a trip in both senses of the word. The visitor is greeted by hundreds of huge, high-ﬁred, high-color pots. Beyond is a building full of mostly inexpensive Latin American and Asian textiles, pottery, hardware, clothing, CDs, rugs, linens and tchotchkes. Head out the back door for antique and vintage garden accoutrements, open-air booth after booth of antiques, jewelry and crafts, and a building full of Asian furniture. As you should everywhere in this city, wear a hat to protect yourself from the sun, and take your time. If you shop at the pace at which Santa Fe runs, or rather, ambles, you may be lucky enough to stay there for the rest of your life. (via Elements of Living)

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Windsor Betts Art Brokerage House

fawnellis — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 06:43:12 PDT

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A couple of blocks west of the central plaza in Santa Fe, approaching the red-brick Greek Revival Windsor Betts Art Brokerage House via a shaded path, you might think you’ve suddenly been whisked out of Santa Fe and set down in a small town in Mississippi. But inside, almost every wall is crammed floor to ceiling, frame to frame with southwestern art. Owner Alex Windsor Betts says her business exists to help collectors resell paintings and sculpture purchased from local dealers. This arrangement is mutually beneﬁcial to both galleries and collectors, she adds, because “when clients admire a work in our space, we send them to the gallery that represents the artist.” A Los Angeles real estate broker and photo-studio art director before moving to Santa Fe in 1986, Betts learned at the knee of the late gallerist Elaine Horowich, the grande dame of the contemporary art scene in Santa Fe. The brokerage house represents the “major museum artists” of the Southwest, including Native Americans Fritz Scholder, Kevin Redstar, Earl Biss, Doug Hyde and T. C. Cannon, and such non-Indian artists as Dick Jemison, Paul Shapiro, Warhol contemporary James Havard and de Kooning protégé Michael Wright. An extensive electronic archive of the work on offer can be viewed on a video monitor placed just inside the door, as if it were a work of art itself. (via Elements of Living)

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Riva Yares Gallery

fawnellis — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 06:37:56 PDT

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One of the best art spaces, across the street from Windsor Betts, is Riva Yares Gallery, the Santa Fe outpost of its eponymous Israeli-born owner’s flagship gallery in Scottsdale, Arizona. When you’ve ﬁnished admiring works by Milton Avery, Alex Katz, Helen Frankenthaler or other name-brand twentieth-century artist, take a moment to look down, at one of the most appetizing high-shine epoxied cement floors you’ll ever see. (via Elements of Living)

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Price Dewey Galleries

fawnellis — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 06:33:17 PDT

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On the second floor of the historic Catron Building in Santa Fe is the spacious and beautifully lit Price Dewey Galleries. When Victoria Price bought the Dewey Gallery in 2003 and rechristened it, she also expanded the original gallery’s emphasis on Native American textiles, pottery, jewelry and artifacts. Now on display as well are contemporary art and design like the totemic painted folk sculptures carved from fenceposts by the Navajo artist Charlie Willeto; tweaked traditional pottery (think purgatory depicted as a hot tub) by Marie Romero Cash; early New Mexican tin retablos; mid-century furniture from Scandinavia; and highly original found-metal pieces like the Carrier 3 bench by Tom Emerson. (via Elements of Living)

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Clay Angel

fawnellis — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 06:29:45 PDT

Recommended by fawnellis on Apr 12, 2006

A stroll across the plaza to Lincoln Avenue in Santa Fe takes you to the Clay Angel, where shelves and shelves of beautifully displayed high-end, high-color pottery from Mexico, Italy, Spain and France occupy the front of the shop. Take a few steps up to the mezzanine to study the large variety of Provençal and other ﬁne, mostly French, table linens. Custom linens are also available. (via Elements of Living)

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Andrew Smith Gallery, Inc

fawnellis — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 06:26:36 PDT

Recommended by fawnellis on Apr 12, 2006

Located in Sante Fe, the Andrew Smith Gallery for photographs has impressive archives of western landscapes and portraits by such early masters as Edward Curtis, Ansel Adams, Karl Moon and August Sander, and the lesser known but mightily deserving Josef Sudek. A striking photograph by contemporary artist Flor Garduño, a Mexican living in Switzerland, depicts a black night in which a crow is barely distinguishable but for one glittering eye. Another contemporary photographer, Jack Spencer, shoots affectingly dusky dogs, horses and views of Monument Valley. (via Elements of Living)

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Chelsea Galleria

fawnellis — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 13:41:20 PDT

Recommended by fawnellis on Apr 11, 2006

Chelsea Galleria, located in the Miami Design District, represents a well-chosen roster of ﬁne artists and photographers, some of whom venture a little into the exotic. (via Elements of Living)

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Tags: contemporary design, Fine Art, gallery, Miami, photography

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