Wright Modern Design

Friday! And March is two-thirds done. How did this happen?! It even feels like spring here, which usually does not happen until June. Seriously.
In one week, Wright holds its Modern Design Auction and there are so many great pieces. I could have put fifty of them here, but you can go look yourself. Today, these are my faves... Have a great day and weekend if I don't get back here. Thank you so much for visiting me this week!
Goodies: 1. a Pedro Friedeberg hands and feet table; 2. a pair of Angelo Lelli table lamps; 3. a pair of Franco Albini Tre Pezzi lounge chairs; 4. and 5. two collections of trays by Guido Gambone; 6. a Virginia Hamill teaset; 7. a Marianne Brandt Touch table lamp; 8. a set of eight Norman Cherner chairs (I think I'll always love a Cherner); 9. a Lurelle Guild coffee set; 10. a Moroccan carpet; 11. a pair of Walter Lamb Sleigh chairs; and 12. a Bruce Goff door from the Bavinger House.

Pigs!

Love these...
Wyeth always does such great photography for their 1st Dibs stuff. Makes these already desirable piggies that much more so. So much fun.
Available (for a pretty penny I'd guess) here.

More Mogensen

Hello! Following Monday's post, here are a few more of Børge Mogensen’s home. These were scanned by Anna of Door Sixteen from Magnus Englund’s Scandinavian Living...I'm in love with the furniture (especially the 2213 sofa, the Spanish Chairs and the Poul Henningsen lighting), but also with the really personal art, objects and collections. It's a fascination with the story and well-lived life behind each piece. I also covet that rug in the fireplace photo. Definitely love that.
And finally, a few very recent photos from OEO, who will work with Mogensen's sons on "revitalising some of [Mogensen's] great old designs over the next years for the design brand STELLAR WORKS."I'd like to know the story behind the doll, above. Below are the first two Spanish Chairs ever made...I hope your Wednesday's going well!
photos: top group from Door Sixteen from Scandinavian Living, photos by Andrew Wood. Bottom group from OEO.

Monday Mogensen

Hi and happy Monday. I always feel so lucky when I get a glimpse into a designer's or artist's own home. Bo Bedre recently showed us the home of Danish designer Børge Mogensen, kept by his family as it has been since his death in 1972.Filled with his own furniture (many are early prototypes), pieces by other contemporaries of his like Kaare Klint and Poul Henningsen, and a great art and sculpture collection, it really is a very beautiful, personal, exciting, well-loved, "un"designed home. It will be sold (or recently has been - I think Bo Bedre's article is from Dec. '11) by his children because their mother and Børge's widow Alice Mogensen has recently died. Thankfully there are these photos, taken by Børge's nephew Mads Mogensen. There are other lovely photos out there too that I will post during the week.
From Bo Bedre, found thanks to Patricia Arquette's Beach Bungalow 8.
All photos by Mads Mogensen.

Saturday

Happy Saturday all. It's been a beautiful, sunny, busy week here, so not much blogging. Random, but I've been thinking a lot about Alexander Calder this week. Probably because Joel pinned a photo of his home, and because our friend commented on the fish Eddie made last summer. So, I've been browsing the Calder Foundation site. I love these archival photos of him and his work...Have a great weekend!
All photos copyright Calder Foundation. 1. Feminite c. 1930, photograph by Marc Vaux; 2. Calder with Josephine Baker c. 1928; 3. Josephine Baker 1926, photograph by Peter A. Juley; 4. Praying Mantis 1936; 5. Calder in his Paris studio, 14 rue de la Colonie, fall 1931, photograph by Marc Vaux; 6. Calder with Steel Fish, Roxbury, 1934, photograph by James Thrall Soby.

Beautiful Weekend

I hope you have a beautiful weekend!Show the world your colors! And thank you so much for visiting me here this week.
Lovely Peacock by Twoems on etsy.

Random Inspiration

A few random pretties for you today...Happy Thursday!
photos: 1. Amadi Carpets on Facebook, 2. Alexandra Angle Interior Design via Birch and Bird, 3. via Lisa Madigan, 4 Janis Nicolay (Pinecone Camp) photo via Janis Nicolays Pinterest, 3. Fantastic Frank.

Sotheby's 20th Century Design

It's a beautiful Tuesday here! How about where you are? Tomorrow in New York, Sotheby's will hold a 20th Century Design auction. There are many iconic pieces, but I just chose a few as my favorites. I absolutely love these claret jugs... this little lamp...and this early sofa by Edward Wormley... The claret jugs, of sterling silver, glass and ebony, were created in 1893 by Christopher Dresser. The lamp is by Olga Lee circa 1952 and the Wormley by Dunbar sofa is circa 1948. See more beauties at Sotheby's, and have a great day!

Our Trip

Happy Monday to you! Last week we spent time with my father and his wife on Dewees Island in South Carolina. I've been visiting Dewees for eighteen years, ever since my parents moved there from New York. It's such a peaceful place and we had a relaxing (if not truly warm) week...We loved the many dolphins we saw this time -- these are playing near Fort Sumter...And the one evening ferry ride (also here) was truly lovely...Even the jaded shipmate took photos and said it doesn't get much better than that.

We're Home

Hello. We're home. Our vacation was so relaxing and happy. I will post more pictures, if I have any good ones, next week, but I wanted to say hi. And show you one pretty evening view from the ferry. Have a great weekend!