#art-collecting

#art-collecting

There's Portugal, Brittany, Vendée, Egypt, and Damascus. He also has a place in Los Angeles. And there's Vermelho Melides, the boutique hotel in Portugal, that he designed and opened in 2023, and its new beachside mate, scheduled to be ready this summer.

Glass demands immediacy. Working at temperatures above 2,000°F leaves little room for overthinking, so the process becomes a kind of live dialogue between material, colour and chance. That same immediacy informs what I'm drawn to as a collector: works that carry a decisive gesture, a tactile presence, and the feeling that they could only exist in one form.

Coming from our home in Miami, we appreciated that it was filled with natural light. You can be down on the street and it seems like there's no sunshine. Then you go up into our home and all of a sudden it's a beautiful day.

I'm looking forward to fellowshipping with fellow art enthusiasts and seeing ambitious work from galleries around the world. I'm especially excited for the Collector X Dinner, which always brings together some of the most thoughtful voices in the art and business community.

When you enter the venue—be it a tent, airport hangar or convention centre—there is the feeling of anticipation and excitement of what you will see that is new, thought-provoking and unexpected. It's an experience for the senses. I'm looking forward to this year's Frieze and new discoveries!

SALEM - The final exhibition to fill the main gallery at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art this year is a delightfully eclectic collection of postwar African American art that is every bit as interesting as the story of how it came together is inspiring.

Then in her mid-30s and ascending the corporate ladder at Estée Lauder, where she forged a stellar career as a product innovator and marketing mastermind, she had acquired a site in the historic centre of Telluride, the Colorado ski resort. Pawson had not yet designed a private residence in the US. But she took him to dinner, and in time-honoured tradition, he sketched out an idea on the paper tablecloth, along with a calculation of what it would cost. The result was a much-published stone-and-timber structure, for which he designed all the furniture too.

"I love the notion of creating something from nothing," says the designer, who began collecting the pieces himself after Barbara Adkins, owner of Black Sheep Antiques, piqued his interest in the medium.

When I make some sales, I will typically try to take a portion of that and buy a work from another artist.

"I felt like I had achieved everything I wanted to in a commercial gallery. At a point you begin thinking independently from the structure, and want to find a model that best corresponds to you."