Summer 2012

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  Czech and Baroque: Borek Šípek

  Borek Šípek opens “A Baroque Soirée” at Industry Gallery in Washington, DC from September 8th to October 13th. For more information visit www.industrygallerydc.com.

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  What Sold, for How Much, & Why?

    Lot 154  Sotheby’s New York “20th Century Design“ sale, March 7, 2012:  Silver Style cocktail shaker and tray designed by Kem Weber, c. 1928.  Estimated at $7,000 to $9,000, the pair sold for $34,375. Some reasons for the unexpectedly high price:   Cocktail culture Shakers are particularly collectible mementos of the Prohibition era, when [...]

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  Moroccan Majesty

  Do you believe in love at first sight, a love that conquers all? If you do, the story of Christine and Aziz Alaoui and their remarkable seven-acre art deco Eden, Villa Bled Roknine—a three-story, ten-thousand- square-foot concrete and stone main house, plus guesthouse, water tower, and lush gardens, all created by Paul Sinoir for the [...]

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  Louis Kahn’s Little Known Jewel

  Hatboro, Pennsylvania, is not a place where one would expect to find a modernist house, dominated as it is by colonial style buildings. Yet it was here that Norman Fisher, a family doctor, and his wife, Doris, chose to raise their two daughters, Nina and Claudia, in a house designed for them by the great [...]

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  Summer News & Notes

  In the Mix: Dealer, Decorator, Designer Evan Lobel has owned a gallery for fifteen years and sells some of the most venerable names in design. But in 2011, he became a designer in his own right when he released a collection of furniture called Night Star. His clean-lined commodes, tables, and upholstered pieces not only [...]

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  Seaside Chic

  The corner perch of the living room in this sunny oceanfront apartment in Bal Harbour, Florida has the feel and the perspective of a sleek, contemporary ocean liner. The designer, Frank de Biasi, had one major mandate here—that this apartment should not look like it was in New York. “I always try to understand how [...]