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Herman Miller and the Georgia O'Keefe Museum
Since 1997, the Adobe home in Georgia O'Keefe in Abikiu, New Mexico has been a museum where visitors can see exactly how she lives. The artist adorned the modern space with works by designer friends such as architect Alexander Girard and designers Charles and Ray Eames. “She's always had a conversation with Girard and got her furniture and textile recommendations,” says Kelsey Keith, brand creative director at furniture company Herman Miller. Currently, the museum is working with Herman Miller on O'Keefe-inspired furniture sets. The Limited Run Collection consists of Girard's snake table featuring an aluminum-based steel top, finished in white enamel, printed with coiled snake motifs, and a new composition of Eames Wire chairs with triangular seat pads (known as bikini) surrounded by fabric-upholstered deserts in Girard's signature stripe pattern. To accompany the launch, Herman Miller is currently displaying photos taken by Girard, O'Keefe's home, along with archived images from the Eames office, at Park Avenue South Location until May 29th. The New Mexico collection will be released on May 20th. $895, from store.hermanmiller.com.
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Perfume evoking Yucatan's vacation with guava and lime notes
Carlos Hoover, founder of Mexico City-born fragrance brand Archiste, first travelled to Merida, Yucatan's capital, to head out to nearby Mayan ruins. Next, a road trip in his early 20s (“very 'y tumamá también',” he says, and a few years later there was a visit where the honey scent of guava trees remained in his mind. His 2021 holiday with his current husband rekindled the city's charm. They rented an airy modernist villa called La Tropical from owner and designer Antonio Salazar, in a bedroom open directly into the garden. “It's a stone city, but once you step into this house, you're in the jungle,” says Hoover. The couple ended up buying the place from Salazar when they returned to Spain. And now it has inspired a new fragrance of Archistea, Tropical: a decadent homage to the plants around the house. This is the latest collaboration with another Mexico City-born perfume Rodrigo Flores Lu, who knows around local fragrant plants. The Tropical ripens and envelops, with notes of guava paste and champacca flowers lined up with Accord alongside white plumeria, yucatan lime, chaoba or big leaf mahogany. For those who want to experience the scent on the spot, the villa can still be rented – and Hoover is working on custom-scented shower products for a complete tropical soak. $225, arquiste.com.
In 2021, Marian Neelson, daughter of artist JB Blunk, founded Blunk Space, a gallery at Point Reyes Station, California, to preserve the legacy of her father, who passed away in 2002, to showcase works by artists influenced by his practice. This Saturday, Mariah and her mother, Christine Neilson, will be presenting a joint show of their own work, entitled “Soft Rock.” Christine, a textile artist and founder of bedding company Coyuchi, will be exhibiting the weaving along with Mariah's stone furniture. “I was trying to show my mom her cushion in the gallery, and she said, “I'll show you the cushion when I make the surface of the display.” So it became a design challenge,” Mariah says. Returning to weaving in 2018 after a 40-year break, Christine created 66 naturally dyed cushions and two rugs inspired by Navajo, Cherokee, Iranian and Peruvian designs from the threads of the span sheep. The textile adorns six pieces of artwork from granite, basalt and sandstone sourced by Mariah in the desert hot springs, the stonework of sculptor Roger Hopkins. These rocks were transported to Marin County, where Mariah cut them and polished them onto tables, benches, stools and pedestals. Although the two worked independently, Mariah said, “There is a creative conversation between us, and it is impossible for us to not absorb all the ways my mother was weaving in while we were treating the stone.” In the spirit of the theme of “soft rock”, the duo encourages visitors to interact with contrasting textures. “We're going to play Phil Collins in the opening,” adds Mariah. “Soft Rock” will be on display at Blunk Space on Blunkspace.com from May 3rd to June 7th.
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Ceramic liquid, wood-style shape
Ceramic artist Chris Gustin works in a studio in a renovated industrial chicken coop on the southern coast of Massachusetts. The 8,000 square feet of space provides ample space for Gustin's Anagama Kiln, a wood device that became popular in Japan around the 5th century. Usually a four-day process, Gustin promotes interactions with wood ash, metal oxides, and his secret recipe glamps, creating unexpected colour and translucent combinations. The results of this approach will soon be exhibited at the Donzella Gallery in midtown Manhattan, with Gustin presenting new archive works. Among them is his “Spirit” series (2023-24), consisting of bulbous shapes (the tallest of which is 5 feet), glazed in a range of colours of colours that are almost atmospheric with textured spots and streaks. Gustin wants viewers to feel that the work is not just a stationary object. “Acension” will be on display from donzella.com from May 7th to June 5th.
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Frenzy Flower Books – Advice on how to grow them
Francis Palmer has accumulated Instagram followers for beautiful portraits of flowers in various ceramic containers. Also, unlike others who post beautiful photos of different flora, Palmer not only grows all the flowers they take photos, but also makes all the containers in a ceramic studio. Her latest book, Life with Flowers, is a 288-page book for those interested in these portraits, personal meditations, a glossary of garden tools for those interested in growing, placing, maintaining and cooking with flowers, a list of suppliers, and a list of gardens full of inspiration. However, Palmer had no intention of making this a how-to garden book. “I wanted it to be a way of thinking about flowers in relation to my work,” she says. So she composed the book according to her growing age. “I think the garden is a tapestry,” Palmer says. “I hope things will bloom, they will peak and die when others show up. So there will be constant movements and waves of flowers.” “Life with Flowers” is available on May 13th. $35, francespalmerpottery.com.
Brooklyn-based artist Sam Moyer's new exhibition, “Woman with Holes,” takes its name from one of Noguchi's personified marble sculptures. As the exhibition begins this week at the Hill Art Foundation in New York, Moyer's own abstract stone paintings and paper pieces will share the show's name and space. The foundation arranged her work in conversations with works from the Hill Collection, including those by Brice Marden, Jasper Johns and Noguchi. In a memorable example, Moyer's “Fern Friend's Grief Growth” (2024) – her biggest 20-foot stone painting – is combined with Liz Glyn's stainless steel “Untitled (Tumbleweed XIII)” (2017). Both sculptures take inspiration from the natural world, but have almost industrial edges. Moyer is required to be valertical according to a series of choreographed movements. After completing the composition, Moyer inlays it on the wood at hand, then covered with canvas and plaster and painted. However, her relationship with the intensive process tends with age. Moyer maintained a strict training routine to accommodate the slows. “Now,” she says with a laugh. “Woman with Holes” will be on display from May 1st to August 1st on hillartfoundation.org.
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