The Gravity of Art: Richard Serra’s Modern Vision in Steel
Imposing and intimate, dangerous and beautiful, abstract and expressive, Richard Serra’s otherworldly steel sculptures, bent into gracefully curving shapes and modernist planes, stand in delicate balance, tilted against one another, or simply against the air, paused in movement by the forces of gravity.
A Room with a View > SPECTACULAR!
Views add the inspiring beauty of nature to modern architecture, and an elemental warmth to contemporary design. It’s a pairing we love, especially in our primary bedroom suites, which whenever possible, we orient towards the views.
The Remarkable Florence Knoll
Florence Knoll Bassett, one of the biggest influencers in American modern design, steered the legendary Knoll brand towards global success as partner, design director, and president.
Caitlin Freeman - Modern Art, Baked In - Part II
In our continuing exploration of creative design minds, we look at some of baker Caitlin Freeman’s iconic art inspired desserts.
Caitlin Freeman - Modern Art, Baked In - Part I
Never formally trained as a baker, but the former co-owner of the San Francisco bakery, Miette Patisserie, and the innovator of the acclaimed modern art desserts at the SFMOMA museum cafe, Caitlin Freeman created a niche for herself in the baking world with her oeuvre of edible artworks.
Creating Serenity
The desert is open space and long views, but also the close-up, detailed perfection of the cactus flower. It is nature’s serene minimalism. This is the setting for our project inside the gated community of The Vintage in Indian Wells, California.
Gardens as Art - The Designs of Piet Oudolf
Piet Oudolf is an award winning landscape architect and one of the most highly sought after designers of public and private gardens today.
Canvas of Human Emotion - Mark Rothko
As we continue to explore the work of our favorite modern artists, we find inspiration in Mark Rothko’s richly transportive expressions.
Specialists in Modern Design for Views
Views add the inspiring beauty of nature to modern architecture, and an elemental warmth to contemporary design. It’s a combination that we love, and one that plays a huge role in our modern designs for a West Coast lifestyle.
Light, Love - The Colors of Chagall
We continue our exploration of modern artists with a look at Marc Chagall’s body of work. An outlier who eschewed the lauded art movements of his time, Chagall was pivotal in opening up modernism to a warm fluidity.
Modern Artist Robert Rauschenberg - “I’m for yes..”
A master collaborator, Robert Rauschenberg explored co-creation with other artists and his lovers, between various media and techniques - notably in his Combines, which blended and incorporated various found objects into three dimensional collage sculptures, and in bringing the wide, wild world outside of art galleries, into them.
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