Architecture & Jardins

LONDON.- Bonhams Antiquities Sale on Wednesday 28 November at 101 New Bond Street features a magnificent selection of works depicting both exotic and domestic animals from the ancient world.   Leading the menagerie is a charming Egyptian painted wood model of a bull, Middle Kingdom, circa 2025-1700 B.C. Estimate £10,000-15,000. Cattle were integral to the Egyptian economy and their ownership was considered a sign of high social standing among Egyptian farmers.   Lot 145. An Egyptian painted wood... [Lire la suite]

An Egyptian pottery Jar, circa 2600-2500 B.C., 23 cm. 9 in. Forge and Lynch Ltd. © 2017 London Art Week Provenance: J.H.H.Claessen (1926-2006), Netherlands. A Coptic textile fragment depicting a dancer, 4th-5th century A.D, 75 cm. by 25 cm. 29 1⁄2 in by 10 in. Forge and Lynch Ltd. © 2017 London Art Week Provenance: Rose Choron (1916-2014) Switzerland, acquired between 1950s-80 Oliver Forge and Brendan Lynch Ltd. is a London and New York based firm of independent art... [Lire la suite]

Le jardin de La Ballue au beau milieu du bocage breton. Photo Yann Monel

A Hellenistic Gold Griffin, circa 3rd-1st Century BCE. Image courtesy Romanov Russia. A suspension ring and a bail were recently attached to make the griffin a wearable pendant. With additions of copper 1.634%, silver 26.84%, zinc 0.055%, nickel (-) 0.044%. Width – 28 mm (1 1/16 in.). Weight – 2.41 grams The hollow gold griffin is made from two die-stamped halves soldered together. The collar and tail are made of applied gold beads. Te lower part of the body is decorated with two granulation clusters. Two ribbed gold... [Lire la suite]

Three Story Treehouse (British Columbia, Canada). Image credits: imgur.com The Mirror Tree House, part of the Tree Hotel project in the North of Sweden. Designed by Tham & Videgard The Bird’s Nest Tree House (Sweden). Designed by inredningsgruppen.se The HemLoft Treehouse (Whistler, Canada). Image credits: Joel Allen Treehouse in Muskoka (Ontario, Canada). Image credits: imgur.com Minister’s Treehouse by Horace Burgess (Crossville, Tennessee, USA). Image credits: imgur.com Yellow... [Lire la suite]

Photograph by Anton Grassl/Esto. SARASOTA, Floridia — When asked for a “monumental entrance” on their redesign for the John and Mable Ringing Museum of Art, the Machado Silvetti firm did not disappoint. Thousands of ceramic tiles form a jade cube around the university-adjacent building. Their contours certainly deserve the term “wrapper,” seldom do we see a facade that looks so delicate and paper-thin. The designers state of the work: “The addition’s façade is composed of deep-green, glazed terra cotta tiles... [Lire la suite]

Anonymous - Nuremberg, painted facade of the city hall Stark von Roeckendorf, ca. 1530. Image © ALBERTINA, Wien BERLIN.- The latest temporary exhibition in the Museum for Architectural Drawing in Berlin presents masterly architectural drawings from the Albertina’s collection in Vienna. The Albertina is one of the most prominent collections of the world with over one million works covering six centuries of art history, from the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance to the present day. Its world famous Graphic... [Lire la suite]

Désiré Feuerle. Photo: Mark G. Peters via The Feuerle Collection. BERLIN.- Spring 2016 sees the opening of The Feuerle Collection in Berlin, a new museum dedicated to Désiré Feuerle’s collection which juxtaposes international contemporary artists with Imperial Chinese furniture and Southeast Asian art. Located in a former Second World War telecommunications bunker that has been renovated by the British architect John Pawson, the museum encourages a conversation between different periods and cultures offering an... [Lire la suite]

Lord Burlington, Thomas Jefferson and Inigo Jones. © RIBA Collections. LONDON.- The Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio is the only architect who has given his name to a style; one that is still in use around the world after nearly 500 years. From the US Capitol to a 21st century Somerset cowshed Palladian Design: The Good, the Bad and the Unexpected introduces Palladio’s design principles and explores how they have been interpreted, copied and re-imagined across time and continents from his death in 1580 right up to... [Lire la suite]