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Where Hi-Design Meets Hi-Art
With the art and design worlds trespassing on each others domain with increasing frequency, what happens when legendary designer Marc Newson meets up with legendary gallery owner Larry Gagosian? Anyone in the market for a $2.5 Million sofa? From the IHT. Gagosian
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Pretty gross if you ask me. That solid marble shelf looks like most expensive prop from the flintstones live action movie. I'm a fan of newsoms phone for AU, but most of his design leaves me cold. Just another case of the galleries trying to lead taste based on sales. My prediction is that the art market can only sustain this for so long.
"My prediction is that the art market can only sustain this for so long."_MvdRice
This is just getting started my friend. *Check Zoë Coombe's feature on Miami Design / Art Basel event from this past November, pretty good evidence that these market is still quite young and hungry for more.
yeah, I understand where you're coming from. I'm referencing a longer term hope, similar to my hope that the housing market will not be able to sustain its current debaseless expansion and speculation.
sorry, "debaseless" is not a word proper, but a hybrid of baseless and debase. wups.
besides some new names and shelves,
this market is quite old.
however, some nuevo money must have arrived in recent years.
it always follows the same thing. it eventually leaves the avant garde realm and some of its memorobilia goes mainstream in slightly different versions. that is exactly when the products become unbearable and morph into plain banality that sells in lowe's home centers.
it is best to catch that train before it gets crowded and jump out when it is heading to chinatown.
separate from market questions, i'd venture to simply call this 'art' for a few reasons:
-i can't look at that marble screen without immediately imagining all the waste marble that it generated solely so that newson could say it was a single piece. meaningless waste is not design.
-those 'extruded' benches aren't extruded at all. he's using a material that has to be painstakingly hacked out of solid material and pretending it's extruded. this kind of forcing of form, making a material do something foreign to its nature, is not design.
back to the market: i don't think this work will be bought by those who appreciate good design, it will appeal to those who like things that look slick and decadent. watch for it in the homes of the nouveau riche climbers and in hip hop videos.
slick and decadent. now you're talking sw.
I'd love to see that stuff in the next episode of 'cribs'; but even your critical pessimism is a little too optimistic.
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