Mussel Collier by Mia Larsson; Propeller 1 and Propeller II by Ann Wåhlström; Vase by Simon Whitfield; Nevada Stool by Kristoffer Sundin in collaboration with Johanna Friedman.
My favorites from this year's Örnsbergsauktionen.
I bought this chair in 1952 or 1953. Carel Visser and I went to Rietveld's office on the Oude Gracht in Utrecht together to ask if we could each buy a chair. Rietveld sent us to his furniture maker Van de Gronekan in De Bilt to have them made. The price then was 80 guilders (about $45 US). —Wim Crouwel, 2012
Gerrit Thomas Rietveld
Studio Job Gallery, Antwerp
Opens October 11
Through January 11, 2013
Previously: this poster
Uncommon Vision at the Chicago Merchandise Mart Herman Miller showroom. An Alexander Girard gold mine from the Herman Miller archives and the incredible collection of Bright Lyons.
Previously: "Good Design"
Ruth On The Phone
by Nigel Shafran
Previously: Hard Light and/or This is Not My Wife
More: Saul Leiter (This Long Century)
Join KARMA at ICA for a two-day pop-up shop and a special presentation at 4pm on Saturday, Nov. 12. Part of the Excursus I series of events.
Institute of Contemporary Art
118 S. 36th St., Philadelphia, PA
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Jenny Holzer, stickers from the Survival series (1983–85). From the exhibition Investigations 3: Jenny Holzer. Found in the ICA archive and re-installed as part of Up on My Back, and I Will Take You Thither.
From the tombs of the Guo State king, Western Zhōu period. These photos (and a lot more) by Gary Todd.
Excursus I: Reference Library
Up On My Back, And I Will Take You Thither
Excursus is a new series at ICA that invites the public to come together, converse, and peruse archival material in the context of the present. Andy Beach, known for his blog and curatorial interventions under the name Reference Library, inaugurates the series with Up On My Back, And I Will Take You Thither, a project that takes inspiration from the Centaur Book Shop, Philadelphia’s own Prohibition-era radical press, record store, and bohemian meeting place.
Celebrate the opening with a talk about the Centaur by curator Lynne Farrington of Penn's Rare Book and Manuscript Library. To be followed by an after hours reception on the ICA terrace. Tonight at 6:30!
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Top: The Centaur (sign for Centaur Book Shop), Wharton Esherick, 1924; at his home in Paoli, Pennsylvania. Bottom: The Sign of The Centaur, Andy Beach and Happy Signs; installed at the ICA, Philadelphia.
