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Framing Sharon Core
We have framed Sharon Core’s remarkable photographs before, but this was the first time we were asked to design a frame that references the Dutch still life paintings that she conjures up in her brilliant works. The collector Philip Maritz sent us a couple of photographs of Dutch still lifes in seventeenth century frames and asked if we could do something in that vein. Since Dutch frames of that period have been a singular inspiration to us for the past twenty yea... Read More
Ornament and Crime: Introduction
From our BLOG SERIES we introduce “Ornament and Crime,” a phrase coined in 1908 by Adolf Loos, Viennese architect, who was a polemicist and maybe a little mad. He declared: "We have outgrown ornament; we have fought our way through to freedom from ornament.”To me, and to all the cultivated people, ornament does not increase the pleasures of life. If I want to eat a piece of gingerbread I will choose one that is completely plain and not a piece … which is covered ... Read More