He attended Wesleyan University and then the American decorative arts master's program at Winterthur, in Wilmington, Del.
The biggest price increases in recent years have come in contemporary art--particularly Chinese paintings--and in 20th-century decorative arts.
These multiple interests painting, printing, a profound love of the decorative arts came to full flower in his inventive approach to fabric.
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Tim Long, curator of fashion and decorative arts at the Museum of London, said he was fascinated by the CIA's use of Harris Tweed.
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Central to this didactic purpose were the installations, the so-called "ensembles, " nonchronological groupings of objects that mixed media, periods and styles, cultures, fine and decorative arts.
Mr. Heckscher's expertise wasn't originally paintings but architecture and the decorative arts, which are also well represented in several new galleries devoted to furniture and silver.
The three-year old NextLevel Gallerie featuring French and international designers presents up to seven exhibitions a year with a focus in decorative arts and photography.
Farther uptown, an exhibition at the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, "Finnish Modern Design, 1930-1997" (up through June 14), is a perfect complement to the Aalto retrospective.
For more than 20 years, Savage has been hooking up connoisseurs of the decorative arts with the owners of England's great estates, where most of the finest antiques are to be found.
Her outfits emphasize fashion and function, reflecting her broader platform of healthy and active living, said decorative arts historian Carmela Spinelli, chair of the Savannah College of Art and Design's fashion department.
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International Art Jewelry: 1895-1925 will include almost 200 pieces of jewelry and related decorative arts objects by 75 artists that illustrate the connection between the jewelry movements to each other and to the corresponding decorative arts during this period.
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Some 20, 000 pieces--including arms, armour, ceramics, earthenware, seals and decorative arts from ancient Persia, Mamluk Egypt and the Mughal emperors in India and Kuwait of the Bronze Age--were packed in crates and driven to the Iraq National Museum in Baghdad in a 17-lorry convoy.
The research at Williamsburg over the decades has yielded more than 50 million fragments of items, a 500, 000-piece trove of collected items and a network of museums under Chief Curator Ronald Hurst's direction that includes the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, the Wallace Museum and cafe, and the DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum.
From the Chrysler Building in New York to the pastel hotels of Miami Beach and the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, Art Deco reshaped architecture in the years before World War II -- though the term wasn't coined until the 1960s, drawn from the name of the 1925 Paris decorative-arts exhibition that popularized the style.
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