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STRAIGHT LINE CRAZY

Ralph Feinnes as the incorrigible and remarkably influential Robert Moses in David Hare’s play “STRAIGHT LINE CRAZY” @theshed.

Once considered the most powerful, and unelected (?)(!) man in New York City and New York State, Robert Moses for decades steam-rollered his vision of highways and parks in the New York Metropolitan area, Long Island and New York State.

Despite his reputation, and extensive education culminating in a Phd. from Columbia University in Political Science, Moses was never an urban planner, architect or developer but he was a shrewd back-room influencer with incredible power in all of those socio-cultural and political roles.

One truly startling revelation about Moses that I never knew, was that in spite of his strong beliefs in the importance of cars and highways, he didn’t drive?!

Strange but true.

#theatre #ralphfeinnes #straightlinecrazy #davidhare #robertmoses #urbanplanning #urbanrenewal #highways

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MAKING OLD NEW AGAIN

Progress with the refresh if an historic house in Litchfield, CT designed by Architect Ehrick Rossiter in 1900.

By adding contrast to emphasize the crisp balusters a fresher point of view emerges!

More progress and more photos soon!

#ehrickrossiter #rossiter #litchfield #historichouse #glenngisslerdesign #interiordesignalchemy

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A REMARKABLE ‘X’ STOOL

I am not known for using gilded furniture in my design projects but this period English Regency stool takes pride of place in the NYC apartment of an art collector we designed. It is a stunning, and even ‘practical’ piece of furniture that holds its own in a more modern décor.

The Regency Period is an extremely brief period of English history (1811-1820) when neo-classicism was the rage! This style corresponds with Biedermeier furniture in Austria and Germany, Empire Style in France, and the Federal Style in the United States.

The Regency Style has been reinterpreted time and time again, including a period often seen in the media today ‘Hollywood Regency’, a mid-twentieth century fantasy classical aesthetic.

They say ‘good is good’ and here is an example of something enduring and essential even in its exuberance.

#regency #regencyfurniture #xstool #neoclassicism #glenngisslerdesign #interiordesignalchemy

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PABLO PICASSO in SITU

Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and set designer Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) was born this day in the nineteenth century but caused seismic shifts in ideas about art in the twentieth century!

Picasso is one if best known artists in the world.

Here we see a print “Tete de Femme No. 6 Portrait of Dora Maar”, 1939 in an apartment we designed in New York City.

While Picasso worked In an incredibly wide range of styles, this work is immediately recognizable as Picasso.

Dora Maar was an assumed name of a woman who became Picasso’s lover, companion and muse from 1935-1943. According to legend they were formally introduced at Deux Magots in Paris, where Maar was playing a risky game of stabbing a knife into a table between her gloved fingers; reportedly Maar cut her finger and Picasso kept the bloodied glove as a souvenir.

#picasso #pablopicasso #doramaar #glenngisslerdesign #interiordesignalchemy #ggdnyc #artadvisory

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JAMES BROOKS in SITU

Artist James Brooks (1906-1992) was born this day in 1906.

Brooks was an Abstract Expressionist painter married to painter Charlotte Park, another AbEx painter.

When their friends Jackson Pollack and Lee Krasner moved to the Springs in East Hampton Brooks and Parks moved into their apartment on 8th St in Greenwich Village. Shortly thereafter they too moved to East Hampton.

James Brooks paintings are in many museum collections including @themuseumofmodernart @whitneymuseum @harvardartmuseums and more.

Here we see “Figure”, 1948, oil on canvas, in the Living Room of a gracious prewar NYC apartment.

#jamesbrooks #charlottepark #jacksonpollock #leekrasner #abstractexpressionism #abstractart #glenngisslerdesign #artadvisor #interiordesignalchemy

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BRICE MARDEN in SITU

Artist Brice Marden was born this day in 1938

“Brice Marden continuously refines and extends the traditions of lyrical abstraction. Experimenting with self-imposed rules, limits, and processes, and drawing inspiration from his extensive travels, Marden brings together the diagrammatic formulations of Minimalism, the immediacy of Abstract Expressionism, and the intuitive gesture of calligraphy in his exploration of gesture, line, and color.”Gagosian Gallery Artist’s Bio

This pair of editioned prints by Marden delicately occupy the wall above a sofa in a New York City apartment we designed.

#bricemarden #glenngisslerdesign #interiordesignalchemy #artadvisor

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ARTIST APTITUDE QUIZ #10

Today’s quiz is the last in the series; how many artists you can identify?

Let me know how you do!

I have a very large collection of images in a large variety of categories on Pinterest - one of those categories, with over 800 images, is ‘ARTIST PORTRAITS’

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#artistportraits #glenngisslerdesign #artadvisor #modernartists #willemdekooning #pietmondrian #edwardhopper #henrymoore #jasperjohns #lyndabengalis #aprilgornick #ericfischl #georgesbraques #diegorivera

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AL HELD in SITU

A set of four ink drawings by artist @alheld (1928-2005) born this day in 1928, hand over a breakfast room banquette in a NYC apartment.

“In the 1950s his style reflected the abstract expressionism and then transitioned to a geometric style in the 1960s. During the 1980s, there was a shift into painting that emphasized bright geometric space that's deepness reflected infinity.”

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#alheld #abstractpainting #modernartist #glenngisslerdesign #interiordesignalchemy #banquette #breakfastroom

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AUTUMN in CONNECTICUT

The trees at my house are in a magnificent state.

On quick stop with a stop @georgechampionmodernshop for a remarkable car show; the 1956 Rolls Royce convertible was my favorite!

#roxburyct #148ghr #glenngisslerdesign #rollsroyce #georgechampionmodernshop

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WORTH THE WAIT!

Who ever used the term ‘supply chain’ prior to the pandemic?!

Certainly not me!

‘Supply Chain’ has become a term we all seem to use regularly now.

Here is an ‘aerial view’ of the ‘Great Hall Redux’ from the second floor balcony of a project in Kent, CT we started during the pandemic - the new upholstery, after extended ‘supply chain issues’, finally arrived yesterday!

The rug had been passed down in the family and was the source of the color refresh.

Thrilling changes to a grand but underachieving room!

#greathall #livingroom #glenngisslerdesign #interiordesignalchemy #litchfield #goldenyellow #popsofcolor

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ARTIST APTITUDE QUIZ #9

How many artists you can identify?

Let me know how you do!

I have a very large collection of images in a large variety of categories on Pinterest - one of those categories, with over 800 images, is ‘ARTIST PORTRAITS’

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#artistportraits #glenngisslerdesign #artadvisor #modernartists

#marinaabramovic

#davidhockney

#almathomas

#ellsworthkelly

#marilynminter

#larrypoons

#soniadelaunay

#edvardmunch

#simoneleigh

#joanmiro

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY LE CORBUSIER!

Born in North Western Switzerland, the architect, designer, urban planner, painter and writer Charles -Edouard Jeanneret-Gris became known as and assumed the name Le Corbusier - referred today by some architects as ‘Corb’.

Even though he lacked formal training, he was a pioneer of modern architecture, and a controversial urban planner.

Le Corbusier moved permanently to Paris in 1917, where he met the cubist painter Amedee Ozenfant, and together they developed a new artistic movement called ‘Purism’.

This 1953 print is Plate 17 from the series ‘Unite’.

#lecorbusier #corbusier #modernart #modernartist #glenngisslerdesign #artadvisor

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAN CHRISTENSEN!

“With work in virtually every leading American museum and innumerable important private collections, Dan Christensen (1942-2007) is widely recognized as one of America’s foremost color abstractionists.

Christensen first started showing his paintings in the 1960’s to great acclaim.

In the 1990s, he created vibrant paintings with stacked orbs and oblique ovals hovering on brushed or dripped painterly fields of electric and often luminescent color. These “circle” paintings are among the most celebrated paintings of his career.

Here “Dolby”, 1998, oil on canvas, is seen in our room at the @brooklynshowhouse on loan from @berrycampbell gallery.

The critic Clement Greenberg anointed him in 1990 as “one of the painters on whom the course of American art depends.” Greenberg viewed Christensen as an exemplar of “post-painterly abstraction”—a term he coined for the movement that followed Abstract Expressionism in modernist progress towards what Greenberg regarded as a “pure art” that would eschew subject matter, spatial illusion and an artist’s persona in favor of revealing the “truthfulness” of the canvas.”

Christensen’s paintings are in such prestigious institutions as #guggenheimmuseum #whitneymuseum #metropolitanmuseumofart and #moma #albrightknox #hirshhornmuseum #chicagoartinstitute among many others.

#danchristensen #abstractpainting #glenngisslerdesign #brooklynheightsdesignershowhouse #interiordesignalchemy #artadvisor

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RECONSIDERING HISTORY

I started working on this project three decades ago, and in recent years have been working with my client to craft a refresh the house.

The house was designed by #francisfleetwood on an five acre property that fronts both the Atlantic Ocean and Mecox Bay providing water views from nearly every room in the house.

Here we see a detail of a seat built into the stairs with a 1919 drawing of #isadoraduncan by #abrahamwalkowitz and a wonderful 19th century inverted obelisk work table; used to store one’s needlepoint or mending projects.

The refresh included the addition of modern and contemporary paintings by #alfredleslie #theodorosstamos #yvonnethomas #larrypoons #georgecondo #richardprince #williambaziotes #leehall #robertmotherwell

Some things get better with age…

#glenngisslerdesign #hamptons #artcollector #artadvisor #interiordesignalchemy #luxurylifestyle #hamptonsrealestate

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GEOMETRIC ABSTRACTION

The staining and finishing of the wood floors has begun! Here we see the finish right after it was applied.

At long last after a full-on-comprehensive-gut-renovation of a house in Litchfield County we have entered the extensive finishing stage!

Reflecting the high standards of our art collecting clients, and their distinctive and adventuresome aesthetics every inch of this house has been given rigorous consideration and attention by the design and fabrication team.

The graphic built-in storage for this teanagers’ room was inspired by gioponti.

#renovation #gioponti #glenngisslerdesign ecobuild #johnallee #interiordesign

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY LARRY POONS!

Larry Poons (b 1937) is an American abstract painter. He originally rose to fame in the 1960’s with monochrome canvases with staccato ‘lozenges’ that “draw the eye across the surface in a frenetic dance”.

Mid-career works are have an impact created through a process of layering paint over paint allowing it to drip organically creating abstract surfaces.

His later more painterly style with roots in Abstract Expressionism employs formal, allover compositions that recalls early work of Willem de Kooning or perhaps Jackson Pollock, Poons’ surfaces exude a wild often joyful energy.

The beautiful work seen here was the first acquisition and the beginning of developing a wonderful collection of abstract paintings for young clients. Here we see a large painting by Poons in their TrIBeCa loft overlooking the Hudson River.

#larrypoons #abstractpainting #tribeca #artcollectors #glenngisslerdesign #artadvisor #interiordesignalchemy

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY YVONNE THOMAS!

Yvonne Thomas (1913-2009) was one of the artists included in ‘Women of Abstract Expressionism’ exhibition catalogue, a traveling exhibition organized by the Denver Art Museum. ‘Women of Abstract Expressionism” is a significant, albeit very late, effort to correct the unequal treatment of women’s contributions to Abstract Expressionism.

“Like other women who embraced abstraction, Thomas did not gain renown equal to that of the male artists of her time. However, a consideration of her career reveals that the issues she addressed, the organizations in which she took part, and the zeitgeist of her art gave her a central role in the avant-garde movement that she embraced.”Lisa Peters, Phd.

Here we are looking at Thomas’ “The Studio”, 1952 oil on canvas installed in our Hudson River Residence.

#yvonnethomas #modernartist #womenartists #abstractpainting #abstractexpressionism #glenngisslerdesign #artadvisor #interiordesignalchemy