Displaying figurative art and nudes at home is a wonderful way to express your personal style and add character to your space. However, you may wish to consider the potential reactions of others, such as guests and family members, and be respectful of differing opinions. Below are some tips for displaying figurative art and nudes at home.
LAST WEEK we made the case for why you should create a gallery wall in your home, and this week we'll be discussing how to go about this project, with the help of a few tips and tricks. While building a gallery wall can be a creative process, like with anything, it can benefit from a few guidelines. We've listed a few of the most important considerations below and included a few inspirational photos and shopping links to help you get started ...
WHEN DESIGNING your kitchen, you might not necessarily think about artwork first, but if you did, you would be surprised how well it works in this space. Many people opt for food-inspired themes such as fruit (lemons, apples) or Still Lifes, but Landscapes, Watercolours, and even Figurative drawings also work. We've rounded up a few of our favourite ways to display art in the kitchen, whether leaning on countertops or picture rails, hanging on subway tile and marble backsplashes, exposed brick and boiserie...
A collection of your top favourite articles of the past year here at This Is Glamorous, from Cy Twombly's stunning home in Rome to rarely seen photos of Princess Diana; Rosehill Cottage, the film set that was created for the Christmas movie, The Holiday; mother-daughter Instagram fashion influencers Susi Rejano & Carla Hinojosa, and more ...
A KITCHEN in Puglia with concrete counter tops and sink; and a beautiful cake adorned with dusky-coloured roses are two things on our mind at the moment. Plus, five more things in this instalment of Things We Loved this Week, including Italian Greyhounds, Ina Garten’s favourite cheese shop, vegetable embroidery, and more...
ALEXANDRE DE BETAK has been designing fashion shows for the past 25 years: from Dior in Moscow's Red Square to Tiffany's in Beijing’s Forbidden City. The last Jacquemus show staged in a wheat field outside of Paris? That was the work of his creative agency, Bureau Betak.
We first wrote about Christo and Jeanne-Claude in January, when Sotheby's announced the sale of some of the artists' work. Bulgarian Christo Vladimirov Javacheff and Morrocan Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon met in Paris in 1958. In 1961, three years after they met in Paris, Christo and Jeanne-Claude began imagining and creating temporary works of art in public spaces. They would marry in 1962 and become one of the world's most famous artistic collaborations ...
CHANCES ARE, you've already come across the quirky and whimsical work of Gab Bois. The 21-year-old Montreal-based artist's career trajectory reads like a do-what-you love fairytale: she was a year-and-a-half into a bachelor’s degree to become an elementary school teacher when she began to post her photography on her Instagram account, @gabbois. Fast forward to 569k followers, solo and group exhibitions, a residency and many high-end brand collaborations later, and Bois, who never planned to make a career out of her photographic work, has put her studies on hold to pursue a career in the arts.
WE HAPPENED UPON the beautiful home of Danish artist and interior stylist Simone Polk Dahl on Instagram and have fallen completely in love with the easy-going vibes of this space with its neutral palette of black, beige and brown tones ...
Sotheby’s announces the sale of works from the long-time New York studio and home of internationally renowned artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude, the couple renown for their grand-scale site-specific environmental installations.
Simone Bodmer-Turner is a California-born, Brooklyn-based ceramicist who creates ceramic sculptures and vessels using traditional methods such as hand-building using coils and slump molds exclusively―rather than a wheel―then slip casts these original forms. Turner draws on her time studying sculpture in Mexico and Japan, combining ancient techniques and technicality to render her modern forms.
This instalment of 10 Things We Lovely Lately includes, as always, a collection of beautiful finds from our travels around the internets, from the wonderful crystal dumplings by Kristina Cho to really lovely pink mushrooms (some even homegrown in bathrooms!), intricately delicate handmade clay flowers, modern art, baby animals and more ...
Shaina McCoy is an artist based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She is known for portraiture that references family photographs: “Heritage is important to me when it comes to my process and everything I do with my painting and the things I present to the world”, she said in this profile.
IT WAS THE PHOTO, above, of the Calacatta Monet marble counter and the antique lamp with wicker shade that stopped me in my tracks while scrolling through Instagram this morning.
IT IS NO SECRET that we adore the work of Joseph Dirand here at TIG, having featured it many times before. The son of renown photographer Jacques Dirand, gives us a glimpse into his brand new 2,600-square-foot home on the Right Bank ...
