NYC: Minimal USA’s Outdoor Kitchen Collection party

photograph by manfredi bellati

NYC: Minimal USA’s Outdoor Kitchen Collection party. On the rooftop of Minimal USA’s showroom in Chelsea, a party was held, in partnership with Gaggenau, to present the company’s first Outdoor Kitchen Collection. Before the party, at dusk, the rain stopped and the dramatic skyline, including New York’s iconic Empire State Building, the two steel water tanks on the roof, Minimal’s first outdoor kitchen and the outdoor furniture by Serralunga were cleansed and ready for the event. 

Minimal USA’s president and CEO Bartolomeo Bellati was photographed with their  M3 outdoors kitchen made entirely in aluminum and stainless steel.

Lutz and Schmitt’s Rene Schmitt and architect Gary Paul

 Lawyer and New York architectural historian Andrew Alpern 

 Architect Harold Tittmann

 

Gaggenau’s Vanessa Trost and Tony Leventhal

The view on the other side of the rooftop. Note: the water tank incorporated in the Chelsea Arts Tower building.

L’Agent Provocateur’s Clinette Basden-Tucker and Assouline’s Romina Djelosevic

Minimal USA's Italian Architect based in Canada Sebastiano Sammartini

 After the rain, Minimal USA’s outdoor kitchen M3 made entirely in aluminum and stainless steel was ready for the party.

 

  Cheekd.com’s Lori Cheek and actor Sebastian Blackwell

 

Serralunga’s Holly All chair designed by Philippe Starck was graced by color expert and forecaster Patricia Hall, follow her on Color Clicks.

Model Katrin Thorman and couturier Haans Nicholas Mott, his Bespoke Private Label of “disheveled” clothing is made to order exclusively.

  Multi-disciplinary artist David Barish and art director Laura Landes

From Milan agronomist Giorgio Colombo who with Francesca Ballini Richards co-produces the (A Casa) project event in Milan during the Salone del Mobile.

Film and events producer Brett Herman and artist Kendalle Fiasco

photo credit Phoebe Streblow and Matthew C. Lange 

The Minimal USA party in full swing.

 

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NYC: Gastby Mania – Windows

NYC: Gastby Mania – Windows # 1. The Great Gastby movie, directed by Baz Luhrmann in 3D, based on Scott Fitzgerald’s legendary classic, has spurred Gastby mania and has hit the windows of Midtown Manhattan.

Above:  At Tiffany and Company’s windows designed by Christopher Young celebrate the movie with millions of glass bubbles, diamonds, pyramids of champagne glasses and lots of diamonds. The Great Gatsby Collection of jewels was inspired by and featured in the movie and was designed in collaboration with Catherine Martin, the movie’s costume designer, they are based on archival jewels.

 

 NYC: Gastby Mania – Windows # 2.  At Prada the windows feature 1920 inspired cloths. For the movie, Miuccia Prada designed the costumes together with Baz Luhrmann’s wife Catherine Martin; Brooks Brothers designed the men’s clothes.

NYC: Gastby Mania – Windows # 3. More discreetly in Assouline’s New York flagship bookstore boutique, inside the Plaza Hotel, a few vintage and out of print books, especially selected on the subject are for sale.

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NYC: The John Dory Oyster Bar

NYC: The John Dory Oyster Bar.  The John Dory Oyster Bar is situated just off the lobby of the cool Ace Hotel and is a casual seafood focused spot.  Lunch with Susan Shacter, who specializes in photographing up and coming actors.  We were lucky to get a table on the sidewalk in the sun, much appreciate after all the rain, also good for people watching.

The John Dory Oyster Bar.  Delicious Carta da Musica with Bottarga and Chili, which I will certainly copy.  Also note the cool plastic table tops all printed with different fish designs on different colors.

The Oysters from the East and West Coasts.

Pansies and pretty flowers, plants and vegetables grace the sidewalk of the bar and are an added attraction.

 

Susan’s Ocicats; Pussy Galore (from 007), Marlon (Brando) and Iggy (Iggy Popster).

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NYC: MET - Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity

 

NYC: MET - Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity.  The exquisite exhibition Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity, at the MET, until May 27, presents a revealing look at the role of fashion in the works of the Impressionists and their contemporaries. Some eighty major figure paintings, seen in concert with period costumes, accessories, fashion plates, photographs, highlight the vital relationship between fashion and art during the pivotal years, from the mid-1860s to the mid-1880s, when Paris emerged as the style capital of the world. 

Above. Edouard Manet’s Young Lady in 1866.  It is a portrait one of Manet’s models, Victorine, she poses in a peignoir after having posed naked for his Olympia and Luncheon on the Grass paintings.

MET - Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity.  In the Black Dress Room, the color black vivified sitters ranging from the beguiling bohemian Nina de Callias in Manet's Lady with Fans, above (to the quirkily extravagant artist's model and budding actress Ellen Andrée in Manet's The Parisienne and the refined Madame Charpentier in Renoir's portrait of 1878. And as Auguste Renoir said “Black is the queen of colors.”

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NYC: MET - Punk : Chaos to Couture exhibition.

NYC: MET - Punk : Chaos to Couture exhibition. The MET's spring 2013 Costume Institute exhibition, Punk: Chaos to Couture, until August 14, examines punk's impact on high fashion from the movement's birth in the early 1970s through its continuing influence today. Featuring approximately one hundred designs for men and women, the exhibition includes original punk garments and recent, directional fashion to illustrate how haute couture and ready-to-wear borrow punk's visual symbols.

 

MET - PUNK: Chaos to Couture exhibition. Focusing on the relationship between the punk concept of "do-it-yourself" and the couture concept of "made-to-measure," the seven galleries are organized around the materials, techniques, and embellishments associated with the anti-establishment style. Themes will include New York and London, tell punk's origin story as a tale of two cities, followed by Clothes for Heroes and four manifestations of the D.I.Y. aesthetic. An immersive multimedia, multisensory experience, the clothes are animated with period music videos and soundscaping audio techniques.

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Above. A postcard of the Sex Pistols in Luxembourg, 1977, photo by Bob Gruen

  Bergdorf Goodman. The Windows at Bergdorf Goodman pays homage to the Punk exhibition, the windows are in fact more stunning that the exhibition itself, which was rather disappointing for me, having lived through that period.

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New York: An artist’s Studio – Suzanne Tick.

New York: An artist’s Studio – Suzanne Tick.   Artist and textile designer Suzanne Tick, heads up Suzanne Tick Inc., specializing in material development for commercial and residential interiors, including textiles, hard surfacing, glass, carpet, woven metal screens, and lighting. Her clients include Knoll Textiles, Tandus Flooring for which she is design director and she is also creative director for Teknion Textiles. She is also an artist who weaves recycled materials and debris into beautiful art. She creates works that harnesses the struggles of life, resulting in textiles that are both delicate and strong. She investigates materials, pairing the thick with the thin, the dull with the brilliant, and the colorful with the neutral. As Tick states, “weaving holds everything together, materials and life, successes and failures”.

 

Suzanne Tick. – Art.  She is a fourth generation recycler. From the beginning, Tick spent summers in her fathers scrap metal yard recycling plant weighing and sorting metals, exploring the possibilities in the cast-offs of rural life. At the University of Iowa, Tick began as a printmaker, etching fabric and texture into copper. She left as a weaver, combining materials both hard and soft.  Tick’s life and work have always been a narration of balance. 

Above. A detail of Refuse DC, 2011, is made from 3,470 recycled dry cleaning hangers, which took four months to collect and hangs between Bill and Melinda Gates offices at The Gates Foundation Collection.

Below.  A detail of Counterbalance, 2011, made from the leftovers of the Refuse DC piece. “This was the most difficult piece I have worked on, because the shuttle had to go across less than half an inch and the tension had to stay the same.  In reality the piece represents by dad, because he was frail and whimsical at the same time.”

  Psyche

Suzanne Tick. – Art.  The Fire Island Series triptych, which her dealer the Cristina Grajales Gallery will show at Art Basel in June. The work is based on three years of collecting hurricane debris on Fire Island, where Tick has a house. Going for long walks she saw seagulls eating Mylar Balloons in the ocean, so she started collecting them.   She cuts them like peeling an apple, to achieve long threads and uses the silver lining side,  “The beauty is the patina beaten in by the ocean and when weaving it nobody knows what it was.”

Suzanne Tick. – Art.   The Stainless Steel hanging has been exhibited at  MoMa, it is made from recycled stainless steel from the inside of tires from the tire company Bridgestone Metalpha in Japan, the fiber was spun into yarn by experimental textile designer Junichi Arai. Tick imported the fiber and wove it into flameproof drapery ideal for a theater. On the wall a painting by Gloria Graham.

The table in the sitting room.

Suzanne Tick. – Art.   A work in progress with found objects from the streets of New Orleans. The canvas is recycled from the Pink Tents installation wanted by Brad Pitt for his NO housing project.

Suzanne Tick. – Art.   Moon Charts,  “I have always been interested in Astrology, Cancer is my Sun sign and the Moon is by rising sign.  The woven piece charts the last three years of my life; from a series of losses comes creativity and causes you to pause and weaving becomes my meditation.”

Cupid – Tick’s two cats are known as “The cool cats of design.”

Suzanne Tick. – Design. The red/orange fabric is a hybrid between a honeycomb and a basket weave.  The upholstery fabric was designed for Teknion Textiles where Tick is creative director; it is strong a upholstery fabric for the corporate environment, an action fabric ideal for desk chairs.  On the left, the carpet was designed for Tandus Flooring where Suzanne acts as design director; the carpet is woven for the commercial market in one of the three factories left in the United States where they still weave carpets.

 

Suzanne Tick – The studio.   The townhouse, where Tick works and lives, was in the late fifties and early sixties, the site of the Reuben Gallery in the East Village. It was Anita Reuben who invented art Happenings and where many artists such as Jim Dine, Allan Kaprow, Robert Whitman, Claes Oldenburg, Red Groom, and many more exhibited their work.

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