I got to see my cousin David, who had come to town to network at the Architectural Digest Home Show. He was showing ceramics, including his Seafire globe, itself a marvel of architecture—the individual tiles fired to slump in a curved shape. And check out the curved whalebones in the pic—David carved them of wood! I forgot to ask him what kind. The nautical influence from having lived for many years by the sea and on it, as a yacht captain, is pretty clear.
Aside from his booth, however, there was not much to excite at the show. Nothing that sparked my imagination, anyway. I saw fresher ideas at the neighborhood flea market.
You come from a long line of creative types! Is David on your maternal or paternal side, & what is his last name?
ReplyDeleteThat would be David Crane, son of my mother's eldest sister.
ReplyDeleteLike, very cool.
ReplyDeleteCouldn't Chris Dowling show his furniture at this thing next year, or whenever?
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Wow I am really impressed, yet again, by someone in your family!How cool these ideas are...it must be very difficult to make those tiles and have them fit together so well? Where was or is this show?
ReplyDeleteThis show was on a pier in the Hudson River in New York City. It was odd to walk between the booths and catch a glimpse of the water through an open door.
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