AFA 22nd Anniversary

2021 Antiques & Fine Art 59 at left: In the family room, a neutral color palette allows sculptural furniture forms and a variety of rich textures to take center stage. Furniture designer Tyler Hayes, founder of his small American design company BDDW, created a number of the pieces chosen for this room. His modern take on the wingback chair, the delightfully quirky form of his “Berin” club chairs, and at the right front corner, his “Macaroni” side table in oxidized walnut are drawn together to create a composition with lively visual interest. Jerome Abel Seguin, a French artist born and living in Bordeaux, hand-made the client’s “Giant Gear” coffee table from reclaimed iron elements. Overhead, Jane Hallworth Studio for Blackman Cruz has created a custom “Cignus Constellation” fixture of hand-spun unlacquered brass and hand-faceted glass. This fixture recalls one of the most recognizable constellations of the northern summer and autumn, and features a prominent asterism known as the Northern Cross. above, left: Gerhard Richter’s sold-out and limited edition giclée depicts Waldhaus (2018), a grand hotel in the Engadine and scenic Val Fex region of Switzerland, acquired as a special memory for the clients who once lived abroad. above, right: A vista for meditation, this painting by Lee Mullican, Santos in Being (1966), shares a uniquely West Coast exploration into abstraction grounded in content, full of mysticism and connections to the transcendent. With Surrealist painter Wolfgang Paalen, whose work appears in the entry, and with Gordon Onslow Ford, he formed the Dynaton Group, whose efforts culminated in the seminal Dynaton exhibition at the San Francsico Museum of Art in 1951, which in turn had a significant effect on the work of Jackson Pollack and Robert Motherwell. A further link: Paalen was married to the artist Luchita Hurtado, whose third husband was Mullican.