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Robert Edgar Stone / Modernist handwrought silver nut dish 1931
ROBERT EDGAR STONE (1903-1990) UK
Modernist nut dish 1931
Handwrought silver
Marks: R. E. Stone (facsimile signature) R.E.S., British assay marks for London, Wilson & Sharp Ltd Edinburgh, 1931
For more information see: Art Nouveau and Art Deco Silver, Annelies Krekel-Aalberse (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.,1989) pp. 34 and 259.
W: 5 3/4”x D: 4” x H: 1 1/4”
Robert Edgar Stone / Modernist handwrought silver nut dish 1931
George Logan (1866–1939) Glasgow, Scotland
Wylie & Lochhead, Ltd. Glasgow
British Arts & Crafts Movement/Glasgow Style
“The Grey Bower” chair, circa 1905.
Stained beech and contemporary silk upholstery.
Illustrated in a published drawing “The Grey Bower” by George Logan for Mssrs. Wylie & Lochhead in an article entitled ” A Color Symphony”: The Studio Magazine 1905
H: 53 3/8” x W: 18” x D: 13 3/4”
The Glasgow School was a circle of influential modern artists and designers who began to coalesce in Glasgow, Scotland in the 1870s, and flourished from the 1890s to sometime around 1910. Wylie and Lochhead’s output in the Glasgow Style, which was showcased at the 1901 Glasgow International Exhibition was designed by three young craftsmen – Ernest Archibald Taylor (1874–1951), John Ednie (1876–1934) and George Logan (1866–1939).
TIM LIDDY (b. 1963) Missouri
Tim Liddy, “Learn to Design” Kit with Charles and Ray Eame, Presented by Herman Miller Furniture Company, Zeeland, Michigan, Set pieces are moulded by Zenith Plastics Co., Gardena, California
Signed: Tim Liddy (red circle), To Everyone at HD! 2012
With his recent paintings, Liddy has both reasserted the construct of hyperrealist painting and developed a thoroughly unique advancement of that mode by extending the cultural reality of the indexed original. Based on the illustrated box lids of vintage board games, Liddy has recontextualized a subject, which evokes the underlying rules of life. Painted on copper or steel in the precise dimensions of the original, the metal is then manipulated to demonstrate the exact rips and tears from years of usage and includes trompe-l’oeil renditions of the scotch tape that might be holding the cardboard box together, the assorted stains, or the various graffiti of time. Liddy leaves no possibility of ambivalence, these works speak to a concurrent understanding of their original object identity and to themselves as works of art engaged in historical and psychological dialogue.