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HDI EXHIBITION PICK: “Edvard Munch: Between the Clock and the Bed” AT THE MET BREUER

One of our neighbors on Madison Avenue is the Met Breuer. We very much enjoy going there for a visit and seeing the newest exhibit. It is always a treat (so is Flora Bar, don’t forget to stop in for a meal or drinks). The current exhibition entitled “Edvard Munch: Between the Clock and the Be… Read More

HDI Exhibition Pick: “Florine Stettheimer: Painting Poetry” at The Jewish Museum, New York

We recently ventured to The Jewish Museum to visit the exhibition “Florine Stettheimer: Painting Poetry”. Florine Stettheimer (1871–1944) is an icon of Jazz Age New York and her work is absolutely spellbinding. The deep colors and the vivid details are mesmerizing and every singl… Read More

HDI Exhibition pick: “Ettore Sottsass Design Radical” at the Met Breuer

The Met Breuer just opened an exhibition on the the Italian architect and designer Ettore Sottsass (1917–2007). It’s an absolutely wonderful show that we highly recommend that evaluates Sottsass’s career in a presentation of key works in a range of media—including architectural d… Read More

HDI Exhibition pick: “Manus x Machina” at the Met

Special exhibits at the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art here in New York are always very high on our list. Being in the decorative arts business, you have a very good understanding of the very labor intensive making of hand made couture and avant-garde ready to wear and you underst… Read More

HDI Exhibition Pick: Beauty – Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial & Thom Brown Selects

Beauty—Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial is the fifth installment of the museum’s signature contemporary design exhibition series. With a focus on aesthetic innovation, Beauty celebrates design as a creative endeavor that engages the mind, body, and senses. We really enjoyed this exhibit and ho… Read More

HDI Exhibition pick: “Jacqueline de Ribes The Art of Style” at the Met

Jacqueline de Ribes is a style icon and has been on the Best Dressed list since 1962. The Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is currently exhibiting sixty ensembles of haute couture and ready to wear from the personal archive of the de Ribes’s collection. You will fi… Read More

HDI Exhibition Pick – January 2015

Kimono, A Modern History
September 27, 2014–January 19, 2015, The Metropolitan Museum of New York

It is a rainy and grey day in New York and once again we are getting lost in the amazing world of The Metropolitan Museum of New York. The “Kimono, A Modern History” exhibition is a visual tre… Read More

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