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Vertu Art + Design
Aug 27, 20232 min read
HOUSE AND GARDENS OF LINNAEUS
View of the specimen garden of Carl Linnaeus, Uppsala University, Photo by J. Franks 2023 Since ancient times, Gardens have been...
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Vertu Art + Design
Jan 26, 20232 min read
WHILE THE WILD IRIS BLOOMS
Photo from a series on an artist's garden. 'Irises After the Rain', J. Franks, for Saint George's Society, Presented in an album of...
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Vertu Art + Design
Feb 5, 20222 min read
A 'NATURAL' HISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS
18th-century curiosity cabinet of Joseph Bonnier de La Mosson (1702 -1744), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris. For the 2021...
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Vertu Art + Design
Jun 13, 20201 min read
FROM UTILITY TO LIFE: SCULPTURAL 'DECORATIVE' ARTS
Wall Clock , Jean-Jacques Fieffé from the exhibition: 'Taking Shape: Finding Sculpture in the Decorative Arts', J. Paul Getty Museum,...
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Vertu Art + Design
Jun 9, 20201 min read
OBJECT STORY
“There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow.” - Shakespeare, Hamlet Momento Mori, Photo by J. Franks, 2020. 'Collectors at...
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Vertu Art + Design
Jun 9, 20201 min read
COLLECTORS AT HOME SERIES
British porcelain cup and saucer with yellow ground and puce decoration, circa 1790, acquired by the late American, Southern poet,...
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Vertu Art + Design
Jun 9, 20201 min read
LIFE OF VERTU, QUARANTINED
Italian white porcelain tray, Dutch glass on Indian brass stand, rare 18th-century French silver-gilt spoon, French stoneware jug, and...
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Vertu Art + Design
Jun 9, 20201 min read
DECORATIVE ARTS: DEFINITION + EVOLUTION
Lecture for International Women’s Day Decorative Arts: Definition and Evolution For International Women's Day, I presented an hour...
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Vertu Art + Design
Jun 9, 20201 min read
T.M. GLASS: THE AUDIBLE LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS
'Anemone Canadensis in a Silver Jug', Series: Redford Gardens / Jardins de Metis, T.M. Glass 'T.M. Glass: The Audible Language of ...
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Vertu Art + Design
Jun 9, 20201 min read
Restauration de la verseuse offerte par l'ambassade de Siam à Louis XIV
We could watch this all day. “Restauration de la verseuse offerte par l'ambassade de Siam à Louis XIV”, (Source: youtube.com)...
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Vertu Art + Design
Jun 9, 20201 min read
STILL LIFES OF VERTU
Still life with shells, porcelain, and glass vessels. Photo by J. Franks, 2016. This photos arrives from years of collecting and...
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Vertu Art + Design
Jun 9, 20201 min read
LAURENT CRASTE'S CURIOUS VASES
Laurent Craste The work of Laurent Craste is a reminder of the human tendency towards the avant-garde: the desire to a break free from...
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Vertu Art + Design
Jun 9, 20202 min read
DECORATIVE VERSUS FINE ART
Design for a Cassone, Italian, 16th Century, Anonymous, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Decorative Art, Definition Sadly most...
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Vertu Art + Design
Jun 9, 20202 min read
THE FRAMING OF LADY AGNEW
Today is the birth date of Lady Agnew, painted here in John Singer Sargent’s 'Lady Agnew of Lochnaw' (1865 - 1932), 1892. Picture Frames...
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Vertu Art + Design
Jun 9, 20202 min read
HEALTH OF THE CONNOISSEUR
image below: the classic connoisseur of 18th-century collecting in America, Jayne Wrightsman. the collector's Palm Beach home, depicted...
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Vertu Art + Design
Jun 9, 20202 min read
THAT OTHER "GIRL"
Thoughts on the Exhibition now at The Frick Collection: Vermeer, Rembrandt and Hals: Masterpieces of Dutch Painting from the Mauritshuis...
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