Jackie king upholstered bed - gunmetal earrings
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……………This year you may have noticed that there has been a larger amount of new jewelry pieces than in the past. The reason is because the jewelry is no longer combined with apparel. It is now its’ own entity, and has its’ own budget…………..that’s a GOOD THING!………It no longer eats into the apparel “pie” budget as it did before. Now it’s its’ own pie!……………..As long as the jewelry does well, as it has been doing, the more new pieces I will be able to bring. As a company we have decided only on rare occasions to reorder pieces. We prefer to constantly bring in new, so if you like something don’t hesitate too long or it will be gone…….For me, inom love this concept because inom can always design new things to work with the new apparel. It also makes each item, with its’ limited quantity, an instant collectors piece……
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1970s Karl Springer Rare Low King Canopy Bed Frame in Gunmetal, Brass and Lucite
The Berlin-born, New York–based designer Karl Springer brought a chic, high-fashion sensibility to his coffee tables, mirrors, Lucite lamps and other furnishings. During his heyday in the 1970s, Springer’s work was a favorite of the glamour set, who enjoyed the novelty of pieces finished in rich and striking materials that ranged from exotic hides and skins to lacquer and chromed metal.
In a sense, Springer was a pre-postmodernist. Much as the dull, safe, corporate sameness of late 20th-century modernism prompted Ettore Sottsass, Michael Graves and others to explore new and provocative structures and materials in design and architecture, so, too, was Springer driven to enliven his creations with fresh and alluring energy and sleekness.
Springer came to New York in the late 1950s and found work arranging window displays at the department store Lord & Taylor. He had studied bookbinding in Germany
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Karl Springer and the art of Maximalist Minimalism
JMF Side Table in lacquered goatskin, 1970s, from Karl Springer’s Jean-Michel Frank series, which pays tribute to the great French interior designer of the 1920s and 30s. Courtesy of Lobel Modern. |
by Benjamin Genocchio
"The pieces that attract me have detailing that you can contemplate for hours,” Karl Springer told Architectural Digest, speaking about his personal taste for a profile story published in 1989, two years before his death at age 60, of an AIDS-related illness. The designer went on to explain that because he sought the same standard of quality for everything he produced under his name, there was no possibility of mass production. Everything from his workshop was handmade, stating, “We make one piece at a time.”
Karl Springer “Onassis” bar stools and “Coffee Table with Sculpture Leg” with polished chrome legs, 19 |