Showing posts with label collection. Show all posts
Showing posts with label collection. Show all posts

Thursday, July 9, 2026

BEAUTY: Tableaux

As an interior designer, artist, and maximalist, I truly appreciate a good tablescape or tableau. I love gazing at fascinating sculptures, natural objects, treasured personal mementoes, antiques with a story, handmade creations of beauty ... collected and displayed in a way that allows these elements to play off one another, to provide harmony or contrast.

Painting by William McClure
Collection by Pierre Le Tan, sold at Sotheby's
Tableau by Sean Anderson
Elevator landing at Kips Bay Showhouse NYC, 2023
Tableau by JF Chen
Tableau by Anna Spiro Design
Tableau by India Hicks
Tableau by John Derian

Saturday, October 31, 2009

Just finished reading...

...YEAR'S BEST SF 6 Edited by David G. Hartwell

A 2000 collection of thought-provoking science fiction/ social fiction short stories. Many of them, whether directly or indirectly, feature the looming reality of genetic engineering, shortened to "gen-eng" in some stories. This collection also features a nice Ursula Le Guin creation called "The Birthday of the World."

Recommend? Sure.