Classified as a Surrealist, American artist Joesph Cornell is best known not for his abilities as a painter or a sculptor but as a collector. Cornell took pleasure in the hunt and liked to spend his time scouring secondhand shops for books, faded photographs and other small treasures—which he then used to construct whimsical tableaus. While these collages of curiosities dominated the majority of Cornell’s …
Resembling natural coral formations, this ceramic vase holds 50 stems individually for an effect out of a Dr. Seuss illustration. Available in lime green, white, silver, black and tourqoise, it will work with most decor schemes and lends itself well to imaginative pairings with different types and colors of flowers. The vase runs $495-695 from Maison24.
by Adrienne So Norwegian artist Rune Guneriussen photographs groups of ordinary household objects mimicking wild animals. The scenes capture a peculiarly Nordic combination of otherworldliness and dark humor. A herd of desk lamps turn their lighted heads downwards to graze in the twilight of a lonely Savannah. Two chairs battle for supremacy on a lonely beach amidst a group of helpless bystanders. A line of …
