DecArts

DecArts

Every week I interview and have a casual conversation about the amazing world of Decorative Arts, etc.

Episodes

May 23, 2018 31 mins

Alexis Fair, a masters candidate in the Cooper Hewitt/Parsons program, sat down with me to talk about the Weeksville Heritage Center. Which she covered in a course on period rooms. Founded in 1838, Weeksville was the second largest free, African American community in the U.S. in the pre-Civil War era. The settlement was named for James Weeks who, along with a group of African-American investors, acquired property in the area. We...

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I interviewed Kara Nichols about Saturated: The Allure and Science of Color which starts this Friday, May 11 and runs through Jan. 13 at the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in NYC. Kara worked on this exhibition for her curatorial capstone at the Parsons/Cooper Hewitt graduate program. Saturated explores various aspects of color and how color theory can be translated into the visual applications of design.

The exhibition wa...

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March 10, 2018 40 mins

This week JT McParlin is back on the podcast to talk about Stanley Kubrick’s film A Clockwork Orange (1971). As always pictures will be up on the Twitter page @DecArtsPodcast

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February 22, 2018 22 mins

This week JT McParlin was on the podcast, he is a Masters candidate at the Parsons Cooper Hewitt Program, and we are talking about the Stanley Kubrick film 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). We were planning on also doing a later film by Kubrick as well, A Clockwork Orange (1971), but we ran out of time so stay tuned for that episode at a later date. As always pictures will be up on the Twitter page @DecArtsPodcast

2001: A Space Ody...

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February 15, 2018 15 mins

Kayla Seifert (from the Contemporary Painting episode) is on the podcast this week to talk about the Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book and the transformation after WWI when cookbooks began to be mass produced. As usual all images will be up on the twitter page @DecArtsPodcast

Better Homes & Gardens Handyman's Book, 1957
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February 1, 2018 25 mins

Sylvia Ferguson (from the Henry Dreyfuss episode) is on the podcast this week to talk about entertainment, ethnography, and eugenic displays at the World’s Fair. As usual all images will be up on the twitter page @DecArtsPodcast

Here are some of the links for the videos and articles discussed. National Fairground and Circus Archive, “History of Side Show Exhibitions and Acts - Research and Articles,” National Fairground and Circus...

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January 25, 2018 28 mins

Sydney Friedman (from the Bersa pattern episode) is back this week to talk about the Jogbra. Which came about at a time when Roberta “Bobbi” Gibb ran in the 1966 Boston Marathon when women were not allowed to and she didn’t have a sports bra. Billie Jean King is named Sports Illustrated’s first ever Sportswoman of the Year and played Bobby Riggs in the infamous ‘Battle of the Sexes’.

Here are some of the links for the videos a...

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January 18, 2018 20 mins

The DecArts podcast is back! I am excited to start the year off with an object. Hannah Winiker comes on to talk about bandboxes. For anyone who isn’t familiar with bandboxes they are functional and decorative objects that held men’s collars and other fashion accessories. They represent a bridge between the handmade process of producing and the industrial process of manufacturing by machines that occurred in the 1800’s with the Indu...

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This week I interview Noelle Kichura, a Masters candidate at the Parsons/Cooper-Hewitt History of Design and Curatorial program, about her proposed thesis.

Here are some of the links for the videos and articles discussed.HARVARD DESIGN MAGAZINE ESSAY GETTY CONSERVATION TALK ON VILLA SAVOYE MARY MCLEOD LECTURE

Links to publications PRIVACY AND PUBLICITY, COLOMINA CHARLOTTE PERRIAND, MCLEOD LE CORBUSIER, SBRIGLIO Also check out Gwend...

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This week I talked to Molly Martien, a Masters Candidate at the Parsons-Cooper Hewitt program for History of Design and Curatorial Studies. She wrote a paper that she will be presenting at the MAPACA conference in November on SNCC and 1960’s design.MAPACA: https://mapaca.netSNCC LIBRARY LEGACY PROJECT: https://library.duke.edu/slpSNCC DIGITAL GATEWAY: https://snccdigital.orgSNCC LEGACY PROJECT: http://www.sncclegacyproject.orgFREED...
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October 12, 2017 42 mins
I talk with Khyati Sheth to talk about the Alvar Aalto - Art and the Modern Form exhibition, which was at the Ateneum Museum this summer.THE ALVAR AALTO MUSEUM: http://www.ateneum.fi/nayttelyt/alvar-aalto/?lang=enPAIMIO SANATORIUM: http://www.paimio.fi/en/services/tourismARTEK: http://www.artek.fi/index.htmlVILLA MAIREA: https://www.villamairea.fi/en@DecArtsPodcast
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October 5, 2017 23 mins
This week Sydney Friedman and I talked about Stig Lindberg (1916-1982) and the Bersa pattern. This is part one of a two part series that focuses on Scandinavian design. Check out the pictures for this episode at the @DecArtsPodcast twitter feed.National Museum page for Gustavsberghttp://www.nationalmuseum.se/sv/English-startpage/Visit-the-museum/NM-runt-om-i-Sverige/Gustavsbergs-porslinsfabrik/Gloria Cecelia Ray Karlmark, Little Ro...
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This week Kara Nichols talks about the exhibition Fringe Elements at Kent State University Museum which runs from July 2017 to July 2018. Follow the DecArts podcast on Twitter @DecArtspodcastEXHIBIT: https://www.kent.edu/museum/event/fringe-elementsMUSEUM COLLECTION: https://www.kent.edu/museum/online-collectionCALUSARI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tb3WxG3zCkMCALUSARI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VM7lTvNWH8o&list=FLry7Z...
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September 7, 2017 22 mins
This week Sylvia Ferguson talks about American, Industrial Designer, Henry Dreyfuss and consumerism in post-war America. Sidenotes: Gayle Davidson was Sylvia’s professor and the name on the sale of the lavatory drawing. Crane Co. sold to American Standard in 1990. Lavatory definition: a room or compartment with a toilet and washbasin. OBJECT OF THE DAY: https://www.cooperhewitt.org/2017/03/07/sink-or-be-sunk/
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August 31, 2017 26 mins
This week Annaleigh is on the podcast to talk about her time out at Taliesin this summer and the most current exhibit on at MoMa, Frank Lloyd Wright at 150: Unpacking the Archive https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/1660?locale=enTALIESIN: http://www.taliesinpreservation.orgFALLINGWATER: https://www.fallingwater.orgPODCASTS COVERING OTHER FLW TOPICS: http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/usonia-1/http://99percentinvisible.org/...
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This week Hannah Winiker is on the podcast talking about how she preserved the stories of southern families through their collections of antiques such as paintings, furniture, silver, textiles, and portrait miniatuers. QUESTIONS ANSWERED: Rosalie became a museum home in 1938. The antebellum social season may have been after Christmas into mid-summer, but this is not 100% confirmed.HISTORIC NEW ORLEANS COLLECTION: https://www.hnoc.o...
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This week I sat down with Trang Tran to talk about Archizoom and Radical Italian Designers in the 1960’s. EXHIBIT: http://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2017/ettore-sottsass1968 BOOK: https://www.amazon.com/1968-Photographs-Maurizio-Cattelan-Pieropaolo/dp/6185039044JERRY SALTZ ART REVIEW: http://nymag.com/arts/art/reviews/65115/DAKIS JOANNOU: http://www.interviewmagazine.com/art/dakis-joannou/BEATRICE COLOMINA/ELMHURST MUSE...
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August 3, 2017 23 mins
This week I had a conversation about advertising and packaging in the dairy world with Rachel Hannicut. Please excuse the technical difficulties, it was a rough Thursday for electronics.
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Brooklyn Gallagher (@brooklynngallagher) and I sat down for a new extension of the DecArts podcast, which is the tipsy Thursday episode (created while in Paris). Basically Brooklyn and I did a version of Drunk History. I asked Brooklyn to help me review the Christian Dior exhibition in Paris due to her knowledgeable sense of fashion, curation, and marketing. CHRISTIAN DIOR EXHIBIT: http://www.lesartsdecoratifs.fr/en/exhibitions/cur...
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This week I am broadcasting from Paris and was able to sit down with Adèle Bourbonne to talk about a couple of her classes on French 18th century interior luxury trends.MOBILIER NATIONAL: http://www.mobiliernational.culture.gouv.frFURNITURE PIECES: http://metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/206971?sortBy=Relevance&when=A.D.+1600-http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/gilt/hd_gilt.htm
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