8 furniture and decor pieces that channel your favorite artists
Have a more artful home While art and design are usually kept in separate categories, inspired furniture makers and craftspeople of all kinds have been mining art history for ideas for ages.
Recently, designers? efforts to marry the worlds of fine arts and design have resulted in new furniture and accessories that both pay homage to a few beloved art-world icons, and wonderfully blur the distinction between these two disciplines.
Below, eight picks of the best of the best in furniture and home accessories, inspired by the work of artists like Piet Mondrian, René Magritte, and more.
Sonia Delaunay
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Sonia Delaunay?s ?Prismes électriques? (1914).
Courtesy Maison Dada
The Sonia et Cætera table by Shanghai-based Maison Dada.
Twentieth-century painter and all-around badass Sonia Delaunay took an affinity for quilt-making and, with husband Robert Delaunay, created Orphism, a colorful movement that was a little bit Cubism, a little bit rock and roll.
Shanghai-based designers Maison Dada took her vibrant spirit and applied it to Sonia et Cætera, an homage in the form of a color-blocked dining table.
Sol Lewitt
Photo by Andrew Russeth
Sol LeWitt, Three x Four x Three (1984).
Rich Brilliant Willing
The Witt fixture by Rich Brilliant Willing, designed in collaboration with Rockwell Group.
?Sol Lewitt is the ultimate geometric artist,? according ...
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