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Visit Robin’s blog to learn more about interior design, or contact us for more information about the work of Sonia Delaunay and other modern tapestries.

After moving to Sache, France near Aubusson in the early 70′s, Alexander Calder took a strong interest in tapestry leading him to partner directly with Aubusson weavers, particularly Atelier Pinton Frêres, and produce a series of spectacular tapestries. Calder’s deliberately restrictive color palette and his bold, simplified forms were perfectly suited to tapestry revived by Jean Lurçat flourishing in France mid-century.

Contact us for more information about the work of Alexander Calder and other modern tapestries.

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A rare antique Mughal Animal Carpet.

Sonia Delaunay is widely recognized as one of the greatest translators of a modernist consideration of color and form to the material and texture of tapestry.  Her language of animated, curving compositions of pure color does not pass through Cubism, as most of her contemporaries did, but rather dashes directly toward complete abstraction.  Reflecting her stature in the world of art mid-century, Sonia Delaunay was the first living female artist to have a retrospective exhibition of her work at the Louvre in 1964.

Please join us at the Armory where we will have a selection of our finest antique and modern tapestries on display, including Alexander Calder’s, “IXE”, recently featured as a “must see” in Architectural Digest.

The Spring Show is open from April 28 – May 2, 2011 and is located at the Park Avenue Armory at Park Ave. and 67th st.

For a preview, visit us on their website, or read the spotlight on the Alexander Calder, “IXE”.

‘Gloria F. Ross and Modern Tapestry’ features the collaborative work of 28 acclaimed modernist painters and sculptors…with several dozen traditional-yet-innovative weavers in France, Scotland, and the Southwestern United States. Brief biographies of the artists, letters, notes, sketches, and photographs illustrate the practical and aesthetic challenges that occupied Gloria Ross for over three decades.

Three tapestries from the Vojtech Blau collection, “Flin Flon” by Frank Stella, “Blackout” by Jack Youngerman, and “after To Miz – Pax Vobiscum” by Hans Hofmann, are each highlighted in this thorough catalogue.  Please contact us for more information, or visit the Gloria F. Ross Tapestry Program to learn more about antique and modern tapestries.

Simona Blau, owner and daughter of founder Vojtech Blau, has chosen a dozen mostly one-of-a-kind tapestries, many from her private collection, highlighting the art’s diversity and current relevance to interior design. These will include works dating from the early 16th to the mid-20th centuries. The exhibit will feature tapestries such as a rare and magnificent millefleurs; elegant courtly and mythological scenes; a spectacular Flemish harvest scene after Teniers; as well as a pivotal work by Jean Lurcat and bold and colorful works by renowned artists Sonia Delaunay and Alexander Calder. Living Tapestry: Woven Treasures through the Centuries is free and open to the public from Monday through Thursday 10 am to 5pm.

For more information, please visit www.nysid.edu.

“Living Tapestry focuses on the art and technique of woven wall hangings from the early 16th century through the mid-twentieth-century renaissance fueled by innovators like Sonia Delaunay, whose Diagonale is shown above.”

For more information, please visit New York Space Magazine online.