The sunny patio is adorned with industrial art including massive, rusty metal sculptures of gears, screws, nuts and bolts.
He spins an extraordinary tale of great industrial wealth, compulsive acquisition of art, decorated with complicated sub-plots involving serial adultery and divorce. (His failure to decide whether this is industrial history, art history or good gossip must explain the meaningless title.) Thyssen had five wives, though Mr Litchfield's account of these marriages was at the mercy of Thyssen's memory, which was impaired by alcoholism and the arrogance of wealth.
Graphic, product, and industrial design influenced by art and fashion, and vice versa, are the focus of this new design movement.
U.K. dealer Barry Cawston was selling installation art industrial sewage valves bearing backlit photos of Cuban refugee boats and the Miami skyline by Havana artist Ernesto Fernandez Zalacain.
Matano is the director of industrial design at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, and back in the late '80s, he led the design team that made a splash with the Mazda Miata.
Relative newcomer Prada, on the other hand, is going public: The company's art arm, the Fondazione Prada, has enlisted architect Rem Koolhaas to design a new contemporary art museum on an industrial site south of Milan.
Also next week, a show by the young art star Jacob Kassay opens at the Power Station, a not-for-profit Dallas art venue in a 1920s industrial space.
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Stroll through here to the artsy precinct of Hunter Street, home to the Henry Jones Art Hotel, set in historic industrial buildings that were once a jam factory.
In 1940 he became the first head of the industrial design department at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, where he organized a contemporary furniture competition that launched the careers of Eero Saarinen and Charles Eames.
Meanwhile, over the past decade or so, a concentration of cutting-edge galleries - featuring everything from SoCal's native lowbrow street and graffiti artists to Japanese pop-art imports - has reclaimed an industrial area on Culver's eastern edge, creating an arts district to rival New York's Chelsea neighbourhood.
Thanks to public money, it has an industrial zone with state-of-the-art infrastructure.
Brokers in the area say the art spaces are largely concentrated in the more industrial part of Ridgewood along the boundary with Bushwick.
New York's Museum of Modern Art acquired a similar piece the first industrial product by a clothing designer in its permanent collection.
During the 300 years between the Renaissance and the Industrial Age--years of astounding advances in science, art, literature and democratic governance--the GWP per capita grew only 20%.
In 1976, Miyamoto, then age twenty-four, was a recent art-college graduate, with a degree in industrial design and an enduring fascination with the Japanese comic strips called manga.
At first, Dnepropetrovsk seems like an odd place to create a sophisticated art project: factories, smokestacks, powerlines, industrial workers with perhaps very little interest in the arts and generally low level of quality of life.
While Tate Britain is showing his most famous industrial scenes, many of the Lowry's exhibits are art school sketches, preparatory drawings or visual aid memoires he made on scraps of paper while walking the streets of Salford and Manchester.
The Haas brothers' sprawling industrial studio in downtown Los Angeles is half science lab, half art studio.
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Christie's won't name the seller, a Japanese industrial conglomerate that bought the work at the height of the 1980s art bubble and must now, because of financial pressure, get rid of it.
He also leaves the legacy of the newly opened Department of Islamic Art, together with a branch of the Louvre in the industrial city of Lens, designed to bring culture and tourism to one of France's poorest areas.
Rather, a concurrent rebellion against industrial production meant that designers were able to envision one-offs that verged on fine art.
In addition to a successful Kickstarter campaign, the Transporter was recently named a 2013 Storage Visions Visionary Award Winner in the Art of Storage category that recognizes innovations in design for customer ease of use and industrial design in digital storage applications and devices.
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It was industry during the rise of industrial America and capital of kitsch when American culture doubled over on itself and turned pop quotation into art.
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