A thread dedicated to random oddball stuff. To start…
I enjoy art. I don’t have this kind of scratch though:
René Magritte’s ‘L’empire des lumières’ sells for record $121 million
What kind of art do you like? I have pretty eclectic taste. Our house is a classic Greek Revival, but I like to juxtapose that with kitschy, more modern pieces.
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My walls are covered in art. My taste is somewhat eclectic. I do not consider myself a collector; I buy things I like and often do not even know who the artist is.
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Everything about that is awesome.
My taste is pretty eclectic as well.
The sculpture is a Richard H. Recchia piece from 1931. Not the original, of course.
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I LOVE that!
The art in my house is pretty modern, but Mrs. Hawk picked most of it. I do have THIS hanging in my office/man room. Just a print, but I’m hoping to design more around it.
Mrs. Hawk and I are fond of glass sculptures/vases/bowls and have several we’ve acquired on our travels. We have a couple of pieces by Daniel Moe from Hawaii, and one from Luca Vidal we recently acquired in Murano. I dream of someday owning a Dale Chihuly piece.
We also have some form of a pear in every room…a handblown glass one, a charcoal sketch, a hand-hammered copper one…it’s “our thing”.
We have a few pieces I really like:
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We found this one at a thrift shop in town and it hangs in our entryway.
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This one and this one we picked up in Japan on our two trips over there. They’re in our living room.
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Finally, we recently framed some old stuff of my father-in-law’s and put them in the dining room. He was a fountain pen collector and had a few vintage magazine ads for pens and ink, but he never hung them up. In the center, my wife framed the handkerchief he used as a blotter:
Edit: note that we did manage to get a little baseball into the mix in the bottom right print.
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Excellent!!!
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I wish I had some sculptures or glass pieces, but I fear I would knock them all over. Or the dog would. But either way they would all get broken.
I also wish that when we designed our house we had added some walls for art. We have a pretty open floor plan and I have three paintings I picked up last year just sitting on the floor in the dining room because I don’t have the wall space.
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Open floor plans are great, except for two things: 1) less room to hang art, and 2) fewer places to hide your mess when you have company over.
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That’s a solid oligarch / technocrat / kleptocrat look; art piled up against the walls. Well done.
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I have a small version of THIS in the bar. And on the floor in the dining room are large pieces by Michael Gorman. We’re all over the place at my house. We have no taste, so we have no preferences.
Same here. I have a few pieces from artist friends, a few of my own works, but my favorite pieces of art in my abode are a hand-pulled, signed and numbered, lithograph by Diego Rivera, followed by offset lithograph of a Charles Russell painting.
Frederick Remington gets all the accolades as a western painter but Charles Russell was my favorite.
When I saw Seale, AL on the site you linked I thought it might be behind the ‘Drive Thru Museum’ off Highway 431 - sure enough it is
I passed by it last week and love driving through it. Here is someone’s video of driving through.
It is so hard to describe the uniqueness of the items he has there.
The wrecking balls with sayings on them were some of my favorite things -
My art stye is sort of Art Yucko. Mid century modern furniture, mostly western and folk art on the walls.
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I haven’t made it to Seale yet, but I have several pieces of his around the house. I’ve seen that video. One day I’ll make it out there.
It is literally in the middle of no where but it is close to several other pretty interesting spots. It is less than an hour from the following:
Columbus Ga (Fort Moore -formerly Benning,
Providence Canyon State Park (GA) very cool canyons up to 150 feet deep that were formed by poor farming practices in the 1800s.
Tuskegee University
Auburn University
Callaway Gardens
Little White House (FDR’s vacation home in Warm Springs Ga)
There’s a Chamber of Commerce description of a vacation destination if there ever was one:
Come for the manifestation of poor farming practices, stay for the fun!
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Visiting places where bad things have happened is an American tradition.
The handkerchief blotter is my favorite thing in this thread so far.
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