By appointment, you can choose pieces before they are restored for you.
The men said they choose pieces based on gut instinct and do not think about provenance.
The younger Mr. Franquinha said he tended to choose pieces that gave a nod to hardware in some way.
"We choose pieces that match the taste of the Lyons and the world they live in — sometimes it's over the top, but most times it's classy and my definition of ghetto fabulous," Daniels told me.
It has finished in my head, but if I have an important debut - with the Vienna Philharmonic or the Berlin Philharmonic, or in New York or London - I will choose pieces in which I am 100% secure.
"We choose pieces that match the taste of the Lyons and the world they live in sometimes it's over the top, but most times it's classy and my definition of ghetto fabulous," Daniels told me.
The room, the Levin Study Gallery, is given over to professors — from art history but also from African-American studies, South Asian studies, gender and sexuality studies, among others — who choose pieces from Yale's vast collection to serve as teaching tools.
They choose pieces that you might not be too happy with and crop some of them and so forth.
At most, I'm only going to pick and choose pieces of the program that work for me.
"I choose pieces based on quality, brand, style and that special feeling I get when I find the right piece," she says.
Curatorial duo Randy Chan, Principal Architect at Zarch Collaboratives, and Khairuddin Hori, Deputy Director of Artistic Programming at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, worked together to choose pieces that fit the theme of "In Praise of Shadows".
