Fine silverware is on display in "Feeding Desire: Design and the Tools of the Table, 1500-2005," an unexpectedly alluring exhibition through Oct. 29 at the Cooper-Hewitt National DEastn Museum, on East 91st Street and Fifth Avenue.
Housed in an installation designed by AvroKO, "Feeding Desire" includes a table that is set for an elaborate dinner party of the Gilded Age, but it also lays out a contemporary view of tableware, with pieces by designers like Gio Ponti and Ted Muehling.
The behavioural assays began by providing a piece of FT pellet to the fish to trigger its feeding desire, followed with a TS pellet, and then another piece of FT pellet.
"It feeds desire, and it directs desire, and it leads us forward, as well," Haynes said of the art that bonds society.
So far, that has not fed a desire to sit down and talk.
Mr. Baker sympathized with my yearning ("We've improved the paint since you bought yours, you know," he said, which only fed my desire. "Better corrosion resistance").
Tiffany fed that desire for excess, first as a decorator and later as the designer and maker of fabulously exotic, extravagantly decorative glass windows and lamps.
That's a measure, I think, of the way metrics, control, spin and a kind of narrowing have fed a desire in people for the unscripted.
At the Louvre, she photographed paintings by Delacroix, Corot, Zurbarán, and Bronzino, which fed that desire, then paired them with pictures of her friends and lovers, creating startling juxtapositions.
To create the video, Aletti writes, Goldin "photographed paintings by Delacroix, Corot, Zurbarán, and Bronzino, which fed that desire, then paired them with pictures of her friends and lovers, creating startling juxtapositions".
