True Swedish design has "a serenity, calm and feel-good quality that literally permeates the atmosphere," says Rhonda Eleish and Edie Van Breems of Connecticut-based design firm and gallery Eleish Van Breems and authors of Reflections on Swedish Interiors.
Talk centered around how Hall & Knight, the firm with galleries in New York and London, was being sold to Christie's.
While unpaid postcollege internships have long existed in the film and nonprofit worlds, they have recently spread to fashion houses, book and magazine publishers, marketing companies, public relations firms, art galleries, talent agencies -- even to some law firms.
Steven Greenhouse, the doyen of labor reporters in the U.S., wrote last year on the U.S. experience: "While unpaid postcollege internships have long existed in the film and nonprofit worlds, they have recently spread to fashion houses, book and magazine publishers, marketing companies, public relations firms, art galleries, talent agencies — even to some law firms".
In 1873, when he was twenty, he moved to the firm's London gallery, where he worked on and off for three years, drawing sometimes and writing letters to his beloved brother, Theo.
"We need to know what it costs us!" A few days later, sitting at a transparent acrylic table in the firm's Clerkenwell gallery, surrounded by plinths displaying experimental furniture and daring cutlery, the 55-year-old German architect seems a little more sheepish than he did while booming on stage.
The building, designed by Walters & Cohen, a London-based architecture firm, has four galleries that will house rotating exhibitions of artworks from Dr. Sherwood's collection (like "Poppy Seed Head," 1999, above), many of which have never before been displayed, along with pieces from the gardens' own collection of botanical art.
Mr. Hammond, 53, previously started a human resources consulting firm and an art gallery, and was a cartoonist.
Frieze Special Project: Lili Reynaud-Dewar The Brazilian artist Rivane Neuenschwander once got a security firm to bug a gallery then tore up the walls and floors until she'd discovered the secret surveillance devices.
Even so, can he see how fundamental the move seemed – not only to the staff, who quite naturally feared being employed by a large security firm rather than the gallery, and to visitors, who regard the institution as a precious public space?
