"You have highly reflective, polished objects," he said.
Barbara Hepworth's "Serene Head (Thea)," an abstract polished bronze object cast in an edition of seven, opened the session and made £386,500, more than five times the high estimate.
And now the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington is showing "Zero to Infinity: Arte Povera, 1962-72," an exhibition of the group of Italian artists who shunned the polished art object and embraced ordinary materials.
One day before Christmas, a box arrives on their doorstep, a polished wooden object with a locked glass dome covering a button -- like a panic button -- of some sort.
David Leveaux is the highly accomplished director, while the delectable Jennifer Ehle, a standout in an exceptionally polished cast, plays the object of Mr. Dillane's affections (2 15).
He first emerged in the early '60s with the mirror paintings: quasi-photographic life-size images of people and objects on polished stainless steel.
They're stolid, silent objects, more polished than edible, registering in our minds somewhere between the tart lemon meringues and the strawberry rhubarbs we dreamed about eating and those dried-out cakes and cloying pies we actually ate.
Such accessories "make the room look warm and accessible," said Mitchell Gold, whose company, Mitchell Gold & Bob Williams, known for its understated upholstered furniture, introduced mirrored glass vases, crystal spheres and sculptural objects in polished nickel.
Firstly, a spherical object with a polished surface is easily accessible and so the cost is reasonably low as compared to other SVP mirror profiles because they are mostly custom made using computer numerical control (CNC) machine.
David Leveaux is the highly accomplished director, while the delectable Jennifer Ehle, a standout in an exceptionally polished cast, plays the self-possessed object of Mr. Dillane's affections (2 15).
