Incollect Magazine Issue 7

36 www.incollect.com HIGH IN THE SKY Astounding 360-degree vistas of the New York City skyline with the spires of the Empire State Building, the Met Life Tower, the Chrysler Building, and drifting clouds serve as a backdrop to edgy contemporary artwork. Sara’s custom furnishings and selections of collectible design and vintage pieces in the brightly saturated hues favored by her client — hot pink, Yves Klein Blue and lemon yellow — draws focus back to the room to energize the atmosphere inside the space. Round and curvy forms balance the vertical window frames and planes of the tables, with a creamy white envelope to reflect the shifting light. Sara’s custom-designed curved sofa is positioned on a cloud-like rug, arching around an iconic work of collectible design. Conceived in 1961 by Yves Klein, the IKB coffee table is filled with 44 pounds of radiant International Klein Blue pigment powder. A mirror-polished stainless steel “Heel Chair” by Reginald Sylvester II plays with the idea of a chair as sculpture, or in this case, seating for the very limber. The hot pink P32 lounge chairs are a 1956 design by Italian architect/designer Osvaldo Borsani. When the view is this dramatic, the art has to be striking. Crystalline surfaces of a Patagonian glacier glow in Berlin-based photographer Frank Thiel’s magnificent landscape image behind the sofa. Korean artist Chun Kwang Young’s hypnotic wall sculpture of intricately folded, pigment- tinted antique mulberry paper speaks a similar visual language as an ethereal folded paper light sculpture by Paul Cocksedge. On the cocktail table, a tiny spark of joy — a brilliant yellow pumpkin replicates Yayoi Kusama’s most well- known motif. Photo by Thomas Loof