Incollect Magazine Issue 7

Incollect Magazine 39 HIGH IN THE SKY The vivid color story continues in the dining room with a 2007 large-scale pixelated self-portrait by the late, legendary American artist Chuck Close. Credited with revitalizing portraiture with his innovative technique, transposing photographs to a grid and rendering each abstract mosaic-like segment individually with the final piece coalescing into the subject’s likeness. A work from Zhuang Hong Yi’s “Flower Bed” series changes color depending on the angle of the viewer. Hundreds of folded and painted rice paper buds are arranged in a landscape, evoking the spectacular fields of flowers in his former adopted home in the Netherlands. Augusto Savini “Pamplona” dining chairs for Pozzi, Italy circa 1965, surround a monolithic custom marble dining table designed by Sara. Assembled on site due to its massive size and weight, the metal joints relate to the similar detail on the chairs. And floating above this dramatic entertaining space up in the clouds, a contemporary “Cumulus” chandelier by Ted Abramczyk. Photo by Thomas Loof