A #DanFlavin light wall piece, a sculpture by #JohnChamberlain and a photo of #MarinaAbramovich during a performance… an interior project by Thad Hayes for the Tribeca duplex of an art collector. In photo 3 the penthouse stair landing. Abramovich photograph of her performance where she is facing her own mortality. Photography by @scottfrancesphoto . @thadhayesinc@barliswedlick@denniswedlick
Dedicated to all my photographer friends… the home/studio of one of my favorite photographers, and one of the greatest photographers in history. Ansel and Virginia Adams home in California (Big Sur coast) photographed by Mary E. Nichols in 1983. The house glows, not because of the spectacular panorama (surrounded by Monterey pines views) but because of the balance between interior and exterior, created by the soft-toned gallery walls filled with Adams’s majestic black and white photographs, the warm floors dotted with rare Navajo blankets, and the great stone fireplace surrounded by American Indian baskets and flanked by a portion of Virginia Adams’s book collection. #AnselAdams never made photographs from, or of, the house. Perhaps it was a place too personal, too private. 1-4) The Gallery beyond the living room provides a changing display of Ansel Adams’s original photographs. His 1981 portrait of #GeorgiaOKeeffe rests on the table, alongside a #JuanHamilton ceramic sculpture. One of Ansel Adams’s enduring images of Yosemite, made in 1927, adorns a Gallery wall. The 1980 bronze bust of him is by Betty Brissell. 5-6) in the Entrance Hall a 1854 salt print from a paper negative by J. B. Green entitled Colossus at Memnon, left, a Piranesi’s etching, The Basilica of Constantine. The late-18th-century mahogany grandfather’s clock is a family heirloom. Focal point of the Living Room is a Confucian temple drum from China, above the rustic stone fireplace. American Indian baskets line the mantelpiece shelf, and an ammonite rests on the table in the foreground. 9) The house has not changed, only mellowed, since that day in 1965, but the once white walls are now gray, a 20 percent color-saturated gray, the very critical tonal intensity the photographer felt preserved the integrity of the values in his photographs. Adams frequently brought the students of the Ansel Adams Workshops to his home to study and talk in this carefully perfected environment. Adams died in 1984, a year after this photoshoot.
Palazzo Molin del Cuoridoro, a 15th-century Gothic jewel in Venice’ San Marco district restored to showcase a rotating collection of modern and contemporary art. Art patron and AMA Venezia founder, Laurent Asscher, highlights large-scale canvases within an ancient piano nobile apartment. Asscher, an entrepreneur and a visionary art collector, first visited Venice as a teenager, when one of his high school buddies invited him home for the holidays. Discovering the magical ancient city through the eyes of a native Venetian captured Asscher’s imagination and heart. Begun with the acquisition of a Jean-Michel Basquiat in 2012, his trove has grown to more than 200 paintings and sculptures, including works by Brice Marden, Cy Twombly, Jenny Saville, and Christopher Wool, many of them expansive in scale. “Buying an apartment in Venice is buying a part of history; it’s like buying a piece of art,” he explains. “I had four criteria,” Asscher recalls. “It had to be on the water. It had to have big walls and high ceilings. There had to be a way to bring huge paintings inside. And I didn’t want any frescoes, as you are not allowed to remove them.” Asscher found the apartment that met his specifications inside a 15th-century Gothic building. A thorough refurbishment was carried out by the Venetian architect Alberto Torsello, who also worked on Asscher’s second Venice project, a space for contemporary art inside a 15th-century industrial building in Cannaregio, AMA Venezia @amavenezia . 1-2) In the livingdining room, a Jean Nouvel table and #JeanProuvé chairs pair with works by (from left) #BriceMarden, #CyTwombly, and #RichardSerra (2) 3) Outside the apartment’s elegantly columned windows, a narrow balcony overlooks the garden. 4) Prouvé chairs and a Christopher Wool sculpture near the windows. 5-6) Paintings by Marden. Paulin chairs from the 1950s are grouped with a Vladimir Kagan sofa and cocktail table. 7) a living area, where Vincenzo De Cotiis sofas face a Chahan Minassian cocktail table. 8) in the bedroom, marmorino plaster, provides a subtly textured backdrop for a Rudolf Stingel painting. Photo: Depasquale + Maffini; excerpts from Galerie magazine.
The living room of an American art collector around 1965… bold colors in the manner of Pop art, flourishing in America in those years. On the right stands a #Giacometti’s Femme de Venise (probably Femme de Venise V 1956) - The painting in photo 2 could be by Georges Rouault ?
These black and brown shades, velvet and glossy surfaces… yesterday, today, forever. 1) Late 1960’s art collector apartment in Milan, designed by architect #VittorianoVigano. Artworks by #LucioFontana. 2) Fontana on display in the apartment of an anonymous art collector, designed by Francesco Ridolfi, early 1970s. 3) Milanese apartment designed by Guglielmo Giagnotti and Patrizio Gola of studiutte. Echoes of the 1980s, steel, opaline glass, nylon, and concrete are chosen, softened by warm tones, soft textiles, black lacquer, and dark wood. Photographed by @giulioghirardistudio 4) an elegant interior with shiny dark surfaces, fabrics and lights designed by Giagnotti and Gola. ‘Camera Fissa’ is a project by @studioutte and @de_troupe_ presented at the studioutte headquarters in Milan during the last Milan Design Week 2026. 5) Milanese apartment designed by #AntoniaAstori in 1971. On the right sits a Roto from 1970, a sculpture-lamp by #GiacomoBenevelli. Photo by #CarladeBenedetti for Vogue, 1971. 6) Designer and art collector Reva Ostrow’s Upper East Side apartment, designed by Ward Bennett. Ostrov’s living room with a Louise Nevelson Column sculpture from the late 1950s (left) Photo by Tom Leonard, early 1980s. @guglielmogiagnotti@patriziogola
Three art collectors, one artist: #GeorgBaselitz in the homes of Thierry Gillier, Thaddaeus Ropac and Terry de Gunzburg. 1,2) Thierry Gillier and Cecilia Bönström in their Parisian home. Gillier, founder of Zadig & Voltaire, has been collecting since his twenties. The apartment unfolds as a sequence of rooms where art and furniture feel in conversation rather than on display. In the living room hangs Georg Baselitz’s “Kopf in der Sonne”, 1982. 2) Thierry and Cecilia on the stairway of their Paris home; sculptures from Indonesia; artwork by Georg Baselitz. 3-7) Thaddaeus Ropac’s homes in Paris and Salzburg. Ropac, one of the major gallery owners and art dealers, has always had a strong professional and human relationship with Baselitz. 3) Ropac in the living room of his Paris apartment, with (from left) Georg Baselitz’s Ralf and B.J.M.C.- Bonjour Monsieur Courbet. 4-7) In Salzburg, Ropac owns an astonishing contemporary art collection in a 17th-Century Austrian Manor. 4) in the living room, one of Georg Baselitz’s seminal “Dresdner Frauen” pieces (1990), sculptured using a chain saw. 5) a “conversation” between Warhol/Basquiat and Baselitz. “Apples and Lemons,” 1985, a collaboration between Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat, on the right Baselitz; On the table sits a Dieter Roth sculpture. 7) Villa Kast, a 19th century townhouse in the Mirabell Garden in Salzburg historic centre, one of Ropac galleries in the Austrian city. A massive sculpture of Baselitz sit in front of the building. 8-15) Terry de Gunzburg’s homes in New York, Paris and South of France. Recently a large number of important works of art from de Gunzburg’s collection were auctioned but not a Baselitz sculpture! The Baselitz yellow head photographed in the NY living room (photo 8) was not included in the sale. 9-10) in Paris: in the living room, four ink drawings and a large canvas by Baselitz. 12-15) Ropac visits Terry de Gunzburg’s summer home in the south of France in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, where Baselitz’s sculpture Zero Dom was installed in 2023. Photography courtesy of @terrydegunzburg 16) Baselitz working in his studio at Schloss Derneburg, 1995. Photo: Martin Müller.
Remembering the immense Georg Baselitz with a beautiful exhibition from five years ago in Venice... #GeorgBaselitz at Palazzo Grimani, May 2021. Titled “Archinto” the exhibition presented new paintings and sculptures by Georg Baselitz. Installed on the piano nobile, the exhibition included twelve paintings made expressly for the Sala del Portego, with eighteenth-century stucco-framed panels where portraits of the Grimani family had been on display until the end of the nineteenth century. In this show, Baselitz payed homage to Venice and its rich artistic tradition, establishing art historical continuity while also signaling a rupture between the Renaissance portrait tradition and its contemporary equivalents. Exhibition curated by Mario Codognato and organized by Venetian Heritage; in association with Gagosian @gagosian Photography (1-3) by Jean-François Jaussaud @jeanfrancoisjaussaud . Photo 9 via @thaddaeusropac
A series of photographs from the homes of renowned furniture designer and photographer #WillyRizzo. The first series is by Carla de Benedetti from the 1970s. Rizzo’s Roman apartment, features pure, geometric lines, almost monochromatic, a limited colours palette, made of black and dark blue, purely 1970s. The more recent series, from the 2000s in his Parisian apartment, features an eclectic style, vibrant colors, and shapes. I enjoyed this temporal stylistic juxtaposition. 1-6) in Rome, 1970s and the famous Rizzo’s Uno Piede dining round table. 7-13) in Paris, 2000s, furniture and object by Rizzo like the iconics Love Lamps (photo 11) around the apartment photos of celebrities taken by Rizzo during the years: Elsa Martinelli, Federico Fellini, Catherine Deneuve, Françoise Sagan, Jack Nicholson, Monica Vitti, Marilyn Monroe, #SalvadorDali, #Picasso, Coco Chanel, Le Corbusier, #HubertdeGivenchy, #YvesSaintLaurent and Pierre Cardin. Photography courtesy Studio Willy Rizzo 1-6) @northfront.interiors@northfrontgallery
From the last #MilanDesignWeek a bronze sculpture from 2009 by Giacomo Benevelli, exhibited at the Minotti Pavilion @minotti_spa . This bronze belongs to the Fluidi series. Styling: @martinalucatelli Photography: @tizianoalderighi Giacomo Benevelli Archive @sebeau___@renatabianconi_facilities4art #GiacomoBenevelli #Minotti #SalonedelMobile2026
An incredible collection, pure joy for the eye and the soul, especially for those who love modern and abstract art. In a triumph of postwar American Abstract Expressionism we also find a #Picasso and a nude by #Matisse... like all the collectors I love most, the element of surprise is the most captivating. We are in 1983, in the New York apartment of the art collector couple Joann and Gifford Phillips. “We started collecting the year we were married,” recalls Joann Phillips. “Gifford’s uncle was the famous collector Duncan Phillips, and for many years Gifford spent each summer with him. In a way, that experience gave Gifford permission to collect. In the early 1950s Millard Sheets organized an exhibition of American art from Gilbert Stuart to #RobertMotherwell to Beziotes for the Los Angeles County Fair. We bought the Motherwell and the Baziotes, and they remain among our favorite works.” “We were just as interested in the idea of what the painters were doing as in the paintings themselves.” We met Motherwell quite early and he introduced us to #MarkRothko. At the same time, Felix Landau had an important exhibition of Milton Avery’s paintings. We bought one wonderful moonscape, but should have bought more.” - “We were most excited,” Gifford remembers, “by the first generation Abstract Expressionist painters, though we went on to acquire paintings by artists such as Kenneth Noland, Morris Louis and others. At first our choices were made unconsciously, but during the last ten years we have consciously selected things that are stylistically and visually related. It’s the organic approach, periods altogether, and sometimes people imply that you missed out. They don’t stop to think that perhaps you’re simply not at all interested.” 1) in the living room: left, Arshile Gorky, right, Mark Rothko. A stool by Gaudi and a Mies van der Rohe chair. 2) Ad Reinhardt and #WillemdeKooning (r) the sculpture is by David Smith. 3-4) Robert Motherwell, John Walker and Rothko (right) 5-6) Noland and Morris Louis. 8) Picasso 9-11 Franz Kline, Ibram Lassau, Ron Gorchov 12-13) Adolph Gottlieb 14-15) Motherwell and Sam Francis 17) Standing nude by Matisse, 1901. AD, 1983
From the last #MilanDesignWeek, a bronze sculpture by #GiacomoBenevelli dated 1960 at the Minotti Pavilion @minotti_spa . MO 8 (Organic Matrix or Rapporti Plastici come Traslato Puro) - a sculpture from Benevelli’s Californian period and his American debut at the Felix Landau Gallery in Los Angeles (1963) A similar sculpture from the same series was bought by Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in those years. Giacomo Benevelli Archive, @sebeau___@renatabianconi_facilities4art Styling: @martinalucatelli Photography: @tizianoalderighi
