{"id":342772,"date":"2024-11-19T05:53:21","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T10:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sothebysrealty.com\/blog-api\/?p=342772"},"modified":"2024-11-19T05:53:21","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T10:53:21","slug":"what-makes-a-great-home-for-an-art-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sothebysrealty.com\/extraordinary-living-blog\/what-makes-a-great-home-for-an-art-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"What Makes a Great Home for an Art Collection?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Interiors needn\u2019t be a white box for displaying paintings or sculptures, writes Elizabeth Fazzare. Instead, designing your room around an artwork brings a more personal and purposeful look<\/span><\/h2>\n

\"\"<\/a>Sea Island, Georgia<\/a> | <\/span>Atlanta Fine Homes Sotheby’s International Realty<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

With art fairs such as Art Basel Miami Beach taking place this December, many homeowners will be adding to, or building, their collections. Though a white box gallery may be art\u2019s stereotypical display, replicating that environment once a beloved work goes to a buyer\u2019s home isn\u2019t always possible\u2014or necessary. A modern, pared-back room can certainly center attention toward paintings, sculptures, or art installations, but so too can the juxtaposition of a historic house\u2019s rich material palette or a traditional home\u2019s delicate details. What\u2019s most important to a home with a great art collection is intentional design.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cNone of our projects really have any painted walls at all,\u201d says Edward Yedid, a partner, designer, and art advisor at architecture and design studio Grade in New York. \u201cIf they\u2019re white, they\u2019re some other material like fabric, wood, lacquered panels, or plaster.\u201d And yet, his residential clients have some of the most incredible artworks on view at home, from a 70-foot-tall Sheila Hicks sculpture installed at the center of a historic New York City townhouse stairwell to a Pierre Soulages painting that also inspired the metal patterned front door of a contemporary home in Aspen, Colorado. Instead of setting blank-slate backdrops, Yedid and fellow Grade partner Thomas Hickey utilize interior architecture to the art collection\u2019s advantage, matching pieces to existing features or purpose-building paneling, niches, or other structural environments to display them.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Toronto, Canada<\/a> | <\/span>Sotheby’s International Realty Canada<\/span><\/a>
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\u201cYou want the art to be the feature and then the space around it to support,\u201d says Hickey, an architect. For sculpture, \u201cyou might want to have more of an apsidal [semicircular recessed] space where you can walk around it,\u201d he suggests. For paintings, flat walls are a must. Plinths can help sustain heavy pieces that need a platform to bring them up to eye level. A custom \u00e9tag\u00e8re shelving unit can showcase several smaller works while still allowing each one the square footage to shine. \u201cWe don\u2019t overcrowd the art by placing a lot of things around; we want to make sure it\u2019s got its space to breathe and be seen,\u201d he adds.<\/span>
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Lighting is also an important factor. On a six-acre estate currently <\/span>on the market on Long Island\u2019s North Shore<\/span><\/a>, original architect Norman Jaffe created a postmodern glass-and-stone home in 1974 that blurs the lines between interior and exterior. With large, covered hallways surrounding a central skylit courtyard, it\u2019s also filled with natural, non-direct sunlight, an ideal environment for protecting and viewing art. The home became the perfect gallery space for the impressive contemporary collection of sellers Jay and Jill Bernstein, who also installed museum-quality lighting to help exhibit their works by Chris Burden, Dan Flavin, Sol LeWitt, Yayoi Kusama, and more.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Old Westbury, New York<\/a> | <\/span>Daniel Gale Sotheby’s International Realty<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Yedid and Hickey maintain that any architectural style can be suited to art. In fact, \u201cone could argue that having a traditional background brings out the contemporary art a little bit more because it\u2019s such a juxtaposition between the two different perspectives,\u201d says Hickey. In a minimalist home, <\/span>like this pavilion-esque one in Madrid by architect Ignacio Vicens<\/span><\/a>, a sparse interior offers expansive walls for large paintings by Alex Katz, Peter Sedgley, and others. The property includes a second building that the seller uses purposefully as an art display room.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Even if the latter isn\u2019t possible, strategic placement of works is imperative within an interior so design cohesion can be created via complementary or differentiated relationships with the artwork\u2019s material, color, or theme. \u201cA lot of times the art will also influence the color of the rooms, the spacing within the rooms, or vice versa,\u201d says Yedid. The right material palette can be created to complement a collection\u2014including across furnishings, wallcoverings, and accessories.<\/span><\/p>\n

With all in harmony, the art adds a \u201cdifferent soul to a house,\u201d says Hickey. Yedid concurs. \u201cArt is one of the biggest aspects of the project at the end of the day because it brings in a dimension that you can\u2019t get from the design itself,\u201d he says. \u201cThere\u2019s a connection to the story behind it; there\u2019s the relationship with the client and how it was found; there\u2019s the history of the work. It\u2019s very meaningful.\u201d<\/span>
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Looking to expand your art collection? Read our <\/span><\/i>Collecting Focus on Modern and Contemporary Prints<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n

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Interiors needn\u2019t be a white box for displaying paintings or sculptures, writes Elizabeth Fazzare. Instead, designing your room around an artwork brings a more personal and purposeful look Sea Island, Georgia | Atlanta Fine Homes Sotheby’s International Realty With art fairs such as Art Basel Miami Beach taking place this December, many homeowners will be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64295786,"featured_media":343015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1393,1399],"tags":[1424,1443,1472],"class_list":["post-342772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-and-culture","category-home-and-design","tag-canada","tag-georgia","tag-new-york"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pf4gbL-1raA","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":411,"url":"https:\/\/www.sothebysrealty.com\/extraordinary-living-blog\/sothebys-international-realty-expands-in-tennessee\/","url_meta":{"origin":342772,"position":0},"title":"Sotheby’s International Realty Expands in Tennessee","author":"Procurement Admin","date":"February 15, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Sotheby's International Realty has announced that Realty Center of\u00a0Chattanooga\u00a0in\u00a0Tennessee\u00a0has joined the network and its two offices will now operate as Horizon Sotheby's International Realty. 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