Wendy Moonan

Jan 10, 2025 | 1stdibs.com | Wendy Moonan

Humans have been attracted to glass objects since ancient times, for their practical uses but also for their magical qualities, the way they catch the sunlight, moonlight and candlelight. Two concurrent museum exhibitions focus on the historical relationship between glass and global culture. The first is “Sensorium: Stories of Glass and Fragrance,” at the Corning Museum of Glass, in Upstate New York, through February 23.

Oct 11, 2024 | themagazineantiques.com | Wendy Moonan

David Netto was probably destined to write Rosario Candela and the New York Apartment: 1927–1937 (Rizzoli, $85). The interior designer and historian has been studying the Manhattan architect’s work for decades, sparked by a childhood spent on the Upper East Side, surrounded by Candela structures.

May 3, 2024 | 1stdibs.com | Wendy Moonan

I thought I knew all about Pablo Picasso. I consider my favorite Picassos in New York City museums like the Met, the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim to be old friends whom I visit often. I’ve read John Richardson’s four-volume biography of Picasso, Françoise Gilot’s terrific My Life with Picasso and Hugh Eakin’s Picasso’s War. I knew he was a genius who dominated the art of the 20th century and a monster who ruined the lives of the women who loved him. What did I really know?

Jan 12, 2024 | 1stdibs.com | Wendy Moonan

“Imagine if Jackson Pollock had been a florist,” began one of Lindsey Taylor’s Wall Street Journal essays. The phrase aptly captures her skill in loosely adapting a work of art, even an abstract painting, into a floral arrangement, which she did once a month for 10 years in her column for the paper, called “Flower School.”Taylor’s new book, Art in Flower: Finding Inspiration in Art and Nature (Monicelli), is based on the same concept.

Nov 10, 2023 | startribune.com | Wendy Moonan

Six years ago, Sonya Schneider and her husband, Stuart Nagae, bought a federally designated historical landmark in Seattle, a 5,000-square-foot, two-story home sheathed in dark, old-growth Western cedar shingles, with multiple gables, dormer windows and a cedar-shake roof. It sat on an unusually large 3/4-acre lot with mature maples, Douglas fir and a hemlock tree, in Ballard, an old Seattle neighborhood on Puget Sound.