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« Krugtastic Fabulosity Starts Here • Main • New York Stories: Gastronomes, Bugey-Cerdon and Bliss at Buvette »
filed under: Ramblings, Regional Spotlight
My April visit to New York was superb for many reasons, some of them gustatory and wine-inclined (more later, there), others more extracurricular. Among the best of the extra's was the exhibition Color Moves: Art and Fashion by Sonia Delaunay at the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt design museum way uptown. The museum itself is a feast for the eyes: a stunning, four-story park-adjacent mansion famously built by Andrew Carnegie, it's worth a visit to see the interiors alone. But the Delaunay exhibit was captivating, in part because it was so visually amazing but also because her story was so nuanced (it helped, too, that there was a diamond exhibit downstairs ;)). In a way, it was the perfect sensorial feast (appetizer?) to prime my senses for a trip to new West Village "gastroteque" Buvette - equally enchanting - the same weekend.
Entrepreneur, Artist, Fashion Designer, Provacateur, Textiles Designer, Wife
Sonia Delaunay's story moved me for numerous reasons, best of which include her tenacity, dedication to her craft, longevity, successful application of her vision across multiple mediums, and - easily best of all - a sort of electric verve that courses through everything she touched. With a style called Orphism that emphasized movement and incorporated cubist cues, Delaunay's best-known work in abstract painting is as exciting as her work in fashion, interior design, costumes and textiles. Surely, 1920s Paris was a better place for having this dynamic woman in its midst, who sweetly said of her husband and lifelong collaborator: "In Robert Delaunay I found a poet. A poet who wrote not with words but with colours." (If you're interested in more, do an image search for Orphism and prepare to be delighted.)
Up next: Buvette (sooo delicious)
Posted by Courtney on July 8, 2011 10:49 PM
