<span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">ITEM</span></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> is a project where an object is singled out, obsessively researched, </span> <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br />sourced and then held in an exhibition and sold to celebrate it.</span></span><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">The first ITEM is the </span></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">CANDLE</span></span> <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">and the first celebration is </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1323023091_3">Dec. 6</span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">, 6-8,<br /></span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">at </span><a href="http://r20thcentury.com/"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">R 20th Century Gallery</span></span></a><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"> at 82 </span><span style="font-style: italic;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1323023091_4"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">Franklin.<br /><br /></span><br /></span></span><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7018/6454154787_e09b22bc88_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7018/6454154787_e09b22bc88_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 680px; height: 533px;" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-style: italic;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1323023091_4"><br /><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-style: italic;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1323023091_4">"Hand made traditional <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 0, 0);">Byzantine candles</span> made in Florina, Greece"</span></span><br /></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-style: italic;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1323023091_4"><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">ITEM </span></span>will present a collection of candles sourced from around the world.<br /><br />These unique specimens include: (1) <span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Byzantine candles </span></span>from Greece made by one of the last artisans of this style (2) Hand dipped 3 branched<span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 51);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Swedish grenljus candles</span></span> associated with Christmas (3) <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Jewish Havdallah candles</span></span> lit at the end of the Sabbath (4) <span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Japanese handmade sumac candles </span></span>and many others.<br /><br />The candles will be on display in a unified installation, at once amplifying the differences in shape and style while also suggesting a universal essence of candle-ness. ITEM is a project started in 2011 by Leah Singer and Julia Trotta. The mission is to single out and to obsess over singular objects, presenting them in an installation setting.<br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1323023091_4"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1323023091_4"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">ITEM has no fixed address. </span><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">More of ITEM at their</span> <a href="http://itemitem.tumblr.com/" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">tumbler.</a></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-style: italic;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1323023091_4"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">-------------------</span><br /></span></span></span><span style="font-style: italic;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1323023091_4"></span></span></div>

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<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">"What you <span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">SEE</span> is what you <span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 0);">SEE</span>"</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;">the interior designer</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">vs </span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">the artist</span><br /><br /><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7169/6445524137_43fe326efa_b.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7169/6445524137_43fe326efa_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 682px; height: 827px;" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /><br />“I wanted work that didn’t involve incredible assumptions about everything…I didn’t want work that was general or universal in the usual sense. <span style="font-weight: bold;">I didn’t want it to claim too much</span>…</span>”<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">—Donald Judd</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">"All I want anyone to get out of my painting, and all I ever get out of them, is the fact</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">that you can see the whole idea without any confusion… </span> <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">What you see is what you see</span>.”<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">—Frank Stella</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br />"I don't obsess over how it looks; <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">I care how I feel in it and I care how others feel in it.</span>" </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">- </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">Larry Vodak</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">photograph Larry Vodak's home in Chicago</span></span>, <span style="font-style: italic;">Owner of</span> <a href="http://www.scoutchicago.com/"> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Scout</span></a><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">The above image is taken from the new book, </span><a href="http://www.chicagohomemag.com/Chicago-Home/Promotion/Chicago-Spaces-Inspiring-Interiors-Coffee-Table-Book/" style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Chicago Spaces, Inspiring Interiors</span>.</span></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Lots has changed in the neighborhood that I lived in the early 1990's. Hoping to visit soon.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">"Compiled by the editors of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Chicago Home + Garden magazine</span> (a publication of Chicago magazine), Chicago Spaces is divided into two parts. The first features homes in their entirety, while the second focuses on specific rooms: dining rooms, living rooms, bedrooms, kitchens, baths, dens, foyers, and children’s rooms. Readers will learn how these spaces came together and find tips for making changes in their own homes, as well as a directory of the best furniture and accessories shops in the area."</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">----------------</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><br /><a href="http://www.chicagohomemag.com/Chicago-Home/Promotion/Chicago-Spaces-Inspiring-Interiors-Coffee-Table-Book/"></a>

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<span style="font-style: italic;">"I think in many ways I feel more aligned to the Shakers </span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">and other sects in which good, orderly behavior leads to a good life."</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">-Thad Hayes</span><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7172/6438398357_648432c624_b.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7172/6438398357_648432c624_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 702px; height: 851px;" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">As autumn folds himself into winter, I've begun to pull some books from the shelf. I'm counting on the colors fading, and beginning to notice the grey light disappearing from the sky.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">There is a clarity in design that is made to last a lifetime, to endure, and push through until the morning sun rises.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Thad Hayes: The Tailored Interior</span></span>, 2009<br /><br />"Since establishing his office in New York in 1985, Thad Hayes has become one of the most sought-after young interior designers. As the twenty-two residences here show, he is noted for light-filled interiors characterized by <span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">calm colors, quietude, and elegance</span></span>.<br /><br />His interiors embrace the period and the modern, significant objects and simple ones, furniture he finds and pieces he designs. Hayes’s rooms resound in meditative understatement but are not afraid of being daring. From a penthouse on Central Park, a Deco duplex on Park Avenue, or a pied-à-terre at the Pierre Hotel to a Palm Beach retreat and Hamptons hideaway, his designs are remarkable for their symbiotic sensitivity to the client and his own subtle, extraordinarily beautiful aesthetic."<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">-----------------</span>

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