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Ralph Pucci
Ralph Pucci is an American mannequin designer, gallery owner and entrepreneur. Career The family business began with Nick and Lee Pucci in 1954 repairing mannequins in their Mount Vernon, NY basement. Ralph Pucci joined the company in 1976 at the age of 22 and began to fabricate unique mannequins, which went onto great acclaim. One of Pucci's innovations in the field of mannequin design was to collaborate with other artists and designers, such as Kenny Scharf, Ruben Toledo, Andrée Putman and Maira Kalman. He also created mannequins based on legends like Christy Turlington and Veruschka. In 2004, Pucci released a line of larger-sized female mannequins. After he collaborated with the French designer Andrée Putman, Pucci began to sell some of her furniture designs as well, and began to represent top European furniture designers. His furniture business eventually eclipsed his mannequin business in volume. Due to the waning retail world during the COVID pandemic, RALPH PUCCI Interna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruben Toledo
Ruben Toledo (born 1961, Havana, Cuba) is a Cuban-American artist based in New York City. Personal life Toledo and his wife Isabel met in high school in West New York, New Jersey. Books In 1997, Toledo authored ''Style Dictionary'', a collection of drawings and watercolors. He completed his first film, ''Fashionation'', an animated history of French fashion, based on a book of the same name. Toledo illustrated special edition book jackets for Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions of ''Jane Eyre'', ''Dracula'', ''The Scarlet Letter'', ''Wuthering Heights'', ''The Picture of Dorian Gray'' and ''Pride and Prejudice''. List of titles: * * Exhibitions Ruben Toledo's collaboration with his fashion designer wife, Isabel Toledo, was the subject of both a book and a museum exhibition titled ''Toledo/Toledo: A Marriage of Art and Fashion'' at The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology The Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) is a public college under the State University of New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrée Putman
Andrée Putman (23 December 1925 – 19 January 2013) was a French interior and product designer. Life and work Childhood and youth (1925–1944) Andrée Christine Aynard was born into a wealthy family of bankers and notables from Lyon. Her paternal grandfather, Edouard Aynard, founded the Maynard & Sons Bank; her paternal grandmother, Rose de Montgolfier, was a descendant of the hot-air balloon inventors' family. Her father was a graduate from the prestigious Ecole Normale Supérieure who spoke seven languages but swore to a life of austerity and seclusion to protest against his own milieu; her mother, Louise Saint-René Taillandier, was a concert pianist who found comfort in the frivolity of "being a great artist without a stage." Her formal artistic education first came, however, through music. Her mother took her and her sister to concerts and urged them to learn the piano. But she was later told that her hands were not suited to the piano and, as a consequence, she wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maira Kalman
Maira Kalman () is an American artist, illustrator, writer, and designer known for her painting and writing about the human condition. She is the author and illustrator of over 30 books for adults and children and her work is exhibited in museums around the world. She has been a regular contributor to ''The New York Times'' and ''The New Yorker.'' Early life Kalman was born in Tel Aviv, Israel. Her mother, Sara Berman, was originally from Belarus and had moved to Israel to escape pogroms. When Kalman was four years old, her family moved to Riverdale, Bronx in New York City. Her mother, Sara, spent a significant amount of time at the Loehmann's department store. She was known for her chic style, and she wore only the color white. Kalman attended the High School of Music & Art (now known as LaGuardia High School) where she studied art. Kalman attended New York University (NYU), where she studied English literature. By the time Kalman left for college, her parents had returned t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of the longest-running newspapers in the United States, the ''Times'' serves as one of the country's Newspaper of record, newspapers of record. , ''The New York Times'' had 9.13 million total and 8.83 million online subscribers, both by significant margins the List of newspapers in the United States, highest numbers for any newspaper in the United States; the total also included 296,330 print subscribers, making the ''Times'' the second-largest newspaper by print circulation in the United States, following ''The Wall Street Journal'', also based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' is published by the New York Times Company; since 1896, the company has been chaired by the Ochs-Sulzberger family, whose current chairman and the paper's publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Museum Of Arts And Design
The Museum of Arts and Design (MAD), based in Manhattan, New York City, collects, displays, and interprets objects that document contemporary and historic innovation in craft, art, and design. In its exhibitions and educational programs, the museum celebrates the creative process through which materials are crafted into works that enhance contemporary life. History The museum first opened its doors in 1956 as the Museum of Contemporary Crafts, with an original mission of recognizing the craftsmanship of contemporary American artists. Nurtured by the vision of philanthropist and craft patron Aileen Osborn Webb, the museum mounted exhibitions that focused on the materials and techniques associated with craft disciplines. From its earliest years, the museum celebrated the changing roles of craftsmanship in society, served as an important advocate for emerging artists, and linked art to industry. From 1963 to 1987, under the directorship of Paul J. Smith, the museum presented d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dummies And Mannequins
Dummy may refer to: Dolls * Mannequin, a model of the human body * Dummy (ventriloquism) * Crash test dummy People * Dummy (nickname), several people with the nickname * Dummy, the Witch of Sible Hedingham (c. 1788–1863), one of the last people to be accused of being a witch in England Arts and entertainment Characters * Dummy (Marvel Comics), from the comic book ''X-Men'' * Dummy (DC Comics) Films * ''Dummy'' (1979 film), a TV movie starring LeVar Burton and Paul Sorvino * ''Dummy'' (2002 film), a comedy/drama * ''Dummy'', a 2009 coming-of-age drama starring Emma Catherwood * ''Dummy'', a short film by Kira Muratova * ''The Dummy'' (1917 film), an American silent drama * ''The Dummy'' (1929 film), an American comedy Music * Dummy (band), a band from Los Angeles * ''Dummy'' (album), 1994, by Portishead * "Dummy", a song by 6ix9ine from the album ''Dummy Boy'' * "Dummy!", a track from the soundtrack of the 2015 video game ''Undertale by Toby Fox'' * "Dummy", a song by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1950s Births
Year 195 ( CXCV) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known in Rome as the Year of the Consulship of Scrapula and Clemens (or, less frequently, year 948 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 195 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Emperor Septimius Severus has the Roman Senate deify the previous emperor Commodus, in an attempt to gain favor with the family of Marcus Aurelius. * King Vologases V and other eastern princes support the claims of Pescennius Niger. The Roman province of Mesopotamia rises in revolt with Parthian support. Severus marches to Mesopotamia to battle the Parthians. * The Roman province of Syria is divided and the role of Antioch is diminished. The Romans annex the Syrian cities of Edessa and Nisibis. Severus re-establishes his headquarters and the colonies th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
Purpose: Because living persons may suffer personal harm from inappropriate information, we should watch their articles carefully. By adding an article to this category, it marks them with a notice about sources whenever someone tries to edit them, to remind them of WP:BLP (biographies of living persons) policy that these articles must maintain a neutral point of view, maintain factual accuracy, and be properly sourced. Recent changes to these articles are listed on Special:RecentChangesLinked/Living people. Organization: This category should not be sub-categorized. Entries are generally sorted by family name In many societies, a surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. It is typically combined with a given name to form the full name of a person, although several give .... Maintenance: Individuals of advanced age (over 90), for whom there has been no new documentation in the last ten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
