Donald Judd – Double Take

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Donald Judd (1928-1994) Chair,1993 – Finish Color Plywood – RISD Museum

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A double take is an act of quickly looking at something that is surprising or unusual a second time after looking at it a moment earlier.

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The RISD Museum often focuses attention on a single object in an exciting program they call ‘DOUBLE TAKE’ where two different art/design educators or curators offer different perspectives or ‘takes’ on a single object in the museum collection. I have seen a number of these dialogues, they are fantastic!

One the items being featured in a new series DOUBLE TAKE: COLOR is a chair that I gave to the Museum designed by Donald Judd

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Bed Sheets – Thoughts on Simple Luxury

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Selecting a bed can be complicated.

Which mattress? Box spring? Headboard? Frame?

Comforter?  Bedcover?  Coverlet?

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There are seemingly endless possibilities when considering how to cover one’s bed. As seen in this image of my bed in Brooklyn Heights, I prefer a simple bed cover (or comforter) with an antique textile folded at the end of the bed for interest and decoration, and a couple of decorative pillows. As the season’s change; or when the mood strikes me; or when a new antique textile enters my home I like to switch things up…

However, when it comes to sheets for my bed I am pretty basic – I like WHITE.

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VISIBILITY in the 21st Century

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Being a man of a certain age I like to see others ‘swimming in the water’ before I jump in. I am a pretty ‘late adopter’, I admit it.

Out of curiosity I joined Facebook in 2008, but it wasn’t until the Fall of 2013 that I began to really focus my efforts and see what greater participation in the socali media landscape might bring.

Today I have:

Over 20,000 ‘LIKE’s‘ on Facebook,

Over 14,000 images pinned on Pinterest

Over 4,000 connections on LinkedIn

And almost 10,000 visitors to my blog ‘In Pursuit of Design Alchemy’

and in the last 18 months had almost 11,000 visitors to GISSLER.com 

What has come of all this connectivity?

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