Art Under The Tree: Gifts For Art Lovers

Replicas of jewelry by Meret Oppenheim

In 1936, Meret Oppenheim's Fur Tea Appliance made a splash at an exhibition of surreal objects in Paris. Thanks to him, the 23-year-old artist became famous overnight. In the same year, Oppenheim covered other items with fur. In a fluffy bracelet, she appeared at the first meeting in the Parisian Cafe de Flore with Pablo Picasso and Dora Maar. A replica of the piece, crafted out of 18K gold, can be found in the Gems and Ladders collection. The set can be supplemented with a gold fur ring for € 3,000.

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Jeff Koons Inflatable Dog Porcelain Plate

The multi-colored Balloon Dogs are iconic works by one of the most expensive contemporary artists, Jeff Koons. The artist created his series of five sculptures in the 90s under the influence of his childhood hobby. One of the dogs, yellow, was transferred to a porcelain plate by the French manufactory Bernardaud. The edition of the released series was 2300 copies. The price of the plate is available upon request.

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Collection of scarves with works of Russian artists Radical Chic

The Tretyakov Gallery and the Radical Chic brand released in the summer of 2016 a limited collection of scarves featuring works by Russian artists. Among the paintings transferred to silk included “Moscow. Red Square "by Wassily Kandinsky," Astra "by Aristarkh Lentulov," Formula of the Universe "by Pavel Filonov, as well as a sketch of the scenery by Viktor Vasnetsov for Rimsky-Korsakov's opera" The Snow Maiden "-" The Chambers of Tsar Berendey "- and a sketch of Leon Bakst's costume for the drama of Oscar Wilde" Salome". The cost of scarves ranges from 2,900 to 13,900 rubles. depending on the size.

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Christie's 250th Anniversary Going Once Book

Anniversary year for itself, the auction year Christie's decided to celebrate the release of the book. “Sold once: 250 years of culture, impeccable taste and collecting at Christie's” - a story of top lots, personal collections and lost and found masterpieces. Phaidon has collected 250 stories under one cover, from Picasso's Women of Algeria (Version O) to Elizabeth Taylor's jewelry collection, and from a London double-decker bus to commemorative props from the Star Wars filming. The cost of the book is £ 39.95.

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Zaha Hadid's chessboard

In 2014, Zaha Hadid launched her first collection of household goods. It includes candlesticks, cutlery, crockery and vases. In a limited series - only 200 pieces - a chess set was made. The figures on the board are skyscrapers designed by Hadid, and the cost of the exclusive chessboard is £ 9,900.

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Household items with reproductions of Frida Kahlo

Exhibitions of Frida Kahlo's works in Moscow will wait for several more years - it is scheduled only for 2019. But you can now decorate the interior with objects with reproductions of paintings by the famous Mexican woman. Pillows, blankets, wall clocks, and even bedding sets featuring "Self-portrait with necklace of thorns and hummingbirds" will cost from $ 20 to $ 100.

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Quilted jackets with works of contemporary Russian artists

This winter, the Moscow brand Husky Wear decided to remember the quilted jackets and released a collection of wadded jackets, the linings of which were adorned with the works of contemporary Russian artists - Valery Chtak, Kirill Kto and Maria Evtodieva. "Inside" quilted jackets, sewn in a limited edition, there are drawings and inscriptions "Against all", "Skulls and bones of famous people", "It should look better alive." Each design version contains 10 items, numbered and signed on a special chevron. And the price of quilted jackets is 15,000 rubles.

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Jake Phipps' Jeeves & Wooster Lights

“Our power of thinking encompasses both the visible and the invisible, and with the help of painting I make thoughts visible,” Rene Magritte wrote about one of his paintings. It turned out that his thoughts visibly influence modern design. Briton Jake Phipps turned the bowlers from Magritte's canvases into lamps and lampshades for floor lamps. By the way, the same headdresses were worn by the famous heroes of Pelm Woodhouse Jeeves and Worcester. Phipps named his design objects in their honor. The fixtures cost £ 197 and £ 206.

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Furniture with reproductions of Russian artists

In February 2016, the Tretyakov Gallery, the online store of furniture and home accessories Depst and the furniture factory The Idea developed a limited collection of interior items. It includes dressers, wardrobes, tables and cabinets with prints of paintings exhibited in the museum, such as "Girl with Peaches" by Valentin Serov, "Bathing of a Red Horse" by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, "Black Square" by Kazimir Malevich, "Morning in a Pine Forest" Ivan Shishkin. The cost of the Malevich cabinet is 24,900 rubles, and the Serov cabinet is 73,500 rubles.

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The tale "Autobiography of the Snake" by Andy Warhol

In October 2016, Thames & Hudson published a fairy tale entitled Autobiography of the Snake, created by the father of pop art Andy Warhol and has never been published before. The artist worked on the hand-drawn history in the mid-60s of the last century. The main character of the Snake fairy tale travels in the company of the style icons of that time - Jacqueline Kennedy, Elizabeth Taylor and Diana Vreeland, who occupied the chair of the editor-in-chief of Harper's Bazaar and Vogue magazines. Drawings in which the Snake is twisted around Kennedy's red boots or turns into a bracelet on Taylor's wrist, Warhol accompanied only with short signatures. The cost of the book is $ 21.95.

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