Quick note before I jump in to today’s paid post. There was a lot of love for my last What I’d Buy series with pieces under $500, so I’m shifting the Collector’s Circle cadence to include pieces under $500 once a month and higher end pieces once a month.
The goal is to help you see what you love and start your collection with what makes your heart sing, at prices that work for where you are. From looking at a ton of art over the years, I know that great art lives in both of these bands.
Not everything is for everyone. That is not the point of art. But great art will make you think, dream, scream, and feel alive so the more of it you see and feel, the more you’ll discover about what you love.
For this edition, I pulled some of the most-saved rooms from Houzz, a tool people use to find design inspiration from home offices to living rooms and bedrooms, and added artworks to them. The goal wasn’t to match the art to the interior, but to think about what the room can actually take and how art can unlock it.
When designing a space, the old principle of form follows function still holds true. Buying a sofa is expensive, but you know the constraints. You can prioritize comfort, durability, size, material, color. You also know what you need it to do. It is a place to sit, entertain, watch a movie, take a nap. You get the point.
Buying art for your home doesn’t fit as neatly into ideas of form and function. It is subjective, often expensive, and hard to know when you’ve gotten it “right.” So it gets deferred. Or placeholder art goes up until the time feels right to replace it.
The irony is that art is often the thing that takes a room from furnished to finished.
If anything catches your eye, reply to this email or send me a note.
