Back to Blog
Artful lodgers7/15/2023 ![]() In those days, they need travel no farther than the heart of the town to find a night’s rest. Today, we might send them to the new Hampton Inn by the interstate or tell them the Marriott will be coming soon. The only interruption to this idyllic scene was the piercing whistle of the Southern Railroad train pulling into the depot at the bottom of Main Street, and with that whistle came the daily arrival of the out-of-towners. Read ratings and testimonials from individuals. The Artful Lodger provides Assisted Living. We carry many styles of furniture and pride ourselves on pieces that are scaled in a fashion that is. For your musical enjoyment, the Fort Mill Band might be playing at the bandstand in Confederate Park, displacing the regular group of gentlemen who gathered there for an afternoon of whittling. The Artful Lodger is a senior living facility in Puyallup, WA. Shopping was plentiful on Main Street, and if your pursuits were inclined more toward leisure you could spend the afternoon watching westerns at the Majestic theater or shooting pool at Rexall’s. In Home appears on the first Saturday of the month.Perhaps my headline leans a bit too much toward comparisons with the cockney pickpocket in Charles Dickens’ “Oliver Twist,” but I couldn’t resist the play on words to conjure up a scene from Fort Mill’s past that is hard to picture today.īefore our town was called a “bedroom community” for Charlotte (an unjust use of the term if you ask me), Fort Mill thrived with the kinds of amenities found in bigger cities. And for them, that was an enriching experience.” We had never stayed at a B&B before and werent. “At the end of a month or so, each of them went away with a much different feeling about art than they’d had when they first came. 24 reviews of Artful Lodger My fiancee and I stayed here last weekend and it we had a wonderful experience. “After we’d begun to hang the paintings, various workmen began to ask me to explain this painting or that one. “A great example of that came toward the end of our remodeling project here,” he said. Living with art is an enriching experience that broadens the horizons of all who share it, Darrel believes. I think it’s important for enthusiasts of the arts to educate people-whether they be lovers of the visual or performing arts.” “Education is the reason people will become involved in a museum. ![]() “We like to entertain and educate-that’s what’s important,” Marsha said. The living room as a classroom: No sooner do you sweep into the Andersons’ light-filled living room than you are struck by the scope of their art collection and the variety of places in which to behold it-saffron velvet sofa graceful French side chairs silk-covered love seat a quartet of leather high-back chairs pulled up to a black marble cocktail table. ![]() “There’s a definite return to representational art.” “We decided, what can be more beautiful than the figure? These days, art students are wanting to learn to draw the human form again,” she said. “We got rid of the abstract,” said Marsha, a fund-raising dynamo who helped raise $650,000 for the museum at last year’s Art of Dining benefit. “Now, we’ve both gravitated toward figurative and contemporary realism,” Darrel said. When the couple met in 1991, they learned they shared an enthusiasm for collecting. There are also sculptures by John Frame, Ray Turner, Cecilia Miguez, and a self-portrait in the style of Rembrandt by Norwegian artist Odd Nedrum. “He designed Czech money when it was under communism,” Marsha noted. Scott Hess, John Swihart, Peter Zokosky and Michael McMillen and ink drawings by Czech artist Oldrich Kulhanek. THE ARTFUL LODGERS ON LONDONS PORTOBELLO ROAD By Claire Frankel NovemThe gutted front end of a 1955 black Mercedes hangs on the wall four feet above cross-hatched aluminum flooring. That’s before you’ve even walked through the front door. The house’s colonnaded facade already hints at what awaits inside, guarding a frequently changing collection of art on the front stoep and yard. In an attempt to make some sense of the world around them, Artful Lodgers have created a soundscape of original pop/rock songs crafted with conscience, love, loss, and hope. The Romantic ideology of innocence spread more slowly than we think, it contends, and the people whom we assume were most committed to itchildren’s authors and members of the infamous cult of the childwere actually deeply ambivalent. The home as a gallery: Dozens of pieces of fine art grace the pale yellow, rag-painted walls of the Anderson household: Paintings by acclaimed Los Angeles realists F. Arriving at the home of Nicky and Philip Tyers, you’d be forgiven for thinking that you’re actually at an art gallery. WRITINGS BY ROBIN DEACON (PRINT) The following are a series of chapters, articles and/or publications by Robin Deacon: ‘Documentation (Of A Near Death Experience)’ in Performance, Objects and Participation in the Art of Joshua Sofaer, Mock, R. This book proposes a fundamental reconception of the 19th-century attitude toward the child.
0 Comments
Read More
Leave a Reply. |