Object Lesson
Aug 21, 2017
3 minutes
WRITTEN BY David Masello
We all live with things in our homes. Beyond the actual furniture on which we sit and sleep, those objects we collect—flower vases and throw pillows, Oriental rugs and painted bowls—often assume a function other than just practical. What we admire as decorative also influences how we live daily at home, something that seasoned interior designers have long known. This is a dynamic, too, that the artist/collagist Henri Matisse (1869–1954) recognized
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