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As a father-and-son artist team, Philip and Kelvin LaVerne collaborated on hundreds of unique and complex works, now presented in a new book written byhighlights the astonishing breadth and depth of the duo’s practice, which ranges from avant-garde furniture to sculpture and painting.
A 1970s photograph of the Seymour Gallery, which was located on the third floor of Philip and Kelvin LaVerne's gallery on East 57th Street in New York, shows where the artists displayed their finest artworksMany of the LaVernes’ pieces, which often blend historical references of past civilisations and art historical motifs with modernist design principles, have featured in Wallpaper* interiors shoots, and their value has sky-rocketed over the past few years.
'They buried their pieces in soil for an extended period to achieve the “LaVerne patina”. In the 1950s they experimented with various metals and soils for six years before finding the optimal combination, which involved a soil from Africa kept at a low temperature. They were not just artists, they were chemists and physicists. They were alchemists.’Léa Teuscher is a Sub-Editor at Wallpaper*.
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