A Collection of silk scarves designed by Michael Graves, Richard Gluckman, Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown. Each scarf has a hand-rolled edge and is made of 100% silk measuring 60″ x 13 1/2″ in size. The Architects were able to draw from their structural renderings, blueprints, or drawings to create an architectural design. The result, a very stylish and supple piece of architecture.

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Paesaggio by Michael Graves

“Paesaggio” (which means landscape in Italian) is a silk version of a Graves mural called “Industrial Landscape,” created as part of his series of paintings and drawings exploring the theme of the Archaic Landscape. These evocative compositions include assemblages of simple geometric building forms placed within fictional landscapes that are reminiscent of the designer’s beloved Tuscany.

Michael Graves

Michael Graves received his architectural training at the University of Cincinnati and at Harvard University. Among his many completed projects are the Portland Building, the Humana Building, the Clos Pegase Winery in the Napa Valley, and the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Hotels. Graves is the winner of fifteen Progressive Architecture Design Awards, nine American Institute of Architects National Honor Awards, and thirty-eight New Jersey Society of Architects, AIA Awards.

When he was awarded the National Medal of the Arts, President Clinton characterized him as “a rare individual who finds equal wonder in things both large and small. As one of our century’s most important designers and architects, … it’s little wonder that Michael Graves’ work can be found from our shopping malls to our National Mall.”

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Orchestra Hall by Venturi Scott Brown & Associates

“We like mixing media and wearing documents.”

Orchestra hall is based on their design for the East elevation of the Philadelphia Orchestra Hall, 1987-96

Denise Scott Brown is seen wearing a dress she made from multiple scarves

Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates. A respected theorist, artist, and award-winning architect, Robert Venturi has brought his distinct design aesthetic to a wide array of projects, including five buildings at Princeton University and three at Dartmouth. Among his other projects are the Sainsbury Wing of the National Gallery in London; the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, and the Seattle Art Museum. A recipient of the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize and the National Medal of the Arts, he has lectured and written extensively. His book, Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture, is a recognized milestone in architectural theory.

Denise Scott Brown, a partner in Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, is widely respected as an architect, urban planner, theorist, and educator as well. Among her recent projects are the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman Quadrangle and the Mielparque Kirifuri resort in Kirifuri National Park near Nikko, Japan. Widely published in professional journals, Ms. Scott Brown has been awarded the National Medal of Arts and is currently a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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Absence by Richard Gluckman

“The design of the scarf incorporates some of the ideas we have been working on in our work; transformation, transparency , and symbol. The light bar could be seen as an architectural form or an absence of form.”

Richard Gluckman
Richard’s design process (architecture and otherwise) comes from—and is influenced by
—his collaborations with minimalist artists. As an architect of museums and galleries, he designs spaces that are least obtrusive to the artwork, revealing the strengths of the building and concealing its weaker points.

He has been called “the invisible designer” by the New Yorker Magazine, a high compliment, in terms of designing to allow the space and what goes on in and around it to complete the experience. Thus, the beauty/strength of the design is enhanced or realized upon its use(s).

We thought “Absence” was appropriate for his method of revealing what is easily to missed.

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