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#FieldTripFriday — Today we’re taking a trip to Tarquinia, Italy to visit La Bandita. Built in 1750 by Saint Paul of the Cross as a convent for Passionist friars, it was abandoned and crumbling when Roberto Matta found it in 1968. He purchased it and made it his sanctuary. 
Matta (1911-2002) was born in Santiago, Chile on 11/11/11 — a palindrome he loved. He trained as an architect, worked for Le Corbusier in Paris, then became a Surrealist painter alongside André Breton. He had one foot in architecture and the other in dreams. 
La Bandita captures both sides of him. The architect salvaged murals, restored the original convent layout, and created more than 50 rooms across three floors and a vast cellar. Those spaces were also filled with his collections of African and Pre-Columbian artifacts, contemporary designs, works by friends, and his own carved-wood furniture, metal chairs, and ceramic sculptures made with local craftspeople. 
Matta and his wife Germana Ferrari’s daughter Alisée was born there. She recalls a strict routine: her father woke at half past five to read, spent mornings in his library, took walks, worked in one of three studios. Summers meant swimming pool gatherings under a fig tree. 
Today, Alisée remains the sole custodian of La Bandita, now home to the Matta Archives. 
Sources: @theworldofinteriors taken in Tarquinia by @permanentcollection

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Our Egg Spoon at home with @jessicamenda. by @permanentcollection

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Since our launch in 2016, Permanent Collection has been fortunate to see our pieces in spaces designed by some of the industry’s top talents: the architects and interior designers shaping our idea of the contemporary home. A few favorites here. 
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Pictured: The East Los Angeles home of architect and designer, Patrick Bernatz Ward of the eponymous, LA-based studio, @pbernatz.

The Montecito home of Gwyneth Paltrow, reimagined by AD100 designers Roman and Williams and Romanek Design Studio, styled by @colinking for Architectural Digest.

A Topanga Canyon Retreat designed by AD100 designer @jakearnold.

A Topanga Canyon Retreat designed by AD100 designer @jakearnold.

The kitchen in a 1920s Craftsman house in Berkeley overlooking the San Francisco Bay designed by the American designer @heidicaillierdesign.

The breakfast nook of the historical craftsman, Treehaven, in Mt. Washington, designed by AD PRO Directory designer @meghan.eisenberg. by @permanentcollection

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#MakerMonday — Italian painter Domenico Gnoli (1933-1970) painted enlarged, close-up views of everyday objects — clothing, hair, beds, sofas, buttons — with meticulous detail. Born in Rome to a family steeped in arts and culture, his father was art historian Umberto Gnoli and his mother was painter and ceramicist Annie de Garrou. He studied under painter Carlo Alberto Petrucci and began exhibiting drawings at age 17. 
Gnoli initially pursued stage design, creating sets for theaters across Europe including Robert Helpmann’s production of Shakespeare’s “As You Like It” at the Old Vic Theatre in London. He also worked as an illustrator for magazines including Sports Illustrated, Life, and Fortune. In his twenties, he traveled between New York, Paris, and London, authoring a children’s book published by Simon & Schuster. But by 1956, he abandoned his promising theater career to focus on painting. 
In 1965, Gnoli married sculptor Yannick Vu and moved between Majorca and Rome. He developed his mature painting style in the years before 1969, working in acrylic and sand on canvas. His work appeared in Documenta IV in Kassel, Germany in 1968 and received enthusiastic acclaim at his first solo exhibition at Sidney Janis Gallery in New York in 1969. However, Gnoli died of cancer just four months later at age 36, leaving behind a limited but extraordinary body of work. 
Sources: Lévy Gorvy Dayan, Artforum by @permanentcollection

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#FieldTripFriday — Today we’re visiting Castellaras, a village above Cannes, where architect Jacques Couëlle designed a house in the late 1950s and early 1960s that helped coin the term “architecture-sculpture.” 
Couëlle (1902-1996) created flowing, organic-inspired forms with intense curves and abundant terraces overlooking the Mediterranean. The house is one of just six remaining residences he designed. His architecture was sculptural first. 
In recent years, Miriam Frowein Interiors gave the home a sensitive 21st-century refresh. Frowein describes her approach: “A house conceived by Jacques Couëlle demands a particularly sensitive approach. Rather than attempting to reinterpret or compete with it, my intention was to quietly reinforce its organic language and allow its uniqueness to shine.” 
Sources: @wallpapermag
Photos: Benedicte Drummond by @permanentcollection

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BACK IN STOCK // After more than a year’s wait, our Spoon Rests are back! Individually hand-thrown by Edmund Davies, a studio ceramicist based in Norfolk whose practice revolves around functional wheel-thrown pieces. Made from a textured British clay, these minimal, formally restrained rests exemplify Davies’s considered approach to shape and palette—and cradle our utensils perfectly. by @permanentcollection

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Gloria Steinem’s kitchen via @gatherjournal.
Styled by @mieketenhave and photographed by @wabranowicz by @permanentcollection

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#MakerMonday — Ukrainian folk artist Maria Prymachenko (1909-1997) was self-taught and spent nearly her entire life in her native village of Bolotnia. Through imagination alone, she created paintings that were exhibited across the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and internationally. Working primarily in gouache and watercolor, her compositions depicted symmetrical red poppies, fantastical bull-like creatures, two-headed snakes, and scenes from Ukrainian countryside life. 
In 1937, her work was shown at the Paris World’s Fair. Pablo Picasso visited her exhibition and proclaimed, “I bow down before the artistic miracle of this brilliant Ukrainian.” Despite the recognition and acclaim, she remained rooted in her village, continuing to paint from the world she knew. 
But her paintings contained a deeper darkness. She contracted polio as a child and lived through the Holodomor, Stalin’s engineered famine of 1932-1933 that killed approximately 3.3 million Ukrainians. She lost her partner, her brother, and her son in World War II. She witnessed the Nazi mass murder of over 30,000 Kiev Jews. Using the bright colors and patterns of folk art, she embedded menacing creatures, grotesque forms, and distorted imagery — visual representations of the horrors she had witnessed. She said: “I spent so much time thinking about that war — hours, days, difficult years. I always wanted it to be preserved in my paintings. I depicted the war itself, which I saw with my own eyes, its beastly guts.”

In 1966, she received the Taras Shevchenko National Prize. On February 25, 2022, during the Russian invasion, the Ivankiv Historical Museum holding fourteen of her paintings burned. Local residents rescued them from the flames. 
Sources: Commonweal Magazine, Magpie’s Magazine, Colossal by @permanentcollection

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RECIPE // It’s nearly bowl season! We’re at that transitional time of year when some days are warm and others chilly. To our minds, there’s nothing more appropriate to make than this ‘second summer’ pesto-swirled minestrone. Combining the last of summer veg with the first harbingers of autumn’s bounty, it’s easy to make, astoundingly delicious, and riffable to your heart’s content. East Coast, this one’s for you this weekend. 
Serve it up in our shallow, but generous soup-pasta bowl, the ideal dish for everything from rice bowls to a minestrone like this one. Hand-thrown, with an elegant silhouette in a lush green glaze. 
We’re gifting you free access to @greenspoonweekly’s recipe for The Only Minestrone, linked now in our stories. by @permanentcollection

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where a 16th-century Franciscan monastery became Casa de la Torre, the home of American collector Robert Brady. He purchased it in 1961 and lived there until his death in 1986. Today it operates as a museum exactly as he left it. 
Brady was born in Iowa in 1928. He began collecting at age 13, with no interest in the family trucking business. He studied fine art, lived in Venice, and became friends with Peggy Guggenheim. When he moved to Cuernavaca, he found his spiritual home.
Brady filled the house with 1,300 objects: paintings by Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros, Navajo rugs, votive paintings, Cherokee masks, Moroccan hunting horns, Talavera tiles. He hung Picassos next to folk art. His approach of mixing fine art and craft without hierarchy came directly from his mentor, Albert C. Barnes, whose collection displayed Medieval sculpture alongside kitchen utensils. 
Brady hosted Rita Hayworth, David Hockney, Maria Callas, Josephine Baker. The Yellow Room memorializes the women in his life and features a portrait of Peggy Guggenheim, a shrine to Josephine Baker (whom he married in Acapulco). Hand-painted ceramic figures above a bench in the cantina represent his chosen family: his cook, Peggy, comedians, friends. 
Cuernavaca became known as “the city behind walls,” a place where outsiders reinvented themselves. Brady created a sanctuary for artistic exchange and friendship. In 1990, four years after his death, Casa de la Torre became a museum. 
Source: @theworldofinteriors by @permanentcollection

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Just two Kitchen Rugs left from our first edition! 
It was designed to live in front of the sink or range, the most-used stations in the most-loved room in the house. It would look equally at home as an accent rug in a bedroom or bath. 
Woven by hand by Bay Area textile artist Claire Crews using undyed wool sustainably raised in the Southwest. Its earthy shades of dark brown and dark gray recall the work of Agnes Martin and Clara Porset, as well as patterns that appear in nature. Thick and soft, the rug carries the natural water-, stain- and odor-resistant qualities of minimally processed, lanolin-rich wool. by @permanentcollection

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#MakerMonday — American painter Mary Heilmann (1940-2026) brought color and playfulness to abstract painting. Born in San Francisco and raised in California and Los Angeles, she studied literature at UC Santa Barbara before earning a master’s degree in ceramics and sculpture at UC Berkeley under Peter Voulkos in 1967. She moved to New York in 1968 and became a painter around 1970. 
Heilmann’s paintings combined geometric abstraction with vivid colors, playful shapes, and references to surfing, music, cartoons, and everyday life. She painted irregularly stretched canvases with exposed edges and built up layers of paint like ceramic glaze. Her work challenged the seriousness of Minimalism and Abstract Expressionism, drawing inspiration from The Simpsons, pop songs, and California surf culture. In the 2000s, she also created colorful ceramic furniture she called “home arts.” 
Though she worked for decades, Heilmann received her first solo exhibition in a New York museum in 2008 at the New Museum, when she was 68. Her work is in major collections including MoMA, the Whitney, the National Gallery of Art, and Centre Pompidou. Her final exhibition, “Mary Heilmann: Long Line,” was on view at the Whitney from April 2025 through January 2026. 
Sources: Whitney Museum, Hauser & Wirth, AWARE Women Artists by @permanentcollection

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