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BOOKS, TRAVEL + DESIGN
Editor in chief, AUGUST Journal @augustjournal
Publisher, AUGUST Editions @augusteditions
Collector, @knifeforkspoon.co

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We are so excited to share gallery artist Robert Wilhite’s @bobwilhite four page spread in the recently published “Knife Fork Spoon: Modernist Cutlery. 1900-2025” by Dung Ngo @misterngo . The encyclopedic book of the author’s flatware collection is available for purchase @birdsbookstore 🍴

Robert Wilhite (b. 1946) is a Los Angeles-based artist and designer whose work explores geometric abstraction across sculpture, theater, and product design.
From 1990 to 2000 he was principal designer for Bissell & Wilhite, distributing flatware to museum stores across the United States and Europe. XUM applies the formal language of postmodernism and the Memphis movement to cutlery: handles with unorthodox finials, staggered fork tines, and a knife whose handle rotates ninety degrees from the blade.

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What a beautiful day here at @editionfarm 🧡 All the lovely humans came out to celebrate the fantastically creative duo @alexanderyulish and Barbara Pearlman for a joint show -HOMONCULUS - at our gallery. See past posts for more on these two! (Pics: @susanshekphotography )

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What can a set of flatware reveal about the era in which it was made? On October 21, Wright presents 𝗞𝗻𝗶𝗳𝗲 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝗼𝗻: 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗙𝗹𝗮𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗗𝘂𝗻𝗴 𝗡𝗴𝗼, bringing together more than thirty cutlery sets that trace the evolution of modern design, from Neoclassicism and Bauhaus to Postmodernism.

In this video, designer and curator Dung Ngo explores why he considers these objects expressions of modernism, revealing how changing aesthetics and ideas about form and function found their way into everyday objects.

🔗 Bid on these sets and more at wright20.com

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Falling out

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𝗡𝗢𝗪 𝗢𝗡𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗘 • On October 21, Wright is proud to present 𝗞𝗻𝗶𝗳𝗲 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝗼𝗻: 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗙𝗹𝗮𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗗𝘂𝗻𝗴 𝗡𝗴𝗼, an offering that brings new attention to the often-overlooked role of cutlery in everyday life—and its remarkable potential as a vehicle for innovative design.

Featuring more than thirty flatware sets by influential designers including Gio Ponti, Eliel Saarinen, Michael Graves, Tapio Wirkkala, Arne Jacobsen, and many more, the collection traces nearly a century of experimentation with form, material, function, and manufacture.

The auction coincides with the release of 𝘒𝘯𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘍𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘚𝘱𝘰𝘰𝘯: 𝘔𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘊𝘶𝘵𝘭𝘦𝘳𝘺 1900–2025 from August Editions, as well as the Denver Art Museum’s exhibition 𝘒𝘯𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘍𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘚𝘱𝘰𝘰𝘯: 𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘛𝘰𝘰𝘭𝘴, 𝘌𝘹𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘋𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯.

🔗 Bid now at wright20.com

𝗞𝗻𝗶𝗳𝗲 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝗼𝗻: 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗙𝗹𝗮𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗗𝘂𝗻𝗴 𝗡𝗴𝗼 • 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟭

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Incredible weekend in Denver to celebrate @misterngo’s @knifeforkspoon.co exhibition at the @denverartmuseum with my daughter Faye. Mister Ngo curated my first significant photography exhibit at Rice University around 1998. Check out his work @augusteditions and August Journal. Hotel Populus Denver by Jeanne Gang was the place to stay. Gio Ponti, Daniel Libeskind, Michael Graves, and meowwolf.

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So thrilled to bring MESOAMERICAN MODERN and this design movement of the Americas on tour this fall.

Please join us for lively conversation, gatherings, celebration, tequila @sieteleguas and more, sobremesa, and most of all friendship.

MESOAMERICAN MODERN by me and @luisgarvan and also so many others will be released worldwide on Oct 28 in English, Spanish and French.

Hasta pronto!

#mesoamericanmodern

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For the chicest stays, the most exclusive hideaways, and places worth travelling for — no one knows them better than Golden Voyage. ✨

Perched above Florence, Hotel Torre di Bellosguardo is exactly that kind of place: a centuries-old retreat where history, character and understated Italian elegance come together. A stay that feels less like a hotel, and more like discovering one of Florence’s best-kept secrets.

#Repost @kellybehunstudio
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Hotel Torre di Bellosguardo, housed within a 13th-century structure in Florence (@htbellosguardo) / 📸 Kylee Campbell (@kyleecampbell), 📸 @ambr_travel & 📸 @misterngo via @interiorsocialclub & others via @htbellosguardo

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Mexican gallerists Mónica Manzutto and José Kuri have never been especially interested in doing things conventionally. Their first exhibition in Mexico City took place for a single day in a produce market, and when it came to making a home, they were drawn to an abandoned 19th century convent overtaken by an extraordinary garden. Working with architect Alberto Kalach (@kalach_tax), they approached La Platanera with the same openness that has shaped @kurimanzutto, allowing the history of the site to remain visible as the old structures were slowly brought back into use.⁠
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At the far end of the garden, Kalach’s library appears to float above the ground, reached through bamboo and stone steps, with a lightness that allows the surrounding vegetation to remain present. Inside, bookshelves designed by Kalach sit alongside furniture by Don Shoemaker, while Sergio Rodrigues chairs occupy the terrace. The house retains traces of what came before, including one original structure left entirely untouched and known among friends as la casa sin techo, the house without a roof. “It doesn’t have all the comforts of a conventional house,” Manzutto says, “but to fix that you would take out all the beauty of the place.”⁠
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Read the full feature in Ark Journal Volume IX⁠
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Words Dung Ngo (@misterngo)⁠
Photography Fabian Martinez @fabianml⁠
Styling Sigrid Gry Laursen (@s__g__l)

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Time to post 3 days of design posts and feel super embarrassed about how much I suck at SoMe

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Monday inspo 😮‍💨

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