Hotel Grace La Margna in St. Moritz.
Photo: brechenmacher & baumann
The Artful Life: 5 Things Galerie Editors Love This Week
From the Spaceless Gallery’s return to Bergdorf Goodman in New York to a dreamy hotel in St. Moritz filled with Molteni&C furnishings
The Spaceless Gallery returns to Bergdorf Goodman through October 18. Photo: genevieve garruppo
1. The Spaceless Gallery Returns to Bergdorf Goodman
Through October 18, the Spaceless Gallery will present a curated selection of colorful, bold artworks at Bergdorf Goodman. The corridor of the seventh floor, which has recently become a rich landscape for showcasing a rotating selection of both art and design, functions as a strollable gallery for experiencing works by Aleksandra Szewczuk, aurèce vettier, David Matthew King, Francois Bauer, Grant Levy Lucero, and others. Béatrice Masi, founder of the Spaceless Gallery, curated the works—which span a range of mediums—for their ability to spark joy and curiosity. All of the pieces are available for purchase. Additionally, the gallery will take over windows on both 58th and 59th Streets. —Jacqueline Terrebonne
Santa Monica's landmark hotel, The Georgian. Photo: Courtesy of The Georgian.
One of the exclusive Sunset Tennis Club courts. Photo: Courtesy of Sunset Tennis Club.
2. The Georgian Hotel in Santa Monica Nets Partnership with Sunset Tennis Club
While all eyes may be on the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York this week, it’s not just East Coast fans who can jump in on the U.S. Open fun. Landmark Santa Monica hotel, The Georgian, has announced a partnership with Sunset Tennis Club, a private social club and tennis clinic, to offer a two-night “Tennis, Anyone?” package. The stay includes a private tennis lesson for two, daily food and beverage credit at the property’s Siena restaurant and iconic Sunset Bar, and Sunset Tennis Club merchandise. Guests will stay in one of the hotel’s Ocean King guest rooms and can enjoy the recently restored lobby, gallery space, library, and fitness center. Tennis lessons—featured on one of the club’s exclusive Brentwood, Bel-Air, Beverly Hills or Malibu locations—are available for beginners, experts, and everyone in between, with package options now available for booking. —Alexandria Sillo
Pieces from the Charleston, South Carolina, home of Darla Moore, which was designed by Tony Ingrao, are coming up for auction at Freeman’s | Hindman in Chicago. Photo: Courtesy of Hindman
Pieces from the Charleston, South Carolina, home of Darla Moore, which was designed by Tony Ingrao, are coming up for auction at Freeman’s | Hindman in Chicago. Photo: Courtesy of Hindman
3. Pieces from a South Carolina Home by Tony Ingrao Come Up for Auction
Once dubbed the “Toughest Babe in Business” by Fortune magazine, Darla Moore made waves as a powerhouse in the fields of banking and high finance, and later as a philanthropist, giving generously to the University of South Carolina and launching The Charleston Parks Conservancy, ArtFields, and Moore Farms Botanical Gardens. Conceived by famed designer Tony Ingrao, her home in Charleston, South Carolina, featured an astounding assortment of 18th and 19th-century paintings, furniture, and decorative arts. Situated throughout a meticulously restored 1892 Victorian residence, the interiors reveled in Gilded Age grandeur. Now, more than 200 pieces from the collection are coming up for auction at Freeman’s |Hindman; included in the September 13 event “South of Broad: The Charleston Home of Darla Moore by Tony Ingrao” are beautiful artworks by Julius LeBlanc Stewart, Meissen porcelain, and numerous examples of gilt bronze decoration as well as a rare circa-1890 German tea service and table, Tiffany & Co. coffee service, and a multitude of exquisite furnishings, lighting, and more. —Jill Sieracki
Hotel Grace La Margna in St. Moritz. Photo: brechenmacher & baumann
4. Molteni&C Furnishes Hotel Grace La Margna in St. Moritz
A lavishly reborn Art Nouveau hotel in the Swiss Alps not only features postcard-worthy mountain views and swanky amenities, but it’s furnished with a dazzling array of works by 20th century design icons thanks to storied Italian brand Molteni&C. The first year-round hotel to open in St. Moritz in decades, Hotel Grace La Margna is populated with ultra-chic furniture pieces by Gio Ponti, Rodolfo Dordoni, and Foster+Partners (among contemporary collections), curated in part by the property’s general manager, David Frei. The entire hotel, painstakingly renovated by Divercity Architects and designer Carole Topin, is an ode to the region’s opulent palace-style hotels but with a contemporary flair. —Geoffrey Montes
Cynthia Talmadge bag for Platform. Photo: Courtesy of the artist and MZ Wallace
Cynthia Talmadge bag for Platform. Photo: Courtesy of the artist and MZ Wallace
5. Painter Cynthia Talmadge Launches Art Bag with Platform
New York artist Cynthia Talmadge has swapped out her signature canvas for an MZ Wallace bag in a new creative collaboration with Platform, the online art marketplace created by David Zwirner’s gallery. Dubbed the Aspiring Actress Bag, the piece is printed with six new prints created especially for the project. Each one is rendered in the artist’s signature pointillist style. Inside, the bag’s lining and interior pouches reveal smeared lipstick, scattered pills, torn celebrity tabloids, and a cracked compact mirror. “The tabloids might call this a downward spiral—if she were famous enough to catch their attention,” says Talmadge of the series. “But the potential for her to method act her way through all the worst versions of herself, and a set of unpredictable forces colliding at the intersection of creativity and commerce, leave open another almost infinite set of possibilities, among them true creative fulfillment, swift self-destruction, a completely new phase of self-discovery and interests, or a robust Hollywood career.” It is available on Platform from September 5. —Lucy Rees
Cover: Hotel Grace La Margna in St. Moritz.
Photo: brechenmacher & baumann
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