Apartment Therapy: artwork

Vintage Mantel Displays from 5 Gardenias

The mantelpiece is the traditional place of honor for holiday decor: stockings, garlands, and wreaths all come to mind. If you're looking for a way to buck convention and dress your mantel in someth...

Classic Tony Duquette Design: Works from 1949-1972

I've been intrigued by the work of Tony Duquette since getting the (very lucky!) opportunity to visit his home in Los Angeles in the late 1990s. Last year, Baker, Knapp & Tubbs came out with a line of...

Studio/Gallery from Alvhem

Found on Swedish real estate site Alvhem, this spare room has lots of good ideas for setting up your own gallery-style workspace at home... ...

Map Happy Home Offices

When I was growing up, my family moved around a lot, but my parents tried to bring some consistency to our homes by decorating each place in a similar way. I always remember my dad's study with a wo...

The $3 Mirror Project

We double plus, love crafty creative projects that look fabulous and don't take up that much of our hard earned cash. This project is a great accent to the entryway of this home and is made of woode...

5 Approaches to Artwork in the Bedroom

In the bedrooms of our house tours, we see a lot of artwork hung directly over a headboard, but we've also spotted alternative approaches, a few of which we've rounded up here......

Found & Salvaged: Extra-Large Wall Art

Large-scale art can anchor a room, act as a great conversation-starter, and even make a small space seem bigger, but it's not always affordable. If you're looking for ways to make a big impact on a ...

Cildo Meireles' Pling Pling
Color Close-Up

At the Venice Biennale, we were taken with Brazilian artist Cildo Meireles' installation of saturated color. During a month devoted to color on Apartment Therapy, it's the perfect source of inspirat...

The Venice Biennale
A Peek Inside

Every two years, Venice hosts the Biennale, one of the world's largest and most well-known exhibitions of contemporary art. As I walked the halls of the show, I felt the strength of the current link...

The Great Handmade
Roundup

So much of what's been featured on Apartment Therapy over the years is handmade. Searching high and low, big and small for some favorite handmade items, here are 10 ideas that are sure to keep you t...

Pixelated Artwork Made from Paint Chips
Apartment Therapy Reader Project

Nite saw our recent how-to post on creating a pixelated painting and it inspired an email to us with some photos of an amazing bit of DIY artwork that he made from paint chips......

A Collection of Collections
Keaggy

Over the years, Bill Keaggy has created quite a collection of, well, collections. We all have those random things that happen to interest us (don't we?), but what strikes us about Keaggy is his purs...

Top 3 Tried and True Guidelines for Hanging Art

The first rule of decor is, of course, that there are no rules. Every situation, every sense of style and everyones "eye" is just a bit different. That said, there are a few guidelines that can make ...

An Artistic (Home) Life: The Little Friends of Printmaking

Midwest printmaking superstars (and married couple) Melissa and JW Buchanan are best known under their collaborative moniker, The Little Friends of Printmaking. We've long been fans of their work - it...

Displaying a Leaf Collection

With fall right around the corner, we've got leaves on the mind lately. It's true that the last time we pressed leaves was in a high school biology class, but we just might break out the skills agai...

Moon-Lily Mobiles by Jan R. Carson

Soon enough, the season will bring autumn leaves fluttering overhead. But you can have them inside your home, too. Colorado's Jan R. Carson creates beautiful mobile designs of silk leaves......

The Story Hotel in Stockholm

Friends of mine just returned from a trip to Sweden, and this lodging spot comes on serious recommendation. The photos (our friends' and those on the hotel website) have us daydreaming of an art-fil...

Collections on Shelves from Lost Found Art

Displaying a collection on shelves might seem an obvious choice. But it takes a good collection and careful placement to pull if off. Here's a look at collections displayed on shelves by Lost Found ...

Gallery: Nathan Baker's Rupture Series

These photographs are as much like my life (okay, more like my life) as any of the ship-shape homes we aspire to here on Apartment Therapy. Sometimes, these things just happen. Chicago photographer ...

Renegade Roundup

With Chicago's Renegade Craft Fair upon us this coming weekend (Sept. 12-13, 11am-7pm), we searched through our past coverage on Apartment Therapy to remind fans of the fair and to inspire those who...

Typewriter Prints

For typewriter lovers who want to steer clear of "dust collectors" at any cost, consider hanging a typewriter print (or series of prints) on the wall rather than displaying a three-dimensional objec...

Functional Art by George Denninger

At first I just wanted to show you these one-of-a-kind doors by St. Louis' George Denninger (first two photos). But then I came across his pianos... and quilts... and windows......

Typeset Drawer Displays

These old drawers, once used for storing typeset, are still found today being put to use in the home. Is it their dada-esque appeal, their reminder of a now-antiquated process, or their careful comp...

5 Approaches to Artwork in the Kitchen

Many of us would rather go for a clean, slick, necessity-only kitchen; others opt for the visual feast of paintings, photos, and prints adorning the walls. For a few inspirational suggestions, we fo...

Artwork Grids, 5 (More) Ways

A while ago, we wrote about using grids as a way to increase the impact of small art. We showed a few ideas from Apartment Therapy homes, which we're augmenting today with some more inspirational ph...

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