Collections need context
and
Maloney
shows,
through these photographs,
as much about making a
setting, nay, a shrine for
things, as he tells about
things themselves. What is
interesting in these shrines
is that they are unrehearsed,
unpreened (although he
serves as curator for many
clients), organic: natural
spaces for living helped
along by the designer���s
hand, but above all, lived in.
Credit: From Stuff, published by Pointed Leaf
Press Courtesy of Lillian Nassau, LLC
The forty sections of this
compendium detail the
artifacts that compose the
Maloney-Mallea mind, from
Greek marbles to Maison
Jansen, from Modigliani to
Robsjohn-Gibbings, from
tree houses to the Hotel
Pierre. Their passion for
objects is catholic, ranging
from
aboriginal
bark
paintings and Oceanic art
to the furniture of Art Deco
master Eugene Printz and to
that of mid-century master
