HYLAND
Streamlined yet comfortable
modern sofas and chairs—from Le
Corbusier and Cassina to Eames—
mesh with rustic tables that might
hail from the Adirondacks and
Moroccan hand knotted rugs and
cotton weaves from Kenya. On the
walls classic modern paintings,
lithographs and tapestries by
Picasso, Fernand Leger, Karl
Appel, Jean Dubuffet, Alexander
Calder, Le Corbusier and Rene
Magritte vie with new expressions
of contemporary aesthetics—or
anti-aesthetics as the case may
be, notably examples of Japanese
Anime art by Hye Rim Lee Toki,
flanking, of course, an advanced
flat screen TV, a legitimate part,
too, it might be argued, of our
current art scene. The ensemble
makes a forceful statement about
the variegated modern sensibilities
engendered, in part, by our
exposure via the Internet to the
widest possible range of designed
furniture and objects. If Wood feeds
the younger generation's appetite
for the new, he simultaneously
dishes up tantalizing morsels of
the past for their instruction and
delectation. He is a consummate
