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glamour; he lives it. The designer circulates fluidly in a universe of modern Medicis, those privileged few with the means and discrimination to demand the very best. His work amongst this distinguished coterie
has
accolades:
led
An
to
innumerable
Architectural
prestigious
Digest
Dean
of
American Design, multiple AD 100 recognitions and one of Robb Report’s Top 10 Designers in the World. He was honored by his native South Africa with an award presented by Archbishop Desmond Tutu “in recognition of his sterling success as one of the most internationally acclaimed designers
of
our
time.”
Bradfield
has
two
critically celebrated monographs to his name— Defining Millennium Modern and Ex Arte. Perceptive
enough
to
detect
early
on
the
globalization of business and wealth, today he also claims a foothold on virtually every continent. He is a designer working at the top of his form, a style which personifies an exquisitely reductive, distilled sense of luxury. “There is no magic formula for challenging the present,” says Bradfield. “What counts is the knowhow, the passion, and the will to stay in the fray and remain relevant.” With
impeccability
and
panache,
Bradfield
brilliantly fulfills the most important responsibility of any creative mind, as enunciated by the incomparable Robert Rauschenberg: “The artist’s job is to be witness to his time in history.”
GEOFFREY BR ADFIELD Jorge S. Arango is a writer, editor and stylist specializing in interior design, art and collecting. His work has appeared in many national and international publications, including House & Garden,
A 21ST CENTURY PALACE
GEOFFREY BRADFIELD • A 21ST CENTURY PALACE
Bradfield is more than well acquainted with modern
GEOFFREY BR ADFIELD
GEOFFREY BR ADFIELD
A 21ST CENTURY PALACE
A 21ST CENTURY PALACE TIME magazine called globalization “an epoch, as surely as the Bronze Age” and has stimulated a wholesale rethinking of the palace concept. It is a concept with which designer Geoffrey Bradfield has long been intimately familiar. The pages of this compelling book take readers on a rich virtual journey through the creation of one of this stunning new breed of palaces: a
high-rise
residence
Bradfield
designed
in
the heart of Mexico City. It showcases all the requisite
building
blocks
essential
to
the
development of any great modernist collection: museum-worthy 20th- and 21st-century painting and sculpture, ravishing Art Deco furnishings and extravagant materials cut and quarried from halfway around the planet. This is the first volume in a series that will examine the astonishing particulars of five distinct contemporary palaces located around the world. Few designers plying their talents in the world today are as well equipped as Bradfield to navigate us on this visual excursion. An acknowledged innovator who takes risks with an authoritative hand, he is known for his uncannily prescient ability to recognize unparalleled artistry and excellence, often before it is validated by the wider world arbiters. “Geoffrey is a trendsetter with an impeccable eye for the physical and the intrinsic beauty in the pieces he uses,” confirms Adriana Friedman at DeLorenzo Gallery in New York. Proprietor Tony DeLorenzo adds: “He was one of the very first to . . . recognize the leading designers of the French Art Deco period. At a time when there were only a few 20th-century decorative arts collectors, Geoffrey had the foresight to see the importance
Elle Décor, Traditional Home, Metropolitan Home,
of this market and encouraged his clients to
Luxe and Robb Report. He is also co-author of two
acquire these works of art.”
books: Harlem Style: Designing for the New Urban
continued...
Aesthetic and Ex Arte, which he wrote with Geoffrey Bradfield.
Printed in China.
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glamour; he lives it. The designer circulates fluidly in a universe of modern Medicis, those privileged few with the means and discrimination to demand the very best. His work amongst this distinguished coterie
has
accolades:
led
An
to
innumerable
Architectural
prestigious
Digest
Dean
of
American Design, multiple AD 100 recognitions and one of Robb Report’s Top 10 Designers in the World. He was honored by his native South Africa with an award presented by Archbishop Desmond Tutu “in recognition of his sterling success as one of the most internationally acclaimed designers
of
our
time.”
Bradfield
has
two
critically celebrated monographs to his name— Defining Millennium Modern and Ex Arte. Perceptive
enough
to
detect
early
on
the
globalization of business and wealth, today he also claims a foothold on virtually every continent. He is a designer working at the top of his form, a style which personifies an exquisitely reductive, distilled sense of luxury. “There is no magic formula for challenging the present,” says Bradfield. “What counts is the knowhow, the passion, and the will to stay in the fray and remain relevant.” With
impeccability
and
panache,
Bradfield
brilliantly fulfills the most important responsibility of any creative mind, as enunciated by the incomparable Robert Rauschenberg: “The artist’s job is to be witness to his time in history.”
GEOFFREY BR ADFIELD Jorge S. Arango is a writer, editor and stylist specializing in interior design, art and collecting. His work has appeared in many national and international publications, including House & Garden,
A 21ST CENTURY PALACE
GEOFFREY BRADFIELD • A 21ST CENTURY PALACE
Bradfield is more than well acquainted with modern
GEOFFREY BR ADFIELD
GEOFFREY BR ADFIELD
A 21ST CENTURY PALACE
A 21ST CENTURY PALACE TIME magazine called globalization “an epoch, as surely as the Bronze Age” and has stimulated a wholesale rethinking of the palace concept. It is a concept with which designer Geoffrey Bradfield has long been intimately familiar. The pages of this compelling book take readers on a rich virtual journey through the creation of one of this stunning new breed of palaces: a
high-rise
residence
Bradfield
designed
in
the heart of Mexico City. It showcases all the requisite
building
blocks
essential
to
the
development of any great modernist collection: museum-worthy 20th- and 21st-century painting and sculpture, ravishing Art Deco furnishings and extravagant materials cut and quarried from halfway around the planet. This is the first volume in a series that will examine the astonishing particulars of five distinct contemporary palaces located around the world. Few designers plying their talents in the world today are as well equipped as Bradfield to navigate us on this visual excursion. An acknowledged innovator who takes risks with an authoritative hand, he is known for his uncannily prescient ability to recognize unparalleled artistry and excellence, often before it is validated by the wider world arbiters. “Geoffrey is a trendsetter with an impeccable eye for the physical and the intrinsic beauty in the pieces he uses,” confirms Adriana Friedman at DeLorenzo Gallery in New York. Proprietor Tony DeLorenzo adds: “He was one of the very first to . . . recognize the leading designers of the French Art Deco period. At a time when there were only a few 20th-century decorative arts collectors, Geoffrey had the foresight to see the importance
Elle Décor, Traditional Home, Metropolitan Home,
of this market and encouraged his clients to
Luxe and Robb Report. He is also co-author of two
acquire these works of art.”
books: Harlem Style: Designing for the New Urban
continued...
Aesthetic and Ex Arte, which he wrote with Geoffrey Bradfield.
Printed in China.
VOL I