The painter Federico de Francesco gave up his “very tense” career in finance to become an artist, and to live like one. He moved to this 1,000-square-foot loft in 2017. Alex Katz is a mentor and friend.
Museum of Arts and Design invites visitors into miniature world created by collector Joanna Fisher
The Fisher Dollhouse: A Venetian Palazzo. Photo: Jenna Bascom.
NEW YORK, NY
.- Inspired by Venices glamorous Gritti Palace, The Fisher Dollhouse: A Venetian Palazzo in Miniature is making its public debut at the Museum of Arts and Design. With a fifteenth-century classical exterior and ten rooms filled with an eclectic range of historical and contemporary craft, art, and design rendered in miniature, The Fisher Dollhouse: A Venetian Palazzo in Miniature displays an impressive collection of contemporary art created by more than ten international artists, many of whom are working in miniature for the first time. New York collector, maker, and arts patron Joanna Fisher conceived of the dollhouse in response to the lockdown required by the COVID-19 pandemic. Like so many, she was housebound and felt her world shrink and embraced it, literally. The dollhouse project offered Fisher a f