New York’s Standard Hotel Hosts Storefront Art Auction
Storefront honored Max Protetch and Madelon Vriesendorp at the spring bash on Tuesday.
Annie Block -- Interior Design, 5/7/2009 12:00:00 AM
Paola Antonelli and Calvin Tsao
Each year, the Storefront for Art and Architecture, a nonprofit New York-based organization founded in 1982 and committed to the advancement of innovation and emerging voices in architecture, art, and design, holds its annual spring benefit at a new, important architectural site. Last year’s was at Work Architecture Company’sDiane von Furstenberg headquarters. For this year’s fete, revelers returned to the Meatpacking District: to André Balazs’s Standard Hotel, Polshek Partnership Architects’s stunner that literally straddles the soon-to-open High Line.
Charles Renfro and Deborah Marton
Some 300 supporters passed through the fashionable lobby, outfitted by Roman & Williams and floor-to-ceiling architectural screens by Hall of Famer Erwin Hauer, to the hotel’s third floor, where works by 35 artists and architects—Andrea Zittel, Tomas Saraceno, and SANAA among them—graced the walls, awaiting purchase in the silent auction. Even a concrete letter “R” from the original Storefront facade, the one replaced in 1993 by Vito Acconci and Steven Holl, was up for sale.
Jan Staller and James Slade
Among the crowd—most of which was donning yellow SB (Storefront Benefit) stickers—were James and Hayes Slade, Design Trust’s executive director Deborah Marton, contributing editor Aric Chen, MoMA’s Paola Antonelli and mate Larry Carty, Hall of Famer Calvin Tsao, Charles Renfro, Lindy Roy, Toshiko Mori, and Balazs himself. Charlie Koolhaas, daughter of Rem, was there too, no doubt for her mom (and Rem’s wife), artist and OMA cofounder Madelon Vriesendrop, who was being honored along with gallerist Max Protetch.
Stylist Dereck and Molly Heintz
Champagne was flowing, bids were flying, and fun was being had by all. All told, the auction—the highest bid, $12,000, going to a Kiki Smith work—and ticket sales raised a hefty $230,000 for Storefront.
Aric Chen and Larry Carty
See the slideshow for shots of artwork from Storefront's spring auction.
Photography by Annie Block.
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