Design
fromCurbed
2 days agoWhen the Ashtray Was Everywhere
Smoking's decline has made ashtrays rare; a museum displays historic ashtrays from Art Deco bronzes and mid-century designs to a Picasso ceramic.
The Sol LeWitt piece was a gift from Beracasa Beckman's mother, Veronica Hearst. "It's a fantastic piece of art because, in reality, what you buy is a document with the IP, so you can take a paper document with instructions and execute it on a large wall in any space," she says. (Technically, the two cubic rectangles are a section of the complete 1989 LeWitt work, Wall Drawing 604H, which consists of five rectangles.) With a laugh, she adds, "It's really the easiest way to travel with very large art."