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Christo and More SMS A Collection of Multiples 'William N. Copley, 1968' S.M.S. is an art collection in a box that was available by subscription in 1968. Through February and December, subscribers were mailed six issues containing assorted works of art curated by William N. Copley. The portfolios consist of “original reproductions" by 73 artists including William Copley, Christo, Marcel Duchamp, Roy Lichtenstein, Joseph Kosuth, Walter de Maria, Yoko Ono, Lawrence Weiner, Richard Artschwager, Man Ray, Bruce Nauman, John Cage, Terry Riley and more. S.M.S. included renowned and unknown artists side by side. As form of protest against galleries, S.M.S. made contemporary art affordable and accessible at a modest price of $125.00 per subscription. The portfolios are all kept in their original display covers. Edition of approximately 2,000 published by Letter Edged in Black Press. Volume No. 1 February 1968 Little Box of Earthquake and Cotton (cover), Irving Penn; Black Dress, James Lee Byars; Chicago Project…, Walter de Maria; My Country ‘Tis of Thee, Kasper Konig; Luggage Labels Nancy Reitkopf; Project for a Bridge, Sue Braden; A Postcard for Mother, Richard Hamilton; Two Propositions in Black, Le Monte Young and Marian Zazeela; Store Front, Christo; Sol Mednick; Pharmaceuticals, Julian Levy. Volume No. 2 April 1968 Seven Minute Recording of Contapetrie, a surrealist word game (cover), Marcel Duchamp; The Mirror of Genoveva, Meret Oppenheim; Three Color Separations, Alain Jacquet; A Two-Year-Old Girl Choked to Death Today on an Easter Egg, Ray Johnson; A Proposed Comic Section for the New York Times, Bernard Pfreim; Farwell to Faust, George Reavey; Album, Clovis Trouille; Legal Tender, Bruce Conner; 10 collages, Marcia Hertscovitz; Cynocephalus & Co., Nicolas Calas. Volume No. 3 June 1968 Untitled abstract landscapes (cover), John Battan; Clouds, William Bryant (Bill Copley); Ode to London, Dick Higgens; Two Drawings, Ronnie Landfield; Bush in Hand, Roland Penrose; The Father of Mona Lisa, Man Ray, signed and numbered; Glove, Enrico Baj; Four Titled Abstracts, Joseph Kosuth; Correspondence, H.C. Westerman; Signal Flag Poem, Hannah Weiner; Poppy Nogoods All Night Flight, Terry Riley; Poems, Atograf. Volume No. 4 August 1968 Untitled (cover), Robert Stanley; Drift Study 4:37:4:05:09:50 5 VII 68, La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela; Permanent Parking Decal, Robert Watts; 100 Year Calendar, On Kawara; Lichtenstein Hat, Roy Lichtenstein; Diary: How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse) continued, John Cage; Phenakistiscope, Hollis Frampton...

Knoll International Planed Office Group double pedestal desk with modesty panel model 1503. Features five drawers one for files. Modesty panel ...

Brass Pitcher with lid and walnut handle.

Kalman takes steel and torch-cuts it, then contours it for a Brutalist effect. Signed base Gabor Kalman '68. This item is currently on view in our NYC Greenwich Street Location.

Milo Baughman Dining Table for Directional, Striped multi-wood table top: rosewood, walnut, and ash. Two additional matching leaves. The Table extends from 72" to 108" fully extended...

Italian marble end tables, polished Carrara marble with offset square edge details, top 2.5" thick top sits on 10" x 10" square column securely. Measure: Total height 22.75". [Stamp...

Barrel shaped solid marble stump table.

Early Marchello Fantoni vase, Abstract geometric designs with blue glaze. Signed underside "Fantoni" Italy.

16-light chandelier by Lightolier.

Carl Auböck III Fondue set, by Riess: Enameled steel, stainless steel, Austria, circa 1980 Signed underside.  

Six Cup Espresso Set by Lagardo Tackett 1960c. Set of six cups and saucers in original packaging. Signed Tackett Schmidt, porcelain

Set of five ceramic chairs sculpture by Chicago based artist Linda Kramer. Measures: Chair heights: 5.5", 7.5", 10.25", 14.5", 19.5" Born in New York City in 1937, raised in C...

Unique Sergio Asti architectural sculpture. Patinaed reflective glaze over ceramic. Hand signed on underside, Sergio Asti, 1971.

Rams skull rests on plinth base. Marked "Made in France on underside from Wingate and Johnston"

JOSEF ALBERS (1888 – 1976) "Formulation : Articulation" Portfolio II, Folder 15 Screen-printed geometric composition printed by Ives Stillman, Inc., New Haven, CT. From the set of 12...

Brass floor lamp features cut-out petals and leaf details. Has exposed lighting element and takes multiple bulb styles, shown here clear bulb. Base has spotted patina consistent with...

Modern grandfather clock by Howard Miller, chrome and Lucite.

Custom Phillip Starck mirrored Louis XVI style chairs, Cliff Hotel San Francisco, silver painted wood with cut mirrored glass on seat and back de...

Ceramic male figure, fired stoneware with monochromatic pattern. Incised signature underside.

Early Peter Voulkus ceramic vase early 1960'd [unsigned].

Black tubular steel frame with adjustable chrome-plated fixture.

Black ceramic vase with white/gray volcanic like glaze technique.

Green transparent vase

Black ceramic vase with white glaze drips

Dark purple toned pitcher. Stamped on underside.

Wrought iron and leather strapped wine rack.

Brass plated Nickel desk or vanity mirror. fully extended depth is 3.5

Textured Porcupine vase, stamp on underside.

Pair of Orange Porcelain Pitchers by LaGardo Tackett for Schmid, 1960s A striking pair of mid-century modern porcelain pitchers designed by American ceramicist LaGardo Tackett for Sc...

Walnut cutting board.

Horse sculpture, signed Jo Mead.

Long Chaise with asymmetric arm design detail and lumbar support. Reupholstered with Great Plains Boucle, solid walnut legs. Seat height 19".

Georges Jouve Crucifix in Black glazed earthenware Inscribed to top 'INRI'. Incised signature and artist's cipher to verso ‘Jouve’.

Georges Jouve Soleil Bowl, Black glazed earthenware. Incised artist's cipher to the underside. France, c. 1950 It can hang on the wall.

Roger Capron Bowl, Glazed Earthenware Made in France, c. 1960 Glazed earthenware, signature to underside ‘Capron Vallauris M82’.

Hans-Agne Jakobsson five globe pastoral chandelier, model T 384/5 Brass and glass by Hans-Agne Jakobsson AB Sweden, 1965 (Lamp stem can be short...

Rosenthal bronze sculpture. 1965, untitled. Stamped "Rosenthal, 1965." Nice original patina.

Florence Knoll custom wall-mounted cabinet by Knoll Associates for H.J. Heinz Co, Pittsburgh. This custom wall-mounted cabinet with a Calcutta marble top...

Luigi Caccia Dominioni Pair of Ambrosianeum High-Back Lounge Chairs for Azucena, 1955 A striking pair of Ambrosianeum high-back lounge chairs designed by Luigi Caccia Dominioni in 19...

Pair of Vladimir attributed lounge chairs and ottomans, reupholstered with Italian Boucle. Preview Label on underside Measures: Ottoman H 17" W 24.75" D 22.5".

Crylicord wall lamp by Peter Hamburger for Knoll, (never used sconce), with original box.

Mario Del Fabbro sculpture No. 17 Signed Mario Dal Fabbro, F.42 1984 Multi-disciplinary artist Mario Dal Fabbro was born in Cappella Maggiore, Italy in 1913. He trained in his family...

Marcello Fantoni for Raymor ceramic shelf hanging person. Glazed Ceramic. Cat pictured sold separately.

Mario Dal Fabbro - No. 22 'construction' noted on back Multi-disciplinary artist Mario Dal Fabbro was born in Cappella Maggiore, Italy in 1913. He trained in his family's furniture design shop prior to attending both the R. Superior Institute for Decorative and Industrial Arts in Venice as well as Magistero Artistico, graduating with high honors in 1937. From the years of 1938-1948 Dal Fabbro immersed himself in furniture design and academia. Primarily, he designed furniture for both design houses and private clients. Del Fabbro participated in the Triennale de Milano competition in both 1939 and 1947 and won the Ganzatti Contest for 'Standardization of Furniture". During this period he also contributed to the Italian design publications Domus and Stile and the French magazine L'Architecture D'Aujourd'hui. In 1948 Mario Dal Fabbro immigrated to America and began designing furniture for mass production, working for J.G. Furniture in New York and Quakertown, PA. During his years steady employ, he published Modern Furniture: Its Design And Construction in 1949 and contributed regularly to The New York Times and House and Garden. His subsequent publications spanned a little over the decade and included How to Build Modern Furniture (1951), How to Make Built-In Furniture (1955), and How to Make Children's Furniture and Play Equipment...

Handcrafted and painted Max Kuehne coffee table set of three. Images show versatility as single table curved, straight or as individual tapered end tables. Known primarily as a pai...

Artwork depicting city map of greater Moscow. Picton considers his work sculptural, "separating out the layers of communication, transportation and river systems." Medium: Duralar...

Driftwood sculpture selected by John Dickinson for the Historic Firehouse, San Francisco. Placed in John's bedroom on the same cases shown, (also available) Custom brass display mount...

Custom coffee table, architectural commissioned interior by Platner Studio, manufactured by Lehigh Leopold. Honed Luna Pearl granite top with bronze base.  

Early Edward Wormley for Dunbar slipper chairs. Lacquered mahogany legs with newly reupholstered button tufted seat and back. ...

Edward Wormley for Dunbar caned back dining chairs set of ten, Model 6328 with newly upholstered seats in cotton velvet by Great Plains, Mahogany fram...

Zogrophos desk, slab of dark Emperador marble (brown with white veining). Polished bronze uprights, legs have self leveling glides, with combed oak sus...

Meier rug, graduated squares forming geometric patterns, Germany.

Mario Dal Fabbro - No. 14 signed Mario Dal Fabbro Multi-disciplinary artist Mario Dal Fabbro was born in Cappella Maggiore, Italy in 1913. He trained in his family's furniture de...

J.J. McVicker painting "Hard Edge" painting "Number 2", 1980. Jesse Jay McVicker (b.1911-d.2004) was an American painter, printmaker and sculptor. ...

Mario Dal Fabbro Sculpture No. 1 Signed: [Mario Dal Fabbro 1979] Multi-disciplinary artist Mario Dal Fabbro was born in Cappella Maggiore, Italy in 1913. He trained in his family...

A floor lamp by designer Peter Hamburger, produced, circa 1970s for the Crylicord series from Knoll, with curved stem in Lucite, cylindrical shade and base in polished chrome. Very g...

J.J. McVicker painting "Hard Edge" painting "Black/Red Intersection", 1970. Jesse Jay McVicker (b.1911-d.2004) American painter, printmaker and scu...

Rex Lotery wall Hung lounge chairs for Corinne Calvet Residence, House Beverly Hills, California, Wall brackets with 2 connection points for each chair, side of the wall, and back. ...

Robert John Credenza, five drawers 2 pencil drawers with locks, one file drawer with notch pulls, sliding doors with removable adjustable shelf. ...

Enzo Mari Dima modular wall shelving system for Simon International Dima Italy, circa 1970 Enameled steel, shelves adjustable with solid plastic holders...