Culture | Apr. 2025
NEWSWORTHY: APRIL 2025
By Contributor
GLORIOUS GARDENS
Step beyond the homes and into the lush, private gardens of the world’s most celebrated interior designers with Glorious Gardens: Private Edens of the World’s Leading Interior Designers. This captivating tome invites readers into the enchanting outdoor spaces that serve as personal retreats and wellsprings of inspiration for famed designers including Martyn Lawrence Bullard, Katie Ridder, Charlotte Moss, Todd Nickey, Mark D. Sikes, Bunny Williams, Stephen Sills, Thomas O’Brien, and Paul Wiseman. Glorious Gardens includes 21 gardens located in regions around the world—including England, Scotland, Mexico, and Morocco, as well as both coasts of the United States—emphasizing the breadth of plants, landscapes, and styles. This latest offering from FREDERIC and Monacelli is written by Dara Caponigro, Chief Creative Officer of F. Schumacher & Co., and Editor-in-Chief of FREDERIC. Caponigro will be in Lake Forest on April 28 at the Lake Forest Showhouse & Gardens lunch, where she is serving as moderator for a discussion with world-renowned Los Angeles-based interior designer Mary McDonald. Caponigro will sign advance copies of Glorious Gardens following the discussion. For more information, visit phaidon.com and lakeforestshowhouse.com.
MYTH AND MARBLE
Portrait of Hadrian, about 130 CE. Roman, Imperial Period. Torlonia Collection. © Torlonia Foundation. Photo by Lorenzo De Masi.
The Art Institute of Chicago is pleased to announce Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture from the Torlonia Collection on view through June 29. The exhibition features approximately 58 rarely seen sculptures from the Torlonia Collection that span nine centuries, including 24 newly restored works that have not been on display in nearly a century. This will be the first time these works have ever been seen in North America. The Torlonia Collection is the largest private collection of Roman marble sculptures in Italy and one of the most important private collections of its type in the world. The collection’s 622 works cover a wide range of sculptural types and subjects, and its holdings rival those of major institutions in Europe, including the Capitoline and Vatican Museums. Many of these sculptures, which range in date from the 5th century BCE to the early 4th century CE, have been newly cleaned, conserved, and studied specifically for this show. The exhibit is co-organized by the Art Institute of Chicago and The Torlonia Foundation and is curated by Lisa Ayla Çakmak, Mary and Michael Jaharis Chair and Curator, Art of Greece, Rome and Byzantium, and Katharine A. Raff, Elizabeth Mcllvaine Curator, Art of Greece, Rome and Byzantium. For more information, visit artic.edu.
HOME AWAY FROM HOME
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