Buck House NYC

Buck House is a gallery on Madison Avenue in the Carnegie Hill neighborhood of Manhattan’s Upper East Side, USA. The gallery opened in November 2001 and is owned and operated by artist, designer, and author Deborah Buck.[1] The gallery displays and sells fine art and design objects, said to be among the “finest examples of design from the 19th century to the present.”[2]

In 2006, Buck House launched a second, much larger space nearby called The Gallery at Buck House. This exhibition space hosted fine art exhibitions, book release parties, and events to benefit charitable organizations.[3] In September 2010, however, Buck House closed its two locations in favor of one, much larger space on Madison Avenue which combines both the antique store and exhibition space. “The idea” said Deborah Buck in a 2010 interview, “was to create a meeting place and a salon like those in 1920s Paris.” [4]

Trained as a painter and set designer, Deborah's style is reflected in the grouping of objects at Buck House.[5] Deborah Buck originated the concept for 'Buck House Moments': a series of curated still-life photographs including antiques, fine art and floral arrangements. An eclectic assemblage of objects, or tableaux, highlight shared formal characteristics between objects and design a moment in the world of Buck House.[6] Exhibitions, revolving window displays, and tableaux developed at Buck House have inspired books such as Tableau and Fictional Females of Buck House and allow the public to explore, appreciate and interpret design in everyday life.

Buck House Gallery Exhibitions

Manhattan/Glamour, 2006 An exhibition of photographs, sculpture, paintings, and drawings, curated by Charlie Scheips.

Seeing... Blue, September 2006 An exhibition of fine and decorative arts inspired by Deborah Buck's obsession with turquoise.

Gem, March 2007 An exhibition of treasures from the archive of the Illustration House. Curated by Charlie Scheips. Including a selection of decorative arts and furniture inspired by the new Buck House Estate Jewelry Collection.

Wild Flowers, September 2007 An exhibition that explores the visual power of the flower in paintings, furniture and decorative art.

Roger Jazilek – An Exhibition of Paintings, September 2008

The Design Entrepreneur Book Launch Party, November 2008 The projects in The Design Entrepreneur reveal the ways that designers put their ideas into marketable forms.

Autumn Hues, Lavenders & Blues, October 2009 Wearable Art/Janis Provisor applies her personal style to jewels.

Elle Decor Celebrates the New Buck House, November 2009 Margaret Russell, editor-in-chief of Elle Decor, hosted the opening of Buck House at its new location at 1318 Madison Avenue and 93rd Street.

Juan Montoya – Book Launch Party, December 2009

Launch of Rocknrola Jewelry in NYC, February 2010 From Susan Cohn Rockefeller and Carola Mack, Rocknrola designs. Oceana benefit party.

Indian Summer – Benefit Party, May 2010 A philanthropic endeavor for Buck House, profits went to Aid to Artisans, a nonprofit organization which champions the handmade arts and their artisans throughout the world.

Garden Party, July 2010 Garden Party celebrates Buck House's first guest designer for the Buck House Window Project with the window installation, "Garden Party" by John Danzer for Munder Skiles.

Haresh Lalvani: XtraD, April 2011

Gwyneth Leech, The Cup Drawing Installation: Hypergraphia, June 2011

References

  1. ↑ Heller, Steven and Lita Talarico. The Design Entrepreneur: Turning Graphic Design Into Goods That Sell. Beverly, Mass: Rockport Publishers, 2008, 72.
  2. ↑ Lou Marota, “In Living Color: Outstanding Design Resources From an Insider,” in Connecticut Cottages and Gardens (February 2011).
  3. ↑ ”Buck House Launches Gallery With ‘Manhattan: Glamor,’” Antiques and the Arts Weekly. (New York: April 7, 2006).
  4. ↑ ”Deborah Buck” The Pied a Terre (November 2010).
  5. ↑ Nicksin, Carole. "Room With a Point of View", New York Magazine, April 3, 2005.
  6. ↑ Steven Heller and Lita Talarico. Foreword in Tableau, New York: Buck House, 2010.

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