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Choosing an Appraiser—Essential Questions to Ask: Part I

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Residential Contents appraisers routinely handle all the furniture, rugs and decorative items that are normally encountered in a home. Fine Art appraisers normally handle all paintings, prints, photographs, drawings, sculpture, tapestries and art glass.

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Exploring Brazilian Modernism: A Fusion of Tradition and Innovation

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Seeing how Brazilian vernacular design, which emphasises a harmonious relationship with nature, could influence modern Brazilian architecture, Bo Bardi designed the São Paulo Museum of Art and her now trademark Glass House in Sao Paulo’s suburbs.

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Walter Gropius: the Visionary Master of Modernism

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It was also where his championing of industrial materials such as glass, steel and reinforced concrete started to take shape. A triumph of geometric form with more glass than brick on the facade and an almost weightless feel, it was completed in collaboration with Adolf Meyer in 1911, Gropius new Berlin-based business partner.