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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. Some residential contents appraisers will handle the lower-value fine art objects.

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Exploring Brazilian Modernism: A Fusion of Tradition and Innovation

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Roberto Burle Marx – Abstract serigraph print. He gave the new city a formal unity, as he designed residential, commercial, and government buildings, including the residence of the President, the National Congress of Brazil, and the hyperboloid Cathedral of Brasília.

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Walter Gropius: the Visionary Master of Modernism

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Gropius developed a workshop-based curriculum, where students would focus on a specialized skill such as ceramics, weaving, printing or photography, and also work as apprentices. Gropius asked that the building be reimagined as the Bauhaus State School and so the innovative cultural movement began in 1919.It