PERFECT WEEKEND: Napa Valley
Audra shares her favorite spots to eat, drink, and shop in California wine country developed over the four years she called San Francisco home.
EDITOR’S EYE: A Collector Makes the Napa Valley Home
For this art collecting couple, what was needed was an editor’s eye and spatial planning. Consulting on their home design was a delightful exercise in constraints with soaring results.
SUBSTANTIATING IDENTITY: Behind the Scenes of a Hospitality Art Commission 30 Years in the Making
Audra discusses her love of large-scale hospitality and corporate commissions, offering a behind-the-scenes look into her process.
STUDIO VISIT: Rosalind Tallmadge
Rosalind Tallmadge’s studio is an exercise in minimalism, providing the perfect environment to create category-defying, monumental artworks of maximal impact.
Vertigo, The Legion of Honor & Lavinia Fontana
This masterpiece takes place in San Francisco, and revisiting some of the sites featured in the film led me to discover a portrait that hasn’t been viewed for 400 years.
VERANDA: Mexico City Art Hop
As a former CDMX gallerist and founder of Art/artefact, which champions emerging and mid-career artists, Audra Kiewiet de Jonge knows a thing or two about spotting great art.
ROMA NORTE: Photo Essay
A collection of images that capture nostalgia— taken walking the streets of her former home, where she spent many wonderful hours ambling, observing, and enjoying the sights and sounds
STUDIO VISIT: Fabiola Menchelli
Fabiola Menchelli’s bodies of work uses traditional darkroom processes in a highly experimental, deeply physical and challenging personal engagement with the materials to feel-out landscapes and constructions in the dark.
PERFECT WEEKEND: Art & Design in Mexico City
“There’s Rome, there’s Paris, there’s New York City…and there’s Mexico City.” How does one craft a perfect weekend in Mexico City? With expert advice—for art and design lovers in this case—from insider Audra Kiewiet de Jonge.
Wishing to Live There…
Starting a new project, whether a room design with great art or a collection, with a few key questions that define where things just felt right.
SUMMER READING: Italian Journey
Goethe’s writing full of situational humor, the thrill of immersing yourself in someplace new, and humanizing existential questions that are as fresh and relevant today as they were nearly 250 years ago.
ANDREA FERRERO/Architectural Digestion x The Grand Tour
What better way to honor the shift to a season of travel than to contemplate the history of travel for pleasure via The Grand Tour, our place on the journey, and the legacy of geo-political constructions of civilization in the edible ruins of Andrea Ferrero?
PERIOD PORTRAITS INTERVIEW
On the Artist’s Eye: “I wanted the active female gaze to be seen as something beautiful.” - Audra Kiewiet de Jonge
AUDRA’S HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW
Collecting photography is a thrilling process of engagement with the boundaries of representation and the science of the medium. Audra shares a few of her favorites across the 200+ year history.
DURA SOCIETY - WOMEN, WEALTH, WELLBEING
On flexing your taste muscle and breaking the taboo about money.
IN KIND - Finding Your Personal Style
A three-word trick to figuring out your personal style, courtesy of art advisor and interior designer Audra Kiewiet de Jonge.
STYLING THE ARTIST’S EYE
The mushroom that sparked a thousand questions and the giant cabbage that started it all. Audra talks about how the Artist’s Eye came to be styled on food on the table.
ARTIST CAREER CONSULTING
Audra offers specialized consulting services to artists seeking to take their work and careers to the next level.
THE ARTIST’S EYE - EVENT AT SAVED NY
We hosted a preview of The Artist’s Eye, a collection of bejeweled portraits of women artist’s eyes from history, at SAVED NY in the West Village.
BUYING AT AUCTION
Buying at auction is a great place to start looking when building a collection. Audra helps to demystify the process.
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![The eyes of Françoise Gilot, looking out at the world with the wearer.
“I am the eye that is looking at a spectacle. I am not talking about the eye [itself], I am thinking about what it is I’m seeing.”
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