JOURNAL
Featuring inspiration, interviews with creatives, and insights into interior decorating and collecting, Audra encourages you to live authentically and beautifully with art and exceptional objects.
CREATIVE SERVICES
Shhhh! Some secrets are just so fun to keep, but this one’s out of the bag! Did you know Audra consults as a creative director on artful projects ranging from hospitality to product design to fashion and beyond?
CASA BRANCA: Designer Spotlight
For Audra, it’s all about balancing beautiful pieces—vintage finds, contemporary works, cultural artifacts—with furniture, architecture, and a sense of comfort.
FEATURED ARTIST: JAMES RYAN
Composed of deconstructed baskets, ‘Nid’ pushes the boundaries of craft, culture, and nature to explore the creative process and human inspiration drawn from the natural world.
PHAIDON BOOK LAUNCH
Celebrating the Phaidon publishing launch of Defining Style at the Designers’ Cocktail in the UES former home/studio of Richard Avedon!
HOLIDAY DECORATING
Audra opens up the Art/artefact home to Homeworthy this year and shares her tips and favorite holiday decorating tips and traditions.
NEW & NOTEWORTHY
Our project with Irene Owens and Parvum Opus is New & Noteworthy for Frederic’s editors this December!
VINTAGE HOLIDAY: Lucia Zolea Collection
A dream photoshoot collaboration with dear friend and exceptional vintage dealer Lucia Zolea for her Holiday 2024 Collection shot at Art/artefact.
STUDIO VISIT: Irene Owens
Step inside the studio of self-taught miniaturist Irene Owens, the painter behind The Artist’s Eye
FRAMING THE ARTIST’S EYE: Art/artefact x parvum opus
A dream collaboration with Erika Stefanutti of Parvum Opus to create the perfect display case for The Artist’s Eye.
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.
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