#murray moss

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Murray Moss & Franklin Getchell for NYTimes Style

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Murray Moss & Franklin Getchell for NYTimes Style

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Read the story on the NYTimes 

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Murray Moss !

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Client Love from Our Archives: Murray Moss featured in the NY Times in Oct 2012. Read the article.

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Revisited - Murray Moss Quote from intro to Phillips du Pury Catalogue October 2012

"I've always regarded most of the non-life-saving material world as 'souvenirs' of more or less profound thought expressed through functional 'things', which, by definition, possess therefore a divine duality for which they are sometimes considered inferior to Art, rather than the other way around."

Murray Moss, in his introduction in the Phillips du Pury catalogue for the sale he curated last fall (October 2012).

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Artecase believes it's the other way around.

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Moss Bureau

While taking a break from the chaos of wedding planning and shopping in SoHo today, I totally remembered a store I used to frequent with Mrs. Cee. Do you remember the store Moss in Soho? On Greene Street... the one where, as my friend used to say - the people who worked there didn't seem very happy to see you. Never mind that, it was always a feast for the eyes regardless if someone welcomed you in or not. You could walk in there and see things you had never seen anywhere else - a sofa made out of teddy bears, a light that looked like a beehive. Now Moss's eponymous owner (pictured above sitting on the aforementioned couch) has launched himself into another variation of object appreciation. It's Moss Bureau. I stumbled across the website while trying to find out what happened to the store (it closed almost 2 years ago now). The idea is fascinating: Murray Moss and all his design acumen can be yours for the asking! I'm sure his fees are astronomical but I have to believe they would be worth it. Can you imagine? Having Murray Moss come over to "curate" your crap worldly possessions!

Moss Bureau is a design consulting business. It's mandate is to curate collections for private clients, museums and shops. Murray Moss remarked last year in a New York Times article that he always hated retail and that he is much more interested in the stories objects tell. I for one am anxious for see more of his interpretations.

xoJ

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From the Design Criticism website:

The ghettoization of Art and Design that permeates our cultural institutions, commercial galleries and auction houses, eliminates the possibility of a tertium quid (third thing) which might be greater than the sum of its individual parts. Through Moss and now through Moss Bureau, design retailer and gallerist Murray Moss has dedicated his career to blurring distinctions between genres in an attempt to dismantle such departmental thinking. In conversation with Alice Twemlow, Murray will expound on his “apples to oranges” approach to curation through which, by pairing certain disparate works, he asks his audience to search, with fresh eyes, for new conclusions.

Murray Moss is the founder of the internationally renowned Moss design gallery, a museum-like store, located in New York’s SoHo district, that displayed and sold cutting-edge products and furniture between 1994 and 2012. During that time, Murray conceived and curated over 100 highly influential exhibitions at Moss as well as other venues. In February of 2012, Murray and his partner Franklin Getchell closed their Greene Street store, and inaugurated Moss Bureau, a design consultancy providing a multiplicity of services to manufacturers, design studios, and architectural firms, as well as offering curatorial and interior design services.

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