Aurora Public Art Commission presents Journey Interior, Furniture Renaissance, the exploration of materials and construction methods and design of furniture, from 1760 through the present.
Curated by Aurora Public Art Commission and the Albert and Mary Ann Signorelli, Interior Journey features the work of three artists: designers and furniture craftsmen Tonino Stalteri, and photographer Tony Berardi and Sally Good. Besides the exhibition includes various pieces of period furniture from the collection of the Aurora Historical Society.
Tonino Stalteri
Tonino Stalteri, came from Calabria, Italy, has spent the past 20 years mastering the art to be true artisans. Stalteri using old world skills to design and create an eclectic, contemporary furniture. Its design is built using the traditional style joinery, dowels, finger joints, dovetails, mortise and tenons. All pieces are made from natural ingredients, including many hard and soft woods, concrete, and various types of metals (aluminum, copper, steel and iron). There is also a focus on recycled materials, for example, has taken Stalteri material from demolition sites and included them in various ways.
Stalteri specialty metals including weaving, which provides an attractive appearance to a design. He also experiments with natural stain. Latest design includes hand-hammered hardware for cabinets and doors. He begins with a piece of raw copper and use the tradition of hand-hammered to create the effect of rough drawer pull.
Tony Stalteri has said that the greatest pleasure is to complete the design of the customer's home and to see this assumes significance of their living space. No two pieces are ever the same.
Stalteri's work is represented in the following galleries: Casa De Artista in Old Town Scottsdale, Ariz., and lin Sawbridge Studios Chicago & Winnetka. A photo gallery can be viewed on the website: www.designsbytonino.com.
Tony Berardi
Chicago native Tony Berardi has been a professional photographer since 1956, when he began working for International News Service.
In July 1957 he moved to the Chicago Herald American. That the newspaper was renamed the Chicago American and then re-renamed Chicago Today, where Berardi won many awards, nationally and internationally. During this period some of the photos hanging in The Hague.
After working in the sports and the Sunday magazine section, Berardi was appointed Director of Photography in 1971. When the paper folded into the Chicago Tribune in 1975, he became chief photographer and photo director of the department. Under the guidance of photographic paper won many awards and honors.
After retiring in 1997, Tony Berardi and Sally Good wife started the company, Photofields, a photography company that specializes mainly in interior design, architecture and landscape photography.
Sally Good
As long as 13 years, Sally Good's dream was to become an underwater photographer. Although he eventually decided to stay on dry land, his interest in photography took him to Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York, where he received his associates. He then continued his education at the London College of Printing in the UK
After college, get a good job doing darkroom work for agriculture famous photographer, Grant Heilman, but soon realized that "I need to take a job where I did the shooting."
After hearing the old adage, "If you can not get a job in Chicago, you can not get a job anywhere!" He moved to Chicago and worked as a photo intern at the Chicago Tribune. Both remained on the staff for 10 years, working primarily on the task in the studio and features color, shoot food, fashion and portraits. He won several awards, particularly Beck Award in 1983.
After taking the time to raise their four children, Sally, Welcome to the club with her husband, Tony Berardi in 1997 and started a company, Photofields.
Their work has appeared Design & Architecture, North Shore magazine, Midwest Home Chicago, Chicago, Life and Time Out
source: www.suburbanchicagonews.com
Curated by Aurora Public Art Commission and the Albert and Mary Ann Signorelli, Interior Journey features the work of three artists: designers and furniture craftsmen Tonino Stalteri, and photographer Tony Berardi and Sally Good. Besides the exhibition includes various pieces of period furniture from the collection of the Aurora Historical Society.
Tonino Stalteri
Tonino Stalteri, came from Calabria, Italy, has spent the past 20 years mastering the art to be true artisans. Stalteri using old world skills to design and create an eclectic, contemporary furniture. Its design is built using the traditional style joinery, dowels, finger joints, dovetails, mortise and tenons. All pieces are made from natural ingredients, including many hard and soft woods, concrete, and various types of metals (aluminum, copper, steel and iron). There is also a focus on recycled materials, for example, has taken Stalteri material from demolition sites and included them in various ways.
Stalteri specialty metals including weaving, which provides an attractive appearance to a design. He also experiments with natural stain. Latest design includes hand-hammered hardware for cabinets and doors. He begins with a piece of raw copper and use the tradition of hand-hammered to create the effect of rough drawer pull.
Tony Stalteri has said that the greatest pleasure is to complete the design of the customer's home and to see this assumes significance of their living space. No two pieces are ever the same.
Stalteri's work is represented in the following galleries: Casa De Artista in Old Town Scottsdale, Ariz., and lin Sawbridge Studios Chicago & Winnetka. A photo gallery can be viewed on the website: www.designsbytonino.com.
Tony Berardi
Chicago native Tony Berardi has been a professional photographer since 1956, when he began working for International News Service.
In July 1957 he moved to the Chicago Herald American. That the newspaper was renamed the Chicago American and then re-renamed Chicago Today, where Berardi won many awards, nationally and internationally. During this period some of the photos hanging in The Hague.
After working in the sports and the Sunday magazine section, Berardi was appointed Director of Photography in 1971. When the paper folded into the Chicago Tribune in 1975, he became chief photographer and photo director of the department. Under the guidance of photographic paper won many awards and honors.
After retiring in 1997, Tony Berardi and Sally Good wife started the company, Photofields, a photography company that specializes mainly in interior design, architecture and landscape photography.
Sally Good
As long as 13 years, Sally Good's dream was to become an underwater photographer. Although he eventually decided to stay on dry land, his interest in photography took him to Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York, where he received his associates. He then continued his education at the London College of Printing in the UK
After college, get a good job doing darkroom work for agriculture famous photographer, Grant Heilman, but soon realized that "I need to take a job where I did the shooting."
After hearing the old adage, "If you can not get a job in Chicago, you can not get a job anywhere!" He moved to Chicago and worked as a photo intern at the Chicago Tribune. Both remained on the staff for 10 years, working primarily on the task in the studio and features color, shoot food, fashion and portraits. He won several awards, particularly Beck Award in 1983.
After taking the time to raise their four children, Sally, Welcome to the club with her husband, Tony Berardi in 1997 and started a company, Photofields.
Their work has appeared Design & Architecture, North Shore magazine, Midwest Home Chicago, Chicago, Life and Time Out
source: www.suburbanchicagonews.com
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