Are the above chairs awesome or what? I bet you’d like to sit in one!
When I visited the Mingei International Museum last weekend, I set my astonished eyes on this furniture. I then admired other fantastic furnishings, all designed by world-renowned French-American artist Niki de Saint Phalle!
The many sculptures she created during her lifetime are widely known. But chairs and tables and vases and mirrors? Yes!
You’ll discover all sorts of crazily colorful objects when you visit the Niki and Mingei exhibition at the Mingei International Museum!
You’ll see an exuberant, irrepressible love of life.
Did I mention Niki became well known for her sculptures?
She has many around San Diego!
Should you walk outside the Mingei International Museum in Balboa Park, you’ll likely see two of her sculptures: Nikigator and Poet and Muse. And during your travels you might observe her sculptures at Waterfront Park, or UC San Diego, or by the San Diego Convention Center, or at the California Center for the Arts in Escondido. If you haven’t stepped into Queen Califia’s Magical Circle at Kit Carson Park, you’re missing a mind-blowing, incredible experience.
Niki de Saint Phalle was closely connected with San Diego and the Mingei International Museum. She spent the later years of her life in La Jolla.
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Thanks for sharing this and all the links so I could be reminded of her huge talent. It is hard to conceive of designing such huge sculptures and installments that are not only beautiful to look at but also ones you can crawl through, sit on and ponder the myths and archetypes shared. Quite a story to read in her work. I’ve not explored Escondido but this inspires me to visit Kit Carson’s park when I get back to San Diego county. It reminds me of Gaudi’s work. For whimsical chairs I like the painted ones in the Spanish Village sculpture studio, too.
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