Scene: A modern spin on classics. Versatile and timeless, an article of clothing that goes well with many styles. Classics crossed with current design sensibilities. Mixing pieces with each other, creating an up to the minute modern classic. Background art above, Berlin Wall remnants and Harry Bertoia’s side chair, 1952, for Knoll. Paley Park on East 53rd Street in Manhattan.

In a way modern classics channel: the Bauhaus school philosophy of a union of art and design, reimagining, mixing it up; Paul Rand’s colorful and playful art direction and graphic design, illuminating, fabric hue and graphics; Harry Bertoia’s clean aesthetic, conceived, shaping a silhouette. The perimeters between the creative disciplines of art, fashion, and design have become even more permeable, ebbing and flowing with each other.

Scene: Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen’s sculpture collaboration, Typewriter Eraser, Scale X, 1999, below. A public art installation at Greenacres Park on East 51st Street.