Auction Items
2008 Sapphire Necklace Gala
1. The Light Sock by Diller Scofidio + Renfro
“The Light Sock is not your grandmother’s chandelier,” say ICA architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro. The award-winning designers deconstruct this traditional fixture with brilliant simplicity, creating a mesh sack overflowing with Swarovski crystals. A smart and chic subversion of the chandelier’s classical branch and pendant form, the Light Sock is illuminated by a single halogen bulb light source, intensifying the crystals’ natural light prisms. Created in three sizes (single, double, and long), the Light Sock expands to take on the shape of its contents.
Donated by: Swarovski
2. New York Foodie Fantasy
Break bread with one of America’s most important food critics. Culinary memoirist and Gourmet magazine editor-in-chief Ruth Reichl will dine with six lucky winners at her favorite restaurant in New York. Dinner guests will fly to New York via private jet and spend the night at the Four Seasons Hotel. The plane, a Pilatus, comfortably accommodates six passengers and two pilots. Passengers may depart from any Boston-area airport and arrive in any New York-area airport.
The flight includes snacks, soda and drinks. Please note this package must be used on a mutually agreeable date and expires on May 31, 2009. The rooms at the Four Seasons are blacked out from April 15 through June 28 and September 2 through December 20 and high demand period restrictions.
Donated by: Ruth Reichl, The Four Seasons Hotel, Ofer and Shelley Nemirovsky
3. L.A.’s Haute Cuisine and Hot Art Scene
Sherry Yard, the award-winning pastry chef at Spago, welcomes you into her kitchen, where you will spend the day cooking together. Watch carefully, and you might learn some of her sweet secrets.
While you are in L.A., enjoy private tours of the city’s hottest contemporary art museums. See the new Broad Contemporary Art Museum at LACMA with curator Lynn Zelevansky, and tour LA MOCA with curator Bennett Simpson, formerly of the ICA. This trip also includes three nights in a four-star hotel in L.A. and dinner for two at Spago.
Spago Beverly Hills, the flagship restaurant of the Wolfgang Puck Fine Dining Group, continues to set the standard for cuisine, service, and style. Spago Beverly Hills was awarded the 2005 Outstanding Service Award by the James Beard Foundation. In November 2007, The Michelin Guide announced Spago received two stars in the 2008 Los Angeles edition, one of only three restaurants in the city to win this distinction. Please note this package expires on May 31, 2009. It is important to book the “day in the kitchen” in advance, and it must be on a mutually agreeable date.
Donated by: Wolfgang Puck Restaurant Group, LACMA, LA MOCA
4. David Yurman Experience
David Yurman will host an exclusive “Yurman Experience” in which you and a guest will be given a private, behind- the-scenes tour of the Yurman Design Studios in New York. Get an inside look at where America’s premier luxury jeweler creates his spectacular collections including Limited Edition and Couture pieces. You will be introduced to David Yurman for a one-on-one private consultation on creating your piece of choice as well as a consultation on your current David Yurman collection.
This experience includes private plane transportation on a Pilatus PC12 from Hanscomb to White Plains or Teterboro, dinner for two at a New York restaurant, and a complimentary stay at one of the city’s hippest hotels. Expiration Date: May 9, 2009 and subject to a mutually agreeable date.
Donated by: David Yurman; use of the plane donated by Brian and Karen Conway
5. Shellburne Thurber Commissioned Photograph of Your Home
Best known for her evocative photographs depicting empty and abandoned interiors, Shellburne Thurber first exhibited at the ICA in 1995 as part of Boston School, a critically acclaimed exhibition which featured Nan Goldin, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, and other influential artists who studied in Boston. In 1999, the ICA presented Home, Thurber’s series of atmospheric photographs of vacant houses in the South. Her work has been shown in galleries both national and international, and she has received numerous awards including the Maud Morgan Prize from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
The high bidder on this prize will receive a photograph by Shellburne Thurber of your home. You will have the opportunity to work with Thurber so that she can create a unique photographic portrait of your home. You will be able to work together to choose the interior scene that you’d like to capture. Thurber will provide a 20” x 20” unframed print to the winner.
Donated by: Shellburne Thurber
6. Ring in the New Year at the ICA
Toast the arrival of 2009 with a front row seat for Boston’s spectacular fireworks show on the harbor—the ICA and its dramatic waterfront location will be yours for the evening. Work with Wolfgang Puck Catering to create a one-of-a kind menu to ensure the success of your New Year’s extravaganza. Please note this party can be used for up to 30 guests on December 31, 2008.
If you prefer to host your event on another evening, we are happy to work with you to find another date. This prize includes a $10,000 credit to be used towards food and beverage with Wolfgang Puck. Use of space expires on May 31, 2009.
Donated by: the ICA and Wolfgang Puck Catering
7. Tara Donovan Sculpture for the ICA Collection
Purchase Tara Donovan’s sculpture Nebulous for the ICA’s growing collection. Donovan creates stunning works of art from the unlikeliest of materials, including drinking straws, toothpicks, buttons, and Styrofoam cups. Layered, piled, or clustered, the artist’s accumulations of these mass-produced items have a phenomenal impact. Works like Untitled (Pins) (2003), her mesmerizing cube currently in the collection, seem to defy the laws of nature. This fall, the ICA is organizing Donovan’s first major museum survey, which will tour to three additional venues across the U.S. through 2010.
You can ensure that Donovan’s work will astound generations of visitors to come—tonight’s auction features a major sculptural installation donated as a full gift to the ICA. Donovan has singled out Nebulous (first presented in 2002) as her most successful transformation of the ordinary into the sublime. Looping thousands of frosted strips of Scotch tape into an irregular airy weave, the artist creates the illusion of a mist concentrated over the floor. As a donor to the ICA collection—a lender to museums the world over—you will be recognized in perpetuity as one of the ICA’s most important benefactors.
Donated by: Tara Donovan and PaceWildenstein Gallery, New York