MONDOBLOGO is BACK

a mirror finish aluminum chair in the cuplike shape of an upturned cabbage leaf or something sits on the slate floor of the lobby of sothebys on madison avenue, a black-clad figure moving behind it giving the only indication of space in the photo. the curved surface of the chair, meanwhile, reflects and distorts the grid of round light fixtures marcel breuer designed for the whitney museum, which sold this building to sotheby's a couple of years ago. patrick parrish took this photo in december 2025 for mondo blogo. this chair did not sell.

It was nice to start seeing emails from Patrick Parrish in my inbox again, but it was not until he posted his speedrun of the recent design auctions in NYC that I realized how much I’d missed his design blog, MONDOBLOGO, in my online life.

Here is Parrish’s photo of Marcel Breuer’s lights reflected across a Ron Arad chair, one of two that didn’t sell at Sotheby’s. He also has photos of a private dinner being set up in the gallery, which used to be the Whitney Museum of American Art, then the Met, then the Frick.