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" A collection of malachite obelisks; a set of silver coated sea-shell shaped salt sellers; a taxidermied lioness\u2014welcome to Creel &amp;amp;amp; Gow, a store filled to the rafters with objects you had no idea you were looking for, but suddenly find you can&amp;#039;t live without. Owners Christopher Gow and Jamie Creel traverse the globe finding Emu eggs, selenite logs, hand-blown glass bell jars, and other arcana to fill their shop, which is located on East 70th and Lexington in the former stables of architect Grosvenor Atterbury&amp;#039;s townhouse. It&amp;#039;s the kind of approach to Wunderkammer (or more commonly, Cabinet of Curiosities) that keeps the well-heeled ladies and gents of the Upper East Side trotting back one season after another. This week, the store hosted a private party (with a little help from Bettina Zilkha, Dennis Basso, and Bob Colacello) for Ardmore Ceramic Art, an artist community founded by Fee Halsted in Kwazulu Natal. Halsted, a South African ceramicist, created the initiative to allow unemployed villagers to channel artistic energy through a shared cultural tradition. Halsted seeks candidates that she can train in sculpting or painting. For each piece, a &amp;quot;master thrower&amp;quot; at the wheel creates vessels of different shapes and sizes. A sculptor selects a piece that appeals to him upon which he builds his own unique narrative. After the vessel is fired, it is placed in the painters&amp;#039; studio, where a painter selects a piece he is attracted to and enhances and energizes it with his own colors and patterns, without ever consulting the sculptor. The result is a collaborative and yet individual approach to ceramics, like this pair of Kudu vases by Ardmore which were sculpted by Sabelo Khoza and painted by Virginia Xaba. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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