Earlier than & After: A Chintzy Manhattan Flat Is Given the Gallery Remedy for an Artwork Lover

Earlier than Klara Hribkova was a New Yorker renovating an Higher East Facet condo, she was a vacationer. For twenty years, Klara made a biannual arts pilgrimage to the Manhattan, the place she stuffed her itinerary with the sorts of museum exhibitions, artists talks, and structure excursions that weren’t as available the place she lived in Minneapolis. Nevertheless, as a result of her metropolis was comparatively reasonably priced, she was capable of buy a loft massive sufficient to carry her beneficiant assortment of artwork and books, lots of its items sourced in New York. Klara prefers the work of self-taught artists, she says, and her assortment consists of Murano glass, folks artwork, and German expressionism, all sourced from galleries or on-line public sale websites like eBay.