Sock it to me!
Balthasar Portillo crossed my radar at ICFF several years ago. His edgy style was a great contrast to many of the mild-mannered products being featured at the fair that year. He's just been selected as the Artist of the Month by the Museum of Art El Salvador for the month of August. His "Skeletoid" is included in a series titled "Remaining of a Civilization" that will be accompanied by an audio compilation of a chair being played as a musical instrument, which is meant to emulate the echo on an extinct civilization. Now that's deep, my friends! Check it out here.
Saxon Henry has been a journalist for fifteen years, and has written for an array of publications, including The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and Robb Report. In her niche as a design/architecture journalist, she is a former contributing editor to Interiors Magazine and MIAMI Magazine, and a former regular contributor to Luxe, Modernism and Manhattan. As a design-related travel writer, she is a former regular contributor to Delta Sky, Latitudes, Cayman Airways and Aishti. Henry’s book Four Florida Moderns was published by W.W. Norton & Company in early 2010. She publishes a number of blogs, including Roaming By Design and The Road To Promise, and her new Social Media consultancy firm, Adroyt, founded with Richard Holschuh, is now in full swing. After years of writing for a variety of publications, Henry considers capturing a client's most authentic and marketable voice a skill she has honed with great effort, making the process of identifying that voice seem effortless, though nothing could be further from the truth!
