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Limited Edition: 1925 Paris Exhibition Piano by Jacques - Emilie Ruhlmann
Limited Edition: 1896 Broadwood Concert Grand Piano Replica by John Broadwood
Limited Edition: Architecture is Frozen Music by Alexander Gorlin
	Architecture is Frozen Music, the 2002 award winning design by Alexander Gorlin, AIA for the First International Piano Design Competition, sponsored by DCOTA and Maximiliaan's House of Grand Pianos The Award ceremony of the Winner of the First International Piano Design Competition, sponsored by DCOTA and Maximiliaan's House of Grand Pianos During a fabulous opening at DCOTA, the award was handed out to Alexander Gorlin, AIA for his winning design "Architecture is Frozen Music" of the First International Piano Design Competition. The event was attended by more than 600 guests, prominent designers and press from all over the country. Gorlin, who owns a thriving architect company (www.gorlinarchitects.com) was particularly pleased with this award, since he, in his own words considers that "if you can design a piano, you can design about anything", referring to the complex nature and structure of the piano as an object of design. The scale model, submitted to the jury by Alexander Gorlin, based upon which construction of "Architecture is Frozen Music was started. Gorlin chose to base his design on the Dutch design movement of the Neo-plasticists Mondriaan, Rietveld and further influenced by LeCorbusier. In the words of jurymember Michael Graves, "to my knowledge none of the designer of the moverment The Style ever designed a piano and I am particularly happy that one of the competitors chose to base his design on this important movement" Gorlin pointed out that his design is not completely true to the Dutch movement. Thus, Gorlin added, I have taken tradition as a basic premis to work upon, and modernized it to contemporary taste". Gorlin is particularly known to have developed an unsual language in archtiecture that holds a harmonious balance between traditional and modern design. One sheet with four views, also submitted by Alexander Gorlin to the jury of the International Piano Design Competition, based on which construction of "Architecture is Frozen Music" was completed. For the occassion, Maximiliaan Rutten commissioned a special piece of music to the most celebrated contemporary composer from the Ukraine, Anna Bogolyubova. She carefully took the design of the piano in consideration when composing her "Five Sketches" (appr. 15 minutes), five short pieces with titles such as "Broadway Boogie", referring to the famous pianting by Piet Mondriaan.
	The award-winning piano designed by Alexander Gorlin, AIA, for the First International Piano Design Competition, 2002. "As part of the 10th anniversary of my company, I have been looking for a way to show the world the kind of work we can do with pianos. By organizing the First International Piano Design Competition, in 2002, I realized we would submit ourselves to the fantasy and imagination of designers and architects worldwide. It was exactly the kind of challenge I like." "Alexander Gorlin has designed 'Architecture is Frozen Music' (after a quote by Goethe), true to his signature style which combines the traditional values in architecture within a modern composition and counterpoint. The design is a free interpretation on the art movement 'The Style', from my native country the Netherlands. The architectural influences of Rietveld en LeCorbusier are evident, the overall composition reminiscent of a late painting by Mondrian. "Over the past 10 years, I have been challenged to position the art case piano on a fine line between form and function. These pianos keep surprising and fascinating us, because they never are what they seem to be: neither just musical instruments, nor just pretty to look at. The debate about the tension between aesthetics and functionality has been raging since Plato first defined the theme. To be standing on a fine line that threads throughout the history of Western civilization, is exactly the kind of excitement I like" Maximiliaan Rutten

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