Tycoon Art Gallery of Spring Lake, NJ - Brings Together a Collection of Art Worthy of any Museum

Renowned interior designer Albert Hadley once said, “The curious eye is what is really most important...a need to delve into all sorts of moods and modes of possibilities. There has to be an enthusiasm for such an investigation. You must maintain a lively curiosity, an openness to the unexpected.”

Artist Lois Blonder’s openness and willingness to embrace the unexpected will live in the memories of her husband and children. To them she was an individual of an all-encompassing curiosity, fascinated and delighted and moved by everything around her. Before her sudden death last March from an aneurysm, Blonder reveled daily in her personal world of objects d’art. “For her, her collections were as much an artistic statement as her own artworks,” said her son, Greg Blonder, of Summit, a physicist and partner of AT&T Ventures in Basking Ridge. “She collected teapots, Japanese netsuki, kitchen implements, paintings, whatever. Every weekend, Dad and she would go ‘junking.’ She’d find things and say, ‘That’s a good artist,’ and do research on each thing. She bought as an artist, with an artist’s sensibility, not as a collector per se. Everything had a little ping here and there, and she loved these interesting, wonderful pieces that had their own stories.”