Rob Edley Welborn Art & Design

Rob Edley Welborn Art & Design I'm a multi-tasking designer working on buildings, interiors, furniture and art.

What has your art collection taught you?Not about art history or markets but about your own taste, your spaces, the way ...
06/23/2026

What has your art collection taught you?

Not about art history or markets but about your own taste, your spaces, the way you spend your attention.

"The Kids' Office 1962" is part of an ongoing conversation on my side of the screen.

I would genuinely like to hear what you have learned.

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Happy Father's Day. To the fathers, the father figures, the ones who showed up in whatever form that took. Cheers.Featur...
06/21/2026

Happy Father's Day. To the fathers, the father figures, the ones who showed up in whatever form that took. Cheers.

Featuring "Opera in L.A. 1963" today in the gallery.

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When people move house, they make a hierarchy without realizing it. Some things get donated, some get stored, some make ...
06/19/2026

When people move house, they make a hierarchy without realizing it.

Some things get donated, some get stored, some make the journey regardless of whether they make logical sense in the new space.

Art almost always travels. It is rarely the practical choice that moves with you. It is the things that meant something. Has that been true for you?

What have you moved more than once, and would "Academy Theater 1939" make that list?

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People sometimes feel they need to be able to articulate why they want a particular work before they are allowed to buy ...
06/17/2026

People sometimes feel they need to be able to articulate why they want a particular work before they are allowed to buy it. That is not how it works.

The attraction does not need a defense. You do not have to be able to explain Tyuonyi Bandelier to someone who asks; you just have to know it belongs in your space.

The explanation, if you want one, tends to arrive later on its own.

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Every work that reaches a collector is the result of many decisions, including the decision not to show what came before...
06/16/2026

Every work that reaches a collector is the result of many decisions, including the decision not to show what came before it.

The finished work is not the whole story. It is the end of a longer, quieter process that most collectors never see.

When you live with Butterfly House, mid-Fifties, you are living with the result of the artistic process and all that comes with it.

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06/14/2026

Organic Style 1978

Ken Bangs Kellogg authored the Chart House Restaurant in Rancho Mirage in 1978. Later, in 1985, he began work on his famous High Desert House in Joshua Tree. He called his style "organic architecture", and it fit perfectly into its zeitgeist. The bell bottoms emerging from their dinner fit the times too.

It sheltered under a low vaulted roof that featured a skylight running all the way along its spine and sported hugely deep scalloped, overhanging eaves. The building won a lot of awards and was designated a historic landmark by the city of Rancho Mirage.

It burned down in 2012; the lot still sits vacant.



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Interior designers often talk about sightlines. They're the natural path your eye travels when you enter or move through...
06/12/2026

Interior designers often talk about sightlines. They're the natural path your eye travels when you enter or move through a room.

Most people never think about this consciously, but they feel it. Art placed directly in a sightline changes a room immediately.

Placement is as intentional as the work itself.

Where would you put The Dove of Peace 1968?

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I think "Duly Recorded 🥂1971" could fit into a few different places. Where will you display it?Tempe, AZ, city hall was...
06/11/2026

I think "Duly Recorded 🥂1971" could fit into a few different places. Where will you display it?

Tempe, AZ, city hall was completed in 1972 by architects Rolf Osland + Michael and Kemper Goodwin. Its dramatic inverted pyramid shape serves a practical purpose in that it creates its own shade. The burning orange sky proves how badly we need it.

Here's hoping that the wedding couple is sheltered too!

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A lot of people hold off on collecting art because they rent and feel uncertain about committing to walls they do not ow...
06/10/2026

A lot of people hold off on collecting art because they rent and feel uncertain about committing to walls they do not own. But art does not belong to a wall. It belongs to you.

Renting is not a reason to live with bare walls. It is a reason to collect work that matters enough to keep moving (and growing) with you.

"1948 Starshine" and my other work are connected to the people who love them, not just the places they're displayed.

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06/08/2026

Catedral do Brasília 1970

The national cathedral of Brazil was designed by Oscar Niemeyer, engineered by Joaquin Cardozo, and completed in 1970. The cathedral is a hyperboloid structure constructed from 16 concrete columns, weighing 90 tons each.

We walk under the reflecting pool through a dark tunnel to emerge inside the brilliant stained glass roof of the church.

There can be as many as 4,000 worshipers!



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