Antique Dress Form

Heidi Clark's work, “Pods and Bods,” includes antique and vintage dress forms and furniture in the Roti Roti Gallery. A South Bend resident, Clark was born and raised in Germany. Even as a child, she recalls erecting towers of pots and pans,

14 with a reception on Saturday, July 8, from 5 to 7 pm Heidi Clark's work, Pods and Bods, includes antique and vintage dress forms and furniture in the Roti Roti Gallery; the Show Place Gallery features Molas from Panama, A Private Collection;

It was founded by two men: Long Islander Dallas Pratt, who inherited an oil fortune, and English-born antique dealer John Judkyn. Before starting his medical studies at Columbia University in New York, Pratt traveled abroad. While in Europe, in 1937,

of Arne Jacobsen's famed Egg chair), vintage wooden airplane propellers, wire metal birdcages, framed silhouettes, industrial letters, old city maps, bowling pins, wire mesh dress forms, night sky maps with constellations and even eye charts.

It can serve as a sassy hook for a frying pan or bath towels, replace the traditional window treatment tieback, form an eclectic huddle of artwork on a bare wall and perk up vintage furniture. Think of decorative hardware as “cultural polka dots,”