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1- Lucia10, round collar sweater with owl intartia in the back, 70% merino 30% cashmere
2- Sacha1, long-sleeve round-collar T-shirt with owl print, cotton
Paris, straight-leg jeans
Joseph1, scarf shawl, cashmere
Maia4, cap, 70% merino 30% cashmere
Reagan2, woven bag with chain, leather
Rianna, thin woven belt, leather
1- Long rabbit fur vest, black and white checkered cotton tunic shirt, brown leather belt with golden buckle, khaki coton leggings, khaki suede bots
2- Gray washed cotton dress, twisted gray wool scarf, black suede Minnetonkas
Et Vous
Fall-Winter 0809 collection
A new e-store will open end of August at www.etvous.fr
1- Caperina rabbit fur vest, Cabelo pants, Cha scarf, Cyril top
2- Carine checkered shirt, Division scarf, Dormeuse leggings
3- Charles vest with fox fur patches, Callum top, Datte wool pants
4- Cannes silk tunic dress, Citron marbled T-shirt, Félicie fur chapka, Dictée wool leggings
Maje, Fall-Winter 0809 collection
1- Leather Couture for the Eyes, 53€
2- 5-color eyeshadow 673 Earth Tones, 49.77€
3- Long-wearing Nail Lacquer 987 Mystic Violine, 20.95€
4- Creamy Lipgloss 875 Delicious Plum, 24.10€
Dandy Lady New Look Christian Dior Fall 08
Make-up created by Tyen
Available August 11, 08
"Dandy Lady". The name of the new make-up collection by Dior brings to mind silhouettes such as Marlene Dietrich's. Women of the 30's, their dressing room overflowing with men's apparel, who did not care one whit for anybody's judgement and whose sense of elegance relied, as did that of dandy chiefs Brummell or Barbey d'Aurevilly, on a fiercely personal conception of beauty.
It's a collection for beautiful thugs, figures of the night, almost apaches. With its earthy tones and animal skin patterns, it could have adorned Doris Day's face in Calamity Jane (1953), the ambivalent portrait of an engaging, manly female adventurer, a proficient tracker and a peerless shot, a men's woman who hides a Colt beneath her wedding gown and sings Secret Love to her best friend Katie. A true "dandy lady" of her time.
1 to 4- Alexander Hahn, Luminous Point (still), 2006-7
Interactive single-channel color video projection with sound, dimensions variable
Produced with support from sitemapping, a project of the Swiss Federal Office of Culture and the Experimental Television Center’s Finishing Funds Program, which is supported by the New York State Council on the Arts and MediaThe foundation inc. Courtesy the artist; © 2008 Alexander Hahn
5 and 6- Yves Netzhammer, Furniture of Proportions (preparatory sketch), 2008
Mixed media and three-channel color video installation with sound, 35:42 min. loop, soundtrack by Bernd Schurer
Courtesy the artist and Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt, Germany
© 2008 Yves Netzhammer
7- Yves Netzhammer, Furniture of Proportions (video still), 2008
Courtesy the artist and Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt, Germany
© 2008 Yves Netzhammer
The San Francisco MoMA exhibits two premiering new-media installations, the work of Swiss artists Alexander Hahn (born 1954) and Yves Netzhammer (born 1970). Two projections of their mental panoramas.
In Luminous Point (2006), Hahn re-built a domestic environment, that of his own flat in the Lower East Side, from photographs and images he created. The spectator moves inside it using a remote controller, and is confronted with enigmatic elements: a Zeppelin from the 1900's, Assyrian mosaics, historical frescoes... One moment a room looks lived in, the next it seems to have long fallen into disuse, and in the bathroom the tub fills and empties, as if under the influence of a mysterious presence. It is possible to exit the apartment and leave for one of the destinations filmed by Hahn: one can roam the adjoining streets, follow an animal's track into the woods, explore a salt mine in Poland... This environment, naturally, stands first and foremost for the inside of the artist's mind.
Yves Netzhammer, for his part, shows Furniture of Proportions (2008), a complex installation mixing animation, wall drawings and props, whose image is chanelled through a series of sculpted tubular shapes and cast onto surrounding walls or mirrored surfaces. A manner of grasping the baroque fluidity of the creative process.
Room for Thought: Alexander Hahn and Yves Netzhammer
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
July 10 through October 5, 08
1 to 4- Name Me Bobo pendants, Qeelin, white gold and diamonds, panda 2.480€, bear 3.130€, 1 letter 790€
Maggie Cheung said she wanted to dress and undress Qeelin's diamond Bo Bo bears. It was with her wish in mind that the brand released the Fashion Bo Bo pendants and their extravagant, interchangeable sets of dressing. Today Qeelin is introducing Name Me Bo Bo, a panda for the East and a bear for the West, the emblems of strained international amity, proudly upheld by a French-Chinese brand such as Qeelin. The little belly of this very special Bo Bo spells a single, precious, diamond-clad letter.
Exclusively distributed in the flagship Qeelin stores of Paris, Hong Kong, and Beijing.
The regular Qeelin collection is distributed in the USA by Maxfield, Los Angeles.
Qeelin
Jardins du Palais Royal
26, galerie Montpensier Paris 1°
+33 1 49 26 96 90
1- Antoine, fiery brown, 495€
2- Twee, dark olive, 468€
3- Joss, gray python, 620€
Fall-Winter 0809 collection
Davy Crockett wanted to use these as game bags. "No way," Margaret interposed. "Tonight I'm going to that cocktail in Chattanooga."
Jérôme Dreyfuss
1, rue Jacob Paris 6°
+33 1 43 54 70 93
www.jerome-dreyfuss.com
1- Mini Cargo bag, 210€
2- Belt, 2 sizes, 70 and 80€
Puma Urban Mobility, Fall Winter 0809 collection
in Paris at 66 Champs Elysées and at Citadium
1- Long-sleeve linen T-Shirt, 120€, beige silk dress with Native American embroidery, price on demand
2- Natural fox fur jacket, 2.100€, worker cotton canvas trousers, 260€, silk scarf with Native American embroidery, 250€
3- High waist cotton jeans, blue and white striped, 165€, checked wool shirt, 145€, calfskin belt, 60€
4- Black silk tunic dress with Native American embroidery, 3/4 sleeves and Tunisian collar, 470€, long natural fox fur vest, 1.560€, silk scarf with Native American embroidery, 250€
Isabel Marant, Fall-Winter 0809 collection
Isabel Marant
1- Installation view at the Jagdmuseum Schloss Stainz
2- Marianne Merz, Alces a.gigas
3- Marianne Merz, Megaceros bibernicus
4- Marianne Merz, Cervus eldi
Photos: Landesmuseum Joanneum (1: Nicolas Lackner)
From the Canadian moose or the giant stag with antlers 3.5m wide that disappeared during the Ice Age, down to Latin America's Pudu or the 6 hands (60 cm) high Muntiak from South-East Asia, all members of the cervidae family interest the Landesmuseum Joanneum. All of the human approaches to it, too. Hunting trophy, cave painting or advertising icon, the many faces of the animal in contemporary culture are represented. One can even smile back at a great taxidermized moose.
Hirsche Weltweit. Vom Elch bis zum Pudu
Landesmuseum Joanneaum, Jagdmuseum Schloss Stainz, Austria
June 30, 08 through February 1, 09
Exhibition page on www.museum-joanneum.at (in German)
1- Antarctica LVI, 2007, John Paul Caponigro, photograph
2- Floral Passage, 2007, Kenojuak Ashevak
3- Autumn on Taiga, 2002, Subhankar Banerjee, photograph
4- Iceberg, 2008, Mary Edna Fraser, batik
5- Penguin, 1992, Michael LaFosse, origami
6- Drawing on seal gut, Godelieva Aluska-Barr, mixed media
"Frail beauty": it's Nature's motto these days. Polar Attractions applies it to the Arctic and Antarctic sides of the Earth. Immaculate panoramas of blank ice and motley woods of the Great North, a painting of an iceberg made from polar ice, an origami penguin... More good reasons to save the planet.
Polar Attractions
Peabody-Essex Museum, Salem, Massachussetts
June 28, 08 through June 7, 09
1- St Ives, ceramic base and shade £46.75 (instead of £57.50 special introductory offer for the summer), shade £30
2- Bude, ceramic base and shade £46.75 (instead of £57.50 special introductory offer for the summer), shade £30
The patterns for the summer lampshade collection by Mibo were inspired by a trip to Cornwall. The elegant town of Bude, and the charming seaside resort of St Ives, made famous by the sculptor Barbara Hepworth and the Tate which established one of its four branches there, lend their names to these two modern and delicate pieces.
Limited edition of 6 cocktail cases created by Isabelle Ballu and Moritz Rogosky for Bombay Sapphire's Premium Gin.
Natural patined leather case, adorned with a patch bearing the effigy of Queen Victoria, BOMB-AY shaker, enamelled, hammered and buttoned, two cocktail glasses
1.000€, exclusively at L'Éclaireur in Paris and Tokyo
Hercule Poirot, great traveller and even greater a snob, probably would have pursed his lips if proposed a glass of gin - but without a doubt his reticence would have been overcome by this portable drink-mixing kit by Bombay Sapphire. Three versions of it are proposed, as international as the spices which lend their flavor to the blue decoction: one is for Paris, the other two for New York and Tokyo. And only two specimens of each of these elegant creations are released. Cheers, Hercule! (but with moderation)
L'Éclaireur Boissy
10, rue Boissy d'Anglas Paris 8°
+33 1 53 43 03 70
Write to l'Éclaireur on rue Boissy d'Anglas
L'Éclaireur Tokyo
4-21-26 Minami-Aoyama Minato-ku Tokyo
+81 3-6406-0252
1- Vilhelm Hammershøi, A Wing of Christiansborg Castle. Late Autumn, 1890-92, Oil on canvas, 115,5 x 147,5 cm, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Photo SMK, Copenhagen
2- Vilhelm Hammershøi, From the British Museum. Winter, 1906, Oil on canvas, 51,9 x 45,3 cm, Fuglsang Kunstmuseum, Denmark, Photo Hans Petersen
3- Vilhelm Hammershøi, Interior with Woman at Piano, Strandgade 30, 1901, Oil on canvas, 55,9 x 45,1 cm, Private collection, Photo Maurice Aeschimann
4- Vilhelm Hammershøi, Sunbeams or Sunshine. Dust Motes Dancing in the Sunbeams, 1900, Oil on canvas, 70 x 59 cm, Ordrupgaard, Copenhagen, Photo Pernille Klemp
This exhibition was organised by the Royal Academy of Arts, London and the National Museum of Western Art and NIKKEI, Tokyo
The melancholy works of Danish painter Vilhelm Hammershøi (1964-1916) possess that mysterious presence distinctive of the best Symbolist pictures. Their rigorous yet lyrical geometry, their minimalist yet expressive palette arrest one's gaze and hold it. A form of hypnosis. Sometimes compared to Whistler stylistically, Hammershøi, despite his numerous stays in London, exhibits a character at odds with the dandy extravagance of that other imported Englishman. His intimate œuvre reaches its climax in peaceful interior views, whose calm verges on a disquieting stillness. The artist's closed spaces are, in turn, utterly empty, or inhabited by the lonely, ghostly presence of his wife, her back turned towards the beholder.
Vilhelm Hammershøi: The Poetry of Silence
June 28 through September 7, 08
Royal Academy of Arts, London
1- Mario Ybarra Jr, Black Squirrel Society Large, 2008, acrylic on canvas, 18 panels, each: 20 x 16 inches, LM11391
2- Mario Ybarra Jr, Black Squirrel Down, 2008, acrylic on canvas, 8 panels,
each: 16 x 20 inches
3 and 4- Installation views at Lehmann Maupin Gallery
It's a weird gang, Mario Ybarra Jr's. As its name indicates, membership in the Black Squirrel Society is open exclusively to black individuals of the nut-eating species. Ybarra Jr created a mythology for his organization: commemorative flags and banners, propaganda music, T-shirts, posters and drawings celebrating the clan and its legacy - a long history strewn with great victories and homeric defeats, as well as daily routines and rites of passage. In short, a tradition.
The artist adopted a similar approach for his 2006 installation at the Serpentine Gallery in London, featuring peacocks (The Peacock Doesn't See its Own Ass/Let's Twitch Again: Operation Bird Watching in London). But the Black Quirrel Society is here to stay, and it will only fade back into anonymity after the show to reemerge some time from now, unpredictably, somewhere else within the country, as part of another shock maneuver orchestrated by Mario Ybarra Jr.
Mario Ybarra Jr: The Black Squirrel Society
June 24 through August 8, 08
Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York
Marie and Catherine are pals. They met at a contemporary art fair in London and since then they do everything together.
They just opened Le Studio 22, a chambre d'hôte in the heart of the Haut Marais, a Parisian neighborhood whose galleries, edgy stores, good restaurants and general creative effervescence they find so inspiring.
On the other side of a former covered market that's being actively rehabilitated, behind a heavy porte cochère, the 22 rue de Picardie hides a great surprise, one of those Paris holds for the bold and the initiated. A large inner yard filled with trees where one forgets the noise of the street outside. Pure magic. Under the high boughs, the pavés lead to Studio 22. Inside it lie, within 22 m², all of the fundamentals that let one feel (almost) at home in Paris.
The decoration scheme is deliberately downplayed. Relying on discreet harmonies of beige and black, it manages to keep a low profile, and doesn't intrude on the customization imagined by a guest decorator - artist or designer, or both. Until September, the neutral tones of the Studio are sharpened by bright pink, gold and purple, whose ephemeral exuberance gives a festive tinge to the otherwise well-behaved bedroom. An elaborate mix of design (black métro tiles on the walls, a Chair One by Magis), cocooning (cushions a-plenty, art books and a host of refined attentions) and Parisian chic (Mariage Frères teas and treats imagined by the brilliant perfume chef, Michèle Gay); this place, obviously, is more than a mere chambre d'hôte.
And that is right. Marie and Catherine are pals, but they're also specialists. One tackles design, the other photography. They decided to make their own expertise and rich address book available to their guests: it's the concierge gone arty. On foot or on board a Smart car, in company or on one's own, and even for those who don't stay at the chambre, the hostesses at Studio 22 have imagined versatile runs through galleries, bookstores, shops and restaurants, peppered with interesting meet-ups. They're centered on the Marais but open to digression.
Catherine Soëtemondt and Marie Thévenin
Le Studio 22, Chambre d’art et conciergerie arty
22, rue de Picardie Paris 3°
One night, 190€, week-end, 300€, one week, 900€
Gourmet snacks, 30€
To book a reservation or make an inquiry, write to Marie Thévenin
Marie, Catherine, where are you taking us? Maybe to one of these places:
Chic Cityrats (CCr): A common place?
Studio 22 (S 22): Our favorite place, Matali Crasset, 5 rue des Filles du Calvaire, Paris 3°
CCr: A place of perdition?
S 22: The faraway Douarnenez, in 2008, when the Mais de Quimper lead us there during its photo festival, which we love. This year it handled the theme of perte, or "loss"
CCr: A sacred place?
S 22: Without hesitation the small church of Saint-Bartholomew, in Chodovice (a small village of Bohemia), with its furniture designed by Jakub and Maxim (the duo of Studio Qubus), its Verner Panton chairs with the shape of the cross cut into their backs for the faithful, and Eiffel armchairs by the Eames for the priest
CCr: A place of predilection?
S 22: A bookstore of course, and right now our heart swings between that of the MEP (Maison Européenne de la Photographie), for the kindness of Edith, the true friend of all photographers, and the library close by, OFR, for its edgy, exacting choices...
CCr: A meeting place?
S 22: We can't wait for the opening of the very exciting "104" this Fall, a new Parisian space, transdisciplinary, a kind of Villa Medicis coupled with a Beaubourg (editor's note: large Parisian museum of modern and contemporary art)
CCr: A place to pass trough?
S 22: The Passage du Retz that shoots from the rue Charlot in Paris, because of its spirit, a place of temporary exhibitions, above all a place of questioning and investigation
CCr: A non-place?
S 22: Or rather several non-places, such as all of these anonymous spaces on which contemporary photograhers focus a lot of attention. Marc Augé studied them as part of his "anthropology of overmodernity": expressways, freeway junctions, airports, interchangeable hotel chains, large malls and service stations...
CCr: A secret place?
S 22: Our Studio 22, of course, sheltered from the outside world in its tree-filled yard, but right in the heart of the most arty and exuberant neighborhood in Paris. An exuberance we love and enjoyed in Pring's installation, when we gave her carte blanche for the studio's opening in June...
1- Nara
2- Sakura
2 from 5 new fabrics edited by Caravane, hand-printed patterns on heavy cotton canvas, 45€ per meter
Available from July 08
Caravane
6, rue Pavée Paris 4°
+ 33 1 44 61 04 20
www.caravane.fr
caravane@caravane.fr
1- Jane and Louise Wilson, Service Module, Mir, 2000, chromogenic print mounted on aluminum, 71 x 71 in. (180.3 x 180.3 cm), Courtesy 303 Gallery, New York
2- Adam Ross, The City at the Edge of Time, 02, 2004, oil, alkyd and acrylic on canvas, 48 x 50 in. (121.9 x 127 cm), Courtesy the artist and Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami
3- Lia Halloran, Up, Down, Left, Right, 2003-04, oil and Flashe on canvas-wrapped panel, 72 x 48 in. (182.9 x 121.9 cm), The Speyer Family Collection, New York
4- Aleksandra Mir, First Woman on the Moon, 1999, single-channel video with sound, 12 mins., Collection of the artist
The infinite immobility of the void suddenly got animated. The travelling exhibition Space is the Place shows the multitude of faces, the moving set of values, the wealth of visions engendered by space exploration in the minds of artists in the last fifty years.
Painting, sculpture, video or sound installations, photography, performance are all represented: after all space, lest we forget, is all around us.
Be it gender inequalities, brought out by Aleksandra Mir's video First Woman on the Moon (1999) shot exactly thirty years after a man first laid foot on the moon, or the formidable liberation of the body in a zero-gravity environment as revealed by the performance of the MIR group, which comes at the cost of terrifying frailty inches from the murderous void, the show conveys the notion that space is not a frozen, objective place, rather the opposite: a different place for each one of us, and a canvas bearing the projection of very human affects.
The British Wilson twins gained access to disused facilities, once part of the Soviet space program. They photographed the desolation that enwraps the vast hangars and the rooms of the former training center - piles of dusty space suits, empty lockers... Their work underlines the painful impression of vanity that creeps even into such a transcendent enterprise as cosmic exploration.
Space is the Place
June 21 through September 7, 08
Hudson River Museum, Yonkers
1- Gray ranger leather shopping bag topstitched with a hard-blue thread, 25 x 35 x 10 cm, 220€
2- Gray ranger leather homebag with hard-blue topstitches, 28 x 28 x 28 cm, 360€
3 and 4- Paper sheets, hand-
made in Nepal, 50 x 75 cm, 6.50€
All of the material Boyd the droid uses to answer fan mail, keep his diary, store his graphic design tools, and stay in touch with the latest style trends even when he travels.
Marie Papier,
26, rue Vavin Paris 6°
+33 1 43 26 46 44
www.mariepapier.fr
Donuts seats, Sit On It
Indoor / Outdoor
100% polyester cover with PU-coating, water-resistant, cover can be removed and machine-washed. Inside the seat, small polystyrene pearls absorb body heat.
9 colors available, other colors available upon request.
Dim.: 90 x h 45 cm, 210€
1- Exhibition view, 3rd floor
Joanne Greenbaum, "Painting"
Photo: Stefan Altenburger, Zürich
2- Joanne Greenbaum, Style Star (2005)
Oil on canvas, 70 x 75 in
Photo : Adam Reich, New York
3- Joanne Greenbaum, Untitled (2007)
Oil, vinyl, acrylic on canvas, 100 x 80 in
Photo : Adam Reich, New York
4- Joanne Greenbaum, Untitled (2006)
Oil on canvas, 77.99 x 77.99 in
Photo : Adam Reich, New York
5- Exhibition view, 1st floor
Joanne Greenbaum, "Painting"
Photo: Stefan Altenburger, Zürich
Joanne Greenbaum composes her painted surfaces in the manner of a graphic designer. On her large canvases, one-colored areas clash with complex, irregular, barely legible patterns. Structures, almost architectures, are drawn by the line that winds its long way and blends into different colors, different levels. Reliefs emerge from the drawn shapes as impossible monuments. The raw canvas appears here and there, lending its texture to Joanne Greenbaum's cartographies - but what land do they map?
Joanne Greenbaum, "Paintings"
June 15 through August 24, 08
Abteiberg Museum, in cooperation with Haus Konstruktiv Zürich
Exhibition's page on www.abteiberginfo.de (in German)
Forty-odd years after it was born, Kitchen Bazaar is going through a second youth: a new store, more than 80 m² large, is opening in the heart of the Marais, right before the online store is re-launched with a brand new layout.
Inside, bright-colored silicon utensils occupy entire walls, next to stainless steel instruments, high-end cooking material, objects by Bodum or Zak! designs. Luxury trash cans adorn the dark grey floor.
This Kitchen Bazaar wears its name well: one finds anything there, be it silicon ice cream spoons, cutting boards made of bamboo, miniature expresso machines, flashy lunch boxes or isothermal bags that look like they just tumbled down from a cosmonaut's pocket.
Kitchen Bazaar
4, rue de Bretagne Paris 3°
1- Edwin Zwakman, Pylon, 2007
© Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo
2- Edwin Zwakman, Fly-Over, c-print, 300x120 cm, 1996
Courtesy Galerie Akinci, Amsterdam
© Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo
3- Gerko de Ruijter, Untitled, Goeree, 2007
Courtesy : MKGalerie.nl, Rotterdam/Berlin
© Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo
4- Marnix Goossens, Plassenweg, c-print, 2000
From the series Regarding Nature (2000)
© Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo
5- Theo Baart, 1996, photo from the series
by Cary Markerink/Theo Baart,
Snelweg>Highways in The Netherlands (1999)
© Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo
6- Cary Markerink, A4 Schiphol, 1996
From the series by Cary Markerink/Theo Baart,
Snelweg>Highways in The Netherlands (1999)
© Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo
7- Bas Princen, Dam, c-print, 2000
From the series Artificial Arcadia (2004)
© Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo
Nature as artifice, or what became of the idyllic Dutch landscapes of classical Flemish painting - and the modern beauty of pylons, dams, intensive farming, and the lights on the highway.
Nature as Artifice: new Dutch landscape in photography
and video art
June 12 through September 28, 08
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands
Current exhibitions page on www.kmm.nl