February 12
The Index
12 result(s)
- Les Prairies de Paris
- Episode: #17 The Wild Frontier
- Brand: Les Prairies de Paris
- Category: Accessories - Dressing Room: Women
1- Cask's, helmet, 390€
2- Coppola, coat, 755€
3- Chelsea, boots, natural split leather, 415€ and Mouflons, mittens, 255€Les Prairies de Paris
23, rue Debelleyme Paris 3°
01 48 04 91 16
To be informed when the online store opens leave your email on www.lesprairiesdeparis.comTo shop in the US you should hit www.lagarconne.com
- Zhou Jun - Bird's Nest Project
1- Zhou Jun (b. 1965), Bird’s Nest No. 3, 2006
Photograph, 50 x 76 cm, 120 x 186 cm (20" x 30", 47" x 73")2- Zhou Jun, China Central Television, 2008
Photograph, 200 x 120 cm, 300 x 120 cm (79" x 112", 118" x 112")Why do Beijing's new constructions, erected for the Olympics, drape themselves in red on Zhou Jun's black and white photographs?
Perhaps because red, just like these Olympics, is associated in China with a ceremonial event, the radical power of a Communist government - and shed blood.
Zhou Jun – Bird’s Nest ProjectAugust 7 through 29, 08
Rossi & Rossi Ltd gallery, London
- Nanook Chairhighlight
- Episode: #17 The Wild Frontier
- Brand: Edifice - Moroso
- Category: Indoor + Outdoor Design
Philippe Bestenheider for Moroso, Nanook chair, resin, price on demand
- Paris Buenos Aires - Bon Marché Rive Gauchehighlight
- Episode: -
- Brand: Le Bon Marché
- Category: Beauty - Accessories - Indoor + Outdoor Design - Dressing Room: Women - Fine Food + Drinking
1- Exhibition poster
2- Polo boots, La Casa de las Botas, 735€
3- Panties, satin, Jesus Fernandez, 45€
4- Mini cushions, traditionnal wool-knit, PIC NIC, 47€ each
5- Soaps, Sabater, 6€Buenos Aires is colonizing the Bon Marché Rive Gauche. The department store devotes a lot of space and time to an exhibition centered on that most European of Latin American cities. The whole store is donning the colors of Argentina. Windows signed by Gotan Project, food tastings, cinematographic wanderings around Buenos Aires, tango lessons and installations are all part of the program.
Here is a rare occasion of discovering a wide variety of goods, such as PIC NIC's printed mini-cushions, La Feliz' woven lamps, the slightly old-fashioned lingerie by Jesus Fernandez, Compaña De Los Sombreros' hats, or the drop-dead-gorgeous polo boots by La Casa de Las Botas. A glimpse into the dynamic artistic and fashion scene exploding in today's Buenos Aires, where young designers haven't turned their back on traditional techniques or aesthetics.
Paris Buenos Aires
August 23 through October 11, 08
at the Bon Marché Rive Gauche
- Geneva by Klein & More - High-fidelity System
Geneva high-fidelity system by Klein&More, wood case entirely handmade, covered in seven layers of lacquer, aluminium front covering the red display which controls the equipment's functions
3 sizes: M (4x25W), dim. : 36 x 18.5 x 27 cm, 699€, L (4x25W), dim. : 44.8 x 29.1 x 36.5 cm, 1.199€,
XL (6x100W), dim. : 55 x 61.3 x 37 cm, 2.299€
Aluminium stand: 199€
- L'Occitane - Aromachologie
1- Left to right: control mist, 100 ml, 15€, repairing shine mask, 250 ml, 21€,
repairing serum, 100 ml, 18€
L'Occitane, Aromachologie collection
Available August 18, 08
L'Occitane en Provence enrich their essential oils hair care line with ten new products in the Repairing, Volumizing and Anti-Dandruff line.
Angelica, lavander, geranium, ylang ylang and patchouli strengthen and soften damaged hair.
Natural artemisia, petitgrain, sweet orange, rosemary and palmarosa revitalize fine hair.
Cade, tea tree, lemon, thyme and pepper soothe sensitive scalps.
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- A.J. Fosik: Stiff Meat - Galerie L.J. Beaubourghighlight
1- A.J. Fosik, Each Morning Takes Figuring Out How to Live All Over Again (2007)
Mixed media, 82" x 78" x 16"
2- A.J. Fosik, Speak my Language (2007)
Mixed media, 38" x 35" x 12"
3 and 4- A.J. Fosik, Fossickers Friend (2005)
Mixed media, 40" x 20" x 8"Rooooaaarrrr! (more on that later...)
A.J. Fosik: Stiff Meat
September 6 through October 1, 08
Galerie L.J. Beaubourg, Paris
- Meet The Made - Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh
1 and 2- Lauren Frances Adams & Jake Peterson
Space Invaders (Rat King), 20083- Betsy James DiSalvo
The Productivity Paradoxand the Cupcake Robot, 2008
4 to 6- Stuart O. Anderson & Shaun Slifer
Enoch’s Hammer, 20087 and 8- Adam Shreckhise
Empathy Implant, 2008The Meet the Made exhibition puts a large part of Pittsburgh's former mattress factory at the disposal of 17 artists, the creators of a dozen works that explore the relationship between contemporary culture and robotics.
Equipped with night-vision goggles, one discovers Space Invaders (Rat King) (2008), inspired to Lauren Frances Adams and Jake Peterson by the cryptozoological myth of the rat kings, creatures supposedly formed when several rats become inextricably entangled by their tails. The installation confronts the exploitation of the natural world with "technology gone awry". The elements forming the system all pull in opposite directions, as would the autonomous rats in a rat king, although they all derive power from the same source.
Betsy James diSalvo's Cupcake Robot (2008) claims it can produce personalized cakes for every visitor, based on a personality quizz. However, as with many machines supposed to improve housewives' lives, it's incapable of fulfilling its professed function, and Betsy herself, an emblem of the frustrated housekeeper, has to make up for it failings.
Anderson and Slifer's Enoch Hammer (2008) refers to the violent Luddite riots that broke in Great-Britain in 1811-12. The hammer, a symbol of this first workers' protest against the mechanization of industry, is deprived of all power and relevance by this reliquary-like installation, watched over by two security cameras.
As to Adam Shreckhise's Empathy Implant (2008), it's difficult to determine whether it's used to endow the robot it equips with empathy, or the humans around it.
For the bold, it's possible to get hypnotized by a professional and join the ranks of the Human to Robot Army imagined by John Peña, Jon Rubin and Brett Yasko. In response to a definite word, and for a brief interval of time, the volunteers will start behaving like robots. Post-cyberpunk...
Meet the Made
July 11 through August 31, 08
Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh
- Camille Fournethighlight
- Episode: -
- Brand: Camille Fournet
- Category: Accessories - Dressing Room: Women
Gray alligator bag, 12.750€
Fall-winter 0809 collection
- Maison Fabre - Jardins du Palais Royal
- Episode: -
- Brand: Maison Fabre
- Category: Accessories - Dressing Room: Women - Dressing Room: Men
1 to 4- Maison Fabre store, Jardins du Palais Royal
5- Fall-winter 0809 collection
First row: JANE grey lamb leather/coffee doral leather, 145€, GANTS LONGS MONTBLANC grey lamb leather/grey mink leather, 1.080€, CHARLOTTE patent grey and black leather/grey lamb leather, 170€, AUTO VERNIS, patent grey leather/grey lamb leather, 170€, JOP grey lamb leather/coffee doral leather, 150€, JESSICA patent lamb leather, 210€
Second row: AUTO VERNIS patent red lamb leather/red lamb leather, 170€, MITAINES VERNIES patent red lamb leather/red lamb leather, 110€, GANTS MOYENS VERNIS, patent red lamb leather/red lamb leather, 265€
Third row: CHAMONIX black lamb leather/coyote leather mittens, 270€, LA CLUSAZ cigar lamb leather/Virginia fox muff, 285€, COURCHEVEL Bengali lamb leather/coyote leather, 270€
Nigh on three years: that's how long Maison Fabre had to wait before they found the perfect spot to set up their first Parisian store. But then Olivier Fabre, the fourth generation of Fabre glovers, had only one place in mind: the Palais Royal - and on the Galerie de Valois side, because it faces the sun.
Architect Guy Falco, who redesigned the workshops of the Millau headquarters in 2005, imagined a cozy interior decoration for this space, animated by the gloves standing to attention in their backlit niches. In the windows, gloved hands, as if in conversation, catch the eye. They're like a clique of socialites at a masked ball, pointing out the passersby with insolence, parading in their glistening dresses. Once inside, the dissipation fades away as calm and subdued elegance take precedence. A long research on color was necessary to reach the perfect scheme (taupe, bronzed coffee, white and steel), one that matches the moods of the Gardens outside, their grace when the sun shines and spleen under the snow or clouds.
The perfectly organized 20 m² of Maison Fabre's first shop in Paris offer up the entirety of the brand's collections, for men, women, and kids. And if you can't find the right item among the dozens of references, it's now possible to have an individual pair made to measure.
Maison Fabre
128-129, Galerie de Valois
Jardins du Palais Royal
Paris 1er+33 1 42 60 75 88
www.maisonfabre.com (editors' note: a new corporate and e-shopping website will become accessible at the same address some time in September)
- Burberry Prorsumhighlight
- Episode: #17 The Wild Frontier
- Brand: Burberry Prorsum
- Category: Dressing Room: Women
1- Gold and black organza dress, nickel nails necklace, gold-feathered belt, black and gray chenille cap, leather clutch covered in nickel nails, gray patent leather platform sandals
2- Gray fox fur cloak, nickel nails necklace, black and gray chenille cap, printed silk scarf, burgundy patent leather platform sandals
3- Gold-feathered tulip dress, black and gray chenille cap, gray patent leather platform sandals
Price on demand
Fall-winter 0809 collection
The shaman cast her spells on the misty forest, and the animals heard her and each one hasted, trotting through the undergrowth along invisible tracks, or brushing their wings past the tops of Nootka cypresses, and they brought her dresses of peerless confection.
Burberry
8, boulevard Malesherbes Paris 8°
01 40 07 77 77
- Jack Kilby - Meadows Museum, Dallas
1- Jack Kilby (1923-2005), Big Rig (ca. 1970), Kilby negative, modern inkjet carbon-pigment print by Gary McCoy, 16 x 20 inches
2- Jack Kilby, Main Place (1970), gelatin silver print, 16 x 20 inches
3- Jack Kilby, Alfred (ca. 1970), Kilby negative, modern inkjet carbon-pigment print by Gary McCoy, 16 x 20 inches
4- Jack Kilby, Construction Overpass (ca. 1966), gelatin silver print, 16 x 20 inches
5- Squire Haskins photo, Jack Kilby and the Integrated Circuit (ca. 1960), gelatin silver print, 8 x 10 inches
All images: Jack Kilby Photograph Collection
DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist UniversityExactly 50 years ago, Jack Kilby (1923-2005) introduced a group of Texas Instruments engineers to his prototype for the first integrated circuit microchip, which ushered in the electronic era. Without Kilby's invention, and the miniaturization of calculators it enabled (incidentally Kilby produced the first portable calculator in 1967) you wouldn't be reading these lines - personal computers wouldn't exist. Man wouldn't have walked on the Moon either.
Parallel to his brilliant engineering career, during which he held 60 patents and was eventually awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics, the humble genius entertained a mistress: photography. Wandering with his Hasselblad, he captured, always in black and white, street scenes, landscapes, a lot of architecture and workshop scenes, a few portraits. His pictures exhibit the meticulousness and the sense of composition that characterize a fine electronics specialist, as well as a taste for abstract structures delineated by metal and stone, and an eye trained to detect the beauty of visual repetition and serial products. Kilby will live ever after as one of the founding fathers of the electronic age, but the exhibition at the Meadows Museum reveals a nuanced sensitivity, a sense of humor and an engaging perspective on the world. All analogic qualities?
Jack Kilby - The Eye of Genius
Photographs by the Inventor of the Microchip
July 12 through September 21, 08
Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University, Dallas
