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Bright Ideas Design - Cultural Figurine Series
 

 

 

1- FuLuSo, The Shape of Luckiness. The figurines combine the three incarnations of the Chinese blessing phrase “FU, LU, SO" (for happiness, honor, and longevity)”: the bat, deer, and crane

2- A Lohan (Arahat). The Arahat, or Lohan is the highest attainable grade in Buddhism. The figurines are a tribute to the free-spirited philosophy of life that underlie their unusual look and amazing powers

3- Katz Fun

www.brightideas.com.tw


Islanders Design - Endangered Species
 

Endangered Species wall lampshade, polypropylene. This design, inspired by Chinese paper-cut,  transforms 2D sheets into 3D sculptures via simple folding

www.islanders-studio.com


National Palace Museum - Dragon Claw
 

Dragon Claw bottle opener, National Palace Museum Taiwan, in collaboration with Asus Design, inspired by an ancient jade in the Museum collection, such as the pendents usually worn by the nobility in the Warring States period (475-221 BC) to signify their social status

www.boco.com.tw


Züny
 

1 to 3- ZUNY paperweights and book ends

www.zuny.info

 


Les Petites... Temporary Store in Lille
 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

1- knit cape, 325€

2- sweater dress, 175€

3- a portrait of Les Petites... designer Isabelle Bénichou

Les Petites... have their hands full: it's store openings galore, notably in Greece for their first shop outside France, and why not do a miniature Tour de France of temporary stores through all of the cities where the warmly expected brand has not yet found the perfect spo to settle down? ...

 

Les Petites

Temporary store in Lille

Espace Inkermann

31, rue d'Inkermann

20 September through October 5, Monday to Sunday 10 a.m.-7 p.m.

www.lespetites.fr


Mod Design
 

1- Reset, tea cups, premium semigloss outside and glossy inside
2- P’sof Cake, pie server for 6” to 10” diameter round cakes, anti-bacteria and greaseproof, comes with a stainless steel tray

www.mod-zgn.com


25ToGo Design
 

1- City Skyline, CD & DVD shelf
2- My Document laptop bag (13", 14" or 15"), comes with a pin,  and My Photo camera bag

www.25togo.com


Sekond Corporation
 

1- Castle fruit plate, Cannon salt and pepper shaker
2- Saber-shaped fruit forks set

Sekond Corporation


Agua Design
 

1- Days are morning green, There is a baby... Series
2- Black Orange, Poetic Series
3- Post Modern, Poetic Series
4- Nouvelles Vagues, Poetic Series
5- The Tiny Calendar

www.aguadesign.com


Taiwan Crafts and Design - Plate Playte!
 

Plate Playte! The plate of beautiful crumbs.

www.tdc.org.tw


28biaugust - A Little Round-Round Land
 

A Little Round-Round Land, rotary coffee plates and reflective cups

28.biaugust.com


Back to Work
 

1- Le Petit Nicolas' satchel by miniséri, worn as a backpack, a handbag, or across the shoulder, 38 x 30 x 9 cm, 85€, exclusively at Colette until September 30, 08, then on www.miniseri.com

2- Miniature satchels, silver or golden leather, by miniséri, 18 x 22 x 6 cm, 80€

3- Thick cotton canvas cases, with old-fashioned fasteners, come in khaki, plum, brown, or printed in pink, green or turquoise, 35€

4- Large format paper sheets with dotted patterns, by Marie Papier, come in anthracite, olive, red and chocolate, made in Nepal, 50 x 75 cm, 7€ each

5- Cassegrain snap closure pouches, royal blue grained leather, large format, 37 x 27 cm, 170€, small format, 17 x 25 cm, 100€

6- Perspective pens, Waterman, glossy metal, inspired by Origami and Articulated Architecture, come in 6 colors: black, black and gold, blue, champagne, and silver, fountain pen 115€, roller 100€, ball-point 90€

7- Deco agenda by Filofax, patent calfskin leather, comes in ivory or ebony, and in 2 sizes: personal and pocket, 199 and 249€, fall-winter 0809

Now that's done - the kids are back at school. It's your turn to look for pens, paper, notebooks and agendas. After all, it's going to be a loooong year; especially on Chic Cityrats, the land where holidays do not exist - but then, neither does work.

 

www.miniseri.com
www.colette.fr
A l'Ecole page on www.lespetitesemplettes.com
www.mariepapier.fr
www.cassegrain.fr
Perspective's page on www.waterman.com
www.filofax.com


Not Back to Work
 

1- Lisbet Friis, fall-winter 0809 collection

2- Very graphic cushions, at Home autour du Monde, 40 x 40 cm, 80€

3- Hex ceramic mugs by Vitamin, 4 designs available: Fade, Cell, Tri, Drift, £8, fall-winter 0809 collection

4- Gloria wallpaper by Extratapete, Tracks collection, fall-winter 0809 collection

5- Panorama Borders Series #2 by Extratapete, Miniature Worlds, Model Railway and Natural History Panoramas, self-adhesive, 11 x 400 cm, fall-winter 0809 collection

6 à 8- Blow armchairs and Pinocchio rugs by Hay, fall-winter 0809 collection

9- Loop, dog house by Brian McIntyre for Gaia & Gino, Gino the Dog fall-winter 0809 collection

You could also leave it all behind to enjoy a well-deserved sabbatical year - or maybe you haven't deserved one at all, in which case it will be even sweeter. You'll just recline on a soft bed of cushions, or inside a snug arm-chair, sipping hot tea, and day-dream before the strange pictures on the wallpaper. Nearby, a little dog is snoring.

 

www.lisbetfriis.dk (info + store locator)
www.vitaminliving.com (info + online shopping)

www.extratapete.de (info + online shopping)

www.hay.dk

www.gaiagino.com


Anne-Claire Petithighlight
 

Reindeer head

Hand-made

Organic cotton crochet

34 x 23 cm, 60€

The reindeer heads on www.petitzebre.com

There are more online and offline retail stores on

www.anne-clairepetit.nl


A.J. Fosik: Stiff Meat - Galerie L.J. Beaubourg (part II)
  • Episode: -
  • Brand: -
  • Category: Art
 

1 à 6- A.J. Fosik's work for the show

You can see more works by AJ Fosik here

Chic Cityrats (CCr): Who is A.J. Fosik and where does he live?

A.J. Fosik (AJF): AJ Fosik is a giant, he blocks out the sun. His enormous moustache is as black as coal and absorbs all the light around his head except for the the two burning hot orange embers where his eyes should be, his gaze makes children and tyrants weep. He lives in the hearts of those who smash mediocrity in the face with the hammer of their own screaming, raging, existence... and Philadelphia, he also lives in Philadelphia.

 

CCr: How and why did you adopt the medium of three-dimensional painted sculpture?
AJF: As far as I can tell, the idea was thrust forward from deep within the blackest depths of my psyche in a last ditch effort to prevent me from pushing paper around a desk for forty years in name of making another man wealthy.

 

CCr: Why the folk (in your works)?
AJF: The "folk" is a language that doesn't take much effort to understand, like a drunk balling his fist.

 

CCr: Why the animals (in your works)? Many species make an apparition (bear, horse, feline): what are their respective roles?
AJF: I don't ever consider the species of animals in my work, I make animal abstractions, existential fetishes. I make little reminders to cast off everything that is unimportant and rage against the black abyss.

 

CCr: You come from Detroit. What's your take on that place? Close to South Park's depiction of it as Hell on earth? Or a paradise? Or something else entirely?
AJF: Detroit is a rusting post-industrial hulk, an oily cesspool that every once and a while produces a beautiful flower. Then that flower usually gets shot over some sneakers or a corner dispute. I do honestly recommend that everyone vacations there a least once, mostly as a preventative measure against a terrifying future.

 

CCr: How does your current line of work relate to what you did before (street art, signposting...)?

AJF: This is an exact breakdown of how my life and work has changed since I've stopped doing street art...

I now have 10% less fingertips, I've seen 2% more of the world. I have 0% more trust and respect for police, I invest 21% of my income in machines that alter wood. I believe 33% more in sacrificing everything in the pursuit of creativity. The soles of my shoes last 9.8% longer. I know 11% more people in the flesh who I used to only know as writing on a wall, I'm kicking life in the nuts 13% harder, I have a blood alcohol level of 0.2%.


A.J. Fosik: Stiff Meat

September 6 through October 1, 08

Galerie L.J. Beaubourg, Paris

Galerie L.J. Beaubourg's website

A.J. Fosik's page on www.jonathanlevinegallery.com


Georgine Ingold - Guillaume Daeppen Gallery, Basel
  • Episode: -
  • Brand: -
  • Category: Art
 

1- Selfportrait #12, 2008, 16.5" x 22.8", oil on canvas

2- Selfportrait #16, 2008, 16.5" x 22.8", oil on canvas

3- Selfportrait #13, 2008, 16.5" x 22.8", oil on canvas

4- Selfportrait #11, 2008, 13" x 29.5", oil on canvas

Is it the carefully studied composition that catches our attention? Or the mysterious backdrops, sun-bathed exteriors or oppressive interiors plunged in half-light? Or the figures that people the images, idle and motionless, or attending to unfathomable occupations? A peculiar dramatic tension permeates the work of Swiss artist Georgine Ingold.

Yet her paintings do not tell stories. They are not narratives - instead they function as epiphanies, episodes of truth that unfold in the precise instant she's painting.

Although they are systematically entitled Selfportrait, the works in her latest series never show the artist's face. In fact, the characters inhabiting them seem to ignore her presence completely. Georgine Ingold doesn't represent herself. She represents female silhouettes, whose presence fragments as one draws nearer the painting, as the world goes to pieces within an impressionist painting seen up-close. And just as with the impressionists, the pieces assemble into deeply meaningful images. Self-portraits then, that are way more revealing than a simple reflection from the mirror.

Comprehension of this work suddenly condenses when one finds out that Ingold actually paints movie stills. Isabella Rossellini in Blue Velvet (1986), Meryl Streep in The Bridges of Madison County (1995): the artist isolates one frame from the flow of images, the tenth of a second when the presence of these women onscreen expresses an aspect of her own personality. In doing so she converts the cinematographic snapshots she's immortalizing into something profoundly painterly.

 

Georgine Ingold - Selfportrait

August 23 through September 20, 08

Exhibition's page on www.gallery-daeppen.com


Nathan Coley - De La Warr Pavilion + Haunch of Venisonhighlight
 

1 to 3- Palace, 2008, installation view, Haunch of Venison Berlin

4- Give Up the Good Book, Pick Up a Good Gun, 2008, powder-coated aluminium and fluorescent lamps, 160 x 74 x 8 cm

5- What Jackson Said to Andy (All Artists Are Either Cowboys or Indians), 2008, powder-coated aluminium and fluorescent lamps, 78 x 113 x 8 cm

 

All images © Nathan Coley, 2008, courtesy Haunch of Venison

Nathan Coley exhibits a fake saloon front, 80% of the real-life size. On its panels, he replaced the customary inscriptions and adverts by the words Wealth, Belief, Land, Mind, Life - the five rights of man under Islam.

 

Nathan Coley

July 26 through September 21, 08

De La Warr Pavilion
Exhibition's page on www.dlwp.com

Exhibition's page on www.haunchofvenison.com