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The Last Dessert
 

Mi-classic plates, 38€ each at Home Autour du Monde

For dinner along the night's Plutonian shore, where the raven and the crow go by the name of Nevermore.


Série Blanche - Michèle Gayhighlight
 

Série Blanche, the 5 Saveur Candles from Michèle Gay's Pentaptik collection

Saveur Sel (salt), Saveur Sucre (sugar), Saveur Farine (flour), Saveur Graine (seed), Saveur Lait (milk)

To be used separately or as a combination

Limited edition collection, 120 g., 38€

If Maïssa Toulet is our witch, then Michèle Gay is our fairy godmother. A pioneer of gourmet fragrances, she's enriched her line of magical scented creations with a pentaptych of candles freshly cast out of the athanor. Each one of them is spell-binding, and infinitely more complex than the raw name and pure white outline suggest. But the charm works even stronger when the fragrances are associated. Every combination is allowed and encouraged, they all were painstakingly elaborated inside Michèle Gay's alchemy laboratory. Five candles set as a pentacle inside a Silvera kitchen will increase tenfold the power of philters and poisons.

 

www.michelegay.com
www.parfumsdetable.com


La Tablette de Rose
 

La Tablette de Rose, or, when Rose, the jewel doll by Servane Gaxotte, becomes the muse of chocolate-maker Jean-Charles Rochoux, strong black chocolate bar, 70% cocoa, 12€, at the Grande Epicerie de Paris

Dark, dark chocolate for comfort in the dark times.

 

www.lagrandeepicerie.fr
www.jcrochoux.fr

 


Fraktur mon Amour - Princeton Architectural Press
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1- Cover

2 à 6- Interior views from Fraktur mon Amour

All images courtesy of Princeton Architectural Press, 2008

Fraktur mon Amour is the fruit of an obsession - that of Berlin-based graphic designer Judith Schalansky for the Fraktur typeface, also known as Blackletter or Gothic. Widely used in the Middle-Ages, superseded by the Antiqua during the Renaissance, banned by the Nazis as a Jewish production before being banned outright as a Nazi production, the Fraktur has today been restored to its former glory. The present book is a staggering ode to Fraktur in all guises, a compilation of 300 sets among the most striking, accompanied by a wealthy tribute of graphic creations. A black-and-pink Bible for all worshippers of typegraphy.


Fraktur mon Amour, ed. Judith Schalansky, Princeton Architectural Press, hardcover, 684 pages, 300 complete character sets, comes with a CD containing 137 fonts intended for private or limited commercial use, $75/£45, 2008 

Book's page on www.papress.com


Ena Swansea - Mudam Luxembourghighlight
 

1- Ena Swansea, a night to remember, 2004
Oil on graphite on linen, 290 x 183 cm
Collection Falckenberg, Hamburg

2- Ena Swansea, demands, 2008
Oil on graphite on linen, 214 x 427 cm
Collection Falckenberg, Hamburg
© Photo: Christopher Burke

3- Ena Swansea, identity, 2006
Oil on graphite on linen, 152 x 244 cm
Collection Melva Bucksbaum and Raymond Learsy

Interminable parades wail away rhythmically in the electric night. Ena Swansea's graphite nightmares haunt the calm Grand Duchy's nights; like a black pencil line binding New York to Luxembourg.

 

Ena Swansea

October 11, 08 through February 2, 09

Mudam Luxembourg

Exhibition's PDF on www.mudam.lu


Forecast - Princeton Architectural Press
 

1- Couverture

2- p. 43

3- pp. 56-57

4- pp. 166-167

5- pp. 22-23

from Forecast

All images courtesy of Princeton Architectural Press, 2008

Forecast is the latest issue of Nozone, an editorial UFO that gravitates between magazine, art book, and pamphlet. The theme, to cut a long story short: as is announced by climatologists, sociologists, economists, and the whole crowd of people whose job it is to try to foresee stuff of any kind, the sky will soon be falling on our heads. A state of affairs that has the merit of keeping graphic artists and illustrators busy. If there had to be only one thing left to bear witness to our species' sojourn on Earth, it would have to be Forecast: it shall prove that, in spite of our recklessness, we had at least a notion of what we were getting ourselves into - and that, after all, Man wasn't just good at destroying planets.

 

Forecast - Nozone X, ed. Nicholas Blechman, Princeton Architectural Press, paperback, 168 pages, 170 2-color illustrations, $24.95/£14.95, 2008

Book's page on www.papress.com


Assouline's Skull Notebooks
 

Skull Notebook by Assouline, $50 to $90

Online shopping on www.assouline.com


Seascapes: Tryon & Sugimoto - Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
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1- Dwight William Tryon (1849-1925), A Misty Morning, United States, 1915

Pastel on cardboard, 7 5/8 x 11 5/8 in

Freer Gallery or Art: Gift of Charles Lang Freer, F1916.125a-b

2- Dwight William Tryon, The Sea: Evening, United States, 1915

Oil on canvas, 30 x 47 15/16 in

Freer Gallery or Art: Gift of Charles Lang Freer, F1907.151a-b
3- Dwight William Tryon, Moonlit Sea, United States, 1915

Pastel on cardboard, 7 1/8 x 11 1/2 in

Freer Gallery or Art: Gift of Charles Lang Freer, F1916.121a-b

4- Hiroshi Sugimoto (born 1948), Black Sea / Ozuluce

Japan, Heisei period, 1991

Gelatin silver print on paper, 19 3/16 x 23 11/16 in

Arthur M. Sackler Gallery: Purchase, S1994.8

5- Hiroshi Sugimoto, Sea of Japan / Oki II

Japan, Showa era, 1987

Gelatin silver print on paper, 18 11/16 x 23 11/16 in

Arthur M. Sackler Gallery: Purchase, S1995.93

6- Hiroshi Sugimoto, Tyrrhenian Sea / Scilla

Japan, Heisei period, 1993

Gelatin silver print on paper, 19 1/4 x 23 11/16 in

Arthur M. Sackler Gallery: Purchase, S1994.6

22 American pastels from the early XXth century meet 6 Japanese photographs from the end of the XXth century. Correspondences arise, like waves roll on the shore.

 

Seascapes: Tryon & Sugimoto

July 12, 08 through January 25, 09

Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

See the exhibition's page on www.asia.si.edu


A Strange Procession in China
 

1- Ceramic iPod phonophone, Charles and Marie by Christian Zimmermann, 350€, Snow globes, 8€ each, at Franck et Fils

2- Porcelain biscuit box and porcelain biscuit pendent on a silver chain, Elise Lefebvre, 95€ and 75€, exclusively in Paris at Franck et Fils, Mushroom candle, 15€, at Franck et Fils

3- Parrot, 19€, Porcelain Bambi, 50€, Rhinoceros, 48€, Rabbit candle, 12€, Knit cage, 145€, at Home Autour du Monde

Phonophone's page on www.charlesandmarie.com

www.francketfils.fr


Marcel Dzama's Melting Snowman Canistershighlight
 

 

 

 

1- Melting Snowman Canisters

by Marcel Dzama

at the Bon Marché Rive Gauche,

Galerie Imaginaire, 250€

The ghosts of snowmen from winters past cannot help melting. It's global warming, yes - and also the fires of Hell.

 

www.treeslbm.com

 


Diamantini & Domeniconi's Giant Clockhighlight
 

Gomitolo, Giant Clock, natural cotton, diam. 90 cm, Carlo and Benedetta Tamborini for Diamantini & Domeniconi, 380€

A large, light clock to count down the dark hours.

 

www.carlotamborini.it

www.diamantinidomeniconi.it

 


Kate Street: Little Death - Nettie Horn Gallery
 

1- Orchis Polydactylus, 2008, pen on paper, 84 x 60 cm

2- Story of Orchis in three parts, 2008, watercolor and pen on paper, (3) x 114 x 84 cm

3- Birds and the Bees, 2008, wood, expanding foam, wire, resin, artificial flowers, acrylic, oil paint, taxidermy crows, bird bones, sculpey, pipe cleaners, varnish, 125 x 120 x 50 cm

 

All images Courtesy the artist and Nettie Horn Gallery

The forests said: "we're out of Christmas trees this year. Instead we're sending these funereal wreaths - and wish you a sappy new year." Kate Street is the witch that carried this invitation to die - from love.

 

Kate Street: Little Death

November 21 through December 21, 08

Nettie Horn Gallery, London

The exhibition's page on www.nettiehorn.com


Susanna Majurihighlight
 

1- Emilia, 2008, C-print on diasec, 90 x 135 cm 

edition of 5 + 2 AP, Courtesy Galerie Adler, Frankfurt

2- Waterhouse, 2007, C-print on diasec, 60 x 100 cm

edition of 5 + 2 AP, Courtesy Galerie Adler, Frankfurt

3- Farevel Kanal (Farewell Channel), 2005
C-print on diasec, 120 x 80 cm, edition of 5 + 2 AP

Courtesy Galerie Adler, Frankfurt

4- Mykines, 2007, C-print on diasec, 70 x 105 cm

edition of 5 + 2 AP, Courtesy Galerie Adler, Frankfurt

5- Save, 2007, C-print on diasec, 90 x 135 cm,

edition of 5 + 2 AP, Courtesy Galerie Adler, Frankfurt

6- Grø, 2008, C-print on diasec, 100 x 150 cm

edition of 5 + 2 AP, Courtesy Galerie Adler, Frankfurt

7- Saviour, 2008, C-print on Diasec, 90 x 135 cm

edition of 5 + 2 AP

8- Prairie, 2008, C-print on Diasec, 90 x 135 cm

edition of 5 + 2 AP

 

 

The Finnish art of drowning (in icy waters).

 

Finnish artist Susanna Majuri is represented by the Adler Gallery, Frankfurt & New York, www.galerieadler.com

 

Susanna Majuri's work is shown as part of the exhibition Rose Boréal, Photographies from the Taïk Gallery and the Helsinki School for Art and Design, dedicated to 14 young Finnish artists

October, 23 through January 11, 09

Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille

Exhibition's page on www.pba-lille.fr (only available in French)

then as part of a group show at the National Museum of Photography of the Royal Library of Copenhagen, Denmark, early 09

Denmark's National Museum of Photography on www.kb.dk


Lin Art Project by Caroline Beeserhighlight
 

Sparkling imaginary sea bestiary by Caroline Beeser, walrus and octopus tops, 215€ and 190€, Lin (in Paris, exclusively at Franck & Fils)

Inky black and tusks that crack,

The scary sea's a giant trap.

 

www.linfashion.com