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#19 A Nightmare Before Christmas

Between All Hallow's Eve and the visit of Sandy Claws, time flies suspended, as a snow-flake blown about by the great autumn winds. Ghosts walk longer than usual, crows peck in your dinner plate, and weird rumblings come up from your basement, as if a stray bear tried to hibernate there. One can hear, at night, the Devil and his fiddle leading the saraband. The hair of the drowned wave in the current, and in the park's long drives, on the dead trees' trunks, sepia pictures flit under a breeze scented with flowers and the tomb. Beneath the falling snow marches a procession of small china animals. A miniature rhinoceros nudges a giant rabbit, and an all-white macaw endlessly caws a song he heard on a creaking gramophone. The doors of dreamy palaces come ajar in the hazy night; they are filled with mysterious rooms and curious cabinets. Masked figures dance in the gardens, their faces painted with night, and moon, and stars. Chic Cityrats offers a ride on its bizarre carousel.

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

 


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

 


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


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


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


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


Christian Dior Parfums - New Look Christmas 08
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1- Twilight, 5-color palette, 49.77€

2 & 3- Pure Diamonds and Black Sequins, nail polish, 20.95€

Directions: wear smeared, as if the snow had melted on your cheeks tonight.

 

Dior's New Look for Christmas 08 on http://beauty.dior.com


Maïssa Toulet: cabinets de curiosités, monstres et prodigeshighlight
 

1- Piège à rongeurs
2- Rat-coléoptère
3- Femme-espadon ailée
4- Les os sur la peau

Maïssa Toulet has us bewitched. Soon she will come and tell you more - and maybe cast a spell or two.

 

www.maissatoulet.fr