February 12
The Index
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#21 Leçon de Choses
It's about time we stopped shielding our eyes from the truth: the people at Pixar really are prophets. As they predicted in Wall-E, a few centuries from now we'll all inhabit the surface of the Moon, or Mars for the boldest, or more probably inside a giant spaceship orbiting around the desolated spectacle of the planet we broke. To ensure future generations do not forget everything about their original world, a short Leçon de Choses is in order. However strongly and legitimately we lament the fact that pizza plants do not exist, many other marvels hide on the face of the Earth and in its fabled seas.
- Bleu Nature: the Illu Monument
- Episode: #21 Leçon de Choses
- Brand: Bleu Nature
- Category: Indoor + Outdoor Design
1 and 2 - Illu outdoor sofa, lacquered stainless steel and non-treated raw oak from French forests, l 240 cm x d 170 cm x h 187 cm, 6.988 €
A monument believed to be used for outdoor relaxation, that was regularly erected in the most beautiful gardens around year 2009. More comfortable than a hammock, the Illu is also more elegant. Its oaken structure protects the user from acid rains, sun burns and unwanted attention.
- Jo Malone: Essences of Kohdo Wood
- Episode: #21 Leçon de Choses
- Brand: Jo Malone
- Category: Beauty
Kohdo Wood by Jo Malone includes 2 collections: Lotus Blossom & Water Lily as well as Dark Amber & Ginger Lily, limited edition, Cologne 30ml 42 €, 100ml 80 €, Huile de Bain Deluxe 200ml 75 €
Lotus Blossom & Water Lily
Head notes: aquatic notes, grapefruit, bergamot and tangerine
Heart notes: sacred Lotus flower, freesia, honeysuckle, water lilies and jasmine
Base notes: temple incense, amber, sandalwood, musk, aloes wood, gaiac woodDark Amber & Ginger Lily
Head notes: black cardamom, pink pepper, ginger
Heart notes: nocturnal jasmin, orchid, water lilies, rose
Base notes: black amber, white pimento wood, leather, patchouli, sandalwood, Kyara incenseJo Malone encapsulates the most noble wood essences inside fragrant essences, just as precious, inspired by incense. An immaterial xylologic museum, where the vegetable world becomes a breath of air. The perfect inhalation for a treeless future.
- atelier R. Bernier and the Pompom Flowers from Icelandhighlight
- Episode: #21 Leçon de Choses
- Brand: atelier R. Bernier
- Category: Indoor + Outdoor Design
1 to 3 - Islande, wooden coffee table, oak-veneered top, natural oak feet, pyrographed motives of "Fleur Pompon d'Islande" (Icelandic pompom flower)
h 18.5"/47 cm x diam 19.7"/50 cmatelier R. Bernier brings a forgotten flower back to life, an isolated specimen of which subsisted in a patterns hothouse: the Icelandic pompom flower and its super-pistil. The only flower known to blossom with pearls.
- Home Autour du Monde: All Woody
- Episode: #21 Leçon de Choses
- Brand: Home Autour du Monde
- Category: Indoor + Outdoor Design
1- Salad serving utensil, 14€, bowl or salad bowl, 16€ or 46€, chair by Hans Wegner, leather seat, 708€
The implements our forebears of the 2000's used for luxurious and playful supper.
at Home Autour du Monde
8, rue des Francs Bourgeois Paris 3°
+33 1 42 77 06 08
- Vegetal: Vitra's living chairs
- Episode: #21 Leçon de Choses
- Brand: Vitra
- Category: Indoor + Outdoor Design
1 to 4- Vegetal Chair – the universal seat with an organic structure
design Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec
photograph by Paul Tahon
Back on Earth, everything was organic - even the furniture was alive, such as these Vegetal chairs and their lively manners.
- Mariage Frères' Iskandar: Iced Tea Will Save Us All
- Episode: #21 Leçon de Choses
- Brand: Mariage Frères
- Category: Fine Food + Drinking
Iskandar
French Summer Tea Collection
Glass bottle
160g. fragrant green tea, 35€
- Green Living at Home Autour du Monde
- Episode: #21 Leçon de Choses
- Brand: Home Autour du Monde
- Category: Indoor + Outdoor Design
1- Rabbits, 12 and 22€
2 & 3- Square of grass, 30 x 30 cm, 45€
4- Oval tray, 48€
5- Coppered metal suspension lamp, diam 55 x h 57 cm, 595€
6- Cushion, 30 x 40 cm, 95€
Rabbits, grass, little bugsies, the mountain and the light... Everything you need to know about the green world is featured in here. The portable grass squares, in particular, are very convenient for people who feel like taking along their bit of rustic country.
at Home Autour du Monde
8, rue des Francs Bourgeois Paris 3°
+33 1 42 77 06 08
- Home Autour du Monde: A Pastoral Scene
- Episode: #21 Leçon de Choses
- Brand: Home Autour du Monde
- Category: Indoor + Outdoor Design
The Piglet, 12€, cushions 40 x 60 cm, 50€ or 50 x 50 cm, 55€
It used to be that children who grew up in the city did not know the difference between goat and sheep very well. That's one problem solved, now that farms don't exist anymore.
at Home Autour du Monde
8, rue des Francs Bourgeois Paris 3°
+33 1 42 77 06 08
- The Peacock and its Wall Plumage
- Episode: #21 Leçon de Choses
- Brand: -
- Category: Indoor + Outdoor Design
Paon sticker
"Animaux" collection
Stéphanie Poinot for Les Invasions Éphémères
Gold and black peacock
65 x 90 cm, 39€
Peacocks were beasts of limited intelligence whose screams mingled with the rooster's crow. Their marvelous plumage, however, made amends for the paucity of their song. The most coveted specimens, such as the one shown above, sometimes grew on walls.
- Laura Mercier's Gilded Garden
- Episode: #21 Leçon de Choses
- Brand: Laura Mercier
- Category: Beauty
1- Laura Mercier, Gilded Garden Collection
Laura Mercier is a mythological character akin to the figure of Hera. Her gold-dappled gardens could be held in the palm of the hand.
- Chantecaille cheers up La Baleine
- Episode: #21 Leçon de Choses
- Brand: Chantecaille
- Category: Beauty
1- La Baleine: a powder to brighten the skin tone and create more accurate relief effects. Warm gold, pink nude and transparent ivory mix to form the Nude foundation in its Spring 09 version. 90€
2- Lip Sticks & Lip Sheer: three lipsticks inspired by corals from the great deep. 29€
Angel Skin, a pastel moka
Coralline, a transparent yet flashy red
Rose Coral, a transparent, flashy pink
Chantecaille gives 5% of every sale of La Baleine compact to the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature).
Ah! The great coral reefs... The fascinating flora and fauna of the great Deep... The mysterious creatures that people the ocean's trenches... A world little known, which the melting of the poles, the rise of the sea level, and the slowing-down of the Gulf Stream combined to bring down - as they did with all the rest. If only everybody had done as Chantecaille.
- Les Bijoux de Sophie's Scientific Odyssey
- Episode: #21 Leçon de Choses
- Brand: Les Bijoux de Sophie
- Category: Accessories - Jewellery
1- Milanaise pendant, enamelled metal boat, 180€
2- Poisson pendant, enamelled metal cameo and resin cameo, 165€
3- Poisson pendant, enamelled metal bubbles and glass bead, 140€
4- Camée brooch, resin shell, 145€
5- Milanaise pendant, metal-paved anchor and resin flowers, 190€
Photographs Alex MahieuBeneath Sophie's eternally calm sea, the anchors of sunken ships blossom with delicate shells and cameos. The fish, replete with pearls and the elegant drowned, lounge idly about, waiting for the next ship - for the next boy - to capsize.
- Lok Ming Fung Oohhh...highlight
- Episode: #21 Leçon de Choses
- Brand: Lok Ming Fung
- Category: Indoor + Outdoor Design
1 to 3- Ceramic boxes
What is there to find inside Lok Ming Fung's little boxes? A wise man answered: the surprise, is the box itself. Candy, jewellry and all manners of small things lie in hiding, deep inside the lichen-covered nooks. And sometimes, upon opening one the boxes, one is faced with the wonderful sight... of another box.
