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The torrential rains have ceased (Anna Wintour must have put in a call), the clouds have parted, and Fashion’s Night Out is nearly upon us. Now in its third year, the after-hours shopping and schmoozing event has gone global, but the epicenter of the retail-themed frenzy remains New York City, where Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week kicked off today at Lincoln Center with spring 2012 collections from the likes of Richard Chai, Porter Grey, and Tadashi Shoji, who took inspiration from Portland-based photographer Ron van Dongen‘s stunning images of tulips. Here are our five favorite ways to spend the sartorial night of nights. Thirsty for more? Check out the official listing of events and happenings on the Fashion’s Night Out website. See you tonight at the shops!
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Review and Images by Diana Hong
Who the hell stands at work all day? I discovered a lot of people, including some of my good friends.
There were a lot of articles about how sitting at your desk for more than 8 hours was killing your life and it kind of freaked me out. So I started to do my research and found out about the Giraffe Desk through a designer friend on Twitter, Matthew Siskin. His father, David and brother, Jared, had just finished producing a new line of desk extensions.
The Giraffe Desk is a gorgeous clear acrylic desk extension, designed to be placed on a supporting surface, raising your existing workspace while the user is standing or sitting on a raised stool.
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The giraffe desk is offered in two sizes, medium (27″ x 32″ x 9″H) and large (27″ x 42″ x 10″H), with two static heights, but I was told that by the founders, the giraffe desk is also customizable. If there’s a lot of surface space given to me, I generally tend to pile lots of stuff on top of it, so I opted for a more minimal, medium sized giraffe desk. The acrylic extension desk is a sturdy 1/2″ acrylic that currently holds a 24″ apple display, my 13″ Macbook Air, wireless keyboard and mouse.
The Great Day of His Wrath, 1851-3; Tate
Tate Britain has come up with an interesting way to introduce the painting of Victorian melodramatist, John Martin, to potential visitors. The gallery’s forthcoming show of his work, Apocalypse, gets its very own filmic trailer…
In the mid-nineteenth century, Martin was a chief exponent of Armageddon-infused painting on an epic scale; the end-of-the-world summer blockbuster of its day. Viewed today, his canvases have a certain sci-fi quality to them – a distant echo of the work of sci-fi artists Chris Foss and Tony Roberts, the animation design of Ray Harryhausen, perhaps even the computed-generated realms of George Lucas and Peter Jackson.
Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, 1852; oil on canvas, 136.3 x 212.3 cm. Laing Art Gallery, Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums
The trailer was written and directed by Simon Burrill at Habana Creative, with post by CGI supremoes, The Mill.
And before the show opens at Tate Britain on September 21, you can get up close to Martin’s The Great Day of His Wrath (yes, it’s even more impressive than the 569 pixels-wide replication above), over at the Google Art Project, here.
More details on Apocalypse at the Tate Britain website.
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I am happy to welcome some new contributors to issue #11. Martin Connelly is a writer and videographer living in Newfoundland, and Omar Jaramillo Traverso is a travelling sketch artist. Together they profile a Newfoundland fisherman for issue #11 (more on that later this month). Here’s a video that Martin made of Omar sketching a Newfoundland street scene.
Sketching Downtown from Martin Connelly on Vimeo.
Découverte de l’artiste slovène Miha Artnak avec une idée et un concept universel “There is more than just one reality.”. Détournant les lieux et les objets de notre quotidien, il applique une couche en imaginant une surface cachée. Une série intitulée Layers à découvrir dans la suite.
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About 150 miles south of Miles City lies a place, “conveniently located in the middle of no place.” It’s called Alazada, Montana, and is home to the Stoneville Saloon and not much else (there is also a convenience store and post office). The Saloon is a place that one must really visit in person to get the real story but I’ll do my best to portray why, despite first appearances, the Saloon is doing it’s part to be a bit “greener” and is a safe haven of friendliness.
I was delighted to find some form of civilization after 65 miles of riding without shade or access to food or water (or any amenities for that matter)…did I mention that there are no trees from Broadus to Alazada, MT? I was a bit wary that I would roll up to find another ghost town as was my experience with Volburg, MT, a couple of days earlier. I wouldn’t say the Alazada was hopping by any means but there was a Saloon and it was open.
En Route to Alazada, Montana
I entered the dark bar to find a heavily tattooed bartender with long bleach blonde hair smoking at the bar. (I would later find out that her name was Diane, she was an artist, and that was her tiger-striped jeep parked out front.) “What’ll ya have, Hun?” she asked me in a throaty voice. I was so hungry and thirsty I couldn’t decide as I looked over the menu spelled out in plastic letters above the bar. All sounded so good yet so bad for me, not to mention the planet. Then, I stumbled upon her locally-raised and harvested bison and venison burgers. Yum. Yes, please. And, add a local microbrew from Missoula. Thanks.
Dezeen Wire: French designer Inga Sempé will be Guest of Honour at Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair 2012, which takes place 7-11 February.
Above: portrait is by Anders Hviid
Sempé will create a lounge at the entrance to the fair, where she has regularly exhibited products for brands including Gärsnäs and Wästberg. See all our stories about her work here.
Last year’s guest of honour was Arik Levy, also based in Paris, and the 2009 guest of honour was fashion designer Paul Smith.
See all our stories from last year’s fair here.
Here are some more details from Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair:
For the ninth year running, an international designer will be responsible for creating a lounge in the Stockholmsmässan entrance hall. This time the task falls to French industrial and product designer Inga Sempé, who has won much attention and appreciation for her designs.
Inga Sempé was born in Paris, France in 1968, graduating in 1993 from the design college Les Ateliers-ENSCI, L´Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Création Industrielle, Paris. Since then Inga has focused on the design of furniture and lighting, as well as a variety of objects and textiles. She worked at a couple of design studios before setting up her own studio in Paris in the year 2000. During 2000 and 2001 she was also artist-in-residence for the French Academy at the Villa Medici in Rome. During this period she started working with Italian companies such as Cappellini and Edra, who became her first manufacturers.
“In recent years, our choice of each year’s Guest of Honour has helped explore the boundaries between design and fashion and between design and art. For next year we want to take this a step further, and for the first time turn towards the world of lighting. We have followed Inga Sempé’s work over many years and greatly admired her expressive and varied collection of products. We were particularly impressed by her lighting items”, says Cecilia Nyberg, Event Manager, Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair.
Inga Sempé started to work with Swedish companies in 2006. The first of these was David Design and the second Swedish company she worked with was textile firm Almedahls. Since then she has also had work commissioned by Swedish manufacturers Wästberg, Gärsnäs and Svenskt Tenn.
“I am proud to be Guest of Honour, at The Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair, because Sweden is a country that gave me many opportunities to work – for instance I work for more Swedish companies than French companies and also I really appreciate this fair, which is not huge, but shows a high qualitative concentrate of good design in a country that shows a lot of culture for it”, says Inga Sempé.
In 2003 Inga was awarded the distinction of the “Grand Prix de la Création en design de la ville de Paris” and she had an exhibition the same year at the Musée des Arts décoratifs in Paris.
Today Inga Sempé works with, among others, Ligne Roset, Moustache, Domestic, David Design, Hjelle, Almedahls and Artecnica. She lives and works in Paris.
Previous Guests of honour include Patricia Urquiola, Spain, brothers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, France, Naoto Fukasawa, Japan, Konstantin Grcic, Germany, Giulio Cappellini, Italy, Ineke Hans, the Netherlands, Paul Smith, UK, and Arik Levy, Israel/France.
The Stockholm Furniture Fair & Northern Light Fair will take place at Stockholmsmässan on February 7-11, 2012.
“I’m an illustrator. I’ve been drawing since I was a kid in New Orleans. I started hanging around Jackson Square and learning different techniques. When I went to college in Florence, Italy and spent a little time in Palermo, Sicily, I took up fashion illustration, graphic design, and I worked on a couple of children’s books. Then I got jobs doing fashion illustrations, but there was something missing. I was alone in the room with a dress, and it wasn’t for me—I needed to be around people!”
-Fitness fanatic Richard Simmons, interviewed by Eddie Roche in today’s kickoff issue of The Daily, the ebullient tabloid distributed at Fashion Week show venues throughout New York City
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