Une nouvelle exposition par l’artiste anglais Antony Gormley avec cette série de sculptures exprimant l’image de soi avec des moulages de son propre corps, en plomb et acier. Il est actuellement exposé à la “Anna Schwartz Gallery” à Sydney. Plus d’images dans la suite.
Following up on our story from a couple of weeks back about the Architectural Association School launching a very impressive retrospective of Rem Koolhaas‘ and his Office for Metropolitan Architecture‘s collection of books, the Guardian‘s Justin McGuirk hit the exhibition up and filed this great report on what there is to see. When we originally linked up the show, we assumed it would just be, well, interesting and pleasant; a nice look at what the starchitect and those at his firm find interesting and wanted to collect and synthesize into bounded form. Instead, and to quickly paraphrase, McGuirk sees the whole exhibition, all 400 volumes of it, as something of look inside Koolhaas’ brain. It’s a gigantic, somewhat manic collection of bits and pieces, showing flashes of big egos, research-above-all, wastefulness, and a weird revery and disrespect for the book format. It’s an interesting read and if you happen to be in London while the show is on, should provide you with all the encouragement you need to hop over to go check it out. Here’s our favorite part:
As the years go by, the books get stranger. There’s the Wired Dictionary, an inventory of all the words published in Wired magazine, one of the by-products of OMA’s guest editorship in 2001. There’s a book called PradaVomit, a mystifying booklet that is one of the many products of Koolhaas’s tenure as Prada’s court architect and consultant. “Even vomit has some content,” says one collaborator in a transcript pinned to the wall; and Koolhaas is probably the only architect to have designed the spring/summer “look book” for a fashion label. Precisely through these book-shaped investigations Koolhaas has blurred the edges of architecture, taking it into fashion, consultancy, journalism and cultural criticism.
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A new collection of furniture by Dutch designer Maarten Baas will on show at Mitterrand+Cramer gallery in Geneva, Switzerland, later this week. (more…)
Designer David Watson of design studio Trebleseven sent in his colourful, typographic World Cup poster (detail shown above) so, seeing as we’re showing lots of football related bits, we thought we’d share it here…
“I’ve created the poster to support Soccer Aid,” Watson tells us. The idea is simple: sales of the A1 double sided poster raises money for Soccer Aid – a British charity event which raises money for UNICEF.
The front side of the poster (below) lists all the groups, A-H so you can clearly see which countries are in which group. A calendar runs down the right hand side listing chronologically all the matches to be played in the tournament:
The reverse of the poster (below) functions as a bold World Cup calendar – showing clearly what games are being played on each day:
The A1 double sided poster, produced in collaboration with G&B printers and PhoeniXmotion paper, is currently on press but will be available to buy soon for the princely sum of £10 (£7 for the print, £3 for post/packaging).
For more info and to buy one, contact David Watson on david@trebleseven.com
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pemMind the Gap/em, a set of gloves by Andrew Haarsager, probably deters conversation of any kind, comfortable or not. The subway gloves “protect against unwanted landings,” adding bird spikes to the hand. /p
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pThe Kevin Carpet Bench, by Will Robison, brings a fetishist into the room. A human carpet, Julio, is rolled up in a carpet and placed on a specially built armature to become a bench (much to his enjoyment). Will gives the backstory in the video above, and, according to the NY Times, the a href=”http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/14/fashion/14carpet.html?_r=1″story is no joke/a. /p
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pA shredded is embedded into a briefcase in emIn Case/em, Materious’ comment on the all-time low level of public trust in corportations. They ask, “how does a society that is founded upon, and so reliant upon, the corrporation reconcile its lapses of morality?”/p
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We, and everyone else, have seemingly been pounding the final nail on the coffin of Santiago Calatrava‘s Chicago Spire since the end of 2008, when trouble started bubbling to the surface. Then it seemed like the project was forever to be just a dream and a hole in the ground by mid-2009, when the lawsuits and news of unpaid bills started. But every time you think you’ve left your last bouquet of flowers at its grave, it pops back up again; though never with good news. The Chicago Tribune reports that the Spire’s developers have closed the lavish sales office they’ve occupied for the past two years, having finally settled yet another suit with the building they were leasing the space in. What’s more, the paper reports that they’ve lost staff and are still bogged down with those same legal troubles that started up last year when the bank came collecting on their loans. But if all that sounds like it absolutely, positively has to be the final breaking point, you’d be wrong. They’re moving to a new, just smaller office to continue onward. Certainly have to give them a nod for their persistence. It’s almost enough to make us to start believing that Calatrava will have his skyscraper after all, purely out of sheer will.
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 | Nothing says summer style like the perfect pair of jellies. However, despite their season festiveness, they don’t always have the best reputation. Too flimsy, too cheap, too over-priced, or too sweaty, it’s hard to find a pair nowadays that you can rock comfortably without looking like a bad 90s flashback. While these Melissa ‘Coral’ Jelly Flats are a little on the expensive side considering they’re, well, rubber, I appreciate them because they don’t pretend to be something they’re not. Inspired by a coral reef, the unique texture of these flats makes them perfect for beachy vacays and summer strolls because they embrace the fact that they’re jellies instead of disguising themselves as normal flats or sandals or glass slippers like those Stuart Weitzmans. Just don’t try to wear them all summer long — they’re not quite easily-replaceable as those Gap Kids ones used to be back in the day!What: the Melissa ‘Coral’ Jelly Flat Price: $80 Where to Buy: Nordstrom Who Found it: xgalexy was the first to add the Melissa ‘Coral’ Jelly Flat to the Hive. |
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