03 avril 2008

13 Sévigné Gallery

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Picture: Corine Borgnet
13 Sévigné Gallery
presents the work of cutting edge budding and strengthened international artists who employ innovative and provocative techniques and raise questions about our contemporary society.

Haïdée Henry

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Haïdée Henry is a young French artist inspired by Annette Messager work. You can view her work at Figge Von Rosen Gallery.

Julianne Rose

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Julianne Rose is a photographer since 10 years. She was a model in her 18s before photographing children for fashion magazines or advertising. That's how she started to develop her own work. The question she asks : What role does fashion play in the development of a child's personality? Toys, particularly Dolls, are the first reference to adulthood, a reflection of a perfect image and beauty standard.
She has also a photographic daily report: daybyday.

30 octobre 2007

Jean-Marc Gady

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Jean-Marc Gady is the founder and the director of an interior and product design creative agency. He is one of the most active and all-round French designer, mainly dedicated to the luxury world, his activity wavers between interior & product design, scenography and visual merchandising. He founded his own company a few time ago and has already created many projects for brands such as: Louis Vuitton, Moet & Chandon, Apple computers, Baccarat... Either acclaimed as a product designer than a scenographer, his work has received many grants and was shown on many international design books and magazines.

19 octobre 2007

Research Studios

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Research Studios is a visual communication agency working for famous brands like Kenzo, Issey Miyake, Nike or Sony. The first studio was created by Neville Brody in 1994 in London, the famous British designer and art director who contribuated to reinvente the area of graphic design and typography in the 80s. Now research studios has many offices over the world as well as Paris, New York and Berlin.

Issey Miyake Store

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TribecaIsseyMiyake is the worldwide flagship store for Issey Miyake. Located in the downtown Manhattan neighborhood, the flagship store carries the designer's runway collection as women's and men's collection, Pleats Please, APOC, Issey Miyake Fete, Me and HaaT collections. The space goes through a 25-foot-high titanium column-like structure designed by Frank O. Gehry. The two sensibilities and vision for TribecaIsseyMiyake has been combinated ingeniously by the architect Gordon Kipping.
Address: 119 Hudson St. 10013 New York

Prada Store

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The Prada Flagship Store has been designed by Rem Koolhaas.
In collaboration with Prada for New York Fashion Week Spring 2008, Damien Hirst transformed the SoHo flagship store into an overtly graphic funhouse, using wallpaper, digital projections, and window decals to cover the upper level of the store in an infectious pattern of visual symbols.
Address: 575 Broadway
10012 New York

09 octobre 2007

Erwin Olaf

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Born in 1959, Erwin Olaf is most famous for his commercials and personal work. He has been commissioned to photograph advertizing campaigns for large international companies such as Levi's, Nokia and Moooi Design. His work has received many awards and he has held exhibitions around the world.

Moooi

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Moooi is an innovative design collection founded by Marcel Wanders who is also the art director of the brand. As he says: "Moooi leads the understanding of culture, human needs and technology, contributes by creating the most successful innovative design collection ever and creates unprecedented value and opportunity for its customers, employees, investors and partners. This is our challenge and vision, we ask you to hold us to it and help us realise it." Moreover, the Gallery presents the new branding images which were conceived and created by Marcel Wanders and photographed by Erwin Olaf. 

Noovomagazine

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Noovomagazine is a contemporary fashion and photography on line magazine.

Slick

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Slick is growing. For this second round, Slick_07 will welcome 34 international emerging galleries and more than 200 artists in 2 venues in Paris, La Bellevilloise and Baudoin's Pavillon Carrée. It is a contemporary art fair for scouting out talented and passionate emerging galleries and artists. It is also a springboard towards the international art market, by taking advantage of the prestige of the FIAC. View Cécile Griesmar Interview
19-22 October in Paris

Takashimaya

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Takashimaya is a six floors department store selling beauty products, cosmetics and clothes resulting of a mix of cultures between Japan and the Western world. You will also find there what makes the true sense of luxury, a tea garden café and a floral boutique. Takashimaya was originally a kimino salesman, now it is the most famous "Grands Magasins" in Japan, it can be compared to Galeries La Fayette in Paris or Bloomingdales in New York. The Fifth Avenue flagship has been designed by MR Architecture & Decor.
Address: 693 Fifth Avenue
New York

17 septembre 2007

Yoshitaka Amano

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Yoshitaka Amano was born in 1952 in Shizuoka, Japan. He is famous for having worked on character development for G-Force, a popular animated television series and for having created visual concept design for the game software Final Fantasy. After over 35 years of career, he also makes a lot of exhibitions in Europe and United States.
 

15 septembre 2007

Fashion.net

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Fashion.net is The guide to all things chic.

14 septembre 2007

Annette Messager

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Until Septembre 17 - Centre Pompidou - Paris, France
Last days to see Annette Messager exhibition which presente the work she did on the last 30 years of her career. Her artwork speaks about her favorite themes: body, childhood, death, organic... which makes the spectator navigate between anxiety, obsession and irony.

Derniers jours pour voir l'exposition consacrée à Annette Messager au Centre Pompidou qui retrace le travail qu’elle mène depuis plus de trente ans. Les œuvres présentées abordent ses thèmes de prédilection : corps, enfance, mort, organique … faisant naviguer le spectateur entre angoisse, obsession et ironie.

Kara Walker

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Ne manquez pas le travail de
Kara Walker, artiste afro-américaine née en Californie en 1969.
Après la grande rétrospective du Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, elle sera exposée à New York
du 11 octobre au 3 février au Withney Museum of American Art.
Construite comme un récit, son œuvre se déploie en noir et blanc au moyen de découpages et techniques mixtes pour délivrer la
déchirante histoire du peuple noir. 

30 juin 2007

Bahai Temple

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Le
Bahai Temple, autrement appelé " Temple du Lotus " a été construit en Inde en 1986 par l'architecte Faribuz Sahba. Immense structure en béton blanc, le Bahai Temple prend la forme d'une fleur de Lotus posée entre neuf pétales d'eau. Le visiteur doit se déchausser et parcourir plusieurs centaines de mètres pour atteindre ce sanctuaire et pénétrer une salle haute et lumineuse ouverte à tous les peuples et toutes les religions.

Tabaimo

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Née en 1975 à Hyogo au Japon, Tabaimo, de son vrai nom Ayako Tabata, est une jeune artiste talentueuse, qui fut révélée grâce à son oeuvre " Japanese Kitchen " dans laquelle elle dénonce les problèmes socio-économiques du Japon. L'esthétique singulière de ses films d'animations, mélange du trait de crayon des estampes traditionnelles et du numérique ont contribué à son succès rapide.

Ken Miki

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Né à Kobe en 1955,
Ken Miki développe aujourd'hui ses créations dans son studio d'Osaka, entouré d'une équipe de graphistes et designers. Plusieurs fois récompensé pour son travail, il continue à déployer son œuvre minimaliste et sensible, du packaging à l'affiche, en touche-à-tout insatiable.

Superfuture

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Superfuture
est un site ultra complet qui répertorie une sélection de shop, hôtels, galeries, restaurants et autres lieux tendance du monde. Un moteur de recherche et des cartes permettent à l'internaute de composer rapidement son voyage et de personnaliser au mieux un séjour à l'étranger.