
“For a Japanese like me, the Château de Versailles is one of the greatest symbols of Western history. It is the emblem of an ambition for elegance, sophistication and art that most of us can only dream of.
Of course, we are aware that the spark that set fire to the powder of the Revolution came directly from the centre of the building.
But, in many respects, everything is transmitted to us as a fantastic tale coming from a very distant kingdom. Just as French people can find it hard to recreate …
Charlotte Perriand (1903–1999), one of the most innovative interior and furniture designers of the 20th century, did not only strive towards a change in forms but also towards an improvement in social conditions.
After the tubular steel furniture, which she developed particularly in partnership with Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret, she preferred the natural material of wood with its free forms. At the same time her photography, which she approached in a radically modern way, became an impulse for her work. There followed grand stagings of magical objects found on beaches …
Artcurial and AD magazine gave “carte blanche” to 10 contemporary designers to stage their vision of style in 2010 in an exhibition of exceptionnal scenography held in the beautiful rooms of Artcurial’s haussmaniens hotel Marcel Dassault.
This exhibition seeks to offer the public a rare opportunity to discover talents and skills of a profession and all the trades that surround it, a world of artists and artisans who have little opportunity to express themselves outside of their private yards.
To present an overview reflecting the diversity of French today, combines the selection …
A project conceived especially for Ca’ Pesaro by one of the protagonists of sculpture today, Tony Cragg (Liverpool, 1949). With an itinerary through the three floors of Ca’ Pesaro – from the entrance hall and small room on the ground floor, to the monumental staircase, second floor and façade overlooking the Grand Canal – the exhibition offers forty works of art, in glass, bronze, steel, plastic, wood and stone, but also drawings, preparatory sketches and watercolours, spanning thirty years activity, from the 1980s to today, most of which have never …
Fish forms have been an indelible and vibrant element in Frank Gehry’s architecture since the 1980s. Fish embodied his desire to create motion in architecture and represented a perfection that he could never realize in his buildings. At a time when architects were inspired by ancient Greek temples, Gehry said, “If you really want to go back into the past, why not do fish?” At the Walker Art Center in 1986, Gehry said: “In Toronto, when I was very young, my grandmother and I used to go to Kensington, a …
Tourism Development & Investment Company (TDIC) at Manarat Al Saadiyat presents the world premiere of RSTW (Rauschenberg, Ruscha, Serra, Twombly, Warhol and Wool), a novel exhibition of masterpieces from the private collection of one of the art world’s preeminent figures, Larry Gagosian.
This event will challenge …
“For a Japanese like me, the Château de Versailles is one of the greatest symbols of Western history. It is the emblem of an ambition for elegance, sophistication and art that most of us can only dream of.
Of course, we are aware that the spark that set fire to the powder of the Revolution came directly from the centre of the building.
But, in many respects, everything is transmitted to us as a fantastic tale coming from a very distant kingdom. Just as French people can find it hard to recreate …
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