Furniture, Interior Design & Product Design
My new favorite Art photography shop ‘Hakulau’ brings vintage travel photography of Hawaii, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, and Asia in my home. The combination of the four, the Opera House in Sydney, the Sky Tower in Auckland, the Beach and the Green Leaf are my favorites. Continue Reading →
Hundred of bird cages strung up across the alley way in Sydney. They are big, small, round, square, short, tall bird cages and everything in between. Just off Angel Place and one street back from George Street you round a corner to find the laneway where a canopy of empty bird cages hang above the street making graphic shapes and shadows against blue Sydney skies. This permanent public art installation plays a soundscape of birdsong. The calls, tweets and twittering are from bird species that used to live in this area, before the city replaced their native habitats. The installation is known as ‘Forgotten Songs’ and is part of the Laneways: By George Hidden Networks project.
This month, the main hall at the Hamburger Bahnof (Museum of Contemporary Art) in Berlin will be adorned with a series of giant clear orbs that visitors can actually climb in, on and around! Created by Argentine artist Tomas Saraceno, the orbs float in an ethereal network of mesh, which spans the entire hall. Called “Cloud Cities,” the installation features spheres filled with different organic materials from water to plant life. Initially trained as an architect, Saraceno set up his orbs so that they are “caught” in black rope netting at perfect degrees, enabling the blown up plastic spheres to support weight.
‘Moneyless’ installed works throughout the city and countryside of Grottaglie in Italy. Moneyless’s work experiments with geometric forms in both two and three -dimensional media. Beginning with paintings, based on the forms of threads he nailed into the wall, moneyless gradually began to create real solid figures, floating in space with the support of transparent wires. Interested in the visual conflict created by the presence of a manmade, logical figure in the natural environment, the artist created paint and physical installations throughout Grottaglie for this year’s Fame Festival.
Chic and graphic stripes painted on the bathroom walls. The nickel – and brass tub dates from 19th century, and the chair by Honore Paris is from Gallery Yves Gastou. The Gallery is specialized into 20th art and Yves Gastou has been devoted, since thirty years, to discover of avantgarde style as well as to enlightenment of forgotten designer.
In 1985, in his gallery in Paris, realised by the famous architect and designer Ettore Sottsass, Yves Gastou has exhibited for the first time in France the most important designers’s creations in the eighties, as Ettore Sottsass, Shiro Kuramata or Ron Arad, and started showing works by Jacques Adnet, Gilbert Poillerat, André Arbus, Maxime Old, Marc du Plantier et Paul Dupré-Lafon, Michel Boyer, Angelo Mangiarotti, Pierre Cardin, Gabriella Crespi, Joe Colombo, Paul Evans, Maria Pergay, Philippe Hiquily, Ado Chale and Jean-Claude Farhi, along with other designers from the 40′s, 50′s, and 70′s.
