Preliminary Public Work

Preliminary study for a larger-scale public work to be created in the near-future.

Council — Periodic Table

Council — Periodic Table (by One & Co)

Superficial or authentic? This striking piece puts equal emphasis on surface and substance. Using a proprietary process, a massive block of wood is coated with a brilliant layer of silver, resulting in a piece whose stunning surface does nothing to hide the individuality and character of the wood beneath.

Images and text courtesy Council

Glove

As much as a I appreciate the pristine and immaculate aesthetic of clean, modern design and art.. I equally love signs of decay and wear. I especially love tools and instruments that become worn down from use… signs of human contact with an object and signs of physical work.  Much like the worn Italian frescoes from the Renaissance.. there can be beauty in multiple stages of life (or death) of an object. I’m sure the colors, shadows, and lines of the paintings were magnificent when they were first completed.. but now, through the interception of time, the paintings have grayed and decayed. Like a painter, time has made its own marks on the work.. a kind of reminder that nothing is above nature, not even some of the greatest masters in the history of art.

Cy Twombly – The Natural World

Cy Twombly – The Natural World (The Art Institute of Chicago) Yale University Press

Here are some plate scans from this amazing book. I highly recommend it to any Twombly fans. The reproduction is stellar and it is one of the more affordable books on the artist.

Rose & Diamond

Rose clock

Diamond clock

White clocks with faceted elements referencing the forms of both a rose and a diamond. Designed by Shinichi Sumikawa

Rose clock can be purchased via MoMA Store

6+

From the 6+ Antwerp fashion book

Absolutely beautiful scans courtesy  History of Our World

Antony Gormley

Antony Gormley — Kunsthaus Bregenz Exhibition

Images courtesy Antony Gormley

Givenchy Pre-Fall 2010

Riccardo Tisci’s Givenchy is hot. So hot, few could blame him if he declined to change things up for pre-fall. But change things up he did, and the results looked great. “It’s much more clean,” he said. “I’m going back to Givenchy’s roots, looking at late-sixties, early-seventies French style.” That means the studding and the heavy embellishing that’s become practically synonymous with the Paris label during Tisci’s reign is gone. In their place is a mixing of masculine and feminine elements, with a heavy hit of eroticism—the designer mentioned the 1974 film Emmanuelle. An ivory grain de poudre jumpsuit dipped low in front to expose a flash of a black lace tank. A delicate white blouse with a bow at the neck was paired with tough-chic high-waisted black leather shorts, and a boxy ribbed sweater with a miniskirt of ostrich feathers. OK, Tisci hasn’t completely forgotten about frills. The news on the accessories front: The brand’s über-popular Nightingale bag now comes as a trolley carry-on.

Image and text courtesy style.com

Yohji Yamamoto – Assouline

Scans from the Assouline publication on Yohji Yamamoto

White Shirt

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