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l’Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton book
when i put my name down for a copy of the LV Architecture & Interiors book last weekend, i picked this little tome up:
"L'Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton: Landscapes of Contemporary Creation" documents all the exhibitions held at the vast art space atop the Louis Vuitton Maison on the Champs-Elysées in Paris. since its opening in 2006, l'Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton has produced and shown artwork of over 150 select individuals with the aim of promoting creativity and contemporary art to an eclectic audience.
exclusive to LV stores world wide, this fine cloth-bound 380 page book is jam-packed with images of work by renowned artists and emerging talent such as Vanessa Beecroft, Beom Kim, Nicolas Moulin, Giuseppe Penone, sun7, Lawrence Weiner, Odile Decq, Claudia Del Fierro, Sylvie Fleury, Yves Klein, Jean Larivière, Ange Leccia, Olafur Eliasson and Robert Wilson. it also includes artist biographies as well as contributions by art critics and interviews with leading personalities from the art world.
a must for art fiends like me. =]
here are a few teaser videos of the gallery's most recent exhibitions:
"Trans-Figurations: Indonesian Mythologies" (24 Jun – 23 Oct 2011)
"Somewhere Else" (11 Feb – 8 May 2011)
"Who are you Peter?" (1 Oct 2010 – 9 Jan 2011)
"Perspectives" (4 Jun – 5 Sep 2010)
"Chile: Behind the Scenes" (19 Feb – 9 May 2010)
"The Confusion of Senses" (18 Sept 2009 – 10 Jan 2010)
espacelouisvuitton-paris.com
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Louis Vuitton Architecture and Interiors book
here's another beautifully crafted tome to add to the growing LV library:
"An exploration of the dynamic and innovative architecture and interiors commissioned by Louis Vuitton. A prescient advocate of contemporary interiors and architecture, Louis Vuitton continues to encourage innovation and playfulness in the designs of their retail spaces without losing sight of the essence of luxury central to its identity. This process of designing places to display high-style objects has created a new venue for cutting-edge architecture and transformed city streetscapes.
This exploration of Louis Vuitton’s international stores, as well as industrial sites and unrealized projects, includes interviews with some of today’s most talented architects and designers who discuss the beautiful and complex structures they have produced in collaboration with Louis Vuitton. This book examines the physical aspects of these buildings as well as the ideas that went into their composition.
Acting as both a backdrop for luxurious retail goods and the physical manifestation of the brand, these spaces are a genre unto themselves that invite exploration. With luxurious finishes and unexpected textures, these fantastic buildings represent the intersection of fashion and interior design. The book includes interviews with Jun Aoki, Peter Marino, Christian de Portzamparc, David McNulty, and Christian Reyne."
(Rizzoli)
the special edition print run will come with a choice of three different embossed slip cases: Champs Elysées (gold), LV Architecture (silver) and Damier (bronze)
sold exclusively in Louis Vuitton boutiques and online at www.louisvuitton.com while a hard cover edition – sans fancy slip case – will also be available for general release:
Louis Vuitton: Architecture and Interiors
text by Frederic Edelmann, Ian Luna, Rafael Magrou and Mohsen Mostafavi, contribution by Jun Aoki
published by Rizzoli
in stores October 2011
Your House by Olafur Eliasson
a commission by the Library Council of MoMA, ‘Your House’ is a limited-edition artist’s book with a laser-cut negative impression of his house in Copenhagen. each of the 454 pages is individually cut and corresponds to 2.2 cm of the actual house. as readers leaf through the pages, they slowly make their way through the rooms of the house from front to back, thus constructing a mental and physical narrative.
of the edition of 225 copies, 140 were reserved for members of the Library Council of The Museum of Modern Art and 85 were originally available for purchase at a price of $3,500 back in 2006. the edition is now out of print.
more info at the MoMa website.
bedside reading: The Horses of St. Mark’s
The Horses of St. Mark’s: A Story of Triumph in Byzantium, Paris, and Venice by Charles Freeman. these mysterious and charismatic ancient bronze horses - said to be the finest in the world - are a favourite curiosity of mine. the impassioned historian traces the Triumphal Quadriga’s history as imperial trophies by the Romans, the Byzantines and the Venetians and on to Napoleon who forcibly took them to Paris – the horses surmounted the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel at the Tuilleries – and then back to Venice once again. a very compelling read.
bedside reading: Rag & Bone
currently latched onto this book:
Rag and Bone: A Journey Among the World’s Holy Dead by Peter Manseau. for those into history, world religions, social rites & customs, curiosities and the rather macabre.
A fascinating, intelligent, and sometimes funny tour of the human relics at the root of the world’s major religions.
By examining relics—the bits and pieces of long-dead saints at the heart of nearly all religious traditions—Peter Manseau delivers a book about life, and about faith and how it is sustained. The result of wide travel and the author’s own deep curiosity, filled with true tales of the living and dubious legends of the dead, Rag and Bone tells of a California seeker who ended up in a Jerusalem convent because of a nun’s disembodied hand; a French forensics expert who travels on the metro with the rib of a saint; two young brothers who collect tickets at a Syrian mosque, studying English beside a hair from the Prophet Muhammad’s beard; and many other stories, myths, and peculiar histories.
With these, and an array of other digits, limbs, and bones, Manseau provides a respectful, witty, informed, inquisitive, thoughtful, and fascinating look into the "primordial strangeness that is at the heart of belief," and the place where the abstractions of faith meet the realities of physical objects, of rags and bones.
twitpic: completely unexpected
i finally have a copy of 100 Legendary Trunks book:
thank you Louis Vuitton & Miss JL (you are the best store manager in Oz!) for my wonderful Christmas present. =]
twitpic: The Social Network
well made and well delivered. i think the Oscar buzz surrounding this movie is not just mere PR spin, i can see why some would consider it. the hype is quite deserved.
go see this movie or read The Accidental Billionaires (both are mostly fictionalized accounts by the way), but just don’t miss either!
a little gem of a book
my fave author, David Sedaris’ new work Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Wicked Bestiary is a little gem of a book.
somewhat written in the tradition of Aesop, a very slight departure from his signature semi-biographical observational humour but still wholly Sedaris in tone and style, this book is a collection of some outrageously funny, absurd and even poignant fables involving anthropomorphic animals characters who eventually seem all too familiar to the reader. a satire of life as we know far too well.
here’s a short introductory video:
the illustrations may seem familiar to some because they are by Ian Falconer, creator & author of the bestselling OLIVIA series of children’s books. his images fit perfectly with the wry, dry, sometimes biting, sometimes melancholic, but always sharp wit of Sedaris. a kid’s book it isn’t. that’s for sure.
a must read in my opinion.
