Francesca MontÃ
Correspondent in Paris I had never considered moving here, but the French design by 5.5 designers was so intriguing I decided to knock on their door. This instinctive, impulsive decision turned out to be a very good one. Later I realized I was in Paris, and I began to discover, with amazement, the different arrondissements, from the 1st to the 20th, with their great variety, something for everyone; this was real work, it seemed endless, and I continue to do it with passion. Born in Biella, Piedmont (so the road was not so long to come here), I moved to Milan where I took a degree in des... More
The planet of signs
With : Act up, Art & Language, CADA, Gino de Dominicis, Ernst Haeckel, Thomas Hirschhorn, Mike Kelley, Ivan Klioune, Irene Kopelman, Barry Le Va, Kasimir Malévitch, Core ...
"Get out of my sun" Sylvain Dubuisson exhibition at the VIA gallery
Pursuing his poetical, philosophical and technical approach to design, Sylvain Dubuisson has mounted an exhibition of twenty pieces with a scenography articulated aro ...
art-home
It has created a 12-person food experience, a one-table restaurant, in Paris, which allows diners to host their own dinner parties or food workshops in an ultra-contemporary archit ...
Planète Parr
As a member of the legendary Magnum agency, Parr is one of the most active and dynamic photographers at work today. Since the 1980s he has published some thirty books and shown his ...
Susumu Shingu
The Jaeger Bucher gallery exhibits the sculptures by Japanese artist Susumu Shingu. After the success of the first presentation Breathing sculptures, this second show entitled Plan ...
Prix de Diane
One of the most important dates in the French horse racing calendar, the Prix de Diane Hermès takes place at Chantilly Racecourse. A 2100-metre race for three-year old filli ...
HOME
Free, digital screening of the movie HOME beneath the Eiffel Tower. June 5th 2009, World Environment Day has been chosen as the highly symbolic date for a simultaneous, and mostly ...
Fair trade brunch
For the International Fair Trade Day on May 9th a free brunch has been organised by Max Havelaar. www.maxhavelaar.ch/en/
Calder
A "transatlantic" artist, Alexander Calder (1898-1976) is well known here for the large mobiles and stabiles of painted metal to be seen in French cities and parks. As we ...
Mais où va le design suédois?
Taking as its starting point Karin and Carl Larsson’s home in Sundborn, which in its time represented the odd and unusual, the exhibition provides an overview of design in Sw ...
Natura design magistra
Hella Jongerius celebrates the sculptural quality of furniture in her latest products: a flower has become design, a table has become frog, because they were intimately engaged wit ...
Ecritures Silencieuses
Espace culturel Louis Vuitton present three tablets with glyphs that have not been deciphered since their discovery on Easter Island in the 18th century. Having remained silent unt ...
Maison Martin Margiela
For the second year running, the Cité de l’architecture & du patrimoine is welcoming the magazine “ELLE Décoration” to revive the former apartme ...
Japan brand
Un ephemeral store where discover the best of japanese crafts. Kitchen and gardening tools, beauty products, textile fabric, varnished wood cases and design forniture. On the wall ...
En bonne intelligence
En bonne intelligence is a one month long exhibition, divided in four phases one for each week of the month. Aurélien Mole invited a critic, an exhibition commissioner, an a ...
Prototypes and Experiments
The Aram Gallery is continuing its series of displays made up of prototypes and experiments sourced from designers’ studios. The prototype, being part of a process, makes mor ...
Turning the Season
The Wapping Project explores the social and cultural phenomenon of the English Season and has invited artists to respond to its complexity, playimg with the historic ideas of town ...
Istants d'architecture durable
Next year Denmark will receive the internatonal climate conference; the Maison du Danemark chose the durable architecture as theme for this exhibition. The scenography is made usin ...
Merci
After building their chic children's clothing brand Bonpoint, Marie-France and Bernard Cohen decided to give back by opening on March 5th the aptly named Merci (Thank You)... ...
Jasper Morrison: Take a seat!
“This exhibition consists of 21 chairs, one for each year I have been designing them, and the idea is to line them up and let people sit on them. Partly to avoid the trap of ...
Geometry in nature
Anthony Barril is a graphic artist who works in print, installation, moving image and interactive, web based projects. Anthony's uncomplicated style stems from his appreciation for ...
Lomography
Lomography settles down a retrospective on Diana and unseen cameras such as the brand new special edition of Diana F+ for Colette. Finissage Colette Dianalogues on saturday 1 ...
Kitchen paradise
Julie Rothhahn and Lily Monsaingeon are both young graduate from ESAD (Ecole Supériore d'Art et Design) and active members of Marc Bretillot Atelier. Two product designers t ...
Carpet stories
Some important designers are colled to think about the carpet. Everyone is inspired by the history and the tradition that there are behind this object. For examples Kiki Van Eijck ...
Yona Friedman, Part 2: maquettes d'étude
"I produce a drawing like an idea, then comes the working model, like a trial visualisation in space, then the photograph and the slide." Yona Friedman. In this huge la ...
8 1/2 Pierre Charpin
Galerie Kreo edit a new collection of eight pieces designed by Pierre Charpin. Those objecs have in common the extremely shine surface and the lustre of the material. The suraface ...
Comme Des Garçons pocket store
Commes Des Garçons has opened in Paris two “Pocket” stores. Each shop is a small and clean white cube where you can find all the classics from the ‘Play&rs ...
Warhol TV
Andy Warhol had always been fascinated by television. A means of communication that was contemporary and massive. An ideal tool for artistic promotion, social promotion, for self-p ...
Gakona
Gakona is a small village in the center of Alaska, home to the America HAARP research program. Because of its military funding and the fears associated with electromagnetism, HAAAR ...
ArchiDURABLE
Since 1920's the swedish social politics of the "folkhemmet" try to develope an architecture that take into account the probelm of differences between social classe ...


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