Archive for the ‘Objet d’Art’ Category
Decorating Ideas: PACHAMAMA | DOMESTIC
Decorating and design ideas from the Maison & Objet exhibitions and other references I’ve been receiving. It’s not easy listing everything down but it’s necessary because I always end up trying to remember something fantastic I want to recommend to people and advise them to consider using.On the 14th of December, there’s an invitation for me to review the Arts Décoratifs which is connected to Maison & Objet. It’s going to be very interesting to see what this will bring out as I’m going to be heading back for Hong Kong for work and I’d love to carry new ideas always with me.
PACHAMAMA: “… means Mother Earth in the Quechua language. She was a divinity venerated by the Incas and by other inhabitants of the Andean Plateau such as the Aymara and the Quechua. She is the goddess of the earth, agriculture and fertility.”
- CONCERIA PRIANTE SPA
- Via Quinta Strada, 1 – Z.I., 36071 Arzignano – VI – Italy
- T: +39 0444 451514
- F: +39 0444 450435
- www.pacha-mama.net
- info@pacha-mama.net
DOMESTIC: “Launched by Stéphane Arriubergé, Christine Montard and Massimiliano Iorio in 2005, Domestic creates collections of articles devised by designers, graphic artists or artists around innovative and original concepts and themes. All these articles have the particular feature of offering the end user the freedom of participating in the design process.
Launched in September 2005, the collection “Vynil, an alternative to wallpaper”, literally passes into the hands of the end users, who, invited to transform their interiors into an area where they can express themselves, become the creators of their own setting.
Thanks to Vynil, the “wall space” becomes the field for a game of composition and narration into which a lot of effort and inventiveness can be put. Beyond its practical interest (no need for paste or a papering table), the Vynil collection makes it possible to think again about the place and the role of ornaments and decoration in our interiors.
- DOMESTIC
- 322, rue des pyrénées, F-75020, Paris
- T/F: +33 1 40 33 11 72
- www.domestic.fr
- info@domestic.fr
"CYBER-VOYAGE: L’ÉCRITURE AUTOUR DU MONDE" – CHAYAN KHOÏ FOR MONTBLANC, FLORENCE
READ THIS FIRST: All images here are COPYRIGHT PROTECTED. You are advised to contact the artist direct for permission to re-produce any of his/her images. Contact details are available at the end of this article, or in absence thereof, please contact the writer.
Chayan Khoi
There’s a way a certain vivid image stays in one’s memory even with the passing of the years. I remembered going though some incredible visuals that was sent to an Italian associate who introduced the visuals to me when I was in Milan early 2002.
There was a number of product photographs I was given to look at from various brands, but the one that stuck in my mind was that of Iranian artist, Chayan Khoi, and his work for Montblanc when the inauguration of Montblanc’s boutique in Via della Vigna Nuova in Florence took place between 23 to 25th of June 2000.
I have always loved Montblanc pens for their beautiful shape, and the “collection” pieces particularly the pens inspired by musical composers, ever since I started my first collection of Montblanc fountain pens in 1989, although these days, my preference for fine writing instruments would also include Omas, which is another superb writing instrument.
Montblanc thought to launch a fascinating exhibition with Chayan Khoi at the time of their Florence boutique inauguration under the theme: “Cyber-Voyage: l’écriture autour du monde”. The theme introduces five great photographic work in which Chayan Khoi creates future universes where references to great cultural tradition and landmarks of East and West converge and are depicted in vivid detail.
Chayan Khoi’s cyber-realistic art illustrates landscapes where Venetian canals co-exist with the skyscrapers of New York, or the pairing of the pyramids of Egypt and Chinese pagodas.
The visual artworks strive to relay the testimony and role of Montblanc in bridging the contrast between written works and that of the virtual world in its appreciation of the “necessity” of both in what is present and future to man. Chayan Khoi’s interpretation of Montblanc’s testimony show strong impressive colours and images of recognizable monuments in Eastern and Western cultures.
I had seen Chayan Khoi’s work of art some years ago and remembered them, and finding them again I feel his art has been able to stand the test of time well as they’re still able to deliver an impact.
Excerpt on Chayan Khoi:
A Renaissance man poised and ready to make his mark on the world, a unique and compelling European artist known for his cutting edge and modern style. He pushes his personal limits through hard work, perseverance, a sense of adventure and a passion for living life to the fullest. The embodiment of the exciting, multi-cultural aspects of modern Europe, Chayan sees the world as a playground, as an adventure to be lived and a place to be loved and experienced in all its facets.
==> CHAYAN KHOI @www.chayan.com
==> ART CENTER GALLERY @www.artcentergallery.com/gallery/chayan-khoi/
==> MONTBLANC @www.montblanc.com
LÉOPOLD ROBIN (1877-1939), PARISIEN MASTER ENGRAVER
The two “engraved prints by Léopold Robin, Parisien engraver master of several hundreds of copperplates, memorials of Spots and Monuments of the French patrinmony” show the Notre Dame, a gothic masterpiece in Paris, and one of the favourite architecture and monumental must-visit tourist spots in Paris I adore.
Léopold Robin and his etchings are still hand-pressed on copperplates in a Paris workshop which was founded in 1907 – one of the few specialists remaining in France.
I find them beautiful. They’re actually on note cards I bought in a stationary shop in Paris, and you can feel the incredible texture of the ink impression on the paper.
Excerpt from “The Printing Revolution in Eighteenth Century France”:
Engraving is an intaglio printmaking process in which the design is incised directly into the surface of a metal plate, usually copper, with a sharp graver or burin. The ink is spread on the surface of the plate and carefully wiped off until it remains only in the incised areas. The ink is transferred from the incisions to the sheet of paper by means of a printing press. …Intaglio is an Italian word that describes any printing process in which the ink is held in furrows below the surface of a metal plate and is transferred to paper through the application of pressure, usually from a printing press. All the prints in this exhibition were made with intaglio processes.
==>The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth Century France @www.nga.gov/exhibitions/clrflimpr-intro.shtm
