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✖Ryan Gander: Catalogue Raisonnable Vol. 1
The cloth-bound front cover of Ryan Gander: Catalogue Raisonnable Vol. 1
Cedric Price: Wish We Were Here, London
‘Cedric Price – Wish We Were Here’, Portrait of Cedric Price
Courtesy of the Cedric Price Estate
Voiture Minimum: Le Corbusier and the Automobile
Realistic rendering of Voiture Minimum by Le Corbusier in steel plate and painted in black gloss
Studio Job founders Job Smeets and Nynke Tynagel stand aboard the Firmship FS 42, which was created as a personal vessel for Moooi founder Casper Vissers but will act as a blueprint for further designs
Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centres exhibition, V&A
Maggie’s Dundee, designed by Frank Gehry of Gehry and Partners
Photographer: Keith Hunter
‘We want to be modern’ exhibition, Warsaw
'Muszelka [Small shell]’ chairs by Teresa Kruszewska, 1956
Alfred Dunhill A/W 2011 presentation
Arranged rather effectively in a series of tableaus in the brand’s Georgian mansion, models showed off the collection’s modern fascination with things like deconstructed shoulders and reinvented dandy-esque accessories…
‘The Border’ by Victoria Sambunaris, New York
Untitled (Border Fence, near Naco, AZ), 2010
Photography: Victoria Sambunaris
Inside Colonial Modern: Housing projects on the empty field of Sidi Othman in Casablanca, 1955
The Villa Muller in Prague designed in 1930 by Adolf Loos originally for Mr. František Müller and his wife, Milada Müllerová
© Martin Polak
Shelter Island House, The Hamptons
Tilted over-sailing butterfly roofs and walls extend out from the living space into the poolside area, serving to distort and expand the true extent of the space
UCSF’s new research centre by Rafael Viñoly
The architects’ circuitous use of stairways and sloping walkways maximises all available space and ensures a fluid and cohesive whole.
New York Fashion Week A/W 2011: Womenswear
Ports 1961
What’s wrong with prim, pretty and easy to wear? Nothing - this is American fashion, after all. Ports 1961, now in the hands of designer Fiona Cibani, went gently down the approachable route, but made sure it raced ahead with excellent fabric choices. Fashion came in the form of metallic herringbone that contrasted nicely with prim proportions (think schoolgirl blouses) and the crinkly bouclé wool and super-slit skirts that were held up with ultra thin-metal belts.
Brit Insurance Design Awards 2011: The Nominees
Category: Interactive
The Wallpaper* Custom Covers project
Architecture News: Letter from the US
Renzo Piano Building Workshop: Resnick Exhibition Pavilion, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Piano’s travertine-clad, single-story structure adds 45,000 sq ft of flexible gallery space to LACMA’s 20-acre campus. North-facing saw-tooth skylights light the interiors designed to accommodate both multiple exhibitions and large-scale artworks. Scuptural HVAC units, painted bright red (and set in a landscape designed by Robert Irwin) recall Piano’s Centre Pompidou in Paris, his early functionalist collaboration with Richard Rogers.
Photography: Alex Vertikoff/Museum Associates/LACMA
Beauty news February: editor’s picks
Browhaus eyebrow kit
With its network of 19 salons worldwide, Browhaus is the place to turn for eyebrow and lash maintenance. To complement the brand’s signature offering, Brow Resurrection - a modern spin on eyebrow tattooing, in which sparse brows are filled in with precise strokes - Browhaus has assembled a kit of recovery essentials, which includes an anti-scarring balm and a regenerating serum, encased in this ingenious camera packaging to ensure a picture perfect finish.
Brow Resurrection, starting from £450, and Build & Fix camera kit, £25, both by Browhaus
Alfa Romeo Giulietta Cloverleaf
The 1954 Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint
New York Fashion Week A/W 2011: Womenswear
Diane von Furstenberg
The current exhibition at Svenskt Tenn is a collaboration between Monica Förster and creative director Björn Kusoffsky who have created a series of objects based on the pattern 4420 by Josef Frank. This design is quite a departure from his usual flora and fauna inspired work and is said to have been created after a meeting with Jackson Pollock’s art in New York.
Menswear collections A/W 2011: Show invitations
Some of our favourite invitations from the Paris A/W 2011 Menswear Collections
Behind the scenes of the Erwin Wurm shoot
A headless model wears Façonnable
Fashion designers take on film
In this month’s W*144, we talk about how fashion designers are increasingly making small films to sell the fantasy of fashion. From Karl Lagerfeld’s story about a jealous lover, to the Brothers Quay’s darkly whimsical animations for Wonderwood by Comme des Garçons, we look at fashion films that have made their mark.
Photography: Leon Chew
Writer: Stephanie Zacharek
‘Fat Convertible’ by Erwin Wurm, 2005, shown at Gallery Xavier Hufkens
Apple pie may have become an American icon, but sticky-sweet pecan pie is the one everyone takes to family gatherings, especially Thanksgiving and Christmas. The poly-talented Mr Ford, a Texan who has triumphed in Paris, Milan and Hollywood, has chosen this simple, singular dish.
Making of Colour Guard: the Wallpaper* and Vanessa Beecroft collaboration
Italian artist Vanessa Beecroft has spent two decades turning fashion shoot aesthetics into a troubling flesh and blood spectacle. The women in the artist’s performances typically wear little more than garish wigs and killer heels. Arranged into carefully composed clusters, they stand for hours, gazed at by the crowds a high-art girlie show inevitably pulls. So what would happen if Wallpaper* invited the art star to reverse the process once more and create a fashion story? Directed by Beecroft and shot by photography duo Sofia Sanchez and Mauro Mongiello, we accompanied the W* fashion teamto Franfurt’s Museum Fur Moderne Kunst to watch the spectacle unfold.
In this month’s Wallpaper* Style Special (W*144), our editor at large Michael Reynolds and Eric Hoffman team up with photographer Matthias Vriens-McGrath and fashion stylist Susan Winget to look into the world of fashion fanatics. Be it Versace, Fendi or Calvin Klein, when it comes to fashion’s true believers nothing matters more that matching your saucers with your trousers to achieve that elusive total look. For the full 20-page portfolio you’ll have to turn to the magazine, but here we go behind the scenes to see how this huge production shoot came together.
Director: Poppy de Villeneuve
Editor: Matt Dollings
Producer: Jordan McGarry
Production Company: Partizan Darkroom, London
Music Composer: Memotone courtesy of Hear No Evil, London
Easter Island cabins by AATA Arquitectos
The four bespoke cabins, measuring nearly 80 sq m, are equipped for up to six visitors each
LifeEdited competition: Winners and highlights
The winning design: ‘One Size Fits All’ by Catalin Sandu and Adrian Iancu
On their quest to find a plan for 'a tiny, ultra green, really efficient, even luxurious’ apartment, the judges - including designer Yves Behar, architect William McDonough and Hill himself - picked out this design by architecture students Catalin Sandu and Adrian Iancu. Their prize included $10,000 in cash, a contract award of up to $10,000 to consult on the renovation project and a one-week stay in the apartment.
Sculptures and installations by Jennifer Rubell
The centrepiece of the current exhibition at London’s Stephen Friedman Gallery is a work titled ‘Engagement’ by Jennifer Rubell, 2010, comprising a life-sized wax model of Prince William (sculpted by Daniel Druet) in the exact stance seen in the engagement announcement photograph. Pinned to his sleeve is a replica of the famous sapphire and diamond ring, this time sans Kate Middleton.
Photography courtesy Stephen White
Carsten Höller curates JapanCongo in Grenoble
Japanese art: ‘Mysterious Deliverance’ by Keiichi Tanaami, 2010
Image © Keiichi Tanaami, courtesy of Nanzuka Underground, Tokyo, and the Jean Pigozzi Collection, Geneva