design

It is the conceptual dream of time regained!

Look at all the constantly floating, circling, cyclical design motifs.

French artist Jean Besnard is considered one of the most important Art Deco ceramists

The vase above is glazed ceramic, circa 1930. It's 11 inches tall, with diameter of 9.5 inches. The bottom of the vase is incised: "Jean Besnard FRANCE".

The metal stamped bottle stopper seen from above

Bottle #001 in the limited edition of 100. I throb !

This lavish selection of several hundred Polaroids preserves the essential mystery of a project both decadent and hermetic.

"Everything is permissible as long as it is fantastic."
Carlos Mollino

80’s high- tech meets abstract stain-glass window bringing to mind the minimal paintings of an Ellsworth Kelly Image via dezeen.com

Well maybe we're just mad for the Matali Crasset look... so supremely angular and severe. But then the jewelry she offers is very the opposite of severe and angular. In fact it is so pop it veers near kitsch and TI loves the conflict of high materials rendered in such a fun form. Here's Crasset's explanation of the ideas behind her jewelry work for Le Buisson.

Demisch Danant engages in a series of exhibitions concerning the intersection between architecture, design and art
A great secret resource unveiled.

Latter day icon

A great incentive to pick up the current issue of AD

Environments defined by pure, linear geometries; translucent, light filled planes; floating surfaces; and suspended forms: Jil Sander's Hamburg showroom

Recently, due to conversations witha dear friend, I've had retail on my mind in an intense way . Is luxury retail as we know it over? Or is it simply cycling into a new state of re-invention?

Fabiano Goedert @ Joy photographed by Hugo Toni Fashion Editor: Luigi Torre Art direction: Romeu Silveira

I say, let the children play all day and all night. The next world is theirs.

The black box as black hole, as sepulchre, as bottomless pit....and within all that a fragrance meant to evoke orgasm.
Marc Atlan's delicately under-lit installation for the release of his debut fragrance "Petite Mort" houses a tiny bottle of the parfum in a black room that lends itself to many a metaphor.