{"title":"New releases","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"kristin-mckirdy","title":"Kristin McKirdy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eExhibitions:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eCity of Ceramics, Sèvres, 12 September 2012 – January 14, 2013\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eMuseum of Decorative Arts, Bordeaux, February 28 – May 28, 2013\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eLa Piscine, Roubaix, October 2013 – January 2014\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"\u003eBorn in Canada to American parents, but resident in France from a young age, Kristin McKirdy drank from the sources of the different cultures she found herself confronted with. She studied art history in Paris and fine arts at UCLA. Her vocation as a ceramist was a means of achieving a free and enriching synthesis from sometimes antagonistic influences.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"\u003eHer professional journey is lived as a series of challenges and questions. An in-depth knowledge of the history of her discipline and a perfect mastery of her technique have conditioned the development of an original and powerful body or work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"\u003eWhile remaining convinced that her art had to remain anchored in these traditions, she learned from ceramic artists, notably Adrian Saxe and Kenneth Price, that the time had come for ceramics to free itself from its confinement to the world of decorative arts and that it should make its way into the great nebula of plastic arts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"\u003eA stranger to the rearguard debate which is shaking up the European scene, she builds her career on faith and an absolute detachment from essential qualities, to transform any existential or metaphysical worry into fertile ground, and the origin of creation. Both strong and fragile, Kristin McKirdy delivers scholarly and spontaneous work, rigorous and sensitive. Playing with virtuosity's universal archetypes (vases, cups, bowls, amphoras), her hands give birth to pieces whose measured biomorphism is a vector of sense and emotion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"\u003eThe City of Ceramics gives a free rein to Kristin McKirdy to make a historical connection between her work's aesthetic and certain preserved pieces in national collections.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"\u003eA monographic exhibition, “Kristin McKirdy: Twenty years of Creation” presents both the creations from her four years of residence in Sèvres between 2008 and 2012 and a selection of the most representative pieces from the last twenty years, from private collections.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"\u003eAlongside the exhibition at Sèvres, the creations made during Kristin McKirdy's residency will be on sale at the Parisian gallery of Sèvres, at the Palais Royal. The Pierre Marie Giraud galleries in Brussels and Jousse in Paris will also present pieces.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e• 23 x 30.5 cm\u003cbr\u003e • 200 pages\u003cbr\u003e • 340 color illustrations\u003cbr\u003e • Hardback cover\u003cbr\u003e • Bilingual French-English edition\u003cbr\u003e • ISBN: 978-2-9155-4247-9\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eText in French only\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"simple-translate\" class=\"simple-translate-system-theme\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"background-image: url('moz-extension:\/\/db5030a9-e377-408a-ba11-1833c403e7d8\/icons\/512.png'); height: 22px; width: 22px; top: 224px; left: 250px;\" class=\"simple-translate-button isShow\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"simple-translate-panel\" style=\"width: 300px; height: 200px; top: 0px; left: 0px; font-size: 13px;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"simple-translate-result-wrapper\" style=\"overflow: hidden;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"simple-translate-move\" draggable=\"true\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"simple-translate-result-contents\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"simple-translate-result\" dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"simple-translate-candidate\" dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"vendor-unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":7352715444281,"sku":"978-2-915542-47-9","price":45.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0019\/5913\/3241\/products\/f4f0ab379b6e722df22817963843cc68.jpg?v=1523034824"},{"product_id":"jean-derval-ceramiste-et-sculpteur","title":"Jean Derval: Ceramist and Sculptor","description":"\u003ctable width=\"300\" height=\"38\" border=\"0\"\u003e\n\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003c!-- \u003ctd class=\"mceVisualAid\" scope=\"scope\" style=\"width: 150px;\" dir=\"dir\" id=\"id\" rowspan=\"1\" align=\"center\" lang=\"lang\" valign=\"valign\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"index.php?option=com_content\u0026view=article\u0026id=123\u0026Itemid=60\"\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"buttonclear\"\u003eSommaire\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e--\u003e\n\u003ctd width=\"150\" align=\"center\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"index.php?option=com_flippingbook\u0026amp;view=book\u0026amp;id=12\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"buttonclear\"\u003eBrowse the book\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 0; orphans: 0;\"\u003eJean Derval (1925-2010) is a major figure in contemporary ceramics. After training in the advertising section at the École nationale des arts appliqués à l'industrie, where he was a classmate of Robert Picault and Roger Capron, he trained in the profession of graphic designer, and it was as a poster artist that he began his professional life. Hired by Christofle, he created goldsmiths' decorations but also a line of utility pieces made in Saint-Amand-en-Puisaye. This sandstone sanctuary, magnified by John Carriès and his school at the dawn of the 20\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e century, was a revelation for Jean Derval. In the\u0026nbsp;Maubrou-Pigaglio workshop he discovered a universe which fully satisfies him through the richness of his techniques and his vast artistic possibilities. Even more, ceramics leaves the creator completely free to choose, with an almost magical immediacy of realization. He can \"draw a bowl and drink from it the next day.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 0; orphans: 0;\"\u003eIn 1947, in Vallauris, Jean Derval found the two other members of the club “the three roosters\": Robert Picault and Roger Capron, with whom he founded the Callis workshop. Two years later he joined the famous Madoura workshop, led by Suzanne Ramié and then dominated by the masterful figure of Picasso. In 1951, he founded the workshop Portal. There he developed a subtle art of great virtuosity, technical and artistic, dedicated to unique pieces. This expertise fascinated Roger Capron, who called on him from 1967 to 1973, notably for the major construction site of the Byblos hotel in Saint Tropez. Subsequently Jean Derval would be brought to collaborate in architectural achievements as prestigious as the airport of Saint-Denis de La Réunion or the Sophia-Antipolis technology park.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 0; orphans: 0;\"\u003eWith a foreword and afterword by his friends Claude Bleynie and Jean-Paul van Lith, this book retraces the main stages of an expressive, diversified and very learned body of work where copper red reigns in majesty in a world devoted to earthenware, a true tour de force. His inspiration, strongly marked by the movement of imagery, is anchored in a tradition which allows it, in an often neocubist mode, to give us warriors, falconers from the Middle Ages, minotaurs and sphinxes, inherited from Mediterranean mythologies; a production of sacred art linked to an unshakeable faith.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 0; orphans: 0;\"\u003eThis inspiration, reinforced by the multiple areas covered by Jean Derval, finds its unity in the rigor of the drawings, the concern for detail, a perfect knowledge of techniques and above all a constant attention to man and his multiple questions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\" align=\"justify\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"\u003e• Size: 30.5 x 23 cm \u003cbr\u003e • 192 pages\u003cbr\u003e • 300 Illustrations color and black \u0026amp; white\u003cbr\u003e • Blanket bound under dust jacket\u003cbr\u003e • ISBN: 978-2-9155-4240-0\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"\u003eText in French only\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"vendor-unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":7352744411193,"sku":"978-2-9155-4240-0","price":46.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0019\/5913\/3241\/products\/158304255cf4e6f4b34e580307ff8ea5.jpg?v=1523035004"},{"product_id":"a-bord-des-paquebots-50-ans-d-arts-decoratifs","title":"Aboard the Ocean Liners: 50 Years of Decorative Arts","description":"\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"\u003eFrom the \u003ci\u003eFrance\u003c\/i\u003e's commissioning in 1912 to the \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFrance\u003c\/i\u003e's first transatlantic crossing in early 1962, French shipping companies and shipyards have enjoyed an exceptional half-century. This period saw the creation of a series of legendary ships aboard which the French decorative arts found an unparalleled setting. \u003ci\u003eIle-de-France\u003c\/i\u003e (1927) and \u003ci\u003eNormandy\u003c\/i\u003e (1935) are two remarkable examples.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eAboard the Ocean Liners\u003c\/i\u003e explores 50 years of decorative arts and visits fourteen great French transatlantic ships, highlighting the specific style that the greatest decorators (Arbus, Ruhlmann, Prou, Dunand, Leleu, Subes, etc.) have instilled in each of them. The richness of the iconography revives the splendor of these decorative groups which have now disappeared. This book restores to them the place that their ambition, their quality and their scale should have earned them in the French heritage of the 20\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eAboard the\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOcean Liners\u003c\/i\u003e offers for the first time a real work of comparative history, with a perspective on French and foreign achievements over these fifty years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"\u003e• Size: \u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\" face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: small;\" size=\"2\"\u003e23 x 28.5 cm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e • 416 pages\u003cbr\u003e • 500 color and black \u0026amp; white illustrations\u003cbr\u003e • Hardcover, cloth cover\u003cbr\u003e • ISBN: 978-2-9155-4238-7\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"\u003eText in French only\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"vendor-unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":7352748277817,"sku":"978-2-9155-4238-7","price":87.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0019\/5913\/3241\/products\/3a32d0682a342a8fdc464c2e0e0c39bf.jpg?v=1523035011"},{"product_id":"yves-gastou-antiquaire-du-futur","title":"Yves Gastou: Antique Dealer of the Future","description":"\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"\u003eA dealer and collector, Yves Gastou explored the significant trends in the decorative arts of the 20\u003csup data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e century through discoveries and rediscoveries. His career begins in the provinces, where he put Art Nouveau and Art Deco back in the spotlight. He then discovered André Arbus in 1972, in Toulouse. This great cabinetmaker of the 1940s remains in some way the hinge which shifted his taste towards the second half of the 20\u003csup data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"\u003eAs soon as he settled in Paris, Yves Gastou turned to the 40s, 50s, then the 70s, not to mention the design of the 80s, of which he remains the contemporary promoter. In December 1985, he opened his Parisian gallery, rue Bonaparte, attached to the School of Fine Arts, in the heart of Saint-Germain-des-Prés with a facade made of \u003ci\u003eterrazzo\u003c\/i\u003e black and white by Ettore Sottsass. He would in fact be the first merchant in Paris to dare to mix decorative arts and contemporary design, at the dawn of the 80s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"\u003e• Size: \u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\" face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: small;\" size=\"2\"\u003e23 x 30.5 cm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e • 320 pages\u003cbr\u003e • 350 color and black \u0026amp; white illustrations\u003cbr\u003e • Hardcover under dust jacket\u003cbr\u003e • ISBN: 978-2-9155-4235-6\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"\u003eText in French only\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"vendor-unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":7352749686841,"sku":"978-2-9155-4235-6","price":77.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0019\/5913\/3241\/products\/31157d4125b6f51cd5f5c975fc91d014.jpg?v=1523035021"},{"product_id":"matali-crasset-works","title":"Matali Crasset: Works","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis first monograph dedicated to Matali Crasset retraces the last twenty years of the career of one of the most renowned creators of international design. From objects to architecture, Matali Crasset's work questions, in the manner of a sociologist, the role of design in daily life and redefines modes of use, lifestyles and human interactions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter graduating from the Ateliers-ENSCI in 1991, Matali Crasset maintained an interest in new technologies from her time with Italian designer Denis Santachiara. Upon her return to Paris, she developed this electronic design experience when she collaborated for five years with Philippe Starck, becoming responsible for Tim Thom, the integrated design structure of the Thomson Multimedia company; and in 1996, when the VIA gave her free rein for her W at Hôm domestic IT furniture project.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHer home-studio, which she set up in 1998 in Belleville in the middle of some small gardens at a former printing house, is conducive to reflection and research. There she creates often transformable objects, offering original solutions which are praised by critics for their functional, poetic, imaginative and recreational character. Among the countless achievements, we can cite: the hospitality column \"When Jim Goes Up to Paris\" and the play area sofa for Domeau \u0026amp; Pérès; the metal structures and removable Table Trays \u0026amp; Shelves for Aiki; the \"Ierace\" pendant light for Artemide; the \"Evolute\" suspension for Danese; \"Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend\" light fittings for Meta\/Mallett; the “furnished” space \"Open Room No. 1\" for Established \u0026amp; Sons; the \"Chambre d'ami\" for Campeggi; the \"Essentiels de pêtisserie\" utensils collection for Alessi. Matali Crasset's projects follow one another and branch out through meetings. She works with actors as distinct as the hotelier who wants to develop a new concept (Hi hotels in Paris and Nice or Dar Hi in Nefta in Tunisia), the museum which wishes to transform itself (SM's in s'Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands), or the Department of Cultural Affairs of Burgundy which wants to place contemporary chandeliers in the Saint-Bénigne cathedral in Dijon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn exhibitions, Matali Crasset finds a space for reflection and experimentation different from industrial design and makes the most of opportunities to collaborate with other artists, notably Peter Halley with “Nature morte à habiter” at the Thaddaeus Ropac gallery where she exhibits regularly. She creates numerous scenographies for private companies such as Hermès or Première Vision, or for institutions, such as the Mobilier national, the Biennale de Saint-Étienne or the Salon de Montrouge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"\u003e• 24 x 28 cm\u003cbr\u003e • 300 pages\u003cbr\u003e • 700 color illustrations\u003cbr\u003e • bound under dust jacket\u003cbr\u003e • ISBN: 978-2-9155-4545-5\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"\u003eText in French only\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"vendor-unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":7352749883449,"sku":"978-2-9155-4545-5","price":70.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0019\/5913\/3241\/products\/43ae31a8c0c1a48b8fb8995112df99ec.jpg?v=1523035025"},{"product_id":"les-decorateurs-des-annees-50","title":"Decorators of the 50s ","description":"\u003ctable width=\"150\" height=\"38\" border=\"0\"\u003e\n\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd scope=\"scope\" style=\"width: 150px;\" dir=\"dir\" rowspan=\"1\" valign=\"valign\" lang=\"lang\" align=\"center\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"index.php?option=com_content\u0026amp;view=article\u0026amp;id=131\u0026amp;Itemid=60\"\u003e \u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"buttonclear\"\u003eSummary\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe revival of decorative arts in post-war France was extremely diverse, from the 1940s style which persists through official orders to classical or neoclassical furniture whose success was unprecedented. Modernity remained a battle to be waged after the failure of the Union of Modern Artists (UAM) which, being too rigid, remained unconvincing in the eyes of both manufacturers and the public. This challenge was taken up by the young generation of decorators presented in this book. Their approach does not obey the strict rules of a pre-established aesthetic, as recommended by the thinking machines of their time such as (before the war) the Cranbrook Academy in the United States, the Bauhaus and the Ulm School in Germany or the UAM in France. It responds to the needs and aspirations of a country in complete reconstruction, with the extraordinary vitality that characterizes the era.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter an introduction which emphasizes the alliance of ethics and aesthetics, fantasy and rigor, of this abundant and singular French creation, on the fringes of emerging design, this book is organized into four parts, each preceded by an introduction which defines the historical context.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst come the great decorators, the masters of the interwar period, such as Adnet, Arbus or Old, and the representatives of a freewheeling 50s style, playful and freed from any discourse in \"ism\": Matégot, Royère or Raphaël. Then, the great figures of Reconstruction – Gascoin, Hitier, Renou or Sognot – who transmitted to the following generation the sense of a demanding and purist modernity, and sometimes of astonishing avant-gardism. Their spiritual sons, many of whom remain unknown to design historians and who were barely twenty years old at the start of the 1950s, are Gautier-Delaye, Guariche, Motte, Paulin, Richard or Philippon and Lecoq. Closer to foreign designers, dreaming of an international art at the service of all, they are the first to have achieved a real collaboration with manufacturers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn addition to these thirty-three biographical and stylistic monographs including the one devoted to Roger Fatus, the author Patrick Favardin analyzes the establishment of structures\u0026nbsp;– completely new for France\u0026nbsp;– of publishing, promotion and distribution, with manufacturers like Airborne, Les Huchers-Minvielle or Steiner, galleries like that of Steph Simon and the MAI gallery, department store workshops, decoration magazines, household arts fairs and decorative artists' fairs. So many actors who passionately brought their thoughts and their support, technical as well as financial, to what was an unprecedented adventure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e• 23 x 30.5 cm\u003cbr\u003e • 352 pages\u003cbr\u003e • 400 color illustrations\u003cbr\u003e • Hardback cover\u003cbr\u003e • ISBN: 978-2-9155-4248-6\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eText in French only\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"vendor-unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":7352749981753,"sku":"978-2-9155-4248-6","price":86.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0019\/5913\/3241\/products\/eb967125c935c1477be89df436082b41.jpg?v=1523035026"},{"product_id":"claudio-colucci-kaleidoscope","title":"Claudio Colucci Kaleidoscope","description":"\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"\u003eNomad, design agitator, Peter Pan jet-setter, kawaii sweetheart, Claudio Colucci can't sit still. Geneva, Paris, Tokyo, and recently Shanghai and Beijing come to subtitle his name, like a luxury brand. We focus too often on his Joker smile. \u003ci\u003eBut what you see is not necessarily what you get…\u003c\/i\u003e Claudio is a confabulator.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"\u003eCreator of narrative objects, of places full of history, generous in pirouettes and paradoxes, he finds the leavening of his inspiration in the art of storytelling. \"I like fabulation, telling stories, inventing... true or false... rather false with a somewhat true start... blurring the lines... playing!\" he trumpets.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"\u003eUnder the direction of Sarah Carrière-Chardon, independent curator, his fellow travelers joined the adventure: the designers Tom Dixon, Christian Ghion, Tsé \u0026amp; Tsé, the pastry chef Sébastien Gaudard, the architects Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham, the stylist Paul Smith and the sweet Chika, a geisha from Kagurazaka and Michel Temman, ex-correspondent for \u003ci\u003eLibération\u003c\/i\u003e in Japan, who like Claudio settled in China. From Paris, the agent Dominique Serrell, with whom the gallerists Pierre Romanet and Pierre Staudenmeyer were the first to exhibit and publish his creations. His Japanese \u003ci\u003esempaï\u003c\/i\u003e (godfathers): the essential Teruo Kurosaki, the producer Takaya Iwasaki and the communications director of Hermès Japan, Kozo Fujimoto, who opened the doors to the East for him. Finally, Kanae Hasegawa, critic, Ruy Niimi, professor at Musashino Art University, Marie-Laure Jousset, honorary chief curator at the Centre Pompidou, Gérard Laizé, director of the VIA or Christine Colin, inspector at the Ministry of Culture, who made its critical fortune.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"\u003eThese notable personalities in Claudio's journey have all taken part in the story and the game. Between the Chinese portrait which can be interpreted by analogy and the kaleidoscope, whose variations on the same motif evolve with each turn of the hand or with each wink of the eye, each guest came to bring his touch and his angle of view to the Coluccian epic... 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The daughter of great art lovers, Pierre and Denise Lévy, she grew up in a house open to artists, where each section of every wall was decorated with works.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;\"\u003eEvolving in this artistic excitement, Martine Lévy learned to draw, following the advice of painters Maurice Marinot and André Derain. At the age of 17, she decided to devote herself to painting and settled in Paris to perfect her skills at the Académie Julian and at La Grande-Chaumière.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;\"\u003eAt 22 years old, she married Léon Cligman, an art enthusiast and collector. That same year, Martine became a double\u003c\/span\u003e-first-name artist. The origin of this mysterious signature, Martine Martine, dates back to her first radio interview. 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His new opus, 60s-70s Villas in France, reveals the original and abundant creation of this period, whether the work of French architects (Jean Balladur, André Bruyère, Paul Chemetov, Jean Nouvel, Claude Parent, Roland Simounet, etc.) or of foreigners (Marcel Breuer, Philip Johnson, Richard Neutra, Oscar Niemeyer). The book analyzes the various aesthetic and conceptual currents, particularly in their relationship with international movements. In the mid-1960s, social protest and the emergence of counterculture were felt in the Western world. Modern architecture is called into question by a multiplicity of trends which are then revealed. Unlike the 1950s, we cannot speak of a specific style of the 1960s or 1970s. However, the design of houses remains, more than ever, the privileged laboratory of architects of all generations.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe first part of the book is divided into three chapters which seek to discern the influences, the ruptures, the themes of reflection linked to the individual French house. The first is devoted to the metamorphoses of modernity. The debates are becoming more complex, the models and benchmarks are changing. Faced with the proliferation of pavilions, architects and designers are mobilizing to develop prototypes of industrialized houses. The second chapter reveals the architects'\u0026nbsp;enthusiasm for science, the advances in foresight (Jean-Louis Chanéac) as well as the blurring of boundaries with the visual arts (Pierre Szekely). Domes, hyperbolic paraboloids, bubbles (Pascal Häusermann, Antti Lovag) and inflatable structures are symbols of a break with the previous era. The third chapter addresses ecological thinking. This appeared among a few scientists and intellectuals on the fringes; then, during the oil crisis of 1973, it took over the national scene with a new interest in wood (Pierre Lajus, Jean-Pierre Watel) and attempts at solar architecture (Guy Rottier).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIn the second part of the book, around thirty very characteristic villas are classified in chronological order, analyzed in detail and illustrated with various documents, drawings, plans, photographs, etc. They allow an in-depth look at the themes covered at the beginning of the book and they express the richness, which today is perhaps forgotten, of the founding era that was the 60s and the 70s across numerous social phenomena, but particularly in architecture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"border-collapse: separate; color: #000000; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"border-collapse: separate; color: #000000; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"border-collapse: separate; color: #000000; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: #000000; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003ePreface to the work: \u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003eDominique Amouroux\u003c\/b\u003e is a contemporary architecture critic and historian of the \u003cspan style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\"\u003e20\u003c\/span\u003e\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e century architecture. 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What role do creators and artistic directors give it today? What are they reading? Do the readings inspire their creations? To answer all these questions and cure my literary blues, I infiltrated the world of fashion in order to combine it with literature, after having combined design and literature in my previous book.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e So I asked around forty fashion designers to draw and dedicate clothes and accessories to their favorite writers or literary heroes. My trip to the land of style turned out to be exciting. 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In Paris, during the euphoric post-war period, he rubbed shoulders with all artistic trends of the time, but mainly abstraction, surrealism and lettrism. His poems and short stories reveal an original dreamlike and “underground” universe.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eDiscovering the pleasure of working with clay thanks to Picasso, who invited him to Vallauris and who explored ceramics at the Madoura workshop, in 1948, with Francine Del Pierre and Gilbert Portanier, Albert Diato created the Triptyque workshop, which contributed to the aesthetic revolution of ceramics in the 1950s. From 1952, he opened various workshops in Paris, London, Faenza, etc. His pieces are exhibited in major galleries and have been acquired by numerous museums in France and abroad (Saint-Étienne, Victoria and Albert Museum, etc.). His ceramics are strong and powerful, and their preparatory designs creative and vigorous.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIn 1959, Diato won the gold medal at the International Ceramics Exhibition in Ostend. That same year, Prince Pierre of Monaco noticed this gifted ceramist and asked him to decorate the Princess Caroline Library in Monaco, inaugurated by the very young princess. In 1960, he commissioned him to create a large ceramic wall panel and a stucco ceiling for the delegates' room at UNESCO in Paris.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eBut the talent of the ceramist should not eclipse that of the painter. His painting is completely unique and original, and appears very early on gouaches, oils, engravings and lithographs. Stylized and sharp, it was initially figurative, before Diato launched headlong, around 1957, into a beautiful poetic abstraction. In 1962, influenced by Yves Klein and his golden monochromes, he introduced gold leaf into his creations. His work, which exudes mysticism and serenity, has been exhibited by the greatest international galleries.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In 1967, at the request of King Zaher Shah of Afghanistan, and thanks to his great knowledge of enamels and firing, Albert Diato was appointed as an expert by the International Labor Office (ILO) in Geneva in order to revive Afghan pottery. 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Although it was not the most significant of French exhibitions, it would be, despite the criticism, the one that would have the most impact and, without doubt, the greatest influence in the world. Many French architects and decorators were called to major international projects in the decade that followed. French embassies and ocean liners were their Trojan horse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter the desolation of the First World War, reconstruction saw the first examples of the new style appear. In 1925, you had to be modern. The development of aviation and automobiles required it, as the first garages and aerodromes emerged. Art Deco is often associated with luxury but it also influenced the design of inexpensive housing and garden cities. Department stores and boutiques were developing and creating their decoration lines.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe modern woman appeared. She was embodied by the flapper who smoked, drove, flew planes and chose her own architect-decorator. She did not forget to be elegant, and the couturiers, friends of the architects, invented sportswear for her. The foreigners in Montparnasse, because Paris 1925 was the center of the world, introduced a new leavening into the old dough. Cubism too, with a call to a geometric order of squares, diamonds and zig-zags, but Joséphine Baker, dropping her banana belt for a moment, set the record straight by recalling what modern art and the new movement owed to African culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMore than a date, 1925 is therefore a state of mind: how the “Roaring Twenties” followed on from the “Belle Époque”, Art Deco from Art Nouveau, and also how, through this apparent continuity, the characteristics of a global, modern art that was impatient to blossom were emerging and asserting themselves. 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Although it was not the most significant of French exhibitions, it would be, despite the criticism, the one that would have the most impact and, without doubt, the greatest influence in the world. Many French architects and decorators were called to major international projects in the decade that followed. French embassies and ocean liners were their Trojan horse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAfter the desolation of the First World War, reconstruction saw the first examples of the new style appear. In 1925, you had to be modern. The development of aviation and automobiles required it, as the first garages and aerodromes emerged. Art Deco is often associated with luxury but it also influenced the design of inexpensive housing and garden cities. Department stores and boutiques were developing and creating their decoration lines.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe modern woman appeared. She was embodied by the flapper who smoked, drove, flew planes and chose her own architect-decorator. She did not forget to be elegant, and the couturiers, friends of the architects, invented sportswear for her. The foreigners in Montparnasse, because Paris 1925 was the center of the world, introduced a new leavening into the old dough. Cubism too, with a call to a geometric order of squares, diamonds and zig-zags, but Joséphine Baker, dropping her banana belt for a moment, set the record straight by recalling what modern art and the new movement owed to African culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMore than a date, 1925 is therefore a state of mind: how the “Roaring Twenties” followed on from the “Belle Époque”, Art Deco from Art Nouveau, and also how, through this apparent continuity, the characteristics of a global, modern art that was impatient to blossom were emerging and asserting themselves. 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