Eileen Gray: Her Life and Her Work. the Ultimate Biography

Eileen Gray: Her Life and Her Work. the Ultimate Biography

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Eileen Gray started her career as a lacquer artist in Paris creating new furniture and living accessories with striking colors and understated shapes. Remaining stalwartly independent, Gray developed an opulent, luxuriant take on geometric forms and industrially produced materials.

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European Centre For Geological Education by WXCA

European Centre For Geological Education by WXCA

An old, exploited quarry in region of Holy Cross Mountains

The Swietokrzyskie Mountains are an unique place for geologists, as there are exposed rocks illustrating 560 million years of Earth's history located on a relatively small area. 
A few steps in this area is like turning back time by 100 million years. The fact that the layers of rocks of different ages located around Checiny are now on the surface, is a unique phenomenon on a European scale.

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Monocle 24: The Urbanist - Keep on moving

Monocle 24: The Urbanist - Keep on moving

Design Podcast

In this episode, The Urbanist, catches up with businesses “on the go”, from a travelling cinema in Vienna to the delicious food-truck craze in Paris. Plus: they hop on a houseboat in London that doubles as a record shop.

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"Thought of Train of Thought" by Ron Arad at Saint Pancras International

"Thought of Train of Thought" by Ron Arad at Saint Pancras International

commissioned by Terrace Wires

Terrace Wires revealed the eagerly anticipated Terrace Wires public art installation, Thought of Train of Thought, by Royal Academician Ron Arad at St Pancras International.

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Lives of the Artists, Lives of the Architects by Hans Ulrich Obrist

Lives of the Artists, Lives of the Architects by Hans Ulrich Obrist

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A unique opportunity to learn about the lives and creativity of the world's leading artists

Hans Ulrich Obrist has been conducting ongoing conversations with the world's greatest living artists since he began in Switzerland, aged 19, with Fischli and Weiss. Here he chooses nineteen of the greatest figures and presents their conversations, offering the reader intimacy with the artists and insight into their creative processes.

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Ron Arad (b. 1951) BTT2, 2015

Ron Arad: Summer Exhibition at Ben Brown Fine Arts

22 June - 15 September '15

Ben Brown Fine Arts is pleased to announce its first solo exhibition in London of internationally acclaimed artist, designer and architect Ron Arad. Summer Exhibition is the culmination of Arad's most recent work, spanning sculpture, hand-crafted studio pieces and industrial design, and showcasing the artist's constant experimentation with the boundaries and possibilities of materials, from metals to wood and glass.

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Oskar Hansen: Open Form at Yale School go Architecture

Oskar Hansen: Open Form at Yale School go Architecture

1 September - 17 December

An exhibition highlighting the work of Oskar Hansen (1922-2005), architect, urban planner, and theorist, will open at the Yale School of Architecture (YSoA) on Sept. 1.

“Oskar Hansen: Open Form” traces the evolution of Hansen’s theory of Open Form from its origin in his own architectural projects to its application in film, visual games, and other artistic practices.

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The House of Beauty and Culture by Kasia Maciejowska & Gregor Muir

The House of Beauty and Culture by Kasia Maciejowska & Gregor Muir

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Published to coincide with the ICA exhibition Judy Blame: Never Again (29 June - 4 September 2016)

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Christo: Floating Piers video by Nowness

Christo: Floating Piers video by Nowness

The environmental artist getting people to walk on water

Whether installing thousands of gates across New York’s Central Park or enveloping an entire mountain in fabric, Bulgarian artist Christo could never be accused of doing things by halves.

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Bauhaus Weaving Theory: From Feminine Craft to Mode of Design by T'ai Smith

Bauhaus Weaving Theory: From Feminine Craft to Mode of Design by T'ai Smith

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The Bauhaus school in Germany has long been understood through the writings of its founding director, Walter Gropius, and well-known artists who taught there such as Wassily Kandinsky and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. Far less recognized are texts by women in the school s weaving workshop. In "Bauhaus Weaving Theory, " T ai Smith uncovers new significance in the work the Bauhaus weavers did as writers.

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Schiphol Clock by MAARTEN BAAS, credits Rob Hodselmans

Schiphol presents Real Time by MAARTEN BAAS

Out with the clogs, in with the clock

It’s the latest edition of MAARTEN BAAS' Real Times' series: a gigantic clock (over three metres in height) in the Lounge 2 at one of the world's most popular airports. Every year 15 million people travel through Lounge 2 at Schiphol, hosting passengers from all around the world.

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