Draped

textiles in art, follow to St Tyl

Draped

Drapery Study Albrecht Durer 1521

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from the series interieur  photographie©Valéry Lorenzo 2011

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for more photography by Valéry Lorenzo, click here

Fairytale Furniture

The Bo Reudler product and interior design studio is based in the Netherlands.

"We are storytellers through matter. We love materials: following their hidden qualities to bring out their natural beauty, experimenting to discover things we could have never thought of. We love the immaterial: charging things with imagination and meaning."

Above, elements from the Haute Bamboo series made in collaboration with bamboo-architect Olav Bruin.

These are elements of the Slow White Collection of

handmade, limited edition furniture. They are made from gathered wood (beech, birch, cherry or oak), recycled timber, white linseed-oil paint.

This bathroom in a 19th century home near Amsterdam was completely renovated by Reudler.

The Narcisse mirror from the Asylum Collection is made from glass of varying thicknesses causing a distorted reflection resembling a pool of water. A Slow White wash-table, coated with glossy white paint, was especially designed for the room. The sink is made of copper.

 

"The experience of water extends beyond the act of bathing. Sitting in the bathtub looking up, the bather becomes entranced by a ceiling of intersecting plasterwork circles, as if the water were dripping upwards from the bath. "

 Frost and condensation inspired the bathroom window design, entitled Summer Frost.  A sandblasted pattern starts out dense at the bottom to provide privacy and becomes more open at the top. The scene   depicts butterflies and dragonflies in a landscape of ice flowers. "By day the pattern is reflected on the walls resembling sunlight filtered through foliage, by night the scene is illuminated to become an abstract image."

Bo Reudler Studio



Mosaic

Mosaic of tiles by Philippe Starck

Restaurant La Co(o)rniche, Pyla-sur-Mer

photo credits : DR

from L'Express-Styles

Accidentally on Purpose

Julie Krakowski is a French textile designer who lives and works in Brussels. Her series Coffee and Cigarettes is made to suggest the traces of everyday life, the little accidents such as cigarette burns and food stains. Refined linen is embroidered and perforated giving what could be considered only flawed an ornamental value.  Here, a precious quality is created out of imperfection.

for more, Julie Krakowski

St Tyl: L'orient des femmes

"A true hymm to oriental women, the exhibition reveals another aspect of femininity, from the North of Syria to the Sinaï peninsula, introducing an exceptional collection of 150 traditional costumes and accessories from the Near East, selected by designer Christian Lacroix, in close co-operation with Hana Chidiac, Head of the North African and Near East collections at the musée du quai Branly...."
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A new take on stripes

Riviera

The Christian Lacroix Arles Collection for Designer's Guild contains this broken stripe pattern printed on crisp 100% cotton "designed to to replicate the look of a crushed striped couture gown." Not stripey enough, you say?

Sol y sombra

The straight up and down variety is available in cotton and silk.

Tempera

More stripes. This time with a full width's worth of painterly colors in one repeat.  Digital print on cotton poplin, horizontal repeat 137cm.

Taleguilla

Intricate embroidery stripes on an ivory silk satin ground.

Taleguilla

A closer look.

Riviera, Sol y sombra with added floral embroidery, Tempera, and Forum (the Jacquard grisaille scene of Arles at left) have also been interpreted as cushions and rugs. You can see them at  accessories by Lacroix under Lifestyle Brochures on the DG site; they are are very well done.

Chistian Lacroix at Designer's Guild

Cultural exchange

Heels and shoe soles by Topy

Orient des femmes

"A true hymm to oriental women, the exhibition reveals another aspect of femininity, from the North of Syria to the Sinaï peninsula, introducing an exceptional collection of 150 traditional costumes and accessories from the Near East, selected by designer Christian Lacroix, in close co-operation with Hana Chidiac, Head of the North African and Near East collections at the musée du quai Branly.

"The creations presented reveal to the visitor a glimpse of the history of these women whose hands, gestures, tastes and talent have endowed the fabric and the silk or cotton threads with part of themselves, composing each garment like a work of art.

"As the political, economic and cultural crossroads between Asia, Europe and Africa, the Near East has been the cradle of rich civilisations that have left their marks on many different artistic fields, including art of clothes, still largely unknown to a wider public.
The history of textile and embroidery extends over thousands of years, and can be seen not only as a way of dressing, but also as a language, and as social, geographical and religious markers.

"Since the 1970s, the image and appearance of Near Eastern women have changed. Today, what we call "Islamic dress" imposes itself across the region. This dark costume completely covers the body of woman, leaving no part visible, and is in fact leading to the progressive abandonment of traditional eastern
costumes, causing the disappearance of the final remnants of a secular art of clothes.

"By exhibiting for the first time a selection of traditional dresses originating from a vast area at the heart of the "Fertile Crescent", from the north of Syria to the Sinaï Peninsula, the musée du quai Branly offers to its visitors the opportunity to discover the diverse ways of life and costumes of Near Eastern women.

It reveals a different face of the Eastern woman, taking a new, lively and aesthetic look at their traditional creations."

Musée de quai Branly

Interwoven

Here's my new project in the form of another blog dedicated to textiles.

It will be presented - at least partially - under the heading of Le Style et la Matière and also published separately under the helpful patronage of StTyl, click!

The common thread

Fragonard  Les curieuses
image: Louvre

Parler chiffons is to speak of rags, meaning to speak of futile things.  It often refers to fabric, fashion, and style. That’s right, all those delights without which this world would be much too sad to live in.  This page is dedicated to fabrics - textiles, in all their manifestations.

2, rue du Temps Passé

Demachy

Le temps

Présent, imparfait ou passé composé?

A bit of all three perhaps? In any case, le temps passe.
The window still is open.
Two years for Le Style et la Matière today and tomorrow... a surprise.

Happy Spring!

Marching in

Spring

is

coming

Chaque chose a son temps en hiver comme au printemps.

5bis

Outside, marks of affection from his fans.

Inside, nothing much has changed.

 

2 avril 1928 - 2 mars 1991

 

these pictures and more from: Serge Gainsbourg Legende

 

Oh je voudrais tant que tu te souviennes
Cette chanson était la tienne
C'était ta préférée
Je crois
Qu'elle est de Prévert et Kosma

Et chaque fois les feuilles mortes
Te rappellent à mon souvenir
Jour après jour
Les amours mortes
N'en finissent pas de mourir

Avec d'autres bien sûr je m'abandonne
Mais leur chanson est monotone
Et peu à peu je m' indiffère
A cela il n'est rien
A faire

Car chaque fois les feuilles mortes
Te rappellent à mon souvenir
Jour après jour
Les amours mortes
N'en finissent pas de mourir

Peut-on jamais savoir par où commence
Et quand finit l'indifférence
Passe l'automne vienne
L'hiver
Et que la chanson de Prévert

Cette chanson
Les Feuilles Mortes
S'efface de mon souvenir
Et ce jour là
Mes amours mortes
En auront fini de mourir