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Urs Fischer Natural Order
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In the luminous studio, nude women recline gracefully on couches. One of them, gleaming in the sun that streams through the skylight, looks as if she has been dipped in liquid gold like the woman in Goldfinger. Another, partly veiled...
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Ron Arad A Straight Line Is Also a Curve
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Ron Arad’s iPhone screen displays the image of an elongated male figure painted in earth-toned colors reminiscent of a Modigliani. It is the portrait of his father at 23 by his mother when she was 21, younger than Arad’s youngest...
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Jean-Michel Othoniel The Storyteller
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A mysterious black and white photograph, the detail of an entrance gate to the Locus Solus villa, adorns the cover of a book on Jean-Michel Othoniel’s drawing table in the Marais district in Paris. The novel Locus Solus, written by Raymond...
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Laudomia Pucci Used to Colors
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The Villa Granaiolo in Castelfiorentino, once a 13th-century fortress, is where the Marchese di Barsento Emilio Pucci and his wife, Cristina, used to host glamorous parties in the 1960s. Visible from the green steps of the villa is the former...
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Bethan Laura Wood The Alchemist
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‘Oysters,’ a collection of laminate marquetry ovals, are spread out on the London studio desk of designer Bethan Laura Wood, who casts herself in the role of magician or alchemist of surfaces by creating luxury pieces out of inexpensive material....
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Joana Vasconcelos Portuguese Baroque
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From her office on the top floor of a former cereal factory warehouse on the banks of the Tagus River in Lisbon,  Joana Vasconcelos coordinates all her studio’s activities.  Below her, on the ground floor,  two lions covered in crochet lace, assisted...
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Nicolas Party The Imaginary Traveler
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Swiss artist Nicolas Party would rather go to a museum than on a hike. "I look at art more than reality," he says. He can, however, imagine gathering all painted trees, including the ones he is standing next to, into...
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