Bistrotheque’s Flash at the Royal Academy for Wallpaper: It’s 11 a.m. in an unused corner of 6 Burlington Gardens at the back of the the Royal Academy of Art in London’s Mayfair, and restaurateur Pablo Flack is endeavoring to explain how this vast, austere […]
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Lang Baumann for ID
Lang\Baumann for ID: There should be little doubt as to whether the slightly menacing panels of slick, black molded polystyrene and electric bulbs constructed by the Swiss duo Lang\Baumann qualify as art or design: They have a title (“Perfect #2”), a curator (Marc-Olivier Wahler […]
Case Simmons for NYLON Guys
Case Simmons for NYLON Guys: Midway through my interview with the artist Case Simmons, my bikini top, which I’m wearing beneath a spare, loose-fitting shirt, falls off. I am sitting two feet away from him, bewildered, the bikini strings in one hand and my tape recorder in the other, and Simmons doesn’t […]
Industrial Facility for ID
Industrial Facility for ID: Upon entering the Clerkenwell studio of British husband-and-wife duo Industrial Facility , what you notice first is the space. Not the room, exactly, but the space. It’s very white. The couple’s wares are there, in various stages of production, […]