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Slow motion is life’s best hack: a Personal Essay by Paris-based poet Haydée Touitou

Lucy Pullicino — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 15:26:26 +0000

Imagine living your life in slow motion—a life where detangling your hair takes close to an hour, where you stroll more than you walk, and the dishes you cook are delicious only if they’ve simmered for half a day. Welcome to a writer’s life. I am what they call a poet. I write, and most

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Louis Vuitton – A global employer branding campaign and extended work culture documentary

Lucy Pullicino — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 13:29:28 +0000

Showcasing a personal side of the people that make up Louis Vuitton Use of Friends of Friends photography and video content across Louis Vuitton’s careers website

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Noelia Portela highlights Latin American art in Paris through a nomadic curatorial approach

Emma Hammar — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 11:46:00 +0000

Noelia Portela founded the curatorial non-profit Persona Curada in 2017 and established it in the French capital in 2018. Through this project, the peripatetic curator has been proposing alternative ways of collaborating with, and focusing on, a new generation of Latin American artists. The modular format of the project—itinerant, experimental—allows Noelia to grow her network

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Shifting the way people perceive small galleries in a big art world with Joseph Tang

Aimee Shirley — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 13:10:17 +0000

In a world obsessed with growth, being content with remaining small is a rarity. Startups want to be scalable, restaurants want to franchise, and brands want to go global. The art world is no different: it is a common assumption that all commercial galleries want to turn into the next mega-gallery—and for the most part,

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Treading socially constructed lines and borders with Paris-based activist magazine The Funambulist

root — Thu, 10 Oct 2019 15:01:12 +0000

Beginning as a blog in 2010, and then transforming into a podcast in 2013 before becoming a print magazine in 2015, The Funambulist is an activist publication based in Paris. Founded by Léopold Lambert—who trained as an architect before pursuing his career in publishing and academic writing—the magazine is a platform to perceive the political

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A sculptural dialogue between seduction and technology with Parisian artist Camille Blatrix

Aimee Shirley — Fri, 27 Sep 2019 09:52:58 +0000

In the Parisian studio of French sculptor Camille Blatrix black dollar signs are graffitied on the walls, hammers and cutting knives are lined up along workbenches, and strips of wood protrude from behind a ladder up to a mezzanine where a rusty effigy of a dog stands watch. “Sometimes I dream of being a painter.

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Transforming literary gems into intricate trinkets with jewelry designer Louise Damas

root — Mon, 27 May 2019 12:09:36 +0000

The notion of the Parisienne is shrouded in cliches. To jewelry designer turned entrepreneur Louise Damas this no longer rings true. No longer snobbish, nor egocentric, her vision of the new Parisian woman is one that loves to share, think, and create whilst supporting each other. This love for collaboration, for a multi-faceted take on

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Five collaborative fashion adverts with Paris-based painter Natacha Paschal

Aimee Shirley — Thu, 09 May 2019 14:00:36 +0000

In A Nutshell: Five collaborative fashion adverts with Paris-based painter Natacha Paschal When Natacha Paschal was five years old, all she wanted was a Barbie card game like her best friend Mathilde. “My mum didn’t want to get it for me because she was against the doll and what it represented,” says Paschal. “So I

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Swedish chef Linda Granebring creates fusion cuisine with sustainability in mind

root — Fri, 05 Apr 2019 04:00:09 +0000

Connected to the mainland by a single bridge, the population of Hasslö has traditionally depended on the Baltic Sea for its livelihood, with fish being a staple ingredient of the local diet. Looking back, Granebring acknowledges that her family’s rituals were largely shaped around the values of food and eating well. “It all revolved around

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Architect Antonin Ziegler transforms humble structures into industrial yet serene residences

root — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 17:29:09 +0000

Ziegler’s interest in the essentials of architecture was evident early on. An eager student, he wrote his dissertation on the most basic of all building measures, the wall. “As an architect, the first thing you sketch is a line delimiting space on which a wall is built,” he explains. “Once you have a wall you

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