How to rent a gallery in the Marais?
First of all, the Marais district is the area of Paris where you should organize an event. The latest fashionable brands and the most exclusive events such as Fashion Week take place there. A district that is both historic and trendy, popular with foodlovers, influencers, and wealthy clients alike. Also, Joseph's galleries allow you to […]
Fashion week: the Marais a fashion district
First of all the Marais is the place to be for fashion, where haute couture, young designers and luxury brands rub shoulders. The effervescence began in the early 2000s with the installation of brands like Zadig and Voltaire, Sandro or Maje. In the following years, the neighborhood was transformed. Further It becomes the place where […]
How to rent a gallery in the Marais?
First of all, the Marais district is the place to be in Paris for any event. The latest trendy boutiques and the most exclusive events, such as Fashion Week, take place there. It's a district that is historic, fashionable, and popular with food lovers, influencers, and wealthy clients alike. The […]
Fashion week: the Marais, a fashionable district
The Marais is the epicenter of fashion, where haute couture, emerging designers, and luxury brands mingle. The buzz began in the early 2000s with the arrival of brands like Zadig & Voltaire, Sandro, and Maje. In the following years, the neighborhood transformed, becoming the place to be for all the […]
THE ILLUSTRATIVE PHOTOGRAPH BY EMMANUEL BOUM
France – Paris Behind Emmanuel Boum's lens lies a profound sensitivity, nourished by stories from his childhood and references to art, inviting the viewer to discover poetic and playful photographs that play with black and white, pop colors, and vintage aesthetics, taking them on a journey through time. A painter, […]
ELENA IV-SKAYA, ODE TO THE MODERN WOMAN
Beauty, elegance, and femininity define the work of this photographer and former model through her highly aesthetic, luminous style and vibrant, intensely colored palette. "Woman is meant to be celebrated, the muse is feminine. I want my models to be beautiful and elegant, whatever their look may be..."
PEOPLE
“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.” To this famous line by William Shakespeare, one might be tempted to add an existential question that many philosophers and artists have grappled with: who are we beyond the role we play and beyond our appearance? What part […]
NADEZDA NIKOLOVA, ELEMENTAL FORMS
Croatian-Bulgarian-American artist Nadezda Nikolova (born in 1978 in Serbia), based in Oakland, California, studied 19th-century phototrophic printing processes (capturing light energy) at the University of Kentucky and the George Eastman Museum. Drawing on this knowledge of these early photographic techniques, so prized and still used today, she produces photograms on plates of […]
THE DOORS OF POSSIBILITY, ART & SCIENCE FICTION
“Science fiction is the subversive agent of doubt […] Under the guise of anticipation, it sheds light on current societal and scientific developments and trends, carries the hope of a world re-enchanted by the power of our imagination, and makes us dream of transforming utopia into reality.” From Sandy Skoglund’s fluorescent green Radioactive Cats to the man sleeping in […]
KATARZYNA WIESIOLEK, THE INTIMATE SPACE
Beyond their truly breathtaking virtuosity, Katarzyna Wiesiolek's drawings possess an almost unsettling, tactile presence. One might fear cutting oneself by picking up one of her broken glasses or getting dirty by sitting on her moldy plastic garden chair; one might want to pull the blind cord at […]
GREGORY CHATONSKY
Double Glove (Double Glove) Having made the Web the breeding ground for new narratives hybridizing the real and the virtual via artificial intelligence (AI), Grégory Chatonsky seems to have opened Pandora's box of our postmodern world: delegating the composition of his dystopian visions to "artificial imagination," the artist seems to have sold his soul to randomness […]
THE IRRESOLUTE
Indeterminacy, a very fashionable concept, has been defined by many artists and theorists as the vibrant heart of the "poetic act," the stumbling block of "illumination." "Nothing is more hostile to the concept of beauty than the will to give the mind a determinate form," wrote Friedrich von Schiller in the 18th century, while in the mid-19th century […]
THOMAS DEMAND, THE ART OF TROMPE-L'OEIL
The first major retrospective dedicated to the German photographer and sculptor is taking place at the Jeu de Paume, showcasing his photographs of life-size reconstructions of scenes. Since the 1990s, Thomas Cyrill Demand has been challenging viewers to consider their relationship to images and time. His photographs reconstruct places through significant events, episodes […]
CLIFFLEWAY LODGES
The architecture firm Snøhetta has partnered with interior design brand Vipp and entrepreneur Tom Bjarte Norland to develop a resort experience on the shores of Lysefjord, on Norway's west coast. The Bolder project comprises four lodges designed to blend seamlessly with nature and blur the lines between indoors and outdoors. […]
A FLOATING FLAG BY THE SEA
The Beijing-based architecture firm Trace Architecture Office (TAO) views the art of designing spaces as “an evolving organism, an inseparable whole within its environment, rather than a mere formal object.” This seaside project exemplifies this. The design team drew inspiration from a poetic scene: “An abandoned fishing boat has […]
AN EXCEPTIONAL TEA HOUSE IN CHINA
Anji is a city in Zhejiang province renowned for its bamboo. For some years now, China has been supporting high-quality, environmentally friendly local economic development. The London-based firm Hatch Architects has thus created a teahouse and two pavilions using traditional regional materials. Formerly a storage room, […]
ARCHITECTURE BETWEEN REALISM AND IDEALISM
In Giza, Egypt, Badie Architects stands out with this house resembling a giant sculpture, devoid of any parallel lines. Mohamed Badie, founder of this Cairo-based architecture firm, disregards established conventions to create a direct connection with the natural world. Timeless, organic, complex… These are the key words that characterize […]
THE STONE HOUSE, MODERNIST BEAUTY
Taller ADG has designed a stunning modernist house in Mexico, a play of volumes inspired by the work of iconic architect Luis Barragán. The Stone House (Casa de Piedra), nestled on a hillside, offers panoramic views of Monterrey. The volume of the spaces, the geometry and overlapping walls, and the reflections and sounds of the water features define this […]
A CAMOUFLAGED HOUSE IN INDIA
Through Chuzhi House, located in the private community of Sanctity Ferme in the heart of the picturesque town of Shoolagiri, India, the Wallmakers studio demonstrates that it is possible to build on challenging, unusual, and not always favorable terrain. The credo of its founder, Vinu Daniel? Camouflage architecture. Here, the structure of the […]
ARCHITECTURE IN DIALOGUE WITH NATURE
Casa de Piedra is located in Brisas del Marqués, a residential neighborhood on one of the peninsulas surrounding the traditional bays of Acapulco and Puerto Marqués in the state of Guerrero, Mexico. It is the work of the architectural firm of Gabriela Carrillo. The original house sits atop a centuries-old granite outcrop of 1 […]