Pierre Paulin at Alaïa Until december 15th, 2007

At 80 years old, Pierre Paulin is celebrated, consacrated, revered. And yet, this designer with such a clear signature always introduced himself as a "humble craftsman of design. The fashion designer Azzedine Alaïa, regards him as one of the greatest creative artists of his generation. To pay him the hommage he deserves, Alaïa is offering the 350 meters square under a glass roof of his Paris gallery.

Azzedine Alaïa reveals parts from his private collection, as well as those belonging to Didier Krzentowski, the gallery Kreo director, and Carla Sozzani, the owner of "Corso Como", the famous Milan concept store. A unique opportunity to (re) discover the all-about-curve and elasticity style of the designer who shall be honored at an auction at the Artcurial Gallerie on December 19th.

Galerie Azzedine Alaïa
18, rue de la Verrerie
75004 Paris
Tél. : +33 (0)1 42 72 19 19

Gallerie is open every day from 12 Noon to 07pm (free entrance).

SMALL TALK Konstantin Grcic dialogue with the Arts décoratifs museum until January 27th, 2008

The German Konstantin Grcic (born 1965) is one of the finest designers of his generation.
Winner of the Creator of Year Award at the 2007 Salon Maison et Objet, he works in a similar spirit to Jasper Morrison with rigorous and minimalist lines. At the museum’s invitation, Grcic decided to create a dialogue between his own work and some of the works in the museum’s historic collections. Their comparison is accompanied is by a short conversation between the works.


Les Arts Décoratifs
http://www.lesartsdecoratifs.fr/index_gb.html
107, rue de Rivoli 75001 Paris
tél. : 01 44 55 57 50

Tuesdays to Fridays from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Saturdays and Sundays from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Metro : Palais Royal-Musée du Louvre, Tuileries, Pyramides.
Bus : 21, 27, 39, 48, 68, 72, 81, 95.
Parkings : Carrousel du Louvre, rue des Pyramides

Eileen Gray, the secret photographer within... Until December 21st, 2007 at the Gallerie Historismus

The Historismus Gallery presents an important and rare collection of sixty original works on paper by Eileen Gray (Enniscothy, Ireland 1878-Paris, 1976). This collection includes gouaches, collages and photographs never exposed before and covers a period from 1918 to the 1950's. Gray had offered those works to Peter Adam, her friend, biographer and author of a book about her work entitled "Eileen Gray Architecture and Design", to be published soon.

Better known as Designer, notably for the Art Deco style, EILEEN GRAY painter by training, has also left a pictorial work marked by the non-figuration.
Gray's non-figuration began with her first contact with the work of Gerrit Rietveld, the architect and innovative Dutch designer, who became her artistic Idol. From this moment, she repudiated her previous work, a derivative of cubism (a kind of abstraction that was explored in her painting and sculpture at least ten years earlier), that she described as the work of a "Parisian decorator" obsessed with the use of precious materials, rather than by the formal aspect of art. She denounced as a consequence, the "horrors of Art Deco" (…)

In her post-Rietveld period, Gray photographed virtually all her design work. However, her photographs were not simple souvenirs of her creation: they were necessary careful constructivist compositions, sometimes made of everyday objects, that Peter Adam called tablescapes. Influenced by Man Ray and Andre Kertesz, she also photographed domestic and industrial landscapes. These pictures are at least as rare as her drawings.

Roberto Polo, Directeur artistique

Eileen Gray
from november 15th to december 21st, 2007
Free entrance

Historismus Gallerie
www.historismus.com
HÔTEL DE CHAUNES
9 place des Vosges
75004 Paris

mailto: galerie@historismus.com

t. +33 (0)1 42 71 21 60
f. +33 (0)1 42 71 21 57