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The Art of Fashion: Jean Paul Gaultier

Written on: Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 | Filed under: Blog, Designers, Fashion, Design World, Art and Design Spotlight  | Art Chat

Cotillard

[Marion Cotillard at the 2008 Academy Awards. Courtesy Jean Paul Gaultier]

Catching up with high fashion czar Jean Paul Gaultier

It was a career-making dress—for the woman who wore it, Marion Cotillard, and the man who designed it, Jean Paul Gaultier. When the French actress walked the red carpet and later accepted the Oscar for Best Actress at the 80th Annual Academy Awards this February, dressed in a la petite sirène gown of ivory crepe embroidered in silver thread, it catapulted Jean Paul Gaultier, l’enfant terrible of French fashion, from a figure of cult status known mostly to the cognoscenti into the rarefied realm of designers whose names, signatures and styles are globally recognizable, even outside of the world of fashion.

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Designer Spotlight: Philippe Starck Style

Written on: Wednesday, June 4th, 2008 | Filed under: Blog, Designers, Interiors, Design World, Art and Design Spotlight  | Art Chat

Katsuya

[Katsuya Restaurant, Brentwood, CA. Courtesy of Starck]

Checking in with ubiquitous designer Philippe Starck

By Lynn Morgan

He transforms the ordinary. Hundreds of objects we touch, use, and work with every day have been reimagined and redesigned in Philippe Starck’s vision. From the Microsoft optical mouse and the cult-object Alessi juicer to a Tokyo skyscraper, the Paris-born designer-turned-architect is the best-known advocate of New Design, the aesthetic that blurs the distinction between the utilitarian and the artistic.

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Architect Spotlight: Interview with Jon Jerde

Written on: Monday, June 2nd, 2008 | Filed under: Blog, Architects, Architecture, Art and Design Spotlight  | Art Chat

Jerde

[Photo by Joe Pugliese]

The award-winning architect of the Bellagio and Horton Plaza examines inspiration, sustainable design, and the future of architecture

By Layla Revis

Art and Living: What are your favorite architectural styles?

Jon Jerde: We’ve come to the end of traditional architectural styles evolving over hundreds of years into ever-refined movements and pieces. I look more to ideas than styles. For me, the most important architecture connects to people in a very real way. Two individuals who had a profound impact on the quality of space—and who have greatly influenced me—were Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis Kahn.

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An Architect’s Aura: Richard Landry

Written on: Wednesday, September 5th, 2007 | Filed under: Blog, Architects, Architecture  | Art Chat

Berberian

For luxury housing designer Richard Landry, designer of homes for celebrities Wayne Gretzky, Eddie Murphy, Sugar Ray Leonard and Kenny G, the architect is a stage-setter, fantasist and businessman—all at once 

By Morris Newman

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Museum Maestro: Renzo Piano

Written on: Friday, August 31st, 2007 | Filed under: Blog, Architects, Architecture  | Art Chat

Renzo Piano

His museums house Hockneys, Boteros and Warhols, to name just a few. So how has Renzo Piano staked his claim as the art world’s architect of choice?

By Diane Dunne

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Sculpted Sound: José Ramírez Guitars

Written on: Friday, August 31st, 2007 | Filed under: Blog, Product, Design World  | Art Chat

Ramirez Guitar

By Andy Johnson

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Massimo Bizzocchi: Bringing Italian Flair to Fashion and Menswear

Written on: Monday, August 27th, 2007 | Filed under: Blog, Fashion, Design World  | Art Chat

Massimo

By Michael Jeffries

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Uncompromising Taste: With Four Decades of Designing Behind Him, Waldo Fernandez Looks Forward

Written on: Friday, July 6th, 2007 | Filed under: Blog, Interiors, Design World  | Art Chat

Fernandez

By Steve Basilone

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In the Works: Chatting about the Pacific Design Center’s Red Building with Architect Cesar Pelli and Developer Charles Cohen

Written on: Saturday, March 31st, 2007 | Filed under: Blog, Architects, Architecture  | Art Chat

PDC Pelli and Cohen

By Steve Basilone

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