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Atelier Brancusi

admin — Fri, 20 Apr 2018 09:56:21 +0000

Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957) was a Romanian artist who made his career in Paris. Considered a pioneer of modernism, Brancusi is best known for his abstract sculptures which he himself did not like to described as abstract. Instead, he thought that what is real is the essence of things, not the external form, and it is […]

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Hot Blue

admin — Fri, 13 Oct 2017 04:59:22 +0000

The last days of September were sunny and warm in Paris. Twenty five degrees in the shade. Wearing our sunglasses, we ate ripe tomato salad with smoked ricotta, and some burrata with beetroot and figs for lunch on the terrace at Clown Bar. The sky was hot blue. Though the light is already so much […]

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Cy Twombly

admin — Thu, 23 Mar 2017 08:58:50 +0000

Seeing Cy Twombly in Paris was a meditative process. I have never seen such an impressive selection of Twombly’s works in a single viewing. Before getting to Centre Pompidou, we ate a slow Japanese lunch that was a wonderful way to prepare, I realized afterwards. Cy Twombly’s work was sometimes dissed as being something that a […]

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Costes

admin — Thu, 23 Mar 2017 04:55:55 +0000

Hotel Costes feels like romance. For a Scandinavian accustomed to light and functional designs, the pompous interior is on the edge of being too much. Yet it is not. After all, this is a hotel. You visit it for experience, not to move in permanently. The red hallways, deep red velvet chairs and sofas, floral […]

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Kintsugi

admin — Thu, 01 Sep 2016 05:56:05 +0000

Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by joining broken pieces with lacquer mixed with powdered gold. Literally the word kintsugi means “golden joinery”. In wabi-sabi spirit, breakage and repair are treated as part of the history the object, something to appreciate, rather than something to disguise. I found the most inspiring example of […]

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