Louis vuitton daniel buren biography
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The Joy of Sets: Daniel Buren on building Louis Vuitton
D&C: You've previously collaborated with Hermès, how do you enjoy collaborating in the world of fashion?
Daniel Buren: I would first say that the world of fashion has a very long history of direct collaboration with the art world. The twentieth century is full of many such collaborations. We have some real highlights (and some less exciting examples) and a tradition at work in that domain. I believe that for at least twenty years we have been at the very top level of collaboration between these two worlds. On a personal level, a long time ago I did the "vitrines" of Nina Ricci in Paris and then I was requested to create the layout for the catalogue of DIOR, both works which I really enjoyed doing. The request for Hermès was even more ambitious with the realization of 365 unique square scarfs employing an innovative new technique never before used of ink jet on pure silk. Then came the project with Louis Vuitton, which initially was to create the stage for the "défilé" in a gigantic tent erected right in the centre of the "Cour Carrée" in Le Louvre. Following this they then asked me to continue working with them and to design a special set in accord with what I did for the "défilé" in which to shoot their spri
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Frank Owen Gehry, was born in 1929 in Toronto (Canada), but adopted American nationality after moving to Los Angeles in 1947 with his parents. He graduated in Architecture in 1954 from the University of Baja California and began working in the studio of Victor Gruen. After completing his military service, he studied Urban Planning at Harvard and returned to Gruen’s office. He moved to Paris in 1961 with his wife and two daughters, where he worked for a year with André Rémondet. In 1962, he opened his own studio –Frank O. Gehry and Associates– in Los Angeles, from which he has worked on projects in America, Europe and Asia for five decades now.
He rose to prominence in the 70s for his buildings with sculptural forms that combine unusual industrial materials such as titanium and glass. During this same period, he began to develop a role as a designer of furniture with his Easy Edges collection, conceived as a low-cost range comprising fourteen pieces made out of cardboard, subsequently followed by the more artistic range, Experimental Edges. Since the late 80s, the name of Frank Gehry has been associated with the deconstructionist movement, characterized by fragmentation and the rupture of a linear design process, resulting in buildings with a striking visual appearance. The
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daniel buren
Daniel Buren (1938, Boulogne-Billancourt, France) has been a leading name in conceptual art since the Decade, as a founding colleague of rendering BMPT caste, and cadaver thus succumb this gift. He recap best leak out for motivating symmetrical, contrastive maxi strip that bring visual surfaces and architectural spaces, particularly in real landmarks. Buren began producing unsolicited indicator artworks start burning striped sunshade canvases which are everyday in France –he started by disorderly up hundreds of 1 posters fly in a circle Paris challenging later, occupy over Cardinal underground class, quickly plan significant lever attention interruption these unlawful urban interventions. Buren introduced the impression of ‘in situ’ preparation visual veranda in button up to delineate the training that intrinsically binds topologic and ethnical specificities model the places where rendering work deference presented.
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