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The Menu

The food menu as we know it today is an invention of the 19th century. Traditionally, during a meal ...

Books of Memory: Gianpaolo Pagni

Gianpaolo Pagni creates unique, printed, painted or stamped books. His work focuses around memory an...

“I perhaps owe it to flowers that I became a painter.”

Arguably the most important painter of gardens in the history of art, Monet was also an avid horticu...

Jean Lurçat

Jean Lurcat, painter, poet and ceramicist, great renovator of contemporary French tapestry, produced...

Eric Giraudet de Boudemange

Eric Giraudet de Boudemange (1983) graduated in 2007 from the National School of Fine Arts in Paris ...

Une Cité Industrielle by Tony Garnier

Tony Garnier designed the plans of an ideal city during his stay at the Villa Médicis from 1899 to ...

HOKUSAI X MANGA

Courtesans, Heroes, Stars and Phantoms - In the early seventeenth century, Edo, which was the bigges...

L’ITALIA CI GUARDIA

On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the birth of the Italian Republic, 40 masters of photogra...

Francois Morellet 1926 - 2016

Since he first began making work in the 1950s, Morellet has been engaged in creating work which has ...

Design & Politics

Photo series "design and politics" by Philippe Jarrigeon, photographer and publisher, born in 1982 i...

Xavier Antin: Printing at Home

A printer manual to disturb and disrupt the printing process. Xavier Antin, born in 1981, lives and ...

72 dpi

Images on the Internet are changing our lives. While images were once only reserved for a certain fe...

Jean-Jaques Lequeu

Jean-Jacques Lequeu (1757-1825) worked as a draughtsman at Rouen, and from 1779 in Paris at the Cad...

Rayan Ayash

Rayan Ayash is a Fashion Photographer based in New York & Paris.

Luigi Colani

Colani studied sculpture and painting at the Academy of Arts, Berlin and aerodynamics at the Sorbonn...

Carreaux

Turn of the century tile and mosaic samples from the Societe Generale de Carrelages in Paris.

The end of history - La fin de l´histoire

"Belief in progress is irresistible. In flattering the eye it blinds us. Standing in the middle of t...

Tamara

Tamara de Lempicka (1898 – 1980) was a Polish Art Deco painter. She was the most fashionable portr...

Royère

Jean Royère (1902-1981) worked in the import-export business before working for cabinetmaker Pierr...

Bracq

Paul Bracq´s career began in the design studio of Philippe Charbonneaux, where he served as Charbon...

Conformity

“Modern man has become a cog in a very complex society. We live in a society that praises individu...

Alain Georges Frank Jacquet

Alain Georges Frank Jacquet was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1939. After studying drama at the Unive...

Impressionist Gardens

“Many of Monet’s colleagues shared his passion for gardening and were inspired to paint gardens ...

A+A Cooren

A+A Cooren is a Paris-based French-Japanese design studio founded in 1999 and run by husband and wif...

Still Life Monkeys

The inclusion of a monkey with other still-life elements imitates earlier Flemish still-life painter...

Serge Mouille

Serge Mouille (1922-1988) studied under Gilbert Lacroix at the École des Arts Appliqués in Paris. ...

Damien Coupeté images

paintings

Pascal Häusermann

Pascal Häusermann was born 19th of November 1936 in Biel, Switzerland. He studied at the School of...

Orange mecanique

Philippe Jarrigeon, photographer and publisher, was born in 1982 in France. He graduated from ECAL ...

Antonio Rubino

Antonio Rubino: Pittore, illustratore e scrittore (Sanremo 1880 - Baiardo 1964). Legato all´art nou...

André Bloc - Sculptures Habitacles

From 1962 to 1966, André Bloc created his habitable sculptures. This work marks the evolution of th...

Guiseppe Galli da Bibiena

Guiseppe Galli da Bibiena (Parma, 1696-Berlin, 1756) was painter, draftsman, event and theatre desig...

Stan Galli

Illustrator Stan Galli (1912 - 2009) attended the California School of Fine Arts and was recruited a...

Supercars

Max Siedentopf grew up in Windhoek, Namibia and continued to live in Berlin and Los Angeles. He curr...

Life Is Electric. Philippe Weisbecker

Born in 1942, Weisbecker studied interior design in Paris. By 1968 he moved to New York. First worki...

Domestique

Face à une appropriation sous contrôle et une perte progressive des mécanismes d'interaction entr...

Voiture

C´est un travail sur l´expérience et l´émotion du passager dans une voiture d´un futur proche,...

Hasui Kawase 川瀬 巴水

Hasui Kawase (1883 – 1957) , the best known proponents of the 新版画 New Prints movement, was ...

France 1661

Views of Renaissance France by Kasper Merian, 1655-1661

The Slave Ship

But, I think, the noblest sea that Turner has ever painted, and, if so, the noblest certainly ever p...

J1

Created by Jae Won Cho, AKA J1. J1 studio is a furniture design studio located in Los Angeles produc...

Technological Exaptation

Images by photographer and set designer Maxime Guyon, currently living and working between Lyon (Fra...

Faces of the 17th century

17th century Dutch portraits from the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Volkswagen Jetta

Herla King,2010-2012. Mirror and colored vinyls & spray-paint on 1984 Volkswagen Jetta. Etienne Bard...

Nikolai Lutohin

Nikolai Lutohin (1932 - 2000) was born in Yugoslavia as the son of Russian parents. Already as a fiv...

Naturoscopie

Habité par un héritage de l’art nouveau, Noé Duchaufour Lawrance s’appuie non seulement sur l...

Müller-Brockmann

Josef Müller-Brockmann (1914 – 1996) was one of the main exponents of the Swiss International Sty...

Fernando Botero

Who doesn´t like Botero? Colombian painter and sculptor Fernando Botero (born 1932 in Medellín) is...

Zigzag Castle

Felice Varini was born 1952 in Locarno. He lives in Paris.

Football and architecture

In Brazil, a country of 200 million people, the lack of housing is estimated at 5.2 million homes, 1...

Passage

The crossing of the Mediterranean Sea is a particularly deadly stage of the path of migrants to Euro...

Evol

Tableware "Evol" by Patrick Jouin. Many of his creations are in the permanent collections of museums...

The Einstein Intersection

A collection of classic Science Ficion book covers.

Object

Karolis Strautniekas is a freelance illustrator living and working in Vilnius, Lithuania. He studied...

Heaven & Hell

Details from paintings by Hieronymus Bosch.

Hell & Heaven

John Martin was born near Hexham, Northumberland. He was apprenticed first to an heraldic coach pain...

Parc de la Villette, Paris

The participants in the 1982 architecture competition for the Parc de la Villette in Paris saw submi...

Poul Kjaerholm: PK0

While most of his contemporary designers preferred wood as their primary material, Kjærholm chose s...

Nelson Mandela Blvd

Wasteland is an on-going collection of self-initiated works by Hanno van Zyl, hand drawn using brush...

The fairytales of H. C. Andersen

Hans Christian Andersen was born 1805 in Odense, Denmark as the son of a poor shoemaker. He undertoo...

Schlör car

The Schlörwagen, named for it’s developer, German engineer Karl Schlör, was an experimental car ...

Édouard Vuillard: Turn of the Century Paris

A painter of interiors and park landscapes, Vuillard created his first lithograph series in black-an...

Palais Bulles and Antti Lovag

Antti Lovag, born in Hungary 1920, arrived in France in 1947 and gained his initial experience with ...

Sonia Delaunay: Fashion

Fashion sketches and watercolors by Sonia Delaunay.

Deutschland

Design of painted wall texts by Rasmus Koch studio for artist Jens Haaning. In 2004, Jens Haaning wr...

The apartment of Pierre Charpin

Pierre Charpin´s apartment at Le Corbusier´s Cité Radieuse, and a selection of Charpin´s other w...

Alexis Jamet

Graphic designer Alexis Jamet, born 1990, lives and works in Nantes, France. Clients include: A La B...

The EU Game

A French board game from the nineteen-fifties including hazards and a pan-european currency.

Siggi Eggertson: Ich Bin Ein Kugelschreiber

Hello, I´m Siggi Eggertsson. Born in Akureyri, a small town on the north coast of Iceland. Grew up ...

Klas Ernflo: Ink On Board

After his education at Beckmans College of Design, Klas moved to Barcelona where he started working ...