by SaraGuedj | Jan 17, 2019 | Flashback
I have discovered recently in an exhibition in Le Corbusier’s church in Firminy, next to Saint Etienne in France, the protean work of Henri Guérin, an artist/craftsman who revolutionised the art of stained glass (using slabs of glass and ciment) as well as the one of...
by SaraGuedj | Jan 14, 2019 | Flashback
I have recently discovered the very confidential but stunningly beautiful mosaic work from the seventies by Charles Gianferrari. Gianferrari was associated with many projects in close collaboration with Roger Anger, until Anger’s last years when he devoted himself...
by SaraGuedj | Feb 18, 2018 | Flashback
Last week-end we went to Disneyland Paris. I had mixed feelings about it all. I had to admit that I was just as excited as my daughter but for completely other reasons: mine were more to do with confronting my childhood fantasies to the reality of French Disneyfied...
by SaraGuedj | Jan 19, 2017 | Flashback
We love this Century dormeuse by Andrea Branzi. To us, hlow team, it is above all one of his first statement solo piece. It was built in 1982, so 5 years before his Compasso d’Oro. Before this piece, his production is perhaps more theoretical, with Archizoom and...
by SaraGuedj | Oct 14, 2016 | Flashback
Pilsen is a little town of Czech Republic half way between its capital, Prague, and Nuremberg, in Germany. At the beginning of the XXth century it was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and some of its elite had had echoes of the trends in Vienna, among which, was...
by SaraGuedj | Oct 13, 2016 | Flashback
Antonin Kybal was a significant Czech textile artist and educator, founder of the Czech school tapestry. Kybal along with his wife Ludmila Kybalová, became a leading figure and pioneer of modern Czech textile art. After World War II, he founded in the Academy of Arts...
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